After the DIY options, and initial hints, official word is out that there’ll be a touchscreen Eee PC next year. And that’s from none other than the CEO, Jerry Shen, himself. The guys over at Laptopmag got the low-down from Shen, who confirmed the machine will exist by “early 2009,” and will actually be running Windows 7 by mid 2009. That’s pretty interesting stuff, and though he wouldn’t specify a form factor for the touchy Eee, Shen also spilled the beans on a few other aspects of the Eee success story.
Relax, people. It’s unpacked and currently undergoing review at my place. Expect the review write up some time tomorrow.
As far as the comp goes – we’re finalising the details today and tomorrow, but to give you some advance notice, it’s going to involve a fair amount of creativity and hard work on your part. What? you didn’t think we were going to make it easy, did you?
Stay tuned for more tomorrow!
A market research firm called MultiMedia Intelligence—who I admittedly had never heard of—offers up some astounding numbers on porn swapping P2P traffic: 33.6% of North American net activity is P2P, almost all of it illegal. Huge, right? But worldwide, the number is even higher, at 44%. So almost half of the world’s net activity is the illegal swapping of movies and music? Mercifully for studios and record labels, the report holds some good-ish news about the future, but it’s still a bag o’ trouble for the ISPs.
I don’t get motorsport. It’s loud, smelly, bad for the environment and repetitive. However, I know that there are a number of people out there who do get it, and would love to get one of these F1 car-shaped USB sticks.
They’re not in any way, shape or form endorsed by the governing body of F1 (whoever that might be – once again, I don’t really care), but they are kind of cute. They’re also USB 2.0 compliant, measure in at 6 x 2.7 x 0.7cm and weigh 72 grams.
Considering the vast arrange of shapes and sizes USB sticks come in, it’s only natural that someone, somewhere hit the market with a F1 shaped model. This 8GB stick will set you back $47.82 plus shipping from Sourcing Map.
[Sourcing Map via The Gadget Guide, Thanks Jenny]
Samsung also included this puntastic entry into its offerings at London’s Smartphone Show. The INNOV8, Samsung’s first 8MP camera phone, comes with a 2.8-inch 16 million colour LCD, 8GB or 16GB of flash memory (with an eternal SD card slot), an optical mouse, HSDPA and WiFi connectivity and a GPS navigation and geo-tagging service. The camera part of the mobile utilises smile shot, blink shot and face recognition, and you’ll also get a couple media editing programs thrown in for good measure. No word yet on price or availability, or whether the lens is good enough to make the 8MP sensor worth it.
Samsung is still supporting another, non-Google open operating system for mobiles, showing off a couple of Symbian-based smartphones at a recent event in London. The Samsung I7110 doubles as a phone and a navigation device, while the Samsung L870 is being marketed as a fashion slider.
Philips’ concept Green Cuisine kitchen, unveiled in Moscow, is one of the more interesting ecologically friendly home prototypes I’ve seen recently. The company’s future kitchen is based around a single table that can cook things anywhere on its surface by using sensors to apply heat directly underneath a pot or pan. Other nifty features include a water temperature selector, an under-the-table composter for your left-overs and a tabletop herb garden. Though, lets hope if the concept does ever make it to reality, they lose the mood lighting. Last thing I want my kitchen to look like is a stopover in the Red Light district. [Luxury Launches]
First, Intel decided to go with Linux for its MIDs, and now it’s giving the bird to Microsoft again by revealing a contender to the Zune’s social music aspect. TuneWiki, a “social media player” software based on Intel’s Atom processor integrates music and video with synchronised lyrics and a social network.
Behold, every custom PC fanboy’s wet dream: The Reactor. It’s a sleek, black aluminium case with tons of hard drives (both swappable and integrated), an ultra-powerful processing chip, and three top-of-the-line video cards all begging to be overclocked thanks to the company’s special oil submersed cooling system. That’s right, the GPUs, CPU, power supplies, custom motherboard and three SSD drives are all completely dipped in oil. And it’s only around $US4000.
A priest has resigned from his parish after being caught viewing web porn in his computer at work. While I’m sure God doesn’t give a damn about porn–no matter how close it is to heaven–or the weaknesses of this priest, the church’s IT staff and the archbishop weren’t so amused when they discovered that his porn surfing antics had infected all the computers parish network.
