Today in this innovative world daily something new and unique concepts are showing. Now one more concept of innovative Slider ultra mobile computer is designed. Today’s all concept gadgets are having some unique features which is really nice and latest for users.
The Slider Ultra Mobile Computer has also some unique features such as its 9-inch touchscreen display and its full QWERTY keyboard that can exposed during flipping its screen. It offers 1.5GHz processor and 1GB RAM which provides you flawless mobile video streaming and VOIP video chatting. Its QWERTY keyboard allows its users to post blog entries easily and sending emails.
Now we talk about its difficulties, its motherboard and hard drive is located in its upper half which result a reliable crux that conveys data from screen. Its battery life is comparatively low than other due to its ultra compact shape, it offers 4-7 hours battery life. But overall this is a nice featured and unique designed Ultra Mobile Notebook which you catch your eye.
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Sharp launch Willcom D4 WS016SH UPMC
Today everybody needs ultra portable PC to connecting internet anywhere anytime. In today’s life it is very necessary to connect with internet therefore Sharp will introduce latest Willcom D4 WS016SH Sharp Ultra mobile UPMC. It has 5-inch LCD LED backlight screen with touchscreen feature and it has 1024×600 1360×768 screen resolution which provides you sharp and clear picture.
The Willcom D4 is powered by Atom Z520 @ 1.33GHZ Processor, 1 GB DDR2 SD RAM, 40GB HDD Hard Drive Disk, US15W Chipset, 254MB VRAM Shared with main memory, PCM 16bit Audio Sound Card, Integrated Speaker, 1.98M Web Camera, Bluetooth V2.0, Wi-Fi and LAN Networking, USB2.0 Ports, TouchPad, microSD port and many more. The Willcom is available with Japanese and United State QWERTY keyboard. This UPMC gadget is available in only black color. It provides you approx 7.5 hours battery backup.
Its dimension is just 84×188×25.9 mm and this is a lightest UPMC, its weight is just 0.470 Kg. The Willcom D4 has all necessary features in it but one back point is its low configure because many other UPMC products offers much high configuration in comparison to Willcom. But it’s a matter of own choice different people have different opinion. So what you think about Willcom D4 after knowing its all features?
Its suggested cost is just ¥ 139,000.
Microsoft Security Essentials Free Antivirus App Leaves Beta [Downloads]
Windows only: We took a first look at Microsoft Security Essentials, the free antivirus application from Microsoft, back in June, but today Microsoft Security Essentials has left beta and is ready for your PC.
The application hasn’t really changed much since we took our first look from what we can tell, meaning this release is most likely filled with bug fixes and stability improvements rather than new features.
We’ve been impressed with Security Essentials so far, though it may not be enough of an improvement or change that’ll make it worth switching to from your current favorite antivirus application. If you’ve been testing it out since the beta release, or you’ve just played around with it a little this morning, let’s hear what you think of it in the comments.
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Honda U3-X: Another one-wheeled Segway, this time its omnidirectional
Once again, another new perfectly balanced riding vehicle such as the PUMA and eniCycle has caught my attention. I don’t know what it is about these things, I feel like I’m eight-years old looking at pictures of sports cars and longing for the day when I can drive.
Yes, I want to ride those things really bad, and Honda has fulfilled my dreams with the U3-X. There is a wonderful video of it that you can see after the jump, just don’t ask me why there is no sound.
The U3-X has the ability to fold up compactly into a boogie board that is shaped like a figure eight. It is quite light at 22 pounds, and Honda used technology learned from Asimo to make it work.
For example, it uses balance control technology, which means the rider uses leaning to control speed and direction. It has the Honda Omni Traction drive system, which means it can go backwards, forwards, as well as sideways.
Not only that, but its downright sexy too. Well, this is one of those devices that I will probably never ride, but will always want to. At this present time, it is just a concept for now. Even the video looks like it was made entirely out of CG, including the rider.
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How To: Rip Your Music Like a Pro
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How To: Rip Your Music Like a Pro
For most people, dropping a CD into their disc drive and clicking “Import” in iTunes is good enough. For music freaks, though, it’s not—and with good reason. Here’s how to digitize your tunes, the right way.
First off, some reasons to take this road: iTunes is a decent audio encoder, and it’ll get your music from point A—the CD—to points B, C and D—your computer, your MP3 player and your backup drive—without much trouble. But it’ll do it with a less-than-great encoder, with occasionally inconsistent tagging, with album art that’ll only work on Apple devices, and without support for the best lossless audio formats and MP3 encoding options, which you probably want, whether you know it or not.
