Wednesday, June 6, 2007
MSI Luxium Lets You Add an External Graphics Card to Your Notebook
11:39PM Seamus Byrne | Tired of your notebook’s integrated graphics? MSI’s Luxium is an enclosure that houses a x16 PCI Express graphics card, which you can then connect to your notebook via your lappie’s ExpressCard slot. It works much like Asus’ XG Station (which is the only other external graphics card solution out there). You’ll have to connect the Luxium to its own power source, but in turn it lets you work with your favorite graphics card and offers USB and audio connectors. The Luxium just made its debut at Computex so there’s no word yet on when it’ll come out. – Louis Ramirez galleryPost('MSILuxium', 4, 'MSILuxium'); MSI Shows External Graphics [TGDaily] Images via TGDaily More »
Panasonic’s 7mm DVD Burner, World’s Thinnest But Still Feels Fat In This Dress
11:37PM Seamus Byrne | Panasonic just rolled out its slimmest DVD burner yet, and this one looks like it hasn’t eaten in a month. Just 7mm thick and weighing 3.5 ounces, if it got any thinner the DVD itself would be too thick to fit inside. More »
WD’s Passport Portable Now Holds 250GB of Porn, Perfect for Dads and Grads
11:29PM Seamus Byrne | Western Digital just announced that its bus-powered $199 USB drive now has a 250GB 2.5″ hard disk inside. And yeah, you got me, it doesn’t just hold porn. It will also hold every TV show you ever downloaded from BitTorrent, and the three episodes of Lost you once legally purchased from iTunes. According to WD’s press release, it will also suffice for all of those digital pictures and videos you’ve been taking. (I’m not sure I want to hear about those.) – Wilson Rothman Product Page [Western Digital] More »
Sega iPenguin Make Linux Fans Rejoice, For Some Reason
10:37PM Seamus Byrne | After the iDog and the iFish, Sega has just announced in Japan the iPenguin, the dancing speaker which, for just $25, promises to dance and blink its belly color LEDs following the rhythm of the music you connect up to its butt. And yes, it looked all cute until that last line. – Jesus Diaz Adjusting to [segatoizu] and music, the robot which dance & the toy “i penguin which” (or so Google says) [Impress Robot Watch] More »
NEC Goes Hello Kitty on us with LaVie G Laptop
10:09PM Seamus Byrne | I have encircled my right wrist with thumb and forefinger of my left hand and am chanting, “Calm. Calm. Calm.” However, it is not working. I am not calm. I am SHINING with angry pink Swarovski fury. Oh, yes. Someone needs to put a fatwah on Sanrio Corp. Please. I will pay them. Here. I’ve got a couple of shirt buttons, some pocket fluff, a card with the hotline number for my local nuthouse’s Rapid Response team and a piece of Orbit gum. Anyone? You probably can’t hear anything save the sweet sound of hyperventilation (that’s me in the corner, backed up as far away as I can from the charms of Biff and Petey, said Rapid Responders) but as they try and pin me down with a butterfly net and a trank dart, I’ll give you a closer shot at it and the price… More »
LED-backlit MacBook Pro Unboxed
6:00PM Seamus Byrne | Curious as to what the updated LED-backlit MacBook Pros actually look like in person? Geek Sugar has a gallery up of the upgraded laptop, complete with comparison shots with the old one. To our eyes, there’s not a huge difference, which meshes with what Apple told us about the display not being any brighter. – Jason Chen New Mercury Free MacBook Pro Unboxed! [GeekSugar] More »
Unconfirmed: Red Sprint Samsung Upstage June 18
4:24PM Seamus Byrne | To go along with the Sprint Mogul, our tipster’s also telling us that the Samsung Upstage—Sprint’s dual-sided music phone—is coming out in a fiery red color on June 18. There’s not much changed other than the color, and the price is the same $99, so if you want an Aunt Flo phone, this is it. More »Talking to the Magellan Maestro 4050, the First Portable Navigator With Voice Recognition
11:56AM Seamus Byrne | I was lucky enough to get my hands on the first production model of the Magellan Maestro 4050, that is, the very first portable navigation device with voice recognition. And while it doesn’t hear everything I yell at it, and I can’t control everything it does using only my lovely baritone, it’s an amazing first step. Check out my 80-second video and read on for some quick pros and cons. More »Dealzmodo: Toshiba 2GB flash drives, $29 at Myer
10:29AM Seamus Byrne | Just spotted in the current Myer sale catalogue that you can nab a Toshiba 2GB U3 flash drive for just $29. Sale started yesterday and runs to June 17, though I get the feeling these would have been very limited supply. So if you want, you better hop to it fast. -Seamus Byrne
UPDATE: Add 1GB for $19, and 4GB for $69 to that.
It’s quite a good general tech sale, actually, under the ‘tax time deals’ monniker.
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