Looks like the Palm Treo Pro is having cracking problems too just like the iPhone cracking. There have been reports about the bezel of the Palm Treo Pro cracking in numerous locations. The image shows hairline cracks around the side of the device. No word on what the manufacturer is doing to solve the problem, I’m more amazing that people actually bought the Palm Treo Pro.
-Ray
[Source: crunchgear]
A South Korea research team discovered a way to make lithium batteries up to 90 percent more efficient than the current lithium batteries available today. The team says that their findings will help notebook and cellphone batteries to last as much as eight times longer than current batteries. They were able to boost efficiency but using three-dimensional porous silicon particles that were made from silica and hydrogen fluoride. Current batteries are made out of graphite in the negative electrodes. They have already but in patents in South Korea, the US and the EU and says that we can see these new batteries to be released in about four years.
-Ray
[Source: electronista]
Yesterday, we reported on Target Gift Cards that double as a digital camara. Well now I guess it sparked a trend a trend because Best Buy has come out with their own special gift cards as well. Best Buy are now selling gift cards that double as small speaker. The mini speaker comes with a 3.5mm jack and it should be able to connect to any iPod, Zune, Sansa, or any other MP3 players. Now this also seems like a good idea, but I still do not see the point. Plus the quality of this speaker must be cheap. The special edition speaker/gift card will be available for anyone looking to purchase a gift card of $50 or more.
- Geoff
[Source: SlashGear]
This commercial from Toshiba takes the Matrix style bullet time technique and improves upon it even more. They use a new technique that animates the image within a freeze-frame filed with a 200 Gigashot camcorder on a specially made rig. 20 terabytes of date was recorded for the ad. The ad was made to show off Toshiba’s new low to high def upscaling tech that they are including in their LCD TVs, DVD players and laptops. The Europe only ad is pretty cool, check it out above.
-Ray
[Source: gizmodo]
Remember awhile back when the Zune Dude tattooed the Zune logo onto his own flesh. Well, apparently it started a trend as more people are tattooing different gadgets and logos on to their skin. The famous Blackberry site CrackBerry held a contest in which they would give away 10 free Blackberry Storm. Out of 3,000 participants, 180 of them said they would get a tattoo of a Blackberry. Well Crackberry chose a winner and that winner filmed his Blackberry tattoo. Check it out:
- Geoff
[Source: I4U]
Target decided to do something a little different this upcoming holiday season. Target announced that they will begin selling combo gift card/digital camera. Target believed that it would be a good idea to take a picture of the recipient’s reaction when they initially receive the gift. Well good job Target! But not only will this camera buy you stuff, it comes with a 1.2MP sensor, 50MB of internal storage, USB cord, driver disk, instruction manual, and a voucher for 40 free prints at Target. The gift card portion of the gift will come in denominations of $50 to $1000. If you receive this gift, just hope its more than enough to get you a REAL camera!
- Geoff
[Source: Gizmodo]
Don’t you hate it when you pull out your headphones and they’re all tangled up and you end up holding up the line at Starbucks or In-N-Out. Well this video demonstrates how you SHOULD wrap your headphones in order to avoid situations like that. Enjoy!
- Geoff
[Source: Gizmodo]
Best Buy is having an awesome deal on an eMachines Laptop for the low price of $299. The eMachines laptop features an AMD Athlon 2650e single-core processor, 800MHz system bus with HyperTransport Technology, 1GB DDR2 memory, a 14.1″ WXGA widescreen display, 120GB SATA hard drive and Built-in wireless LAN and Windows XP. The eMachines notebook computer weights in at only 5.3 lbs and is just 1.6” thick. If you’re looking into a cheap no frills laptop then this is a great deal for you.
-Ray
[Source: bestbuy]
It has been well known that Microsoft has always planned to unleash Windows 7 sometime around 2009. But they have been trying to save themselves by saying they would release Windows 7 “within three years of January 2007″. Well during a technical session yesterday, Microsoft laid a timeframe for Windows 7. They are saying that Windows 7 would be released around mid-2009 and pre-configured Windows 7 systems would be shipping in time for the 2009 holiday season. Now again, this is what they said and who really knows how long its going to take before we get Windows 7. Just going to have to be patient with Microsoft.
- Geoff
[Source: Gizmodo]
Sony Music Entertainment hit a home run with their Blu-ray movies and Blu-ray players. Now they’ve used their Blu-ray technology to create Blu-spec CDs. Blu-spec CDs are suppose to give even higher sound quality then audio CDs. The best part of all is that Blu-spec CDs work with standard CD players so you won’t have to buy a Blu-ray player to take advantage of this new technology.
You can see in the photo above the improved quality of the physical discs which gives its superior sound quality. Sony says new machines to produce the discs to get this superior quality. Blu-spec CDs will go on sale in Japan on December 24 with 60 titles to be released by Sony. Most of the titles will be classical music, jazz, a Miles Davis and even an Aerosmith album. The new Blu-spec CDs are said to go for $25 a pop.
-Ray
[Source: crunchgear]
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