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Toshiba Battery Prototype : 10 Minutes Charged & Up They Go

Last year there are rumors about Toshiba is going to sell instant rechargeable battery. Well now this battery prototype has been shown to public.

While displaying this battery prototype called Super Charge Ion Battery (SCIB), the Japanese electronic company claimed that within 10 minutes, SCIB can be recharged up to 90 percent of its capacity. Quoted from ITnews, this battery is made from material that offer stability against high temperature and avoid overheating. SCIB is claimed to be able to be recharge up to five to six thousand times. While, lithium-ion battery will usually stand out only for 500 times recharge. Will this battery be the battery of the future gadget?? We’ll see

Disposable Digital Camera

We might often see and even use a disposable camera but we sure haven’t seen a disposable digital camera?

Thanks to Plaza Create, Japan company who has invented a disposable digital camera. The good thing also, this disposable digital camera is made from the cell phone’s spare part that has been disposed by the owners such as LCD monitor, lens etc.

This way, the company even helps Japan government who are confused with the increasing cell phone rubbish in Japan, because in 2006, there were only 13% broken cell phones that can be recycled. This disposable digital camera is sold at around USD13,- for 27 clicks and USD 15 for 50 clicks.

Lenovo T40, Notebook With Methanol Battery Lasts 10hr

We probably heard about notebook which run by methanol gas but since now, the technology is only as theory and has not been realized till now.

The good news is, a join venture between PolyFuel company with Lenovo will soon release a notebook product with methanol gas energy. Lenovo T40 is the name of the notebook with methanol, or to be precise, Direct Methanol Furl Cell (DMFC) which methanol gas will be converted to electricity to run the notebook.

With this technology, the user can have lots of advantages from the use of methanol which can be refilled and the battery can run for 10 hours, compared to lithium battery which can only lasts for 3-4hours. When it will be sold? Let’s just pray that they can be successful with the research of this Lenovo T40.

Becomes Favorite, iPhone 3G Is Offered Up To USD 2,325

iPhone 3G attractiveness is very incredible. Many people are dreaming to own that Apple smart phone. Unfortunately, since the stock is limited, many people have to be disappointed since they cant get the stock. No wonder that eBay is auctioning 3G iPhone, offers come are very extra ordinary good. Offers for 3G iPhone 16GB version has gone over USD 1,000 and ended at the price of USD 2,325. Whereas for 3G iPhone 8GB version is around USD 800-900.

For your information the normal price, 3G iPhone 16GB version is sold at USD 299 in America and for 8GB version is worth USD 199. There is an interesting thing in this auction process. One of the potential buyer, who seems to come from Indonesia, has asked a question whether the iPhone can be delivered to Indonesia. Read More …

Future Cellphone of Nokia’s Version

What is the future cellphone model like? The largest cellphone producer in the world, Nokia, is now working hard to predict what the future cell phone would be like to fulfill customers’ needs. Nokia is supposed not to be relaxed in this tight competition in the cell phone market, such as to beat Samsung or Apple. In 2007, Nokia claimed that they have money ready for USD 8.9 billion on the research and development in Nokia Research Center.

“At present we are looking for product shape that might be relevant for Nokia in the year 2015,” comment Leo Kaerkkaeinen, Chief Visionary in Nokia Research Center. He didn’t explain in details what kind of projects is now being done by Nokia. However, in principle Nokia considers everything is a possibility to develop. Read More …

Seagate Barracuda 7200.11, A 1.5 Terrabyte Hardisk

Seagate has announced the launch of its latest desktop PC hard drive with 1.5 Terrabyte (TB) capacity, Barracuda 7200.11. This product is said to fulfill the never ended demand of bigger storage for digital storage. Barracuda 7200.11 is the eleventh generation of Seagate’s disk drive for desktop PC. This product is claimed to be the first who has the biggest jump of hard drive capacity in this half century of hard drive history, with 0.5 terrabyte bigger than previous capacity, 1 TB.

This 3.5 inch drive wrapped 1.5 TB capacity with four discs and series of interface ATA 3GB/sec and able to give transfer data speed up to 120 MB/sec with the choice of 32 MB or 16 MB cache.Furthermore, Seagate also introduce 2.5 inch drive with 0.5 terrabyte capacity for laptop, which are Momentus 5400.6 and Momentus 7200.4. Read More …

Did You Say NoteBook or NetBook?

PC Industry has created  a new species of product. Its shape is like a notebook, but it is not a notebook. This thing is called netbook. What does it look like?

