New devices to consumer digital media
After a furiously frenetic flapping of flipcharts, Intel’s PR department have come up with the family name for their new range of processors destined for mobile Internet device (MIDs) and low-cost PCs.
First to get the new name will be Intel’s Silverthorne chip, designed for MIDs, and Diamondville, destined for cheapo PCs such as the hugely successful Asus Eee PC.
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Seduced by positive reviews, tempting Internet prices and the company’s reputation for supplying top notch gear to the music industry, we recently invested in a pair of Shure’s E2c ‘sound isolating’ headphones.
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Although we’re supposed to be in the vortex of a convergence storm, with do-it-all devices replacing multiple gadgets, new research has revealed that nearly a third of business travellers are still carrying more than one cell phone, laptop or other electronic device on the road.
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If you’re an aspiring musician, sound recordist, broadcaster, podcaster or even an, err, karaoke fan, then the Mackie DFX-6 mixer might be worth a look if you fancy moving up a level or two.
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We know that PDAs are supposed to have gone the same way as Sarsaparilla bars and 8 track cartridges, but HP’s much-delayed shiny black iPAQ 210 seems worthy of a look after
Packing an almighty 4 inch 640 x 480 touchscreen LCD, the iPAQ comes with more connections than Clapham Junction, offering both CompactFlash and SD (with SDHC and SDIO support) slots, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, and USB 2.0 and docking options in the shape of a 24-pin iPAQ connector and Mini-USB connector.
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Archos today showed their TV product in London to a room full of eager journalists.
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Online retailer behemoths Amazon are set to turn up the heat on Apple iTunes, with the company rolling out international versions of its MP3 download service later this year,
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The One Laptop Per Child Foundation has focused its attention on the poorest kids in the United States, setting up a north American office and approaching state governments to get them interested in the cheapo laptop project.
Dreamt up by former MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte, the One Laptop project was tasked with helping poorer nations bridge the digital divide, developing a cheap (sub-$100) and rugged ‘XO’ laptop which they hoped would be bought en masse by Third World governments.
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Pinnacle are launching the Pinnacle Video Transfer analogue to digital video ripper at CES.
If you’re fed up with having to switch on your computer to rip a video to play on your digital media player, your life could become a little easier.
The pocket-sized device can take any S-Video, Composite video and stereo audio analogue source as an input and cleverly the digital H.264 output is stored on any USB storage device, including Apple iPod Video, iPod nano (3rd generation), iPod classic, Sony PSP, Sony PSP slim, USB flash drive or USB hard drive.
The quality of the video can be set to one of three different levels – Good, Better, Best – depending on their preferences for video quality or the actual size of the video files.
Uses run through the obvious of capturing TV, DVD player, PVR, camcorder or set-top box directly to the less obvious, like capturing video game sessions for showing to their mates later.
Priced at £100, it’s expected to be available in the UK soon.
Well worth a visit in Manhattan, New York is tech magazine’s Wired’s “pop-up retail store” at 160 Wooster Street, SoHo.
Opened for the holiday shopping season, the warehouse space stokes gadget lust to the max, letting punters test drive the latest consumer gadgets and gear.
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