In short, the ripping process deserves a little more care than iTunes or Windows Media player can give it. You can pay people for this, which feels dumb and wasteful, or you can do it yourself. It’s not difficult, at all. Here’s what you do:
Get Your Software
Mac OS X: Max
From the makers:
When extracting audio from compact discs, Max offers the maximum in flexibility to ensure the true sound of your CD is faithfully extracted. For pristine discs, Max offers a high-speed ripper with no error correction. For damaged discs, Max can either use its built-in comparison ripper (for drives that cache audio) or the error-correcting power of cdparanoia.
What this translates to: Great error reduction, fantastic sound quality, and tons and tons of encoding options—not that you really need those to do a good rip, but hey, they can’t hurt. On…
Smartbook U1000 from Qiji is nothing but a WM PDA
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How Retailers Use Lighting To Confuse HDTV Buyers
It may be difficult to believe, but just a decade ago cathode ray tube-based TVs (CRTs) were the biggest sellers. CRTs have excellent viewing angles, outstanding black levels and high contrast ratios. The technology’s Achilles heel (aside from sheer bulk) was a lack of brightness compared to today’s flat screen sets. However, for most indoor viewing environments, the light output was adequate.
Not surprisingly, store lighting in the TV departments of major retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City a decade ago was subdued to better emulate home ambient lighting conditions so the sets wouldn’t look dim and washed out.
That’s hardly the case today, with store lighting levels purposely cranked up as much as 50 times typical home lighting conditions. Why the change? Because these intense levels can make the best displays with the blackest black levels and highest contrast levels look inferior to cheaper, lower performance displays. Not surprisingly, this leads consumers into buying the cheaper sets because they think they’re getting as good a set, if not a better one, for less.
Contrast, Brightness and Resolution
A TV’s native resolution, black level and brightness (called white level) controls its perceived image sharpness. Resolution of almost all HDTVs falls into two categories, 720p and 1080p, so from a static resolution standpoint, almost all large screen TVs today are about the same (either 720p or 1080p).
“Contrast ratio,” for example 1000:1 (or 1000 to 1) indicates how many times greater is the highest intensity white signal than the lowest intensity black one (the number 1 is the black signal). While that gives you a ratio it tells you neither how bright are the whites, nor how dark are the blacks.
Here is where stores utilize intense lighting to manipulate your judgment. In a typical home environment, the set that will appear to have a better picture and be seen as sharper will be the one with the blackest blacks and reasonably white whites (around 30 ft lamberts) rather than one that’s similarly bright but with lighter black levels.
Viewers perceive just the opposite in a high ambient light showroom. Invariably they choose the set with the brightest picture as having the clearest image, even if the set has poor black levels because the bright ambient lighting masks poor black level performance.
The Measurement Methodology
Last month, using a Konica Minolta T-10 illuminance meter, HD Guru measured the amount of ambient light in the TV sections of national retail stores and warehouse clubs located around Long Island (Sears, Best Buy, Target , Walmart, Costco and BJ’s.).
The measurement total depended upon the set quantity at each retailer; the more sets on display, the more measurements taken. See below for average reading per retailer. Daytime measurements in homeowners’ bedrooms, dens and living rooms also published below were taken with window shades and room lighting adjusted by the homeowners to their particular preferences. Not measured were kitchens, which tend to be far brighter than other rooms and where viewing time is limited and their smaller dimensions usually mean smaller screen sizes.
Store and Home Readings
Store averages (measured in lux) were: Walmart 411.66, Costco 742.77, Target 371.38, Best Buy 180.3, BJ’s 412.13, and Sears 236.58. By comparison, ambient light levels measured in 10 rooms of various homes ranged from just 1.2 to 110.1 lux, with all but two rooms reading less than 35 lux.
Why Do Stores Crank Up The Brightness?
Today, there are two basic retail categories: aided stores with salespeople, such as Best Buy and Sears, and unaided (self-service) ones like BJ’s, Costco, Target and Walmart. Price generally drives consumer purchases in unaided, brightly lit stores where the lower priced, poorer performing sets can appear to be as good as, or better than the more expensive sets. Get the set home and with no reference point, you’ll end up assuming you’re getting the level of performance observed in the store.
