LG develops 14.1″ privacy protection LCD panel for notebooks
Using laptop in a public place is never a good idea if you happen to work on some sensitive data. There’s always some amount of fear involved that what if someone sitting next to you sees this confidential information. LG Display understands this concern. The firm recently unveiled the world’s first privacy protection LCD panel that ensures privacy for users by allowing them to alter the viewing angle with a single touch. The 14.1-inch panel sports 175 degrees viewing angle that could be adjusted to 60 degrees (using Viewing-angle Image Control Display (VIC) technology), preventing people sitting next to the user from seeing information on the screen. Pretty good for business professionals who’s constantly working on sensitive information on the fly. Mass production of the panel began this month.
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LG To Release Scarlet LG80 LCD Monitor
LG has added a new member to its Scarlet line of LCD TV in the form of the LG80. The LG80 offers Full HD resolution with 30,000:1 contrast ratio, three AV modes (movies, video games, sports), USB 2.0 connectivity, two HDMI 1.3 ports, and an integrated 3.1 audio system with 50 watts of output. However, there is no info about the screen size. The LG Scarlet LG80 will be released in the US and Europe later this year.
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Battlestar Galactica PC
The Battlestar Galactica PC is the kewl case mod that features the front-loading disc drive that is located behind a laser-cut transparent BSG medallion, so you can see the disc spinning. The PC also comes with kewl specs including EVGA nForce 590 SLI motherboard, two EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS graphics cards in SLI, and 4GB (2×2GB) Crucial Ballistix Tracer Red DDR2 800MHz. Check out the list of specs and two videos after the jump.
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Samsung Goes Green With MV100 And MZ100
Samsung’s MV100 Tower and MZ100 Slim Tower are desktops that have a heart for the environment, running on Intel’s G43 chipset and a choice between a GeForce 9600GT 512MB or 9500GS 512MB graphics cards. Despite those average specifications (you won’t be able to run Crysis at full blast, but it ought to make for a decent gaming rig still), power consumption is kept to a minimum, sipping just 1W in stand-by mode and 60W in power saving mode – presumably when you’re playing Solitaire.
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Studio Electric T3 loudspeakers – Pleasure for the senses
Remember the Cabesse $150,000 La Sphere speakers that looked like some kind of colossal eyeball webcam? The new Studio Electric Loudspeakers somehow look to be inspired from them. Anyway, they are they are a pleasure for the senses, to both the eyes and the ears. After the T1 and T2 custom-designed loudspeakers, the company has introduced the T3 loudspeaker as a production loudspeaker for the high-end audio enthusiasts. The floor standing, 3-way loudspeaker is capable of handling frequencies from 50 Hz to 4Kz. There is a hand selected silk dome tweeter that offers extension into the upper harmonics. The Studio Electric T3 is available in three finishes, including natural maple, golden maple, and cordovan maple. Priced at $7,900 for a pair, they are offering a steel mid-sphere in black at no additional charge.
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Nissan Xtrail Laptop from NEC
If you have a Nissan Xtrail at home then you should get of this. It is the Nissan X-Trail notebook from NEC Japan. It comes in red the same like the SUV. The casing is made from resin and there’s an X-Trail logo on the palm rest.
Microsoft’s new ‘SideWinder mouse’ for gaming worms
For gaming worms Microsoft’s new SideWinder mouse can be a attraction as it’s first ever to have LCD display on a gaming mouse for macro recording and DPI settings to reduce on-screen interference during game play. Comfortable grip, scope for wrist support and five thumb buttons are designed ergonomically with adjustable mouse, with weights of three 10g weights and a single 5g weight. It offers you a customization with any latest software.
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Envision’s 20-inch G2016wa LCD display
Envision certainly cranks out a lot of cheapo displays, but the company’s latest 20-incher, the G2016wa brings quite a bit to the table for $240. The 1680 x 1050 display features a 5ms response time, 3000:1 contrast ratio, VGA and DVI with HDCP inputs, and built-in stereo speakers. Unlike Envision’s previous Best Buy-only arrangement, this bad boy should be popping up all over starting right now, so those of you still rocking those grubby CRTs have no excuses left.
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SX-9: World’s most powerful super computer
NEC Corporation has announced the launch of its supercomputer, dubbed as SX-9. It is the most powerful supercomputer in the world till today featuring high-speed scientific computation system and ultra high speed processor.
The Japanese hardware giant will showcase the high profile computer at the forthcoming iExpo 2007 in Reno, Nevada next month.
The fastest vector supercomputer SX-9 will be highly useful for advanced weather forecasting, aerospace, fluid dynamics, environmental simulation and polymeric design, explains NEC.
The SX-9 has the ability to calculate 839 teraflops or 839 trillion floating point operations per second.
The term ’supercomputer’ is itself vague. A supercomputer of today is a normal computer of tomorrow. This has been happening from the day when the term ‘computing’ was first coined. However, NEC has now an edge over IBM and Cray Inc in the computer world with this vital launch.
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Voice Recording CD Album
CD album today goes high tech. You no longer flip and looking for the CD you want to play while you are driving as today we have the Voice Recording CD Album. With this, you can flip through CD without looking off the road. You can record up to 30-second of voice message for every CD and the book will play those messages you flip through them. One album can holds up to 20CDs and they are bulky. The Voice Recording CD Album is available for $49.
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