Friday, January 14, 2011

Samsung develops DDR4 memory with up to 40 percent better energy efficiency than DDR3

Samsung develops DDR4 memory with up to 40 percent better energy efficiency than DDR3
DDR3 has just picked up from where DDR2 left. It’s going big and fast and cheap too, which the public needs. However, Samsung has not been chillaxing behind, as the firm has made announcement of a DDR4 DRAM stick that can perform read and write operations using up to 40 percent less power than the old/current DDR3 stuff.
Bandwidth maxes out at 2.13Gbps at 1.2V, while Pseudo Open Drain technology assists in minimizing the battery impact. Over time, Samsung projects the new DRAM modules will hit 4Gbps speeds. It’s working away with server makers right now in order to achieve JEDEC certification, but the target market will clearly be laptops and other mobile devices, where energy-frugal memory like this would best be appreciated.
While they may be getting JEDEC certification this can actually take years to go into mainstream so such announcement will not bother the market of DDR3 in anyway actually. Remember back when DDR3 was announced, it took quite some time to land too. But this DDR4 will be great for server market, where the 40 percent less power consumption will be very obvious when it comes to huge memory.
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Nvidia announces new GeForce 500M chipsets for the mobile warriors

Nvidia announces new GeForce 500M chipsets for the mobile warriors
Nvidia is not a no-show at CES, as they did unveil new graphic products from their company. This time around however, it’s something that you can easily purchase off the shelf. Nvidia has unveiled a new line of GPUs at the show that will be the graphics muscle behind some of the best performing notebooks on the market in 2011.
The newly announced GPUs are the GeForce 500M GPU family, and they include the GT 540M, the GT 550M, and the GT 555M, and the more budget 520M and 525M. Those high-end mobile chipsets offer at least four times the performance of integrated GPUs and two times the DirectX 11 performance of competing GPUs. The 520M and 525M are the two mainstream parts in the new line. The new GPUs also support Optimus technology for longer battery life by switching between the integrated GPU and the discrete GPU. That’ll come very handy with new Sandy Bridge laptops.
“GeForce GT 500M GPUs combined with Optimus technology enable the most versatile laptops ever created,” said Rene Haas, general manager of notebook business at Nvidia. “Pairing a great GPU with a strong CPU delivers Optimized notebook performance for consumers.”
The new GPU line also supports Nvidia 3D Vision, PhysX, CUDA, and uses the Nvidia Verde notebook drivers and they support Nvidia 3DTV Play to deliver content from the PC to 3D TVs in the living room. That means 3D getting into mainstream laptops powered by Nvidia.
The GPUs will be used in machines from just about every major computer maker on the planet including Acer, MSI, Alienware, ASUS, Clevo, Dell, and many others. NVIDIA has already announced that it will be working with Tesla to power infotainment systems in the Model S electric sportscar.
SOURCE via Anandtech
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Kingston launches USB 3.0 roadmap, SDHC UHS-I UltimateXX card

Kingston launches USB 3.0 roadmap, SDHC UHS-I UltimateXX card
Kingston announced at CES their latest range of SDHC cards, the USH-I UltimateXX, which will be on sale later this month. The USH-I UltimateXX is stated as perfectly backwards compatible with Class 4, Class 6, and Class 10 equipment. By using USH-I, the SDHC card is capable of hitting read rates of 60MB/sec and write rates of 35MB/sec, with pricing set for $69.99 (8GB), $179.99 (16GB) and $349.99 (32GB). Sounds like a card that’s storing lots of porn. Anyway, besides launching this USH-I UltimateXX, Kingston also launched their latest DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 USB flash drive, and it has plans to launch an entry-level flash drive in “late Q2 / early Q3.”
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Bigfoot Networks intros Killer E2100-powered motherboards from ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte

Bigfoot Networks intros Killer E2100-powered motherboards from ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte
Bigfoot Networks stated that they’re targeting motherboard manufacturers, but we never knew it’s going to be this big. The company has announced at CES three partnerships with major mainboard makers, and they’re MSI, ASUS, and Gigabyte. Gigabyte will have their G1-Killer motherboards infused with Bigfoot chips; ASUS will have a ROG Rampage III Black Edition featuring the E2100 on a combined LAN / audio called ThunderBolt; and MSI will probably have them in their upcoming Big Bang lineup. Pricing and release information remain a mystery across the range, but it’s practically a guarantee that we’ll see more of these tie-ups in the coming months.
Bigfoot Networks intros Killer E2100-powered motherboards from ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte
Bigfoot Networks intros Killer E2100-powered motherboards from ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte
Bigfoot Networks intros Killer E2100-powered motherboards from ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte
Bigfoot Networks intros Killer E2100-powered motherboards from ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte
Bigfoot Networks intros Killer E2100-powered motherboards from ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte
Bigfoot Networks intros Killer E2100-powered motherboards from ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte
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Intel’s Sandy Bridge hitting the desktop market

