Bluetooth Stethoscope & Wireless Heart Monitor

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Anything is better with BLUETOOTH. In medical is true, too. BLUETOOTH technology enables sounds to be transmitted real-time to a PC for further analysis, attached to medical records or reviewed online by medical professionals.

We also learn about a smartbandaid that provides wireless heart monitoring. [Read More]

Game Using Proximity Based Peer-to-Peer Software Solutions

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Qualcomm is all about A visual demonstration of proximity-based peer-to-peer gaming as shown during the super session “Enhancing User Experience in Mobile” at the Uplinq 2010 Conference. Qualcomm is supporting peer-to-peer software solutions in its chipsets using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technologies, which will allow different devices [Read More]

ASUS Eee PC 1001PQ Product Page Live – Kiddie Features Revealed

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Just looking at the upcoming ASUS Eee PC 1001PQ you’d be hard pressed to tell that this netbook series is for kids. I mean, the yellow / black striped one actually looks more like it has some relation to sports cars. Well, the product page is now live over at ASUS Global and we have a closer peek at what these kiddie features are.

First off, there are different colored stickers that you paste in a certain position allowing kids to “express themselves and their personality”.

Then there’s the “Preteen-Friendly” customized Windows 7 desktop making it easy to surf the web or play kiddie games. There’s built-in parental controls so you can control what they look at, when and how long they can browse the Internet or use even the netbook.

On the hardware side of things, if you look behind the two available colors, you get the same old Seashell design from the last generation.

ASUS Eee PC 1001PQ

• 10.1″ 1024 x 600 display (glossy)
• Intel Atom N450 processor
• 1 / 2GB DDR2 RAM
• 160 / 250GB HDD
• 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi
• Bluetooth 2.1+EDR (optional)
• Windows 7 Starter
• 0.3MP webcam
• HD Audio, stereo speakers
• VGA, audio jacks, card reader, 2x USB 2.0, LAN
• 3-cell 23Wh and 6-cell 48Wh battery (9 hours)
• 1.27 kg (6-cell), 1.1 kg (3-cell)
• Available colors: Yellow, Purple

As for availability, the 1001PQ is available in Europe (France) priced at 299 euros but it haven’t heard of it being available anywhere else just right now.

Source: ASUS Global via EeePC.it

Duracell Outs Universal Netbook Adapter

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For those of you who constantly switch between multiple netbooks, read on, if not, well a universal netbook adapter ain’t going to do you much good.

Duracell has jumped into the netbook market but they aren’t shipping batteries, no, they are shipping universal AC adapters for them. This gets you a 40-watt brick with a set of four tips (auto 12V – 19V) which apparently work for hundreds of models including all the popular netbooks from Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP / Compaq, Lenovo and more.  Portability and power consumption are also key points. It weighs 9 ounces and consumes less than 0.5W of juice during down time.

The Duracell 40-Watt Universal Netbook Adapter will be available at pretty much any online retailer at the start of August, priced at $50. Amazon.com has it up for pre-order.

Source: NewsWire via Liliputing

Designer Gives Thumbs Up To ASUS Eee PC T101MT As SketchPad

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Every digital designer or artist worth their salt has a Wacom tablet of sorts, as with YouTube user sunguckim from Korea. He does all his sketching on a Wacom Cintiq, or well he used to at least. Now, he uses an ASUS Eee PC T101MT instead as he shows in the video below:

Not bad at all, the end result. He claims that he gets 70% of the quality of the Cintiq but at a quarter of the price, and it is much more portable, too. He does state that input is delayed and not very precise.

Indeed, the T101MT could pass as a cheap portable sketchpad but you’ll have to get used to not resting your hand on the screen as well as getting used to the lag and lack of accuracy, and that’s about as good as it gets, don’t expect to do anything more fancy than sketches as it lacks a lot of the cool things Wacom tablets have such as high levels of pressure sensitivity and accuracy or angle detection.

Via: EeePC.it

First “Moorestown” 1.9 GHz Intel Atom Z650 Tablet Sighted

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Looks like Moorsetown is hitting the streets of China in August, the Intel Atom Z650 1.9GHz processor can be found in a Chinese tablet, Teso. Teso has on display this 9.7-inch tablet available in two flavors – Atom Z515 1.2GHz or Atom Z560 1.9GHz.

