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Sony has launched digital “pocket” videocamera HDR-TG1 wich has full HD (high definition) perforamtions. It is a perfect solution for those who are fond of travelling and pretencious about the quality of images and would not like to block up the luggage with voluminous apparatues (this camera has the size 3×12×6,4 cm and the weight 283,5 g).

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming

Hey, that’s Acer’s overtly compensating tag line, not our take on this totally over-the-top gaming rig. Acer’s new Aspire G7700 Predator desktop offers options such as an overclocking quad-core, Core 2 Extreme proc, up to 8GB of DDR2 800/1066 memory, and 3x NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX graphics cards kept in check by liquid cooled core. It features what Acer calls a “world’s first optical bay mechanism” revealing a pair of 5.25-inch drive bays which you can stuff with a DVD drive, BD/HD DVD drive or both. The box can be configured with up to 4x, 3.5-inch SATA hot-swappable hard drives (including 10k RPM raptors) with RAID support. No street date or pricing yet, but they’ve got plenty of pics at the teaser site just beyond that read link.

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Filed under: Transportation

We’ve been hearing about in-car computing forever, it seems, but it looks like the concept might finally be taking off: Microsoft is busy with Auto, there’s a proposed .car TLD, BMW is working on in-car internet access, and now Intel is looking to smart up your ride with a vehicle-oriented version of its Moblin OS. The Linux-based system will run on — what else? — Atom processors, and carmakers are expected to use it to control everything from in-car systems to nav and multimedia functions. What’s more, third-party developers will be able to build apps and services for the platform, in contrast to the mostly-closed systems being proffered by competitors. That’s pretty cool, but let’s hope there’s some virtualization going on between the userspace and the in-car systems controller — we’re not exactly ready to run Firefox on the same machine that’s in charge of the brakes.

[Image is of that Atari-fied 1979 Buick Riveria]

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Not the entire SteelSeries 7G keyboard is gilded, only the contacts are gilded with 18k gold. The producers insist on that in such way combinations of keys may be performed much faster, and that APM (Actions-Per-Minute) increases significantly

Filed under: Laptops

There you have it, ASUS’ Amos ‘n Andy companion to the Martin ‘n Lewis Eee PC 901. The 8.9-inch Atom-based lappie show no signs of the rumored Bluetooth or anything else unusual that we can see. Black is certainly predictable as a continuation of the original Eee PC 700-series color scheme. It’s certainly not as surprising as the expected $650 price tag on the original $199 low-cost laptop.

[Via The Gadget Site, Thanks KC Kim]

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Filed under: Laptops

There you have it, ASUS’ Amos ‘n Andy companion to the Martin ‘n Lewis Eee PC 901. The 8.9-inch Atom-based lappie show no signs of the rumored Bluetooth or anything else unusual that we can see. Black is certainly predictable as a continuation of the original Eee PC 700-series color scheme. It’s certainly not as surprising as the expected $650 price tag on the original $199 low-cost laptop.

[Via The Gadget Site]

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

We’re not sure if these plans will ever make it to reality, but the Telegraph is reporting that Britain’s Home Office is working on database designed to store the details of every phone call, email, and web page accessed by British citizens in the previous year. The idea is to have various telecom providers hand over their records, which will all go into the database and then be accessible by police upon receipt of a court order. Of course, there’s no reason why police couldn’t simply ask the ISPs for the appropriate data when they get that court order, since records are already required to be kept for a year, but sometimes it’s important for a government to build a massive scary database of personal information with endless potential for abuse by embittered low-level bureaucrats, you know? The plan is still in draft stages, so hopefully it dies on the table — and if not, well, the NSA welcomes you with open arms, British expats.

[Via National Terror Alert]

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

We’re not sure if these plans will ever make it to reality, but the Telegraph is reporting that Britain’s Home Office is working on database designed to store the details of every phone call, email, and web page accessed by British citizens in the previous year. The idea is to have various telecom providers hand over their records, which will all go into the database and then accessible by police upon receipt of a court order. Of course, there’s no reason why police couldn’t simply ask the ISPs for the appropriate data when they get that court order, since records are required to be kept for a year, but sometimes it’s important for a government to build a massive scary database of personal information with endless potential for abuse by embittered low-level bureaucrats, you know? The plan is still in draft stages, so hopefully it dies on the table — and if not, well, the NSA welcomes you with open arms, British expats.

[Via National Terror Alert]

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Filed under: Desktops

You’ve got to hand it to Sony for at least trying a new style every now and again. The VGC-LJ25L sports such an unusual look that people are mistaking it for a laptop, when in fact the system pictured above is another attempt at the all-in-one variety of PC. The system packs in a 2.1GHz Core 2 Duo T8100 CPU, 2GB of RAM, a 200GB hard drive, Intel’s familiar X3100 on-board graphics, a 15.4-inch 1280 x 800 LCD display, and a “Sound Reality” audio chip with Direct Sound 3D support. The small keyboard can apparently be folded up when the desktop isn’t in use, but it won’t help you if you just want to lay back and watch a movie, as it partially conceals the screen. The funky little dude is available right now for ₩1,399,000 (or about $1,385) — in Korea only, of course.

[Via AVING]

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Filed under: Desktops

You’ve got to hand it to Sony for at least trying a new style every now and again. The VGC-LJ25L sports such an unusual look that people are mistaking it for a laptop, when in fact the system pictured above is another attempt at the all-in-one variety of PC. The system packs in a 2.1GHz Core 2 Duo T8100 CPU, 2GB of RAM, a 200GB hard drive, Intel’s familiar X3100 on-board graphics, a 15.4-inch 1280 x 800 LCD display, and a “Sound Reality” audio chip with Direct Sound 3D support. The small keyboard can apparently be folded up when the desktop isn’t in use, but it won’t help you if you just want to lay back and watch a movie, as it partially conceals the screen. The funky little dude is available right now for ₩1,399,000 (or about $1,385) — in Korea only, of course.

[Via AVING]

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