According to the Digi Times website Acer is gearing up to launch a new frameless ultra thin laptop in the second half of 2010. Rumoured to be constructed using Corning’s reinforced glass substrate creating a super thin laptop and reduce material costs to a minimum.
The back of the glass will be printed to give the appearance of a notebook cover and the screen will be combined with a touch screen keyboard.
Sapphire have released a new graphics card, the Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 which is based upon the ATI HD 5970 chipset, and it has now claimed the top spot as the worlds fastest graphics card.
With a 3DMark Vantage score of 22,000, and an overclocked ATI GPU, the Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 runs at 850MHz, and it comes with 4GB of GDDR5 RAM with a clock speed of 1,200MHz.
The Rii Mini Wireless Keyboard is a small QWERTY keyboard that comes with 69 keys and has a built in touchpad and also a laser pointer. It features a LED backlit keyboard so you can use it easily in the dark.
Other features include a range of keys so you can control your Windows Media Centre HTPC, and a built in rechargeable lithium-ion battery.
Kingston have just released a monster of a USB drive. If you thought 32GB was a large amount of storage the Kingston DT-310 DataTraveler can store up to 54 full-length movies, or enough music for you to play a different CD full of tunes each day for a year.
Asus has shown off a new broadband router, the Asus RT-456U. As usual with Asus releases all we have is a photo and not many specifications of this new router.
As you can see from the photo the Asus RT-456U router looks extremely thin, probably one of the thinnest routers we have seen to date, what we do know is that it is a 802.11n WiFi router.
Asus have just released their latest sound card the Xonar Xense which now comes bundled with a pair of matching Sennheiser PC350 headphones.
The Sennheiser cans are capable of 7Vrms due to an integrated amplifier and the noise-canceling microphone filters out ambient noise, so your voice will always be heard at those critical gaming moments.
A team of scientists at IBM have created a technology that uses light to allow chips to communicate and replace the traditional methods using electrical signals via copper wires. The tiny silicon circuits called nanophotonic avalanche photodetectors use small pulses of light to communicate to each at super fast speeds receiving optical data signals at 40Gbps (billion bits per second) and simultaneously multiply them tenfold.
Designed and created by Minebea these futuristic concept mirror keyboards are based on next generation input systems Minebea has named COOL LEAF.
The COOL LEAF keyboards and input devices have no physical keys and use a backlight mirror surfaces with a special film, electrostatic capacity type touch panel with touch force sensors below to recognise input signals.
Western Digital has launched its first range of solid state drives (SSD) designed for the consumer market, the Western Digitial SiliconEdge Blue SSD.
The Western Digitial SiliconEdge Blue SSD will come in a range of different sizes which include 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities, and they feature the SATA 2 (3Gbps) interface.
MSI has launched a new nettop PC, called the MSI Toast PC, although it wont actually make you toast it is designed to look like a toaster, why? we have no idea maybe they want people to use it in their kitchen.
Plextor more well know for its optical discs and drives have stepped into the solid state disk SSD market with their new range of solid state drives the 64GB PX-64M1S and the 128GB PX-128M1S.
Corsair have just released an new member into its Flash Voyager range the Flash Voyager GTR 128GB USB 2.0 Drive. This new USB drive delivers lightning fast speeds up to 34MB/sec read speed and write speeds up to 28MB/sec. Priced at $426 your pocket will be a lot lighter, but hey, those speeds.