The basic difference between a notebook and netbook is basically on their functionality. Netbook was made for users who are content consumption, while notebook is more aimed for user who are content makers

Netbook user is more ideal to use it for browsing the internet, chatting, and play music or video. While notebook usually has heavier tasks, and suitable for people who create contents, such as video editting or picture editting. Read More …

Acer Release Mini 3G Laptop

In order to keep the pace with its competitor, Asustek, Acer also plans to release its mini laptop complete with 3G availability

As quoted from Networkworld, this vendor from Taiwan is said to have just started doing a talk with some 3G networking operators and also Europe to provide 3G networks for its Aspire one laptop. Some of them are Chunghwa telecom, Taiwan Mobile, Mobile is claimed that it can access Internet fast wherever and whenever by using HSDPA/HSUPA (High Speed Downlink/Uplink Packet Access) International, Vodafone Group Also Orange in Europe. Read More …

Nokia Is Ready To Compete With Blackberry

Nokia has introduced its latest E series, which are E66 and E71. Rumor said that E71 was made to compete with BlackBerry because it is optimized for personal and professional email usages. Both E66 and E71 were made to ease its user in email handling.

For Microsoft Exchange users in the office, they can access email via email application called client Mail for Exchange that already provided inside E71 and E66. With these gadgets, user can get the latest access to email, calendar, contact list straight from the mobile phone and it is supported by internet service provider all over the world including Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo. Read More …

A Million Units of iPhone Have Been Sold In 3 Days

iPhone 3G made an excellent debut in its early presence. In 3 days the phone have been sold around a million units in some countries. Even Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs admitted that he could not believe that his new product can become that popular. Iphone 3G has attracted so much attentions in its week debut.

It took around 74 days to sell a million units of iPhone first generation. This iPhone 3G has made an amazing start around the world. It is true if we compare with its predecessor, iPhone 3G has so much more achievement. This is because iPhone first generation can only be sold around 270,000 units in its early debut.

However, we should remember that when iPhone 3G launched in the market, it was launched in some countries such as Japan, Hongkong, USA, and New Zealand at one time. While the predecessor, when it was born only been sold in United States and bundled with AT&T contract.

Moreover, the success of iPhone 3G debut doesn’t mean that everything went really well. This is related with global connection problem between iTunes server with AT&T network resulting the smartphone couldn’t be activated.

Kingston Terra Cotta : The Guardian of Your Data

Kingston Data Traveller (DT) Terra Cotta 4GB shows a picture of Terra Cotta soldier in its casing. It’s almost like a symbol of the flash disk ability to guard your data security. The Terra Cotta soldier has a relief effect on a metal surface which covers Terra Cotta DT. Just give you an image as the soldier was carved outside this goldie flash drive.

The soldier image is made according the Terra Cotta statues, that is a bunch of archeology findings in China that presenting many figures which accompany King Qin Shi Huang (259-210 BC) after dead. Beside soldiers, Terra Cotta statues also have musicians, acrobatics and cavalries.

Via DT Terra Cotta Kingston wants to confirm about the security feature of this flash disk. The SecureTraveller software that available inside enables user to make ‘Privacy Zone’, which is the area covers with password.

The gadget sized 7×1cm has the transfer speed up to 15MB/second (read) and 7MB/second (write). Kingston will make DT Terra Cotta available for Asia Pacific region.

iPhone 3G Launching, Not As Smooth As It Seems

The Apple latest touchscreen phone have been officially sold at the same time on July, 11th. First buyers who had waited and slept in front of the Apple Store in Fifth Avenue, New York, was disappointed. The new iPhone 3G they bought could not be used right after they left the Apple because the gadget was not performing correctly. This issue is connected to global problem between iTunes server and AT&T so the iPhone can’t be activated.

Apple has already planned that iPhone 3G buyer can buy the gadget and able to use it right away. But this might only be a dream. Because they already have a very long queue, the store employees have asked the athusiasts to activate their iPhone manually by connecting it to an online computer.

Latest Eee PC Series, Eee PC 904

The success of its first generation of Eee PC, 701, Asustek has more productive in producing the new brother of this Eee PC. From Asus site, they officially announced their latest model of Eee PC, Eee PC 904. It is not known yet when this latest generation of Eee PC will be available on the market. However, as quoted from Gadgetell, Asus has claimed that the laptop will be available soon.

Eee PC 904 is equipped with 8.9 inch screen with resolution of 1024 x 600, Celeron M 900MHz processor, RAM 1GB,  80GB hard drive, battery power up to five hours, Windows XP operation system, and weight that is claimed less than 1.4 kgs.

One of the bonus point from Eee PC 904 is the keyboard which is more comfortable with bigger layout than its predecessor, Eee PC 1000. Eee PC 904 will be sold in retails with price tagged at US$535 and predicted to be available in England in Mid July, then other countries.

Wow, Optical Disk With 400 GB Capacity!

So many technology companies seem to compete developing storage media with giant capacity.

Such as the Japanese electronic company, Pioneer who announced that they are developing an optical disc with super big capacity, 400GB. There is none optical disc with the capacity that big in the current market.

Pioneer explained, the disc will have 16 layers with each layer able to contain data as big as 25GB, the same capacity as one side of Blu ray disc’s capacity. Pioneed disc also claimed to be compatible with Blu ray player.

As quoted from InformationWeek, Pioneer said their reason to build the disc is that the growing needs of big capacity storage media. Pioneer is set to launch this disc’s technology detail at the International Symposium of Optical Memory and Optical Data Storage on July, 13th in Hawaii. We still don’t know when the disc will be available in the market.