Definitive Technology Disappearing In-Wall Speakers

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The problem with putting speakers in your home is that they tend to look bad and ruin the décor. The best way to add speakers, without having to look at them or the wires they need is to put speakers in your walls. Definitive Technology announced a new line of Disappearing In-Wall speakers that has six round and two square speakers to choose from.

The speakers all use a low profile micro-perf grill, hidden flange and small diameters. The design of the speakers means that you don’t have to have custom sheetrock or spackle skills to install them. The speakers come in 3.5”, 4.5”, 5.25”, 6.5” and 8” diameters in 2-way designs along with a 6.5” single speaker and a pair of 5.12” and 6” square designs. Prices for the speakers run $179 to $379 each. Read more

Posted on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:48:20 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Intel P45 and G45 Express Launch and Technology Preview

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Computex, Intel has officially launched an updated lineup of x45-series chipsets, which will likely be the last major mainstream chipset release from Intel for the Core 2 platform as we know it today. Hothardware takes a look at the P45 and G45 Intel chipsets.

Quote: "The names and specifications of these products have been rumored and reported on for the past few months, although today everything is set in stone and products are beginning to hit the market. The products which are launching today will make up the lion’s share of Intel’s chipset lineup until their next generation high-end X58 chipset launches with the Core 2’s successor, codenamed Nehalem. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

OCZ Technology Launches New Gear at Computex

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OCZ Technology has launched some interesting new gear at Computex. One of the most interesting products is OCZ’s new DDR3 PC3-17000 Flex II memory modules. The modules can be liquid cooled and run at speeds of 2133MHz+.

PC Power and Cooling is also releasing a new PSU called the TurboCool 860 that is NVIDIA ESA certified. New flash drives are also being offered with a small compact Spyder unit, a larger higher capacity drive called the Diesel and a drive called the Fortress. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Jun 2008 08:56:52 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Awareness of Bluetooth Technology At All Time High

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Bluetooth SIG says that with this week marking the 10th anniversary of Bluetooth’s launch, awareness of the technology is at an all time high. The group says that 85% of consumers know what Bluetooth is and recognize the technology.

In 4 of the 6 countries polled 60% of consumers say they own Bluetooth enabled devices and 78% say they will pay more for devices using Bluetooth technology. 57% of those polled say that Bluetooth makes their lives easier. Read more

Posted on Thu, 22 May 2008 18:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

DivX Technology for PS3 Games Now Available

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DivX announced that it is now offering its video encoding technology to PS3 game developers allowing them to create high quality video for PS3 games. According to DivX the new technology will allow for games with better video embedded.

Game developers can take advantage of DivX compression and maintain high-quality video. DivX says that the PS3 is the first console capable of playing DivX videos. Let’s hope this doesn’t mean longer cut scenes in our games. Read more

Posted on Wed, 14 May 2008 09:26:38 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

LG unveils World's first TFT Roll-printing Technology

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LG Display today announced that it has developed the world's first TFT roll-printing technology that can replace the photolithography process. LG will show the new technology at the SID 2008.

Photolithography is a process used in TFT-LCD fabrication to form patterns on the TFT and color filter substrate. It involves a complex set of processes that requires huge and costly equipment.
However, using the roll-printing technology instead of photolithography, the complex set of processes used to form the required patterns can be proceeded at once. Read more

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 04:53:34 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Nanotechnology on the Rise in Consumer Products

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The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) reports that the number of consumer products using nanotechnology has grown from 212 to 609 since PEN launched the world's first online inventory of manufacturer-identified nanotech goods in March 2006.

There are 35 automotive products in the PEN inventory, including the Hummer H2. General Motors Corporation bills the H2 as having a cargo bed that "uses about seven pounds of molded-in-color nanocomposite parts for its trim, center bridge, sail panel and box rail protector." Read more

Posted on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Targus Speaker Book with NXT Technology

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Targus introduces a portable speaker gadget dubbed Targus Speaker Book with NXT ultra-thin speakers.

The Targus Speaker Book has a uniquely-designed folding stereo speaker system incorporating NXT’s Balanced Radiator (BR) technology.
Compatible with all audio sources, the Speaker Book is connected via a supplied 3.5mm audio cable and powered by either USB from a laptop or desktop computer, or four AAA batteries for use anywhere. Read more

Posted on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:53:58 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Interview with Fast2Light about flexible OLED Lighting Technology

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OLED-Info published an interview with Fast2Light's project manager Mary M. Kilitziraki. Fast2Light is an R&D setup that researches and develops light emitting foils based on OLED technology.

Quote: "There are a few milestones to be achieved before OLED makes it to the lighting market; a very important one is the performance and lifetime of the light emitting material. Read more

Posted on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:05:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Nokia, Sony Ericsson and others sign 3GPP LTE Technology Contract

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Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sony Ericsson have today announced a mutual commitment to a framework for establishing predictable and more transparent maximum aggregate costs for licensing intellectual property rights (IPR) that relate to 3GPP Long Term Evolution and Service Architecture Evolution standards (LTE/SAE).

