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Verizon and LG bravely introduced the LG Dare today, with a full touchscreen user interface and 3.2 megapixel camera. On-board photo editing tools allow you to have fun with your photos, and the handset also allows for quick uploading of photos to popular social networking sites.
The LG Dare supports Verizon’s high-speed EV-DO 3G network in addition to the V CAST Music and VZ Navigator services. The LG Dare’s finger-friendly touch interface allows you to flick through your contacts list, and even offers a drag and drop interface for accessing your favorite contacts.
Pricing and availability for the LG Dare have not yet been announced.
IBM on Thursday announced plans to use water to cool its next-generation of computer chips internally, allowing it to develop faster multi-layer processors that don’t require additional external cooling. To this end, the company showed off a prototype 3D chip with thousands of tiny water passages in between the chip’s layers. The company says interlayer cooling was necessary, as traditional heat sinks weren’t efficient enough to cool today’s densely packaged processors. The water-carrying tubes are just 50 microns in diameter, and integrating them into the chip necessitated the development of a new thin-film soldering technique by IBM engineers.
To prevent electrical shorts, the passageways were hermetically sealed using a silicon wall and silicon oxide around each interconnect. At 10 microns, these seals required a fabrication accuracy that is 10 times more precise than for current chip interconnects.
The final chip sits in a silicon cooling container, with water pumped in through one side and out the other. While water-cooling computers is not a new concept, this is the first time it would be accomplished on such a miniature and large scale. According to IBM, the technology could find its way into consumer-level products within five years.
IBM on Thursday announced plans to use water to cool its next-generation of computer chips internally, allowing it to develop faster multi-layer processors that don’t require additional external cooling. To this end, the company showed off a prototype 3D chip with thousands of tiny water passages in between the chip’s layers. The company says interlayer cooling was necessary, as traditional heat sinks weren’t efficient enough to cool today’s densely packaged processors. The water-carrying tubes are just 50 microns in diameter, and integrating them into the chip necessitated the development of a new thin-film soldering technique by IBM engineers.
To prevent electrical shorts, the passageways were hermetically sealed using a silicon wall and silicon oxide around each interconnect. At 10 microns, these seals required a fabrication accuracy that is 10 times more precise than for current chip interconnects.
The final chip sits in a silicon cooling container, with water pumped in through one side and out the other. While water-cooling computers is not a new concept, this is the first time it would be accomplished on such a miniature and large scale. According to IBM, the technology could find its way into consumer-level products within five years.
LG Electronics, Korea, has announced two new desktop PC, the XPion R10MP and S10MP. One is a version with Regular box, and the other with Slim box. In terms of features, these are the same and are equipped with 1TB of HDD, 2GB of RAM (DDR3), an Intel Core 2 Duo E8300 CPU, an Intel P45 chipset, a Nvidia GeForce 8500G graphics card with HDMI, 512MB video memory (VRAM), a 14-in-1 card reader, a DVD burner DVD±R/RW/DL..
In the midst of UMPC news craziness, Carphone Warehouse has announced the launch of a 10.2-inch UMPC, an ultraportable “webbook”, powered by Elonex Technology.
The mobile phone retailer says it is ahead of the market with the webbook being the world’s first of its kind 10.2-incher and will offer the device this month from free on contract, exclusively in their stores across the country and online.
Weighing in at 1.3kg the webbook offers basic word processing and producing spreadsheets, offers either Linux or Windows XP and integrated Wi-Fi, web browser, three USB ports, a 1.6Ghz processor, 512MB memory, additional memory card readers, all in an “ultra-portable, easy-to-handle” package.
The Carphone Warehouse says this is the first of a whole range of webbooks, powered by Elonex Technology, that they will offer.
Meet the Trailcart, the future of offroad adventure for the post peak oil generation. A series of lucky coincidences led Frank Fraune and his invention — a four wheel drive pedal powered vehicle called the Trailcart — to the Adventure and Offroad Convention in Bad Kissingen Germany. There, surrounded by gas-guzzling, large footprinted vehicles, two trailcart prototypes drew a curious crowd.
Trailcart Inventor Frank Fraune
Trailcarts are being manufactured under the auspices of the AS Group which is better known for refurbishing gears and hydraulics and supplying related products, mainly to the paper industry. The Trailcart caught the eye of the bosses at AS Group when it was featured in a local newspaper. AS Group contacted Frank Fraune, and the rest is history.
