Archivio di Aprile, 2009

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Flip Video Ultra HD video review

What better way to give you a look at Flip Video’s new Ultra HD camcorder than by reviewing it on video… shot with the Ultra HD. The specs are simple: 720p / 30 FPS, 8GB of storage on-board, HDMI out, and pretty much nothing else. Still, a camera this cheap ($199.99) and this small definitely [...]

30 Apr 2009 | admin | 0 commenti | Continua
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The Daily Roundup: here’s what you might’ve missed

Sony unveiling UMD-less PSP with slide-out buttons at ʵ?
Whispers of a new or revised PSP have been growing decidedly louder as of late, and now 1UP’s gotten a ton of new details from what it claims are “sources directly involved with the new [...]

30 Apr 2009 | admin | 0 commenti | Continua
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Palm launching smaller Pre-like device later this year says rumor-mill

As if we didn’t have enough Pre rumors to sort through, along comes TechCrunch and Mikey A. with some hard hitting stuff. According to the TC honcho, one of his “better sources″ claims that Palm is “very far along” on a second webOS device which is smaller and slimmer than the Pre and may or [...]

30 Apr 2009 | admin | 0 commenti | Continua
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PiSAT Solar’s K-Light boasts a one-to-one charging ratio

It’s pretty rare that a portable solar-based device offers much more utility than impressing your friends, but PiSAT Solar’s K-Light won′t only make you the coolest kid on your block: it might actually prove useful the next time you take a hike or find yourself hanging out in a developing country. In 10 hours of [...]

30 Apr 2009 | admin | 0 commenti | Continua
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Electrofluidic display tech improves color e-ink, makes you sound smarter

The race to develop a mass-market color e-ink display is at fever pitch, and there’s a new challenger on the scene: electrofluidic display, or EFD. Developed at the University of Cincinnati in partnership with a handful of private companies, the new tech apparently blows everything else out of the water — according to professor Jason [...]

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Electrofluidic display tech improves color e-ink, makes you sound smarter

The race to develop a mass-market color e-ink display is at fever pitch, and there’s a new challenger on the scene: electrofluidic display, or EFD. Developed at the University of Cincinnati in partnership with a handful of private companies, the new tech apparently blows everything else out of the water — according to professor Jason [...]

30 Apr 2009 | admin | 0 commenti | Continua
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LEGO iMac G4 Junior is iMac G4’s smaller, friendlier sibling

We tend to go a little weak in the knees for anything in miniature, so this iMac G4 “Junior” made with a 7-inch digital photo frame and a bunch of LEGOs sent us into hysterics. DIY-er Bjarne Tveskov says the creation is inspired by the film Luxo Jr., and though it has no functional [...]

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NVIDIA: 40 Atom-based ION platforms by end of 2009

After being let down by the Atom 230 processor in our review of the Ion-based AspireRevo, we′re comforted by NVIDIA’s promise of more Atom / Ion configurations on the horizon. Forty of ‘em by the end of the year including some based on the beefier dual-core Atom 330 processor just like this ASUS reference design [...]

29 Apr 2009 | admin | 0 commenti | Continua
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Video: Taxpayer takes Chevy Volt’s powertrain for a ride

See that? This dowdy looking sedan is the very symbol of hope for GM and perhaps the US auto industry as a whole. Although this Volt prototype is technically a mule — an engineering hybrid that crosses the body of a Chevy Cruze with the Volt’s Voltec powertrain — it still gives “an 80-plus percent [...]

29 Apr 2009 | admin | 0 commenti | Continua
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Vendite al dettaglio a febbraio -0,7% sul mese, -3,1% sull’anno

I dati forniti dall’Istat: quello tendenziale riporta al minimo del giugno scorsoRispetto a febbraio 2008 calo dell’1% per gli alimentari e del 4,1% per gli altri prodotti Vendite al dettaglio a febbraio -0,7% sul mese, -3,1% sull’anno
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29 Apr 2009 | admin | 0 commenti | Continua