LTE promises to make 3G networks, faster, more efficient, lower cost and more. Read more

Posted on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:25:25 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

AMD Chief Technology Officer Phil Hester resigned

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AMD's CTO Phil Hester has resigned. It is always kind of a big deal if a senior officer leaves a company. AMD also announced this week to cut 10% of their employees.

Apparently the resignation of Mr. Hester is not related to the job cut. Mr. Hester is leaving to pursue other opportunities says an AMD spokesperson.
Mr. Hester joined AMD in 2005. Read more

Posted on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:30:07 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New Racetrack Memory Technology to replace Flash in future iPods

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IBM scientists have developed a new storage technology currently dubbed "racetrack" that promises huge capacity at lower cost.

The racetrack memory technology would lead to the development of 3D micro-electronics away from the current 2D concepts. Read more

Posted on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:39:34 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Mobile Phone Technology Combats Credit Card Fraud

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Credit card fraud is rampant in America and across the world. With the advent of the Internet age and online shopping growing it has become easy for criminals to access our credit card information. A company from Israel has a potential answer to the problem called mConfirm.

The technology uses a mobile phone to confirm that the credit card owner and the card are being used in the same location. According to the company the service is being offered to US banks, will cost the customer nothing and doesn’t require a GPS enabled cell phone. Read more

Posted on Thu, 6 Mar 2008 14:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Nokia Morph Nanotechnology Concept Devices

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Nokia announces Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge (UK).

Morph was launched today alongside the "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition, on view from February 24th to May 12th, 2008, at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Read more

Posted on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:28:21 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Roper Mobile technology Duros Rugged Tablet PC

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Roper Mobile Technology unveiled a new rugged tablet PC today called the Duros. Duros is a Windows XP based tablet PC sealed to IP-65 levels for dust and water and is manufactured to MILSPEC 810F.

The screen is an 8.4-inch sunlight viewable SVGA with resistive touch capability. The processor in the system is either a Geode LX 800 or an Intel Celeron M 1GHz. The system can have up to 1GB of RAM and 120GB of storage space. A 64Gb SSD is optional and the battery is hot swappable. Read more

Posted on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:03:02 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Sunrich Technology Announces Express Card SSD

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Sunrich Technology has announced a new SSD drive it will be showing off at CES 2008. The drive will be available in 4, 8, 16, and 32GB capacities.

The drive is designed to work from the ExpressCard slot on notebook computers and is made so that the drive fits totally inside the ExpressCard slot. The SSD requires no drivers and is Plug-n-Play compliant. Read more

Posted on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 10:07:43 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Rambus Licenses High-speed Memory Technology to Toshiba

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Rambus announced today that it had licensed its XDR memory architecture to Toshiba to be used in HDTVs. Rambus’ XDR, XIO and XMC will be used in conjunction to provide Toshibas HDTVs with 4.8Gbps of throughput.

The higher performance delivered by this Rambus technology will allow Toshiba’s 1080p HDTVs to operate at 120Hz refresh rates and 12-bit color depths while showing full HD PiP. Read more

Posted on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:42:31 CST | by Shane McGlaun

Buffalo Technology LinkStation Live Review

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Our review partner Digital Trends published a review of the Buffalo Technology LinkStation Live with 250GB storage. Digital Trends gave the media drive a very low rating due to software problems.

Quote from the review: "Buffalo Technology is well-known for its networking products, and now the company has attached all its networking prowess to a 250GB hard drive for a little bit of NAS (Network Attached Storage) action. Read more

Posted on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Toshiba Adds X205-SLi1 and X205-SLi3 Notebooks Using NVIDIA SLI Technology

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Toshiba announced the addition of two NVIDIA SLI equipped gaming notebooks to their line called the X205-SLi1 and the X205-SLi3 both of which are HD DVD equipped systems. Both notebooks feature dual NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT GPUs with a combined 512MB of video RAM and DirectX 10 capability.

These notebooks start at a price of $1999.99 and are available now at the Toshiba website. The X205-SLi3 includes a USB external HDTV tuner for playing live HDTV from an antenna or cable box. Both systems include an HDMI out for playing HD DVD movies on HDTV sets. Read more

Posted on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:42:54 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Russia tested nanotechnology based Vacuum Bomb

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Russian military said it tested the world's most powerful non-nuclear air-delivered bomb.

The so called vacuum bomb equivalent to 44 tons of regular explosives. It has a blast radius is 990 feet. Read more

Posted on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

JVC Announces 2nd Generation LCD TV Technology

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JVC announced today its second generation high-speed LCD TV technology. The new JVC TVs use Clear Motion Drive II technology that gives a 120Hz refresh rate bringing a five times improvement in motion detection over the older technology previously used.

The new line will display full HD 1080p resolution at a refresh rate of 120 frames per second. The new line of HDTV sets using this technology will be available this fall with the first set using the technology launching as a 37-inch screen size. Read more

Posted on Wed, 5 Sep 2007 12:42:30 CDT | by Shane McGlaun