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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

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 …

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.

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.

Mobile Printer Comes Handy

For those of you who need a printing solution on the go, might want to consider this latest Hewlett-Packard inkjet printer. This H470 office jet printer with approximately two kilogram weight has a dimension of 34 x 16 x 8 cm.

With this printer, you can print black and white with the speed around 8ppm and 5ppm for color printing in a normal quality. The printing resolution is up to 1200dpi. Officejet can receive data from PC through USB connection or from a compatible camera with PictBridge standard and also, a SD card slot. Besides the basic series, there are H470b and H470wbt. H470b comes with a Lithium Ion battery, and H470wbt comes with battery and bluetooth.

Even Keyboard Needs Condom

Sometimes you are afraid to put your cup of coffee or tea near your computer keyboard because it might spill and ruin the keyboard. Well, fear no more, now there is a special wrapper for keyboard that can be washed with water when dirty.

This ‘condom’ for keyboard is called Rasfox, made from silicone and it is believed to give complete protection by wrapping the top side of the keyboard. Rasfox has transparent design so you still can see the keyboard tuts clearly.

Furthermore, Rasfox can reduce the clicking noise when we are typing the keyboard. Rasfox is developed by Lakesen International, an Apple’s accessories specialist company based in Canada.

This keyboard condom comes in five different color, blue, pink, white, black, and clear. Unfortunately, this product is only available for Apple Macintosh keyboard.

For iMac, Mac Mini, Power Mac G5and Xserve G5 users can choose three out of five colors available, which are blue, pink, and clear. As the Macbook Pro and Power Book can only use the clear one. MacBook 13″ users can choose all the color available.