Management directs aided store salespeople to maximize profits. While there’s nothing inherently wrong with that, it does conflict with making the right HDTV choice. How? Let’s assume you have a budget of $1500. HDTVs pricing is very competitive and store margins are low. Stores maximize profits by convincing you that a $1000 TV looks as good, if not better than the $1500 set placed next to it. That leaves you with $500 to purchase high profit margin items such as service contracts, “high speed” HDMI cables and power conditioners, when a perfectly adequate HDMI cable can be had on-line for under $10 and a relatively inexpensive surge protector is all you really need. Read this before buying a service contract: (link).
Vizio TVs offer retailers lower profit margins compared to other brands according to industry sources. Not surprisingly, with the exception of Sears, which is an aided store, Vizio’s retailers are unaided stores, where high lighting levels and Vizio’s low prices allow it to compete with and beat Sony and other established brands to win top sales positions.
The MHT Exception
Best Buy’s Magnolia Home Theater division (MHT), located within many Best Buy locations, sells the best and most expensive HDTVs, including top of the line plasmas and LED backlit LCD flat panels not found on the main showroom floor.In order to demonstrate the best displays’ rich inky blacks, guess what MHT does? Correct! They match the store’s lighting to about the same levels found in a typical home environment. Measurements taken at our local Best Buy’s MHT measured from 24.4 to 49.2 lux with an average level of just 34.7 lux! Yes, Magnolia understands that for its customers to see and appreciate the deep blacks, high contrast ratios and superior image quality produced by the more expensive sets it sells, it needs to duplicate home light levels.
Tips
Setting optimal black level for a given display requires adjusting user controls via the TVs remote control, with ambient lighting set to levels similar to what’s found in your similar level found in your home and specialized test signals.
Unfortunately, these conditions are not possible in the big box retailers and warehouse clubs listed above, so you’re stuck with the store’s showroom mode settings. However, you can get a relative idea of the black level of a given display regardless of the stores high ambient light levels by using this trick. Cup your hands forming a tunnel with your thumbs and index fingers making the front opening. Place the pinky side of your cupped hands against the TV screen and place your eye against the front opening. You will need to find or black area of the picture, if you’re lucky, black bars will be present at the top and bottom of the screen on a letterboxed demo material. This will give you an idea of just how light the blacks are on different displays.
Contrast Ratios Specs Are Useless
No accepted TV industry standard exists for measuring contrast ratios. Numbers provided by manufacturers are meaningless. The fake spec race is getting worse with many vendors now providing two contrast ratio specs, standard and dynamic. “Standard” is with white and black areas on the screen at the same time. “Dynamic contrast” is measured using a black screen with no content, versus brightness with a white area on the screen, resulting in a useless number. Who cares how dark a blank screen looks? HD Guru continues to get stonewalled when we query set makers for the methodology of their respective published contrast ratio numbers. The current record absurd claim is a published dynamic contrast ratio spec of 7,000,000 to 1. To add to the confusion, there is a natural maximum eye contrast resolution of just 300:1, according to a paper published by Siemens Technology (PDF link) (http://www.eizo.eu/html_76/ftp/bb_ensuring_image_quality.pdf.)
In an effort to rebut these published specs, HD Guru will be using a newly acquired Konica Minolta meter to make its own contrast ratio readings and will publish the results in all future HDTV reviews.
Sony unveils new VAIO notebooks
MANILA, Philippines – Sony Philippines recently took the wraps off two of its new notebooks: the VAIO W mini-notebook and the NW lifestyle-oriented notebook series.
Sporting a compact form factor with softly rounded edges, the VAIO W series is ideal as a secondary PC, to be used in any room of the house, for surfing the Web, checking e-mail, and for social networking.
The VAIO W series comes in three vibrant colors: white, pink, and brown. A more subtle shade of the exterior hue adorns the inside, while the touchpad is lined with bright accents. Read the full article.
Introducing the Google Chrome OS
This is a bomb of an announcement by Google, this is totally different from Chrome the browser this is an Operating System. It is targeted for netbooks and is separate from Android, I’ll be following the progress and news about this new Google project. Read the Official Google Blog about the OS.
GFI Backup
Found this Windows freebie, just about to download, test and compare it with TotalMedia Backup which came with the portable HDD that I just bought. Saw some great comments about it. GFI Backup, maybe for you especially if you don’t have any backup solution in place yet, you can’t beat the price.
