Today DailyTech ran across a development to keep your eyes on. Uber-thin batteries with fast charge time and high recharge cycles! Battery technology plays a huge role in the overall design of most all portable devices, so thinner higher density batteries could drastically alter the future of mobile devices in a positive way. From the story...
"This is just one of many advantages the 'organic radical' battery has over other organic based materials which are limited by the amount of doping," said Dr. Nishide. "The power rate performance is strikingly high - it only takes one minute to fully charge the battery. And it has a long cycle life, often exceeding 1,000 cycles."
Citizen's of Europe are finally able to get their fair share of Sony's PS3, as the official European launch of Sony's much storied console takes place today. Whether there is any consumer backlash from Sony's decision to use a redesigned (i.e. cheaper) PS3 for the European launch remains to be seen.
The launch of the Playstation 3 may be last year's news in the U.S. and Japan, but the Sony game console is only now arriving in Europe. Here, very early on Friday, Bastian Schewiola hoists a box containing the long-awaited machine at the Sony Center in Berlin, where the PS3 went on sale at midnight. As in the U.S, many midnight buyers were planning to spend the whole weekend putting the PS3 through its paces.
TwinMOS has announced releasing a series of USB 2.0 Flash drives supporting Vista Readyboost® and sizes of up to 8GB.
TwinMOS introduces USB2.0 Mobile Disk-M9 supporting ReadyBoost function after previous announcement of all series Mobile Disks pass Windows Vista certification. M9 is designed with compact size and lightweight features for consumers’ convenience. M9 is a fashionable-looking design with a thumb size and that will surely attract modern customers. The capacity of M9 will be up to 8GB that it is compatible with Windows(Bista/XP/2000…), Mac10.1+ and Linux2.4+.
Looks like those of us who didn't get a chance to visit CEBIT this year, missed out on quite a lot. Youtube user "DavaWang" has posted a clip of AMD/ATI's new Ruby4 Demo, running on R600 hardware. It'll be nice when we can all play with the real thing eh?
As an Nvidia channel partner, ECS has jumped on the G80 core
bandwagon with gusto. Today we review the ECS
N8800GTS-320MX, ECS's answer to the midrange GPU battleground.
Featuring a minimalist bundle isn't so bad with it's estimated sub
$300 minimalist price. We examine it's performance stock, over
clocked, and under a true worst case scenario. XP SP2 x86 vs. Vista
x64 Ultimate.
