Category: Peripherals
Asus offers first monitor with DisplayLink technology – VW223B
Asus is introducing the VW223B monitor, claimed to be the first with DisplayLink technology. What does that mean? Well, for all you multitaskers, it means you can network up to six screens using a single PC…
NEC launches 19-inch LCD monitor with built-in carbon footprint meter
Business users wanting a visual reminder of how much energy their computer equipment is eating up might be interested in NEC’s new EA191M 19-inch LCD monitor, which comes fitted with a carbon footprint meter…
Sony Ericsson MD400 & MD400g: 3G USB modems, GPS and data storage
Sony Ericsson has unveiled two USB broadband modems that combine 3G internet access with GPS and memory stick functions as well…
ASUS shows off Handwriting Pad accessory for Eee PC
ASUS has unveiled its Handwriting Pad accessory designed specifically for the Eee PC. Connecting via USB, the unit can recognise Chinese and English characters, numerals, and symbols, and supports English and Simplified Chinese. It features a 55 x 42mm writing area, and comes with a stylus…
Sony/NEC predicts sub-$100 Blu-ray drives for PCs by year end
In the ongoing push to make Blu-ray hardware more affordable, SonyNEC Optiarc (a joint collaboration between Sony and NEC) has predicted that Blu-ray drives for desktop PCs, capable of reading Blu-ray Discs and reading and writing DVDs and CDs, could go for under $100 (about £60) by the end of 2008.
It’s worth bearing in mind that this is most likely to be a wholesale price for PC manufacturers. Similar drives for notebook PCs could hit the $150 level, while Blu-ray burners will be priced in the region of $150-$200…
Asus innovation of the day – a laptop with a mini projector built in
Imagine the joy. Imagine the power. Imagine the sheer amount of BUSINESS that could be done, any time, any place, anywhere that has a white-ish wall suitable for projecting slides and PDFs onto.
That’s the future-world dream of Asus, which has revealed this little monster – a laptop with one of the new-wave of miniaturised projectors stuck inside. It sits flush against the lid, then swivels out when the need to bore someone with your…
USB 2.0 LEGO Bluetooth adapter
I’m not quite so much of a LEGO freak/geek as most but there is something cute about this 2×2 LEGO brick Bluetooth 2.0 adapter
Vodafone UK announces new pricing for mobile broadband modems
A new month and a new round of pricing from Vodafone for its mobile broadband USB modems…
Constant Garden – desktop audio-greenery
Regardless of the function of the Constant Garden, it’s the kind of object I’d love to have on my desk. Plants are soothing and there’s something about the shiny rubberyness of this one that makes you want to touch it as well. I can see myself daydreaming away while absent-mindedly running my fingers through it for hours.
As it goes, each stem of this little green patch contains a mini speaker and the idea from designers Annika Ushio and Vanessa Satele is to provide a device not only capable of playing music but also to be programmed as a desktop personal organiser…
LG launches two stretched monitors: anyone for a game of Defender?
LG has announced two stretched monitors designed for large public areas where widescreen or “tallscreen” displays could be used to display data or other content.
Though they look as if they may have suffered from a spot of medieval torture, they are in fact meant to be this way, boasting either 29 or 38 inches diagonally with a resolution of either 1,366 x 398 and 1,366 x 480. They can be used either vertically or horizontally, have a contrast ratio of 1,000:1, and a 9ms response rate…