The Z515 version runs Windows 7 OS while the Z650 version comes with either MeeGo or Android. The reason for the differing operating system is that [Read More]

ASUS Eee PC 1015Ped & 1018P Up for Pre Order on Amazon

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Chris over at NetbookReviews uncovered the 1015Ped and 1018P up for pre order on Amazon, actually they are showing that you can order them but are temporarily out of stock. The 1015Ped is the non ION 2 version of a much anticipated 1015N which will be the first 10 inch netbook with ION. For now we’ll have to be content with the 10.1″ Netbook Intel Atom N475 (1.83GHz) Processor, 10.1″ WSVGA (1024×600) LED Backlight Display, 1GB DDR3 Memory, 250GB Hard Drive, High-Speed Wireless 802.11n & Bluetooth 3.0, 6-Cell Battery (63W/h). Its meant to run up to 13 hours of battery life and come with Microsoft Windows 7 Starter Preloaded.

Asus Eee PC 1018P has a 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 pixel display, and comes with the Intel Atom N455 (1.66GHz) or the Atom N475 (1.83GHz) processor, which support DDR3. Also included are 1GB of RAM, 160GB / 250GB hard drive, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, a 6.5 hour 44wh battery, fingerprint reader and large trackpad. 3G is also listed, but is probably optional.

If you want to check out our video of the 1018P and the 1015 you can take a look at the difference as well as a peak at the ASUS 1016:

Via NetbookReviews

Intel Shows Off Chips Transferring an HD movie in 1 second

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Yesterday Intel announced that it has created a breakthrough data-transfer technology using a combination of silicon chips and lasers to transfer data over a fiber optic cable at a speed of 50 gigabits per second. Copper wire’s top transfer speed is about 10GB a Second, Intel Silicon Photonics Link is fast enough to transfer an HD movie in one second, or transfer 1,000 high-resolution photos in a second, or a 100 hours of music in a second, or send 45 million Tweets. We thought that USB 3.0 is going to change the way we deal with data and that is only offering 4.8GB a second transfer speeds.

It will take Intel some time to perfect the manufacturing of the device. But it now has all of the necessary building blocks for hybrid silicon and laser components to commercialize silicon photonics. Want to see it in action? The video is below. [Read More]

Look Out Taiwan, ACER Android Dual Boot Hits the Streets Next Week

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The 2010 Taipei Computer Applications Show to take place from August 5-9 next week. According to Digitimes Acer will be exhibiting the much anticipated Aspire One AOD 255 10.1-inch netbook sporting a dual boot Android and Microsoft Windows XP operating systems. [Read More]

Samsung Quietly Intros 11.6″ X125 AMD Notebook, Pre-order Ready

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Samsung has quietly introduced the X125 – their third generation 11.6-inch notebook over in Europe and the UK, however this time it’s sporting one of the latest thin and light processors from AMD. Other features being touted are Bluetooth 3.0, silent operation and a high sensitivity webcam.

The design looks similar to the older ones but they’ve fixed the awkward vertically challenged trackpad that plagued them. Being an AMD notebook except better graphics performance but not so good battery life. [Read More]

The Best Sony Vaio Clone Ever

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Every now and then you hear about a netbook clone from popular manufacturers over in China but most of the time they have questionable build quality and the labelling gives it all away but not this time.

Shanzai company Jumper Computers is selling a Sony Vaio netbook clone that looks as good as it would have come from Sony. Heck, it even has the real fake logos plastered on. You could show this to your average computer newbie and they’d fall for it. [Read More]

Sharp’s New Chip For Dual Display Netbooks, Smartphones & E-book Readers

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In recent years, I’ve seen a few dual display devices like MSI’s 10-inch dual display netbook or the 7-inch version but most, if not all of these never get pass the prototype stage. Very few that I’m aware of have made it to market like the Entourage Edge and then there’s the  Toshiba Libretto W100 that is coming out next month. The situation might change if Sharp has anything to do with it – they’ve developed a 2nd generation chip that can power dual displays, and play two different 1080p HD videos at 1080p resolution output via HDMI.

Sharp plans to sell this chip to the smartphone, e-book reader, netbook and photo frame markets. They have already given out samples with mass production starting in September so I guess we might start hearing about this chip next year.

Too bad they couldn’t show more pictures of that dual display prototype shown above.

Source: Techon via Engadget

Augen Android Tablet Gets Hands On Videos, Compared to iPad

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Augen’s 7-inch tablet that was announced for sale at Kmart yesterday has already found it’s way to a couple of users. Just to recap, it’s running Android 2.1, has a resistive touchscreen, an 800MHz processor, 256GB RAM, 2GB storage, b/g Wi-Fi and an SD card slot and it costs $150.