Intel’s Sandy Bridge hitting the desktop market
CES sees Intel announcing Sandy Bridge and making giant impact on upcoming laptops, but we see very little for the desktop. No love there it seemed. Nevertheless, desktop manufacturers and custom PC makers have quietly updated their systems with Intel’s new second generation Core processors. Dell’s XPS 8300 and Vostro and Alienware is now available with Sandy, as well as Digital Storm’s entire family, besides Cyber Power’s Gamer Xtreme 1000/2000, and also iBuyPower’s Chimera XLC all having the brand new Core i5 and Core i7 processors. ORIGIN PC also has them ready for you if you want an overclocked Sandy Bridge water cooled but don’t want to mess around with it youself.
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Cisco’s CIUS tablet now in Verizon’s LTE list

Cisco’s CIUS tablet now in Verizon’s LTE list
Verizon US announced their 4G LTE network, and obviously to push that you’ll had to have lots of LTE-enabled devices to push sales. Now, besides lots of LTE tablets and smartphones, Verizon has also added Cisco’s rare business-savvy Cius tablet onto LTE starting this March, besides Cisco’s second generation Integrated Service Router.
Verizon says it’s got about one-third of the US covered with LTE, which offers downstream speeds between 5Mbps and 12Mbps, and will have the other two-thirds covered by 2012. If you’re lucky enough to live in that first one-third, the Cius tablet, which sports a 7-inch diagonal touchscreen and weighs about 1.15lbs, could become your preferred form of business communication as it offers HD video streaming, real-time video, and multi-party conferencing. Very business stuff here.
Cius will also have 3G capabilities for those unfortunate souls operating outside of the LTE sphere, just in case you need to go outstation with it. Verizon isn’t ready to settle on a data plan for the tablet, as its main functions have potential to eat up a ton of bandwidth, but they’re pretty sure employers will be the ones footing the bill.
SOURCE via PCWORLD
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Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Arc finally gets some spec as the company goes official.

Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Arc finally gets some spec as the company goes official.
Finally we get some proper (official) numbers for the just announced Xperia Arc. It’s got 1GHz processor in the form of a Qualcomm MSM8255 paired with an Adreno 205 graphics chip. The company also mentioned (or admitted) about their infamous record with Android updates, and promises recent changes have put it in “a good position to make sure that Xperia Arc will get later versions in a timely manner.” Yeah, we do believe you, when you deliver that is.

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Tron Light Discs as a Lamp

Tron Light Discs as a Lamp
Here’s a light that’s look like a very familiar white Ring, and called “Ring”, literally. The designer is Loris Bottello, and this bioluminescent polymer light is inspired by Tron. The intensity of the light can be adjusted by rotating the disc. Good thing here is that you can’t really kill anyone by throwing this “Ring” like a boomerang.
SOURCE via Design Boom
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An angry iPhone Case That Opens Beer Bottles Too

An angry iPhone Case That Opens Beer Bottles Too
Yes, there’s an app for everything (literally?), but sometimes when you need brute force, the iPhone just can’t handle. But don’t worry as we have the iBottle for your iPhone case. Combining two of the world’s most powerful devices, the phone and bottle opener. The world just can’t get any more awesome. It only cost 20 bucks at Baron Bob for the iPhone 3G/3GS version, and the iPhone 4 version is available for pre-order at the same price as it gets available this month. Hopefully the glass at the back can take the force. May the force be with you, and also you can leave your man behind when you go for a drink with the girls.
SOURCE via Baron Bob
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Reuse your bike parts for something more useful?

Reuse your bike parts for something more useful?
Here’s some funky stuff about ‘recycling’. I’m sure you all know what that thing above is. There’s more below. There’s a scale, a corkscrew, and even a bowl. In a collaborative effort, Triumph Motorcycles and art students reused motorcycle parts into our everyday gadgets (or most people’s daily gadgets at least). If you check the source, there’s even a hat stand made from bike parts. Really amazing stuff, adding classy looks to some very cool designs
Reuse your bike parts for something more useful?
Reuse your bike parts for something more useful?
Reuse your bike parts for something more useful?
SOURCE via Design Boom
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Ang Ang Ang’s k-car

Ang Ang Ang's k-car
Ang Ang Ang's k-car
Ang Ang Ang's k-car
Ang Ang Ang's k-car
SOURCE via Cari Forum
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Chrome no longer supports H.264 video playback

Chrome no longer supports H.264 video playback
Google created a new WebM video standard that’s royalty free and high quality in May 2010, but now they’re ready to fully push this new standard. Though, they’re doing it in a very harsh way, and that is by dropping off support for rival H.264 codec in its HTML 5 video tag in chrome. That’s right. Chrome will not be able to playback H.264 videos anymore. From now on, Chrome users will have to download a H.264 plug-in to play most web video that’s not bundled up in Flash. Talk about open standard. Well, don’t worry; we still have Firefox at least.
SOURCE via Google
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Firefox 4 coming soon?

