Technology & Gadgets

Archive for March, 2010

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 »

A well known Anti Virus Company; AVG technology has recently announced that there are so many harm websites that are in host in United State. The sums reached 40% from the whole harm websites available in the virtual world internet. This is a surprising invention since it was guessed that China is the country with most harm websites in hosts.

The result is gotten by AVG from its research in latest six months through its 110 users in all over the world that use LinkScanner AVG as their safety internet browsing support. The sums of the harm websites are always increasing and they are commonly made to thieve identity of the internet users such as bank account though internet banking, social network passwords, credit card information, and kinds of other personal identity. The work of the LinkScanner AVG is based on the unique crowd-source feature. It works by scanning and analyzing all harm motives in the website contents and they are all reported by all users of LinkScanner AVG from all over the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Hewlett Packard (HP) re-develop its product portfolio by bringing two new mini notebook with a thin design. HP Mini 210, which is available in various colors and designs of HP’s most comprehensive to date, presents computing, mobile broadband connectivity (optional), and the Global Positioning System (GPS).

The second product, HP Mini 5102 a sailing touch mini notebook from HP’s first designed for mobile professionals. Comes with black, red or blue and offers a series of features, such as face recognition to facilitate the log-on to Windows operating systems and websites are protected by keywords. Read the rest of this entry »