Latest Hardware & Peripherals Stories

ASUS Eee Monitor PC Unveiled

ASUS has been selling its popular and cheap little Eee notebooks for a while now and has recently added an Eee desktop as well. It looks like ASUS has more in store for the Eee line with some images of an all in one PC like the iMac showing up.

Hard details are few but it seems the LCD is somewhere between 19 and 20-inches and may retail from a starting price around $500. There is no mention of the CPU, but considering all new Eee’s use the Intel Atom that is a safe bet. Read more

Posted on Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:08:02 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

Lacie Little Big Disk Quadra Grows to 1TB

Topic: Hardware & Peripherals

LaCie has been making external hard drives for a long time now that tend to favor the industrial looks of Mac computers. They will work with Windows machines as well. The latest from LaCie is the Little Big Disk Quadra.

The drive is small at about the size of a brick, but it packs in a full 1TB of storage. Connectivity options include Firewire, eSATA, and USB 2.0. the drive will retail for £440 including a 3-year warranty and EMC Retrospect backup software. Read more

Posted on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:40:03 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

Glass Keyboard Has No Keys

Topic: Hardware & Peripherals

The gang over at Yanko Design has a new glass keyboard that takes some design queues from touch screen devices like the iPhone. The all glass keyboard has no real keys and is see-through.

The entire keyboard is a sheet of glass with key shaped areas on it with letter labels, lighting and a camera. The concept would use motion capture software to change the motion of typing into real typing. Read more

Posted on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:43:46 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

Toshiba 1.8-inch HDD Hits 160GB

Topic: Hardware & Peripherals

Toshiba has announced a new series of 1.8-inch HDDs for consumer electronic devices that use the SATA interface and have a capacity of up to 160GB. Toshiba says that this is the first drive of this type to reach this capacity.

The drives have a fast 5400 RPM rotational speed and the drives can be had in 80GB capacity as well. Toshiba also says that the new drives have a 25% improvement on power usage and have 17% faster data access than previous 1.8-inch drives from Toshiba. Read more

Posted on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:22:17 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

Lite-on Announces 4X Blu-ray Writer for Europe

Topic: Hardware & Peripherals

Lite-On announced that it has launched a new 4X Blu-ray writer in Europe called the DH-4B1S. The new drive is the follow up to the LH-2B1S Blu-ray writer, one of the first Blu-ray writers on the market. The new drive can write BD-R media at 4X and has a 50% faster speed compared to the previous writer.

The new drive uses a constant linear velocity writing strategy allowing for the transfer of data at 18 MB per second during the write session. Lite-On says that the faster 6X drives on the market only hit 6X at the end of the session and start off at slower speeds. Read more

Posted on Wed, 7 May 2008 15:43:23 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

Keyboard Pants Destroy Your Chances of Copulation

Topic: Hardware & Peripherals

If the big bag of gadgets and the high-tech notebook you tote around with you don’t define you as geek enough in your eyes, these new pants surely will. I suspect even that really geeky guy you see at the coffee shop each morning will see these pants and go, man that guy is a geek.

These are no normal pants mind you; they scream geek by actually having a keyboard built-in right across your todger and its two pals. I suggest that you don’t hit the space bar too hard while typing lest you suffer one of the most painful injuries known to man. Read more

Posted on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:28:13 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

AMD Announces Three new X3 Triple-core Processors

Topic: Hardware & Peripherals

AMD officially announced three new Phenom X3 triple-core processors today that AMD hopes users will combine with its AMD 780 series chipset. The processors and the chipset combined promise a full HD experience and what AMD calls visually stunning gaming and digital performance.

The three new processors introduced include the Phenom X3 8750 triple-core running at 2.4 GHz, the Phenom X3 8650 triple-core running at 2.3 GHz and the Phenom X3 8450 running at 2.1 GHz. The processors will retail for $195, $165, and $145 respectively. Read more

Posted on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:12:38 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

Imation Launches Atom Flash Drive

Topic: Hardware & Peripherals

Imation launched its new Atom flash drives clearly aimed at the PICO drives introduced by Super Talent this week. The Atom drive is a bit larger that the competitor though at 30.5 x 13 x 5.6mm.

The drive is encased in aluminum and can be had in capacities from 1GB to 8GB. The Atom is a small package to get 8GB of storage. Read more

Posted on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:26:20 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

Power Your PC with Your Keyboard

Topic: Hardware & Peripherals

Many people recognize that computers consume lots of power. There are many ways to combat the power use of computer systems from more power efficient components to things like NVIDIA’s hybrid power.

Here’s a way to conserve electricity that you might not have thought of, your keyboard. The Dynamo keyboard turns the tapping of your fingers as you type into power that it sends to your computer. The power you generate when typing overrides power from the mains and operates your computer. Read more

Posted on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:33:05 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

Wacom Cintiq 12WX Reviewed

Topic: Hardware & Peripherals

Wacom is well known as a major maker of pen tablets for inputting artwork into a computer. Pocket-lint reviewed the Cintiq 12WX today and gave it high marks and a 9 out of 10 score.

The pros for the device are build and design, and easy operation. The bad had to do with the high price of the unit at £ 829.99. The device has a 12.1-inch screen and is pressure sensitive. Read more

Posted on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:14:39 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

Gigabyte Shows Off Power Miser 8800 GT

Topic: Hardware & Peripherals

Gigabyte showed off an interesting 8800 GT from NVIDIA at CeBIT last week that uses something called Voltage Gear Overdrive designed to reduce the power consumption in 2D mode. The idea is that when the card is being used for normal PC work that doesn’t require full power it throttles back.

This is the way many mainboards operate to conserve power when the full CPU speed isn’t needed. Other interesting features include a Game HUD application. Read more

Posted on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:44:09 GMT | by Shane McGlaun

Next | Hardware & Peripherals

Find Deals