Firefox 4 coming soon?Last we heard from Firefox 4’s beta was a few months ago, but Mozilla developers have posted the first builds of Firefox 4 Beta 10, which is planned to be the final beta before the release of Firefox 4 RC. What does that mean? Well, the gold for the fourth is nearing the horizon!
The pre-Beta 10 builds arrive as Mozilla is getting ready to put Beta 9 into a freeze and release the software possibly later this week. Even with the revised release schedule in place, Mozilla has fallen behind again: Beta 9 was originally planned for a December 16 release. However, the most recent Beta was not published until December 22.
According to Mozilla’s buglog, Beta 9 has still three blocking bugs that need to be fixed, while there are 227 blocking bugs for Beta 10. In fact, the number of bugs may be overwhelming for the final beta and Mozilla may decide to add Beta 11 to the schedule. In the most recent meeting, the developer team mentioned that there will be “at least” one more beta after Beta 9 and a new release schedule was under development.
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A bike that transform?

A bike that transform?
Here’s something for you to imagine what future bikes will look like. A three-wheeled personal transportation system which functions as a self-balancing dicycle in lower speed mode, and can be transformed into a full fledge motorcycle at high speed. Not quite what your Gundam or Transformer can do, but something more of like the old school Mospeada, but less of the guns. With a top speed of 48 to 56 km/h, the all-electric bike is expected to be mass-produced in one year time. The designer claimed that he got the inspiration “witnessing the horrible pollution in China made by motor vehicles.” Not sure how this can actually save the environment, but well, just check out the video below.

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Gigabyte G1-Killer Gaming Series Motherboards goes official

Gigabyte G1-Killer Gaming Series Motherboards goes official
Gigabyte was able to officially launch their G1-Killer Gaming Series motherboards over at Vegas during CES 2011. Take it as something similar to ASUS’s ‘Republic of Gamers’ series. Currently in their list there are three motherboards, but awkwardly they’re all X58 motherboards, with not much of a difference in between them.
Gigabyte G1-Killer Gaming Series Motherboards goes official
img class=alignleft title=”Gigabyte G1-Killer Gaming Series Motherboards goes official” src=”http://www.2dayblog.com/images/2011/january/550x-gigabyte-g1-4.jpg” alt=”Gigabyte G1-Killer Gaming Series Motherboards goes official” />Gigabyte is introducing four main features in the G1-Killer Gaming Series. The first is Super-Speed, which means support for 4-way CrossFireX™ and 3-way SLI™. The second is Super-Hearing, which means Onboard Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Digital Audio Processor (20K2) that has X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity®, EAX® Advanced HD)tm) 5.0, Dolby® Digital Live, DTS™ Connect, and finally built-in front panel audio headphone amplifier. They’re also promoting the use of Nichicon High-end Audio capacitors in their products.
Gigabyte G1-Killer Gaming Series Motherboards goes officialThe third main feature is called Super-Speed. This comes in the form of the hugely advertised onboard Bigfoot Networks Killer™ E2100 Dedicated Network Processing Unit (NPU), which has 1GB of dedicated DDR2 memory to help offload network traffic from the CPU, freeing it up to do other important computing tasks. But it doesn’t end there. Super Speed also includes SATA 3.0 (6Gbps) and USB 3.0, as they provide up to 4 USB 3.0 ports (2 front panels, 2 back panels). The SATA 3.0 is sourced from Marvel.
Gigabyte G1-Killer Gaming Series Motherboards goes official
Lastly is the Super-Shield. This is the new heatpipe design from Gigabyte, with the Southbridge heatsink looking like a magazine. You can even see a bullet there. There are also 5 fan connectors onboard and they can be easily controlled via GIGABYTE’s EasyTune™ 6 utility as well as in the BIOS. They’re also equipped with their own individual thermal sensors. The Super-Shield also includes Gigabyte’s famous Ultra Durable™ 3 and Dual Bios.
The three motherboards are called G1-Assassin, G1-Sniper, and G1-Guerilla. All three are X58 motherboards, with G1-Assassin having support for Super-Speed (4-way CrossFireX™ and 3-way SLI™). Both the Assassin and the Sniper have Creative HW audio 20k2 present, except for Guerilla which uses Realtek ALC 889. Bigfoot Killer™ 2100 NPU is present on all three boards. The G1-Assassin is the only XL-ATX board, as the rest are standard ATX boards.
SOURCE via Gigabyte
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Audiovox AVDBR1 Automotive Blu-ray Player

