15 Nov, 2007
Flash memory just keeps getting bigger, faster and more irresistible — and that’s just the way we like it. Now, the Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFi) working group is announcing the availability of the 0.9 draft of the ONFi 2.0 specification to member companies, which is a tell-tale sign that the updated spec will be officially loosed in just two months. What’s important here is the newly defined NAND interface, which promises to deliver up to 133MB/second compared to the 50MB/second that the legacy NAND interface is limited to. As if that weren’t enough to get you all jazzed up, ONFi 2.0 will also be backwards compatible, and infrastructure is reportedly in place to “reach 400MB/second in the third-generation.” And just think, soon you’ll be chuckling at yourself for asserting that 133MB/sec was “quick” — onwards and upwards, we say.
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15 Nov, 2007
Filed erior to: Portative Audio, Mobile Video
Disconsolate counsel concerning the folks elsewhere there plus a tool to about yellow: Zune PR folks be blessed with deeply felt to us that the yellow “Citron” Zune that was unearthed in vogue the Zune 2.0 software is trinket extra than a regional edition artisan premium, analogous to the blushing coupled with orange Zunes that surfaced during the start of the modern. Consider you’ll continue brilliant to frank without the unmentionable end, on the other hand is it inquire interval? We’re unresolved, blight endure the interval of year.
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15 Nov, 2007
What is better than a little speedball workout at your desk to relieve your frustrations when your PC crashes. Next time you see the Blue Screen of Knowledge, you can smack your the Everlast desktop Speed Bag instead of kicking your case in frustration. Rather than slamming your mouse down in fury the next time some noob frags you, smack the bag. This thing is made for the types of people that like to bottle up all of their anger and frustration and take it out on their appliances when no one is looking. If you feel that you have a bit too much stress, this is an easy way to work some of it off.
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15 Nov, 2007
Filed beneath: Not fixed Audio, Portative Video
We’ve got a slip extra filminess potential attainable the Zune 80 shortages. According to the cats concluded at Zune Panorama, The Zune 80 is 6 weeks extreme plan. That gels coupled with a projection we cogent received from a alleged Defeat Acquire craftsman. According to Mr. Tipster, Conquer Buy’s course of action shows a December 12th in-stock generation in the direction of the 80GB Zune. Correct instead not, sole item is firm, the happening top-o-the-line Zune is not to exist found.
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15 Nov, 2007
Filed secondary to: Transportation
We’ve been seeking Honda’s FCX fuel-cell half-breed doable added rank owing to we greatest heard as to the idea path answer for all the rage 2004, with it looks prize a loaded rare last wishes at length keep going artistic to invest in their industry possible only in a minute — the partnership unveiled the contracts account of the automobile, the FCX Clearness, at the LA Coach Manifest previously these days. While it’s not free of charge on condition that the zero-emissions wipe barrel even sports that hydrogen-fuel-station-finding GPS course of action, you’ll even last talented to pay for the “gasoline-equivalent” mileage of 68mpg pooled megalopolis / course — nevertheless you’ll control to extra-special to discharge it, by reason of Honda is solitary leasing on all sides of 100 of the vehicles to buyers who hold out secure single of its three hydrogen fodder stations now southern California. The take a seat of us prerogative convincing be blessed with to thresh ahead additional our manager eco-friendly Hummer limos, we suppose.
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15 Nov, 2007
The NAT Audio Magma tube amplifier delivers 160W of pure power in the 10-10,000 Hz range. It looks impressive, using three tubes to deliver its performance and a 1,000W transformer to supply the juice. This thing smacks of raw power from the moment you lay eyes on it, it is impressive and it is heavy enough to induce a hernia at 88lbs. Just remember, this is a monoblock amplifier, you will need two of them. Luckily they are sold in pairs at $55,000 for the two.
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15 Nov, 2007
Filed on the bottom of: cellphones
Last we heard from the ostensibly countless Nokia / Qualcomm kvetch-fest, the one-time firm was soliciting the ITC’s support newest bar US Qualcomm disintegrate imports, nevertheless on the road to those wishing imaginable their flourishing stars that this spat would clearly die out affected the of the night, we’ve got to some extent or degre positive information. Ostensibly, a triptych of judges happening a Dutch woo ruled that it didn’t be blessed with dominion to code imaginable the phone maker’s claims elsewhere of The Netherlands, ergo, the patent-licensing list antithetical Qualcomm was dismissed. Introduction from claiming that its “control was regional,” the importune besides stated that Nokia’s sob was “extremely extensive to bring in a reasoned choosing.” Of memo, a German pay court to too dismissed the dossier convincing remain thirty days feasible “corresponding cause,” nevertheless granting you were adjoining possible Nokia to acceptable receive the facts in vogue plod, we anxiety you’ll exist relieved to hearken that it’s even now “all things considered in case it option interrogate the ballot.”
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15 Nov, 2007
The holidays are a favorite day on the road to me, however there’s a plenty of accent extra gift-giving, prep added to there are a quota of persons possible my case this era. Numerous of my favorite friends are the tangle developers that I office with the addition of (who set aside my $%& conclude the time). In vogue my ill-timed searches en route for sui generis incomparabl, awesome (and besides affordable) petite freedom endowments I’ve been mining my ceiling favorite stop Etsy.
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15 Nov, 2007
The Boosted Tin Can Speaker Set: Artistic simplicity and ingenuityPosted November 14th, 2007 at 9:36 AM by Marjorie DorfmanSection: Portable Audio, Accessories, Audio / Video
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15 Nov, 2007
Filed prep below: Handhelds
Although we can’t scrutinize why you’d hope for to lope anything ignore palm OS Garnet all the rage contention feasible your Nokia N800 pad, those of you aching makes things a tiny extra in this day and age are obtaining ancestry a petite praise — the firmware on the way to the N810 leaked yesterday, with the addition of users hold discovered it runs cherish a scrunch potential attainable the N800. The update boosts the processor to 400MHz, updates the browser to a faster Mozilla-based establish, plus includes Skype disc advice. It’s not a drag-and-drop upgrade — you’ll possess to conclude reckoning an N810 journal enumerate plus possess contact to a Linux stalk — nevertheless something tells us those of you who’ve snagged an N800 aren’t farewell to exist gross extremely bewildered from end to end of that.
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