First up is a very quick video from the The Android Blog. His experience is summed up in two words – slow and unresponsive, although he notes that this might be due to the touchscreen (A resistive one) [Read More]

Toshiba Portégé R700 Powerful Ultra Portable Hands on

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At the 25th Anniversary Toshiba Press conference in Taipei, we were able to get our hands on the Portégé R700. Toshiba has decked out the Portégé R700 with several options with regular Core i3, Core i5 or Core i7 CPUs. Initially there will be five models offered in the Portégé R700 range and their specifications will vary, the ability to run up to 8GB of DDR3 SDRAM (via two stacked memory modules and using the 64-bit version of Windows 7) and the ability to run a third-generation solid-state drive (SSD) with a storage capacity of up to 256GB. We were able to get our hands on the Core i5 and a regular HDD. [Read More]

US Gets Cheap Android Tablets from Kmart for $150 (Hands On Update)

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Update: The Android Blog has spotted one of these at Kmart and posted up a hands on video. The experience is summed up in two words – slow and unresponsive. As with the GenBook smartbook, you get what you pay for! Hands on video below:

Dirt cheap Android tablets have been lurking around certain countries in Asis for a few months now. But the US has yet to really get any tablets other then the iPad, even the Dell Streak has yet to officially hit the streets over here. It looks like you won’t have to rely on eBay or random import companies to provide your Android tablet fix, Kmart is selling an Android tablet for $149.99. [Read More]

$99 Smartbook Spotted At Kmart, Bought & Tested

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Kmart is back in the spotlight! Yesterday a company you’ve most likely never heard of until now – Augen – made an announcement that they would be selling $150 Android tablets in the US (though no one has spotted any in stock yet) although they didn’t say a word about their GenBook which is already selling at Kmart (no product page up at Augen though).

The Augen GenBook is a small 7-inch smartbook and if you have been following netbook news for a while then you may have seen your fair share of devices looking exactly like this one. It looks and feels cheap, has a cramped keyboard, an awkward touchpad and there’s a fat screen bezel that could have fit in a larger display – reminds of the  first 7-inch Eee PC 701 netbook.

Now, being a smartbook, there is no Windows or Intel processor on board. It runs Android 1.6  but it’s extremely slow with it’s 400MHz processor with 128MB RAM. To be honest, the OS experience seemed rather awful (lots of things not working) in the hands on video over at Engadget.

But hey, it’s only $99 – you get what you pay for, right?

Check out Joanna’s hands on video over at Engadget below.

Source: Engadget

Ramos W7 4.8-inch MID with access to the Android Marketplace

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Our friends over at Shanzai.com have unboxed the Ramos W7 last week and put it through the paces to give us their review. The Rockchip video performance was solid enough at 480p but fell short on handling 720p. If YouTube is what you are after, they were pleasantly surprised by the video play back in the unpolished UI. It is running Android 1.5 which is a bit disappointing since we’re all focused on 2.1 or 2.2. Here is the video and below that you can find the specs. [Read More]

ASUS Eee Box EB1012P and EB1501P ION 2 Nettops Product Pages Live

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ASUS’ latest nettops – the Eee Box EB1012P and EB1015P (one with a DVD drive) are still not on sale but they at least have product pages up on ASUS’ global product pages.

As we’ve seen previously, both these nettops have different designs but share the same specs – a dual core Atom D510 processor, next generation Nvidia ION graphics and one USB 3.0 port for each (Blue tinged ports). Other specs include Gigabit LAN, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, HDMI out, up to 4GB DDR2 RAM, 250GB HDD and Windows 7 Home Premium. Optional remote control, wired or wireless keyboard and mouse set. [Read More]

Hands on with the Toshiba NB250

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Toshiba has recently presented a new netbook which we were able to do a hands on with at their 25th anniversary press conference here in Taipei. The Mini NB250 which is already available for purchase online with a starting price of $290.

In the inside of the Toshiba Mini NB250 netbook you can find an Atom N455 processor, 1GB of DDR3 RAM memory, a graphics card powered by a GMA 3150, and a hard-drive that has 250GB of storage capacity. The screen size with LED backlight measures 10.1-inches and provides a resolution of 1024×600 pixels, and the usual extras include WiFi, a multi-touch trackpad, a few USB ports, and a memory card reader. [Read More]

AMD Fusion May Be USB 3.0 Ready By Launch

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Right now ASUS is leading the pack when it comes to USB 3.0 adoption on netbooks and ultra-thin notebooks, but only for Intel based systems. With AMD’s Ontario based Fusion chips (combining GPU and CPU) re-scheduled earlier for a Q4 2010 release this year we might be seeing AMD based devices with USB 3.0 at launch.

Word from Digitimes is that AMD is in talks about licensing USB 3.0 and is considering integrating it into an upcoming southbridge that will go together with Fusion chipsets.

Source: Digitimes and The Inquirer

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