With a glut of new remote controls being announced, you’d think we were in trade show season. Next up is the Philips DUAL, a motion sensing remote control with keyboard designed for the growing number of connected TVs in the market.
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The Amulet Voice Remote for Windows 7 Media Center is available now to US customers and to European customers in the 4th quarter of 2010.
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LaCie release the “world’s smallest mobile and desktop hard drives” with a USB 3.0 interface.
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Not resting on their laurels, QNAP has introduced the Pro+ lineup which are powered by the latest high-end ATOM CPU, the D525.
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AMD Neo II-powered system launches HP’s new MicroServer category for small business. At a starting price of £329/£220, all it needs is a low cost server operating system to match. Could this be the hardware HP use to push Windows Server Aurora at release?
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An emerging trend this year at the IFA trade show was the inclusion of USB 3.0 on many PCs and storage products. Whilst USB 2.0 is still dominant, we can expect that to change very quickly over the next few months both in North America and Europe. If the rumours of Intel announcing a USB 3.0 host controller at their forthcoming Developer Forum are true, then we can expect to see the floodgates really open.
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Icy Box’s latest storage enclosure was on show in Berlin at IFA last week. The IB-RD3262-USE2 is a 2 Bay RAID Enclosure intended specifically for Macs, but compatible with PCs also. A four bay option (IB-RD3264-USE2) is also available for those needing additional space.
Continue reading...7. September 2010
Toshiba debuted the Folio 100 Tablet last week in Berlin, alongside their quirky dual-screen Libretto. The two touchscreen devices are both products with real innovation, but unfortunately neither offers the quality you’d expect.
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Toshiba announced the latest generation of their digital media receiver range at IFA. The STOR.E TV+ plays music, photos and high definition video at 1080p from a network location, locally attached USB 2.0 storage, an on board 3 in 1 card reader (supporting SD, MMC and MS) or from it’s internal 3.5” SATA drive bay.
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In Berlin last week there was a lot of buzz around Samsung’s new tablet, the Galaxy Tab, and there were a host of display models on the stand available to check out. I managed to get hands on with the device for a few minutes to check out a few features, including You Tube, Web Browsing, Maps, Email and the device’s built in music application.
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3D was everywhere at IFA this year. Name any product, and it’s likely to have a 3D version on the way (or so it seemed). Sony were showing off their 3D VAIO Notebook Prototype, which is set for release in 2011. 3D Movies on the move? No problem.
Continue reading...6. September 2010
You’ve be forgiven if you missed Hauppauge’s latest DVB-T tuner at IFA this year, as it’s tiny! The PCTV PicoStick is the world’s smallest TV Tuner and comes in two flavours, a standard DVB-T edition and a special limited edition Gold variant, supporting TV on PC and Mac.
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Here at WGS we’ve talked a lot of about the convenience of network-based tuners, which allow you to pass a signal from your TV antenna around your home network and watch Live TV on any computer. To date, Silicon Dust’s HDHomeRun has been the product of choice, and has remained unchallenged for a number of years. That’s all set to change with Broadway by PCTV Systems which is a network TV receiver with twin DVB-T tuners and a couple of additional tricks.
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There was little information on hand at IFA regarding the launch of Google TV in Europe, but Sony were previewing their Sony Internet TV, which is powered by Google’s upcoming service. Check out the preview video.
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9. September 2010
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