Android mini computer selling for just $74

The MK802 is slightly larger than a thumbdrive and has a microSD card slot to add to its built-in 4GB flash storage. Wi-Fi is also supported.

Enthusiasts of embedded computing seem to be spoiled for choices nowadays.

A Chinese-made computer that's slightly larger than a typical thumbdrive can now be purchased online for just $74.

The MK802 is similar to the Cotton Candy computer-on-a-stick. Both are powered by ARM processors and support Android or other ARM-compatible Linux operating systems. It comes with a Mali 400 GPU that enables it to output 1080p video through HDMI.

Despite its small size (it weighs just about 7 ounces), the MK802 has a microSD card slot to add to its built-in 4GB flash storage, together with a full-size USB port and a micro-USB version. Wi-Fi is also supported.

The more expensive $199 Cotton Candy does have better hardware, including a dual-core ARM chip compared with the single-core version on the MK802. The Cotton Candy can also be plugged directly into an HDMI port, while the MK802 requires an HDMI cable.

The low cost of ARM processors coupled with the popularity of Android appear to have led to more embedded computing solutions for hobbyists. The $35 Raspberry Pi is another inexpensive mini computer that seems to be popular among enthusiasts for tasks like programming and video streaming. These devices could also serve as educational tools for children in less developed countries, especially when installed with the right applications.

(Source: Crave Asia via Ars Technica)

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Super Advanced Car Devices

Soon a car that will download your work schedule and trigger your alarm clock. By the time you get behind the wheel, the car would have been analyzing the morning traffic and weather and calculate the best route to get you to work on time. You will not even have to touch the radio - it's been playing the same station you're listening at home. And when you pull away, he would close the garage door and turn off the lights.

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innovation you can touch

The technology there is no limit. The technology this time coming from touchscreentechnology. This new company - recently they created the 3M Touch Systems and show it off at once, with 46-inch touchscreen display its prototype table with 1080p resolution and up to four split screen. The end product should allow 60 points to touch and is expected to be launched towards the end of 2012. source from: Boston.com

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Samsung release Smart TV : a new era of entertainment

With thousands of apps at your fingertips, your Samsung Smart TV offers limitless—and endlessly surprising—ways to entertain family and friends. Use these tips to help you host a fun get-together.

Samsung Smart TV takes entertaining to a whole new level. Thousands of apps provide endless ideas for any sort of gathering, whether it's a casual girls' night in or a festive holiday party. Find recipes, stage your own themed film festival, host a friendly competition or just set the perfect mood—Samsung Smart TV will transform your house into party central.

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New Research Shows Gamers Playing More on Mobile Devices Than Consoles and PCs

With new tablets and smartphones on display at CES 2012 in Las Vegas January 10-13, there will be even more distractions for gamers who previously only played games on consoles, PCs and portable gaming devices like Nintendo 3DS and the upcoming PS Vita. MocoSpace, the largest mobile gaming community in North America, has just released the results of a new survey conducted on its network of 25 million users. The study, which looked at gaming habits on mobile, consoles and personal computers, revealed that gamers are spending more time playing games on their mobile phones, and less time playing on consoles and personal computers.

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Car Of 2012

Now the car is an obligation for people - those whose economies are wealthy middle and upper alias. Buying a new car can be very exciting. The car is a way for you to show your taste and status. Whether you choose to accessorize your car or leave just the way you buy it, people see a car to tell them something about the type of people who drive it. What would you think about working for a company where the CEO drives a car that mess? This may make you second guess who and what kind of company you work for. Because the value of your car drops off dramatically before you leave the lot, it is important to make sure you make the best investment. Here is a list of cars that will come upon assessed in 2012. Happy shopping!

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Satechi Soundfly so sophisticated car

Smartphone technology is endless to innovate because we see now are not sophisticatedcar could be advanced with this tool. So your car is like an old car or b isa outdated, can now compete with a sophisticated car with only have the latest keuaran Satechi.DisebutSatechi Soundfly See, this gadget consists of an FM transmitter and Bluetooth 2 "LCDscreen that plugs into the cigarette lighter slot your car to keep it powered.

