You really have to hand it to those clever Chinamen. As if solar power, cigarette holders, mosquito repellent are not enough, they’ve come up with a cell phone that doubles as an LCD projector. This one is made by Chinaking. Take note of the iPhone-like interface and styling.
Though these keyboards cost 156 big ones, we think that the designs and funky-ness justify the price. These handmade keyboards connect to the PC via USB and comes in several designs. The keyboard featured below is called Nishi-Ki; other keyboards in the series are the Zip-Ang (gold-coated), Waza-Kura (cherry blossoms), Kara-Kusa (swirls) and the Usa-Gi (rabbits).
Hewlett Packard’s luxury PC division has something to give the MacBook Air a run for its money. The luxury laptop is 0.7 inches and weighs 3.73 pounds. It sports an Intel Centrino processor up to 1.8 GHz, up to 80 giga-byte hard disk drive, bluetooth, Wi-Fi and a DVDRW drive. Its keyboard is led backlit and the display is 13.3 inches wide. Priced at $2100 from VodooPC.com
Steve Jobs on Monday unveiled a new incarnation to the hip iPhone - now with 3G and GPS mapping. The iPhones now come in glossy and slimmer cases as pictured below. The new phones will be sold from $199 to $299 for 8GB and 16 GB models this July 11th in 20 countries around the world.
The Sanctuary charging station presents and elegant and simple solution to the clutter of cables, plugs and whot-nots when charging your gadgets. It can charge over 1500 kinds of gadgets including those needing a USB cable. It can also serve as a tray to keep your keys, wallets, rings and other non techie stuff. Available at $99.99 at ThinkGeek.com
This fall we will see an environment-friendly speedster from Ronn Motors. The Scorpio will be powered through HFI (Hydrogen Fuel Injection) through hydrolysis - that’s using hydrogen as fuel from water for us ordinary humans. Currently in pre-production, the Scoprio is designed to hit 60mph in just 3.5 seconds - whoa!
Acer joins into the fray of ultraportables with the announcement of the Aspire One ultraportable notebook. The UMPC was announced on June 3rd 2008 at the Computex Expo in Taiwan. Unlike the HP 2133 mini-note, the Aspire One will be powered by a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom CPU with a memory up to 1GB of DDR2 SDRAM. Other features include the standard wireless b/g ethernet, a 1.3 megapixel camera and 80 GB of hard disk.
Free Photoshop Ebook from SitePoint - for a limited time only!
17 May
Posted by marco as Graphic Design
For a limited time, Sitepoint.com is giving away The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks and Techniques ebook for free. This book is very handy for web designers and photoshop enthusiasts as it offers tips and step-by-step tutorials on creating elements for graphic design projects. Click on this link for the download site.
BlackBerry throws in a match for the iPhone. The BlackBerry Bold comes with GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a 2 mega pixel camera with 5x digital zoom and built in flash. Of course, this wouldn’t be a BlackBerry without its mail send and web functions and the QWERTY keyboard.
Fresh from YugaTech: Globe Telecom Nabs iPhone Deal.
YugaTech wasn’t able to squeeze something out from Globe about the deal, but confirmed that iPhone will be available later this year. This would mean that iPhone owners can finally go legit with Globe.