Audiovox AVDBR1 Automotive Blu-ray Player
It’s becoming a common sight to see cars equipped with DVD players and monitors, and now the transitioning to Blu-ray for in-car-entertainment has begun. Audiovox has announce a brand new Automotive Blu-ray DVD player, AVDBR1 which allows you to enjoy high definition movies on-the-go. Great for passengers, but it sucks more to be the driver. Especially when you’re on a long journey trip and you don’t have cruise control.
The player can be installed under the seat or in a storage compartment in the vehicle and connects to any monitor by using either the HDMI, composite or component output. The AVDBR1 has been road tested to tolerate the vehicle’s environment and its small size allows for multiple horizontal and vertical mounting options in the vehicle.
A blue accent light is used to illuminate the slot load disc area and button array. The unit draws its power from a 2-pin, 12-volt connector to the vehicle’s accessory power source and comes with a full function wireless IR remote control. Priced at $349.99, the Audiovox AVDBR1 will be available in Spring 2011.
SOURCE via PC MAG
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Lighter Bike

Lighter Bike
Smoke? Bought lots of lighters over the pass years? Probably a good idea to keep them. You never know what you might come up with.
Lighter Bike
Lighter Bike
Lighter Bike
Lighter Bike
Lighter Bike
Lighter Bike
Lighter Bike
Lighter Bike
Lighter Bike
Lighter Bike
Lighter Bike
Lighter Bike
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Motorola XOOM Tablet up for Pre-order at Handtec

Motorola XOOM Tablet up for Pre-order at Handtec
What a surprise. This is fast. CES 2011 just ended but Handtec has already listed the Motorola XOOM tablet for pre-orders. But the bad news here this time is the price tag that they’re asking: a very frightening £659.99 or £549.99 (excluding VAT). Yes, the tablet has a 10.1-inch (1280 x 800) touchscreen display, a 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 processor, a 2.0-megapixel front-facing camera, a 5.0-megapixel rear-facing camera with dual LED flash, a 1GB DDR2 RAM, a 32GB of storage space, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, 720p HD video recording capabilities and 1080p Full HD video playback support, and let’s not forget the all-important Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb, but the price is very disturbing.
SOURCE via Handtec
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NZXT Bunker saves your mouse, won’t save your LCS rig

NZXT Bunker saves your mouse, won’t save your LCS rig
This ‘bunker’ might look stupid to most people who have a computer at home forever, but not to those gamers that go to LAN parties and LAN tournaments. The NZXT Bunker is a new computer accessory that helps prevent your expensive USB gears from being stolen at dodgy LAN parties with very dim lights. You walk in with your latest Alienware watercooled rig and full of Razer gears. You might pawn everyone back there, but you may also go home with only a rig, or probably not. But with this NZXT Bunker, now you don’t have to worry about losing your mouse, and probably a keyboard as well, just because you had to go for a wee.
NZXT Bunker saves your mouse, won’t save your LCS rig
NZXT Bunker saves your mouse, won’t save your LCS rig
The Bunker provides four USN ports under a locking mesh lid, allowing you to lock your USB devices there to prevent them from being unplugged. From now on, it’s either they take only the mat and the bungee, or they take everything, including the tables too. The device will fit into any 5.25-inch drive bay, so remember to spare one bay. What’s more, the NZXT Bunker USB Lock System also supports a sophisticated 20 keylock system that prevents users with the same device from unlocking your lock. Well, that’s one out of twenty for the try-and-error.
NZXT Bunker saves your mouse, won’t save your LCS rig
SOURCE via NZXT
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Shure launches three new products at NAMM

Shure launches three new products at NAMM
Shure, the famous ‘headset and mic’ company has just introduced three new models at the NAMM trade show. The first is a bud. It’s the SE 215 which is a wallet-friendly single driver earbud. You get a choice of black or fancy translucent casing, and it comes in a MSRP of $99. For the cans, there are two new boys in the shelf. The first is the SRH550DJ (the middle one) which is targeted at DJs as the name says. “Super-aural design” is the main show here, as they have full isolation and a 90-degree swivelling headband for flexible wearing positions so that DJs can do their DJ post of clipping one can with their shoulder. You know the DJ post. It only cost $99, so it’s not very expensive to be a DJ you know. The SRH940 however is not a cheap feat. It’s billed as a reference set; hopefully you know what that means. Premium padded headband, and it’s got a $299 price tag with it. So if you want to be a posh music listener, this might just be the thing for you.
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