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2012 Paris Green Car Release

Cars popping up in new cars this year. No exception cars environmentally friendly cars. This time in Paris held an exhibition of environmentally friendly cars. Cars that make you become comfortable environment especially in an era like today. Look at lots of cars pollute the air. This is a new breakthrough, this year held an exhibition in Paris this. Yes environmentally friendly auto show paris-themed exhibition. Hybrids are the big news in the United States today, with nearly 350,000 sold in the last 12 months and even more on the cards for this year. European sales of hybrid vehicles is more modest, but with some new models hit the market in coming years could be set to change. Leading the charge is a luxury hybrid.

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E-Ball PC Future

Now it appears the computer for the enthusiast that is E-Ball ball ball like a PC computerwith an idea which way will the pc smallest ever designed. It basically has all thefunctionality of a traditional computer technology less dimensions and excess weight.Made to sit on two feet that can be used by simultaneously pressing two buttons on each aspect. The idea of ​​this gadget is not only has a detachable mouse attached to the bodywhen not in use but also sports a laser keyboard, for additional cool features. Pictures andshow projected onto a wall or perhaps by pressing the paper sheet.

With consumers a fun interface along with an icon that can wasily sylized remember this gadget a cool idea it is suitable to produce a video clip presentations, watching movies,chatting on the internet and listen to the songs of your choice. This will certainly be an eye catcher in. This idea appears now that PC enthusiasts are eager to shocking the worldbecause now a laptop and tablet PC's sepersi been forgotten, so they designed this idea,so that the PC was able to demand more .. hopefully ... !!

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Windows 8 Release A Tablet

microsoft is now really going to mengempakkan wing width - the width because recentlythey released windows 8. With Windows 8 developers made ​​public later this year and it is the first Windows OS that is optimized for touchscreen use.

Dell rumored to be working on a tablet that will run Windows 8, with reports evensuggesting that it could have been released before the end of the year but obviously that has not happened.

I am sure there will soon be a whole host of manufacturers of goods interested in their hardware benevolent Microsoft. I can imagine now, with an orderly queue at Microsoftheadquarters, "Please, Bill, we could have more ...... Windows?
That we wait for these products out wrote ...

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Philips 920 W HP Android Layar Sentuh Terbaru

Philips 920 W is the latest touch-screen Android phone is priced at an affordable price.Here are the specs and price Philips W 920.
 Philips 920 W support 2G network GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz) 3G & HSDPA (850/2100) with dimensions 128 x 70 x 12.9 mm. Frequency is very promising to make calls, because almost all smartphones use that frequency.Android phone is the latest touch screen capacitive touchscreen TFT screen width of 4.3 inches (~ 217 ppi pixel density) and resolution 480 x 800 pixels. Visual appearance of this area will certainly make its users feel comfortable when you're watching a video and image results.
Speaking about the videos and pictures, The camera has a resolution of 2592х1944 pixels and is supported by the features of autofocus and LED flash that can record VGA video.Also added entertainment media such as MP3/WAV/WMA/AAC + player, MP4/H.263 player, Java, and the game as a tool for its users repellent boredom. It's just an FM radio feature is not pinned on this 920 W Philips.All the above can you store files on 180 MB of internal memory or microSD card that can be loaded with up to 32 GB. Users also can send the file to your friends via Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP connection, or if you want to transfer them to a computer, just simply use the v2.0 microUSB cable.

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Nokia and Microsoft on design

I got the chance to stroke another Nokia Lumia 800 this weekend – a friend of mine has the black unit and I spent ten minutes poring over it. It’s a thing of beauty and in this video a collection of Nokia and Microsoft peeps explain their inspirations for the design of the software, the hardware, and how Microsoft and Nokia came together on this phone.

I think it may be time to profile Jeff Fong from the Windows Phone team here on the blog. Oh and if you haven’t met the Windows Phone design team, see them having a Mad Men moment.

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New Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface Is Available to Pre-order Starting Today

A second, more retail-friendly version of Microsoft Surface is now available for pre-order in 23 countries. Earlier this week, Popular Science named the Samsung SUR40 a 2011 “Best of What’s New” award recipient.

