by Darren Murph, posted Jul 27th 2008 at 3:46PM
The Kira 100 was a decent Eee PC knockoff, but at just north of $475, there was literally no purpose in picking it over the genuine product. The Jointech JL7100, however, really makes ASUS’ darling look mighty unnecessary. Okay, so maybe the fact that this thing relies on WinCE 5.0 rather than, you know, a bona fide laptop operating system is a bit disappointing, but there are sacrifices to be expected here. As for other specifications, you’ll supposedly find a 7-inch 800 x 480 resolution display, Samsung chipset, 64MB (yes, megabytes) of internal storage, 64MB (yes, megabytes) of RAM, a VGA output and three USB ports. We can hear your stifled laughter from here, but your tune may change upon hearing the $99 (USD?) price tag. Told you so.

[Thanks, Sean]

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by Darren Murph, posted Jul 27th 2008 at 1:51PM
If you’ll recall, the evolution of homebrew on the Wii started out quite similar to this. First comes the Hello World proof of concept, then comes Pong. It would just be wrong to unfold otherwise, right? Dragula96, the same guru who whipped up the original homebrew hack, has now introduced 2 Player Pong 1.0 — the first notable game to take advantage. Currently, the collisions are “very basic” and further tweaks are necessary before it’s perfect, but it should be stable enough to take you to some sort of blissful state for now.

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by Darren Murph, posted Jul 27th 2008 at 1:51PM
If you’ll recall, the evolution of homebrew on the Wii started out quite similar to this. First comes the Hello World proof of concept, then comes Pong. It would just be wrong to unfold otherwise, right? Dragula96, the same guru who whipped up the original homebrew hack, has now introduced 2 Player Pong 1.0 — the first notable game to take advantage. Currently, the collisions are “very basic” and further tweaks are necessary before it’s perfect, but it should be stable enough to take you to some sort of blissful state for now.

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by Darren Murph, posted Jul 27th 2008 at 11:31AMLittle known tidbit for those not keenly watching the happenings at Infineon: the firm was forced to write down the value of its Qimonda stake by €1 billion ($1.57 billion) in April. Not surprisingly, Infineon’s head honcho is about ready to rid the company of the flagging unit, making quite a few direct statements in a Germany daily saying as much. For starters, CEO Peter Bauer stated that “a complete sale is possible as is a sale of a minority stake,” and he continued by affirming that it was already “speaking to financial investors and other companies in the industry.” Just in case you had any doubts whatsoever that this cat was serious, he proclaimed that “[the firm] was working with utmost urgency on the question how to close the chapter on Qimonda as quickly as possible.” Unrequited love at its finest.

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Ubuntu’s founder, Mark Shuttleworth, has proposed a plan to make his distro of Linux just that much more popular. He plans on overtaking Apple’s Mac OSX in the looks and desktop experience departments in order to overtake the art-savvy giant. Sure, these plans do sound a bit confident for where Linux is now, but that almighty force of Linux programmers is really starting to leave an impression on the industry.

Shuttleworth believes the idea that open source operating systems need not only be for the tech savvy and he aims to push for easier, more stable, and more attractive aspects to updates to his operating systems.

With Ubuntu updates popping out about every 6 months now, this dream may not be as much as a reach as it may seem. If there was one Linux distro that had the best chance of changing the software industry, it would definitely be Ubuntu. Shuttleworth has established the goal of “revolutionizing the open source ecosystem” by the summer of 2009 and finally “beating” Apple by 2010.

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If you’d like the option of a bit more than just plain bread toasted in the morning, you might check out this design.  It actually has a rotary basket built into it, which also means nice hot croissants and other breaded goodness that you can toss into the basket.  With the basket itself, you can set an individual timer as to how long to keep it going.  On the rest of the toaster, since the rotary is on the top, your bread has to go someplace else for your morning toast.

Instead it has two pop out slots built into each side, it would also be great for anyone trying to make two different breakfasts for two different people.  The sellers of this toaster actually boasts that you will save up to 70% of your energy, because with this you don’t have to preheat your oven.  Smaller gadget, it’s going to use less power.  The toaster is currently on the market for  € 59.95.  Which seems like a little much, but having more than one function it does make it at least a little better.

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by Darren Murph, posted Jul 27th 2008 at 8:49AM
Not quite sure why, but we get this whole Get Smart vibe from this thing. IOCELL’s contents phone would probably be more suited for a highly covert spy agency rather than your grandmother’s home, but we suppose even granny could appreciate the built-in hard drive that logs conversations, plays ‘em back and makes remembering things that much easier. Furthermore, the firm asserts that this thing can send completed calls out on the internet should you want to pass along the audio to someone else, and there also appears to be a USB port for possibly offloading those onto flash drives. Heck, it even syncs caller ID information with calls and provides background music during conversations (uh, okay?). Take a wild guess on the price, chances are you’ll be fairly close.

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by Darren Murph, posted Jul 27th 2008 at 5:41AM
Not that Samsung is actually looking to pump this out into beauty salons worldwide, but there stands at least a mild chance that sophisticated females shopping for new compacts would also spring for some storage. Joongoo Lee’s Costume is a sleek, deliberately styled 2.5-inch external hard drive that looks entirely at home mixed in with various makeup components. Additionally, the bundled dock is equally sexy, though we can only hope there’s a USB 2.0 port somewhere on this thing. Though this is just a concept, we wouldn’t put it past Samsung to turn into a reality — after all, it did just produce pink and blue BlackJack IIs. Your soft side is showing, Sammy.

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by Darren Murph, posted Jul 27th 2008 at 12:46AM
It’s easy enough to drool over the press shots of Nikon’s luscious D700. Seeing someone unbox this full-frame beast on video is another experience entirely (bordering on spiritual, really). Unfortunately, the vid waiting after the break is just two minutes long and doesn’t show any clicks being depressed, but those looking to get a better idea of the size and build have plenty of reason to click through.

[Thanks, Jon]

The Nikon D700 Unboxed from Jon Read on Vimeo

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Samsung have announced two new large plasma HDTVs onto the market in the form of the Samsung 7 Series Plasma range. Both have a full HD 1080p plasma screen, and boast very impressive features and specifications. The 7 series plasma’s have an impressive and attractive looking frame based on their “crystal” design theme.

For thoes of you who prefer Plasma over LCD screen and want something else on offer over Pioneer’s offerings the 50-inch Samsung PS-50A750, or very large 63-inch Samsung PS-63A750 should do you very well. These great looking modern screens has the highest 1920×1080p resolution along with all the modern HD features such as 24p (24Hz) support, 100Hz high frame rate support for reducing motion blur and image judder.

Both the PS50A750 and PS63A750 have an anti-reflective coating, ultra filter bright and 18-bit natural true colour. An amazing dynamic contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1 along with DNIe Pro deliver brilliant colours. Impressive connections including 4x HDMI 1.3 inputs (with Anynet+), PC VGA input, component are featured along with WiseLink Pro, DLNA and a contents library, the PS-50A750, and PS-63A750 round off a great series.

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