Technology & Gadgets

Nokia has officially announced its latest smartphone mobile N8 as to be able to compete with the iPhone. As quoted from the written statement received Nokia announced a product that will come named N8. This phone is available in certain countries will start the third quarter of 2010 with an estimated price of 370 Euros. Well, from the specification, the most striking thing of course is to use the Symbian operating system ^ 3. Some things are added to the operating system is support for multi-touch (using more than one finger), Flick scrolling (snap your fingers to roll the screen) and pinch zoom (zoom in by pinching motion).

If you look at the new capabilities that will clearly reminded of the ability of the iPhone. However, the following statement from Nokia might be a definite differentiator. Read the rest of this entry »

We know that this world has been increasingly small today. There are many more people and also modernizations in all aspects of life. There are many huge buildings that make the places for green trees and garden are narrower. It is not good for the continuing of this life. For a good life; the balance of the environment should be maintained and noticed well.

For the narrower of lands for gardening; it is not meant that you should stop having some plants and get the functions for a good life. If you are one of the people who live in apartment or condominium and don’t have enough space for gardening or planting; Aero Garden Kit can be the best gadget had at your staying. With this cool gadget; you can plan flowers, vegetables for daily consuming, herbs for traditional medication, and many more in your home without a need to have a land and also sun lights. Read the rest of this entry »

If you like to play video games, you should know about Commodore 64, the early version of compact computer. Yes, this is the most popular compact computer at that time. With supported by decent audio and video, Commodore 64 become the first multimedia gadget. But, after few years, PC revolution makes this gadget lose its popularity.

But, now, after few decades, new Commodore is about to launched. The company that produce this gadget plan to use classic keyboard form, so, if you want to nostalgic, this new Commodore can give you same feeling like when you use it in the past. But, although the new Commodore still use classic keyboard form, but it use latest technology for its hardware. Its use Intel dual core processor, an Intel G31 chipset motherboard, 1Gigabit Ethernet, a removable HDD, and up to 4GB of memory. If you want another feature, you also can order it with different specification like what you need and like. Read the rest of this entry »

When we talk about keyboard, we would think that this is just only part of the computer. That main system of computer is on CPU. Processor, hard disk, DVD drive, memory and Graphic card are located inside the CPU. But, now there’s a keyboard that can substitute the function of CPU. It’s called Norhtec Gecko Surfboard.

It has shape like keyboard, but, behind its shape there’s hardware like a CPU has. It has special module or SoC (System-on-a-chip) with 1.0 GHz speed called Vortex86MX, which act as its processor. Beside the processor, inside this module there’s also graphic and audio function like graphic card and audio card, with decent performance that you can find on CPU. This gadget also has VGA port, RJ45 Ethernet, audio, USB 2.0 and serial port. Read the rest of this entry »

Nintendo has shock the world of gamer with their new type of game console, Nintendo Wii. The most interesting point from this game console is its joystick. It’s like nunchaku and its give the gamer different way to play games. After that, Microsoft also launched new game gadget with Project Natal, which can detect our movement and the character in the game follow it. Later, Sony also create similar project called, Playstation Eye.

Now, Sony also launched new type of joystick called Playstation Move, the motion controller for Playstation 3. The shape is like aircraft traffics wand with glowing blue and pink bulbs on the ends. Sony says that this Move wand has better movement tracking than Nintendo Wii nunchaku. It can detect the power that you use to move it, either its move slowly or faster, you can see the different in the game with this wand. Read the rest of this entry »

We all know Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 13 has got its success and popularity in notebook for mobile people world. And we also can guest that Lenovo will created new version that more powerful and cool Thinkpad Edge after 13. And that’s true. Now, you can find Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 14 and 15.

This product has great thing that we got from 13, like spill-resistant chiclet keyboard that make Thinkpad Edge 13 popular. But, for performance, it has more powerful specification that will give you pleasure for work, playing games, surfing the internet or doing anything with your Thinkpad. It has Core i3 or i5 CPUs as its heart, 5,400 / 7,200rpm drives, Blu-ray and mobile broadband options, that’s enough for work and surf. For the price, you need to pay $599 for this great notebook. But I think its worthy with the great performance that you can get. Read the rest of this entry »