REDMOND, Wash. – Nov. 17, 2011 – Retail outlets looking for new, innovative ways to get hands-on with their customers will soon have a new tool – the Samsung SUR40. Companies are already using Microsoft Surface to give potential customers virtual tours of plane interiors, help them plan flights, provide them with the ability to create immersive photo books, and entice bank customers into brick and mortar branches. Those experiences only hint at how the new Surface device will be able to help businesses engage with customers, said Somanna Palacanda, director of Microsoft Surface. Retailers, healthcare providers and others looking for new ways to get hands-on with their customers will soon have a new tool – the Samsung SUR40. Click for high-res version.  “With what's happening in the world of touch and the fact that touch is becoming ubiquitous, people are looking for more immersive relationships with screens,” he said. “The new Surface takes technology that’s always existed in the backs of stores and brings it front and center. So now customers and retailers can interact together, a doctor and a patient can have a more immersive consulting experience, and a banker and a customer can sit together and work on a simulation where in past the banker would be the only one in control.” Samsung and Microsoft announced today that a new, more versatile Microsoft Surface device is now available for pre-order, the near final stop on its journey from lab to marketplace. Now, businesses in 23 countries can visit the Samsung website to find a local reseller and place an order for the Samsung SUR40. Shipments are expected to start early next year.

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Microsoft replaces veteran Xbox design boss

The Xbox team, in 2000, with the chrome Xbox concept prototype. Don Coyner, who led marketing for the console, is wearing the patterned shirt in the middle row, far right.

(Credit: Microsoft)

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See the Toyota Fun-Vii concept in action (video)

(Credit: Toyota)

With an exterior skin that doubles as a digital display, an augmented-reality cockpit, and Internet and inter-vehicular connectivity, the Toyota Fun-Vii concept is about as pie-in-the-sky as concept cars get.
However, explaining with words and photos hardly does this concept justice. I had to see it in motion to understand everything that Toyota expects the car of the future to do. In the video below, you'll see tight smartphone integration, augmented-reality gaming, a holographic digital concierge in a De Stijl-inspired tube top, and an amazing (if not tremendously improbably) implementation of vehicle-to-vehicle networking. The video also shows off the Fun-Vii's electrified power-train with wireless charging, its autonomous driving mode, and lots of people dressed in white. Check it out below.
I'm not sure if I need my car to do any of these things, but it's all definitely cool to watch. Which of these features would you like to see in your next ride?

 

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Go To The Future! Teknologi GPS Canggih Buatan Microvision

Bagi sebagian orang, teknologi Head of Display atau yang dikenal dengan HUD mungkin masih sangat asing. Teknologi canggih ini difungsikan untuk menggantikan pemakaian gadget GPS untuk menampilkan informasi atau peta.

Belum lama ini, perusahaan pengembang aksesoris kendaraan ternama, Microvision, telah mengumumkan sebuah teknologi HUD terbaru yang lebih baik dibandingkan yang ada saat ini.

Mereka menyematkan teknologi laser dan PicoP untuk membuat tampilan layar di kaca depan mobil menjadi lebih baik, mulai dari dari segi kontras, color, hingga kualitas brightness., sehingga pengendara dapat mengemudikan kendaraannya lebih aman baik di siang maupun malam hari.

Belum diketahui secara resmi dengan produsen mobil mana saja Microvision akan melakukan kerja sama.

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The Future

The Future of Your PC's Hardware

Memristor: A Groundbreaking New Circuit
Photograph: Courtesy of HPSince the dawn of electronics, we've had only three types of circuit components--resistors, inductors, and capacitors. But in 1971, UC Berkeley researcher Leon Chua theorized the possibility of a fourth type of component, one that would be able to measure the flow of electric current: the memristor. Now, just 37 years later, Hewlett-Packard has built one.
What is it? As its name implies, the memristor can "remember" how much current has passed through it. And by alternating the amount of current that passes through it, a memristor can also become a one-element circuit component with unique properties. Most notably, it can save its electronic state even when the current is turned off, making it a great candidate to replace today's flash memory.

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Great Laptop

HP Leaving Laptops – Great Laptop Deals Coming

Posted on 06 September 2011. 

The HP tablet blowout has really shaken up the tablet world. It’s no secret now that HP is getting out of the hardware business. Sure they blew out the tablets but what about the laptop deals?

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Best 2012

Gaming laptops in 2012 with AMD Dynamic Switchable Graphics technology

Posted on 26 September 2011.

We’ve just been reading a fantastic article on AnandTech which takes a look at the new and upcoming AMD Dynamic Switchable Graphics technology.

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