FROM GAMERTELL - Super easy to set up, three antennae and an interactive mini LCD that shows the live system status, Belkin’s latest wireless router is very impressive…
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Philip’s always impressive surround lighting technology has progressed another step to the new Philips Aurea II. The Aurea 2 technology will first be available in the 42-inch Philips 42PFL9903 and the 37-inch Philips 37PFL9903 models. Philips make vast improvements in their ambilight / Aurea technology every year and the new Aurea II is the very best yet.
Philips Aurea II makes uses of an improved glass (no longer plastic) active frame which surrounds the 1080p LCD screen to extend and reflect the colors on the screen into the frame and project around the screen. This leads to a more effective and impressive display and viewing experience.
The Philips 42PFL9903 and 37PFL9903 feature a new 100Hz clear LCD 1080p screen with a very fast 2ms refresh rate and 17big RGB color processing for 2,250 trillion colors. A very high dynamic contrast ratio of 30,000:1 along with Philips Perfect Pixel HD Engine and Perfect Natural Motion ensure great colors, contrast, detail and motion handling.
The new Philips 42PFL9903 with it’s new Aurea II feature really puts on a great show, and also boast some great features to get the very best out of HD. Also featured is an integrated digital TV tuner, DLNA support to steam media from other networked equipment and four HDMI 1.3 inputs.
by Darren Murph, posted Aug 30th 2008 at 7:14PM
Be honest here, GoLive2’s Stix didn’t stand a chance at being taken seriously, and even when one reviewer attempted to have fun with the unashamed Wiimote knockoff, he failed epically. The Stix 200 looks strikingly like Nintendo’s accelerometer-packin’ controller, though this 2D-only rip was seen as “a set of slightly unresponsive, highly inconvenient arrow keys” rather than an exciting new controller. The PC games that can be played with the device are equally dreadful, and while the 3D-capable Stix 400 might be able to make up for some of the 200’s shortcomings, we can’t wholeheartedly say it’s even worth the effort to check out after reading this review.
[Thanks, Robert]
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
FROM GAMERTELL - Even though the PSP continues to show strong hardware sales, Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Patcher thinks the new hardware changes are signs of a much larger problem…
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by Nilay Patel, posted Aug 30th 2008 at 5:02PM
HP has always been confident that the 2133 Mini-Note would sell quickly, to the point where the company planned to build some two million units this year, and it sounds like that bet’s paying off — China’s Apply Daily is citing sources at HP Taiwan quoting worldwide sales growing 50 percent monthly. That’s pretty good for one of the more expensive small laptops on the market — we’ll see if that rumored cheaper edition moves even more.
[Via Brighthand]
Filed under: Laptops
by Paul Miller, posted Aug 30th 2008 at 2:52PM
HiVision (also known as Shenzhen), a Chinese OEM exhibiting at IFA, is completely unabashed about its collection of netbook look-alikes, which range from 400MHz ARM-based computers that could retail for as little $150, to full featured VIA-powered affairs. Everything was as plastic as could be, of course, but the HP Mini-Note rips were almost passable as sexy. Almost.
Filed under: Laptops
by Darren Murph, posted Aug 30th 2008 at 1:20PM
There was no shortage of case mods at NVIDIA’s NVISION conference, but this one in particular managed to snag the majority of the spotlight. Created by Richard “DarthBeavis” Surroz, the Blade-themed DayWalker actually houses three separate computer systems; two are for playing games, while the other acts as a server. Conceptually, at least, the rig is designed to enable two users to play against one another, and given the “50+ fans” and triple SLI GTX 280 GPU setups (among other things), it’s no shock to hear that it’d cost around $18,000 to $20,000 to build again. ‘Course, that’s chump change when you’re stuffing away millions of dollars owed to the government — just ask Snipes… oh, wait.
Filed under: Desktops
by Paul Miller, posted Aug 30th 2008 at 2:01PM
We won’t belabor these two: X-Fi has been spotted plenty of times before, and the Zen Mozaic “is a crap,” as our friends at Engadget Spanish put it. There was no functioning WiFi to test out the X-Fi’s networking features, but they looked pretty tedious on the surface, and the player is otherwise okay but unimpressive. Meanwhile, the Zen Mozaic is just another in a long line of shoddily built — if interesting looking — low-end DAPs from Creative. Next!
Gallery: Creative’s Zen Mozaic, X-Fi players hands-on
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
by Darren Murph, posted Aug 30th 2008 at 10:49AM
Well, that took long enough, now didn’t it? We’ve been hearing about an 8.9-inch MSI Wind for months now, but it has just now popped up on the outfit’s website. The Wind U90 will pack an Atom N270 processor, built-in 1.3-megapixel webcam, stereo speakers, microphone, 802.11b/g WiFi, Bluetooth, 512MB or 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 1,024 x 600 resolution panel, 80GB hard drive and a 4-in-1 card reader. Additionally, you’ll find an Ethernet port, three USB 2.0 sockets, VGA out, a 3-cell battery (optional 6-cell available upon request) and a weight of 2.2-pounds. Your guess is as good as ours when it pricing / availability, but hey, we’re just thrilled to know this thing is destined to be more than a trade show crasher.
[Thanks, Peter]
Filed under: Laptops
by Nilay Patel, posted Aug 30th 2008 at 3:12PM
Neurosurgery with robotic assistance is getting pretty old hat nowadays, so it looks like scientists are trying to up the difficulty factor by keeping their patients awake — a team of French doctors just completed the first successful removal of malignant brain tumor from a still-conscious patient, using a computerized laser and an MRI scanner to guide the probe. The fiber-optic laser was fed into the brain through a 3mm (.12 inch) hole in the patient’s skull and guided via MRI to the tumor, where it fired for two minutes and completely destroyed the cancerous tissue. Once the tumor cells were dead, the cable was removed and the patient was allowed to return home — all within a single day. That’s pretty impressive, and it comes on the heels of 15 similar trials where five out six patients who underwent the total removal procedure were cancer-free nine months after surgery. The team says further research will cost an additional two million euros to progress, but if this technique works as well as they claim after peer review, we’d guess that money won’t be hard to come by.
[Via Fark]
Filed under: Misc. gadgets
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