By now most of you have heard of the Eye-Fi Wi-Fi SD memory card and what it’s capable of, right? Okay, good. Earlier this year, January to be exact, Lexar announced that they had teamed up with Eye-Fi to bring a Lexar branded SD card with Eye-Fi technology by year’s end. Well, the time has come — Lexar’s Shoot-n-Sync card is finally here and I’ve been testing it out for the last couple weeks. It rocks, but it does have a hangup or two. From a casual point-and-shooter’s perspective I doubt you’d have any real qualms about performance, but...
MSI is to offer new netbooks: the Wind U110, U115 and U120. The U120 is much the same as the original U100, but with 3G built-in. It's the other two that do clever things with the standard netbook loadout, though all remain stuck with a 600-line display. Here's a bullet list: • Options for 2GB of RAM. • The Z530, a more expensive version of Intel's Atom CPU, which uses 20% less power. • A new chipset that uses less power. • 6-cell battery as standard. • Hybrid flash/spinning storage, also said to use less power. The holy grail is...
Enjoy taking photos? Want to get them out onto the internets or into inboxes quickly? Then perhaps you need to win this Eye-Fi Explore card. With 2GB of juicy storage, you'll be able to keep all sorts of painful memories laying around. Ready to nab it? Here's how it works.We'll put up a gadget on the site, and you can only enter it until the next gadget lands (usually within a couple of hours). If you miss your shot, sorry, we're moving on to the next gadget. Good luck! Oh, and don't forget the rules. (Yeah, there are always...
As promised, Newegg.com has pulled out many of the stops to deliver unto you several Black Friday deals. No, I take that back. They’re not just deals, but ULTRA-SECRET deals. So ultra-secret, in fact, that I’m posting them here for y’all to see. Highlights include: • 4GB (2×2GB) of Corsair DDR 2 800 RAM for $49.99 • 19-inch Asus widescreen LCD for $129.99 • 1TB Western Digital 1TB hard drive for $94.99 • Some professional gaming keyboard for $39.99 Also, and completely unrelated to anything tech, Allposters.com has 20 percent off everything (with free shipping, too) this weekend. I’m...
Two days ago, I took advantage of the special "Black Friday" pricing at Best Buy and nabbed a new 2.4GHz MacBook with 2GB of RAM for $150 off the list $1,599 price. I'm certainly glad I got the price discount and didn't have to battle the crowds later this week to get it. My first impression: it's always good to save money, but I think I would have been happy with this notebook at full price. Seriously... let me share just a few first thoughts so you understand where I'm coming from.As James pointed out in his first look,...
If you've been blissfully unaffected by the recession, then first of all, more power to you, and second of all, may I interest you in a $180 flash drive? The Swarovski crystal-covered Robot Happy Laura Flash Drive is cute but holds a paltry 2GB of data. But maybe you've got money to burn this holiday season and someone in mind who's a robot-freak geek who needs extra (but not very much extra) storage space. Economical wariness aside, what do you think of it? Swarovski Robot Happy Laura Flash Drive: Love It or Leave It? Love it! Leave it! I think...
When MSI rolled out its v1.09 BIOS, we're willing to wager it absolutely did not have anything like this in mind. The mad scientists in Team Australia are at it again, this time overclocking a netbook to the point (almost, anyway) of implosion. The unafraid members grabbed hold of a hopeless Wind U100 with 2GB of RAM, hooked up a little liquid nitrogen and proceeded to push the poor 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU to an amazing 2.385GHz. No telling how quickly the whole thing was over, but still, this is pretty ridiculous, mate.Filed under: LaptopsLiquid nitrogen-cooled MSI Wind U100...
Later on today we’re at the launch event of the new handset from Moto, the AURA. If you weren’t already aware, and you will be by the end of reading this, it’s their designer mobile phone par excellence. We’ve been told it’s the world’s first 16 million colour, circular display with a 300 dpi resolution, and a 62 carat lens made from the most scratch resistant sapphire crystal on earth. Just in case that wasn’t enough and why stop there, it also has a stainless steel housing that’s been chemically etched and takes nearly two weeks to sculpt and...
Attention: Nextar has developed an mp3 player contrived to resemble a peanut. It comes in five colors, costs $20 for a 1GB model or $30 for 2GB, and is to be found at Staples and Kmart. I can think of a few things it resembles more than a peanut. MA588 [Nextar]...
We're seen plenty of cheap plastic MP3 land-fillers in our day. But those usually originate from deep-down within the fetid bowels of some no-name manufacturing house in southeast Asia, not the once illustrious Creative. The Zen Moo (yes, Moo) appears to be be a Zen Stone with extra bits of plastic and paint added to achieve Cow. Like the Stone, you get a small OLED, 2GB of memory, 20 hours of playback, and FM tuner to the delight of kids across China (where the Zen Moo was announced) -- hey, it's never too early to destroy a child's hearing....
A watch phone is one piece of convergence consumer electronics that I don’t really agree with - it looks plain weird talking to your wrist (hence making a Bluetooth headset essential), and the screen is way to small to be of any productive use. Still, that hasn’t stopped people from coming out with a range of watch phones, and the sWAP is the latest in a long line. The sWaP Watch has turned the tables on our plucky pocket phone friend and has stolen all of its coolest functions. It not only tells the time, but the wearer can pop...
File delivery service YouSendIt announced Thursday that it has released a plug-in for Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 that will allow users to send any file from Word, Excel, or PowerPoint to recipients through the company's service. Based on my testing, the plug-in, which requires registration to download, works quite well. After surfing over to the company's plug-in page, which is already populated with other plug-ins for iPhoto, Outlook, Photoshop, and others, I downloaded the file in seconds. Once installed, the plug-in embeds itself in Microsoft Office. On my version of Office 2007, I found YouSendIt's plug-in added under...
Another day another Black Friday leak, this one courtesy of Staples! So what exciting things does the world's largest office supply chain have in store for us? Quite a few decent deals, if you're not afraid of rebates being invalidated. Here is some of what Staples has to offer, with a little asterix to warn you if it requires a rebate. Don't say I never did nothin' for ya. [Gotta Deal] Brother MFC3360C All-In-One Printer - $29.98* eMachines 19” Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor - $99.98 Netgear Wireless-N Router - $49.98 Western Digital My Book Essential 640GB External Hard...
