Two weeks after the announcement of the world’s first 1.8-Inch HDD with a storage capacity of 240GB, to be mass produced from November onwards is Toshiba’s latest MKxx29GSG, an 1.8″ SATA HDD, which offers a storage capacity of 250GB and spins at 5,400 rpm. Measuring at only 8 mm thick, it will definitely be a fine piece of hardware which we will definitely see incorporated into ultra portable, wafer-thin laptops and netbooks in the near future.
Colorware is at it again, this time the iPhone 3G. Colorware are the people who originally brought us the first revolution against Steve Jobs’ boring iPhone colour, these guys wanted to show us that we could too have some fun and bring on our iPhones customisable colours. As well as iPhones, Colorware have expanded their quality service and expertise towards other gadgets and smartphones like the Blackberrys, Sidekick and also game consoles like the Wii, PSP, PS3 and XBox 360. They have been known to help users create colours that are unique to their taste, to me I think the best part of it all is the design process using their online studio that they offer on their site, its quite fun!
However, all the fun does come at a hefty price. For the iPhone 3G in question for example, you’re looking at $150 USD for the back, $20 for the frame, another $20 for the button, $10 for the SIM card tray and $10 for the earbuds. If you really want your whole set of iPhone to be special, you can also customise your iPhone dock at a cost of $20. So in total the maximum you’re looking at is about $230 USD!
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All the credits go to the researchers at the MIT this time. As you know, solar energy could become a very promising source of energy for the future, but up until this point, storing it away after collecting it requires expensive technology and its not simple at all. But now there may be another way, scientists at MIT have come up with an inexpensive new fuel cell process that’s similar to the way plants store sunlight energy. The process is indeed not simple but is environment-friendly which is what we need! The theory is that the system uses sunlight to separate water’s hydrogen and oxygen atoms and then puts them back together in a fuel cell, providing energy. If this method is truly sustainable and becomes popular, then its benefits will be so great that it can be extended to all parts of our dailylife – just think about the possibilities and what the future will be like then.
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SimpleTech’s [re]drive has a super large capacity of 500Gb and is well equipped with a turbo USB 2.0 connection, at just $160, it already has enough quality to stand out from the crowd. But that’s not all, it’s also claimed to be THE MOST eco friendly, though this is highly subjective of everyone’s view, but the [re]drive’s casing is made of bamboo and aluminium. The hard drive itself is low in terms of energy consumption, more importantly, the [re]drive doesn’t even have a fan and that’s all part of its superior design to use aluminium as part of its casing material.
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What you’re looking at is not just any wall of LCD displays stacked on top of each other to form a large display but is NASA’s highest ever resolution visualisation system. The ‘hyperwall-2′ is 23 feet high and 10 feet wide and consists of 128 screens driven by 128 graphic processing units with a total of 1,024 processor cores capable of displaying a quarter billion-pixel graphics!
Compared to NASA’s original system, which was developed over six years ago in 2002 by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) visualization team, its original visualisation system consisted of just 49 screens, the hyperwall-2 is certainly a ‘massive’ improvement from its original.
Of course, the hyperwall-2 visualisation system won’t be used for gaming (let’s hope we receive some leaked pics of people trying to 
), it will be used for more important things like exploring mars and stuff… Check out the pics and the NASA press release below for full details…
As most will know, we in the United Kingdom usually get the latest in technology such as mobiles and other devices one step later than those lucky ones from the US so whenever news like this comes up, geeky bloggers like us get quite excited! This latest news just in, the three mobiles as titled have been noted as ‘coming soon’ on the Phones4u website as well as the Carphone Warehouse website. I have to say, even Phones4u which tends not to update as regularly, have decided to put these three phones up on their site, a possible indicator for their potential?
While Phones4u have not commented anything on possible arrival dates, we have managed to find these on the Carphone Warehouse page, here’s a quick list of what should be their expected arrival dates:
Samsung U900 Soul: 23rd April 2008
Sony Ericsson C902: June 2008
Nokia N96: August 2008
For others who may also be interested in upcoming latest phones which may be released in the near future, here’s a list sorted according to arrival month:
May 2008
- Sony Ericsson T280i
- Samsung F480
- Motorola MOTO Z10
- Nokia N78
June 2008
- Samsung G810
July 2008
- Motorola ROKR E8
- Sony Ericsson G900
The PowerCube makes deployable renewable energy simple. By integrating the latest solar energy, power storage and power management technology, the PowerCube is engineered for home use, emergency response, construction, and any other remote power needs. It’s large size (72 x 124 x 50 inches) enables it to produce 600 watts of solar power, however, given its size you can probably imagine that it’s not actually that portable at all! You wouldn’t be able to fit the PowerCube in any normal family sized saloon trunk to go camping for example…
In emergency situations, access to traditional fossil fuels can be limited and difficult.
The PowerCube’s primary source of power is the sun, which means that the unit provides essential power without reliance on fossil fuel deliveries. Plus, heat, noise and emissions are virtually nonexistent.
From the middle of the Sahara, to the middle of the back yard – Never worry about electricity again. Ever.
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[via Crave]
