Lenovo has released a promotional video for its new Lenovo IdeaPad U110 11.1 inch laptop. Priced at $1,899, the desktop replacement features face recognition technology, and some hot keys on the keyboard. The laptop is currently available in red and black. Watch the promotional video after the jump. [Engadget via Laptop Blog] More »
Chevrolet has done a world’s first and unveiled it’s car fitting room in South London. This fitting room will actually show you, how exactly you look while sitting in the new car that you wanted to buy for so long. And for this, you need to drive the car onto a central revolve which will revolve around three gigantic mirrors. These mirrors of course will let you examine your car’s booty when you are actually sitting in it and then come to a conclusion whether the car fits you to a tee. If you want to catch this very new concept, head off to South London’s forecourt where this contraption is on display. [Gizmag]
Computerworld Malaysia is reporting that Broadband over Powerline (BPL) provider Velchip Sdn Bhd has formalised three major partnerships to advance the world’s biggest BPL project announced earlier this month. The project intends offering 60 million people unlimited high speed Internet connection of 224Mbps (megabits per second) at a cost of only around RM5 (US$1.58) per user per month. It’s the fastest and cheapest internet connectivity in the world. [Slashdot]
NASA scientists have identified the smallest known black hole in the universe. At 3.8 times the mass of our Sun and estimated at only 15 miles in diameter, the black hole known as XTE J1650 is also close to the smallest size thought to be theoretically possible for such an object. This information has only been discovered using a new technique that links the mass of the Black Hole to the X-rays being radiated from the surrounding discs of hot gases that are being dragged inwards by the object’s massive gravitational forces. By measuring the regular pattern created by these X-rays (known as quasi-periodic oscillation, or QPO), the mass of the black hole can be established with X-rays are emitted on a shorter timescale for smaller black holes. The research was conducted by Nikolai Shaposhnikov and Lev Titarchuk at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. [NASA]
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The Lingo Voyager 5 is a portable translator that can speak the word or sentence aloud in 20 languages including English, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, and more. What makes this gadget cool is that it can also speak over 46,000 commonly used phrases from around the world. Other features include FM radio, some games, a voice recorder, a 200 city world time clock with alarms, a calendar, a 12-digit calculator and a currency converter. The Lingo Voyager 5 is priced at $249. [Product Page]
Toshiba has new 1.8 hard drives that were previewed at CES 2008 that come in Carbon Gray, Hot Rod Red and Gecko Green. They’re able in 60GB, 80GB and 120GB versions that come with backup and encryption software. If space is an issue you may want to try the 320GB model for $199.99. No price is available for the 1.8 versions right now however they are said to release sometime in Spring.
Eye-Fi Inc.’s wireless card beat nine other contestants for the top spot in the Last Gadget Standing session, a CES contest staged by Yahoo Inc.’s technology section. The winner was determined by the volume of audience applause. The $100 Eye-Fi card has 2 gigabytes of memory, uses Wi-Fi to zap pictures to computers and photo-sharing Web sites. Eye-Fi’s other competitors include: the Asus Eee PC, the LG Voyager, Dash Express GPS device, Sansa TakeTV (similar to Tivo), iRobot’s iLooj, Toshiba’s TDP-EW25U a wireless DLP projector, Electric Spin’s Golf LaunchPad, The Fujitsu u810, and the Logitech diNovo Mini Keyboard.
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