But take this start-up seriously: the world champion in 24-hour mountainbiking is working with Trailcart, bringing knowledge and experience on two-wheelers to the development of the first pedal-powered four wheel drive offroad vehicle.
Earlier this week, Cannon PC announced it will soon offer its Home- and Pro A/V-series HTPCs with dual and even quad CableCARDs installed. This allows them to record up to four individual standard- or high-def programs simultaneously, as each card will effectively act as a separate TV tuner, taking the place of a set-top box. Cannon PC took the opportunity to announce a direct OEM partnership with Microsoft as well, and all of the company’s HTPCs use Microsoft’s Windows Media Center as the multimedia interface.
The EX series pictured is just one of three PR A/V Series customizable HTPCs Cannon PC offers, and features a 12-inch HD touch-screen as the interface. Inside the case, room has been provided for 6TB of memory, with a 750GB Seagate Barracuda drive provided as standard equipment. Features common to all the company’s offerings are USB and FireWire connections, front inputs and outputs, 28-in-1 card readers, eight-channel HD audio support, and dual NTSC and HDTV tuners. The brains include Intel’s Quad or Dual core or Centrino processors, P35 Express chipsets, and ATI or NVIDIA graphics cards, with up to 8GB of RAM.
Prices for the EX series HTPC start at nearly $5,600, but do not include the dual CableCARDs, which will be available as options early in June via Cannon PC’s website.
Onkyo releases a new audio system with an integrated HDD, the X-NX10A. Our Onkyo features 80GB of HDD, a LCD screen, an Ethernet port, a CD player, an USB port to copy your MP3 from USB key to your HDD. Otherwise, our system reads MP3/PCM/ATRAC audio formats. You can get information on the music you’re listening to from the Internet.
Concerning speakers, they are 13cm medium and 3 cm tweeter. They deliver an output power of 26W each. Our X-NX10A expected to cost in the 450 €
Hot on the heels of the retail availability of the uber-sexy SGH-U900 Soul, Samsung, the largest cell phone manufacturer in Korea, has announced the launch of the Soulb (”soul bee”) candybar. This cell phone is clad in a brushed metal body and measures in at a mere 9.9mm (.4″) in thickness.
The Soulb offers up a 2″ QVGA display and a new thematic user interface. A 3 megapixel camera with Power LED flash is built in, for a solid photography option, and the microSD card slot allows for plenty of pictures to be stored. The handset also includes 1GB of internal storage and a standard 3.5mm audio port for portable music. Though not a smartphone, the Samsung Soulb does feature a built-in Office document viewer/editor and full HTML web browser.
The Samsung Soulb is planned to be available in June in Germany, with other regions following shortly. This sleek handset will be available in your choice of Soul Grey, Platinum Silver, Metallic Black, Soul Pink, or Amethyst Violet.
Japanese giant Subaru is about to get a whole lot more pulling power! This is the company’s new Exiga MPV, caught undergoing testing in California ahead of its unveiling in June.
And Auto Express can exclusively reveal that it could land in showrooms in the UK as early as 2009.
The barely disguised right-hand- drive model has a distinctive sleek profile, with bosses hoping it will appeal to buyers keen to blend sporty looks with people carrier space.
Trading on its rallying heritage, Subaru has also given the Exiga a large bonnet scoop – lifted straight from the Impreza STi – plus a rear spoiler and split twin tailpipes.
Inside, the newcomer is all about space, boasting enough room for seven adults. If the production Exiga stays faithful to the concept, unveiled at last year’s Tokyo Motor Show, it will also sport a panoramic glass roof, flat-panel TV monitors and fold-out tables. And we can confirm that the car will form part of a model line-up for 2009 which includes a new Legacy saloon and Outback estate.
The trio will be powered by newly developed 2.0 and 2.5-litre four-cylinder petrol engines, although the 3.0-litre unit in the current Subaru stable will be dropped.
The recently launched boxer diesel will be used as a blueprint for maximising the performance and efficiency of the petrol units. The result will be an output of 200bhp from the naturally aspirated 2.0 engine and more than 300bhp from the turbo 2.5-litre.
Subaru is also planning a turbocharged 3.7-litre petrol engine, with close to 450bhp, for a Legacy STi.
