Fujitsu U8240 is the company’s smallest tablet/UMPC with 1,024 x 600 5.6-inch display and weigh a mere 1.2 pounds. It’s got a flexible monitor that can do a 360 degrees as well. And now it is going to be available to the US thanks to Dynamism who will be importing it for the American consumers. It’s going to arrive in two versions; Window’s Vista and Window’s XP. With the problems many people complain about Vista, I have an inkling that many will choose XP. I would choose XP, i think it’s awesome.

Price for each unit goes for $2,099.

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Researchers in India said that they could build a $10 laptop that is fully functional for kids. Now, that One Laptop Per Child program is going to hell if this ever comes true because that program started out with $100 per laptop and now the price has gone up to $175. That’s just nuts - all this balahoo about helping children and then you make money off the this “cause”.

I hope those guys in India will make those $10 laptops because then, EVERY child can probably afford a laptop. Well, since this is just what the dudes in India said, it hasn’t been done yet but if they’re So sure it’s do-able, i’m keeping my fingers crossed. For all you know these OLPC program might want to thwart them and call them liars in the face of the world, then u can wave bye bye to $10 laptops because even if it could exist, it’s just not allowed to in this inflation bound world.

Source: gizmodo

Here’s a pen that looks like an ordinary shick pen but it is in fact also a scanner. This is perhaps the closest thing out in the public consumerism market that’s from a movie set. Really. Remember those spy movies and mission impossible movies where the main character scans a bunch of document using a pen like scanner and once they’re done they just clip it over the breast pockets like it’s just another pen.

This is the DocuPen RC800 Color. I’m going all Wow-ed about it :P

It scans a full page of graphics and text in just 4-6 seconds. Ladies and gentlemen, this is definitely an certified novelty from a scanner the size of a pen. There two versions to this DocuPen, one is the more expensive RC800 at $299 and the other is the RC700 at $99, which is rather affordable for students.

Creator of the DocuPen is by Planon.

Source: PopGadget

Wave if you want vision and sound. This speakers hail from the land of the rising sun, yea Japan. It’s particularly useful if you have it in your bedroom or workstation as you jsut need to wave your hands upwards and/or downwards for the volume.

It also comes with an FM station so if you’re bored u can tune in to your favorite station. Of course, this mini thing may be the rave because of it’s novel, don’t expect a sub woofer standard when you wave your hands up, up, up…each speakers are only 0.7W. It comes in two colors, black and white and can be run with AA batteries. You can also plug it to your main sound system too if you want but I don’t knwo why you would want to do that. Use it with your laptop, Apple iPod, DVD players as well as other MP3 players.

For $100, it’s quite worth it. Check out their Product Page.

Source: Gizmodo

This is not a watch,obviously, this is the world’s thinnest 2,500 lumen projector. The projector is 43-mm (1.7-inch) / 1.7-kg (3.7-pounds) XJ-S46 projector blasts 2,500 lumens for ¥268,000 (about $2,263). The XJ-S36 brings the same form factor but drops the brightness down to 2,000 lumens for ¥238,000 ($2,010).

Projectors I used to know was bulky and heavy. This one looks like it could fit into a suitcase and carried along to meetings and what not. The Casio XJ-S46 also comes with a USB port for functional friendliness with a computer. Whoopie. Everything’s USB these days. There are also two other models to choose from, the XJ-S41 and XJ-S31 configurations. You’re going to have to ask others what those XJ numerics means.

Source: engadget

Another USB invention that is nifty and useful. The USB Microscope allows your take macro pictures of things around your computer desk. The picture quality is excellent as you can zoom in on the speciments you collect around your house. Hey, you could even make this an interesting gadget for learniing with your kids. Let them see how many legs a fly has up close x200. They’d be intrigued or be really scared, if it’s the latter then your kid might need to desensitized a little in this violent world. Sigh.

The USB microscope is $179.99 at THINKGEEK.

Source: PopGadget

This 3.5 inch, vertical drive is the first for Hitachi. The Deskstar 7k1000 has perpendicular recording ability allows for more storage space. The price of the drive is pretty reasonable too. For $399 you’ll get 1 terabyte of diskspace (or exactly 931.5GB) that means you can store all your movies, music collections and pr0n stash if you have any all in one single drive. Performance wise, the guys at Anandtech said that it could rival the Western Digital’s Raptor, which has a 10,000rpm, and storage space of 150GB. Hitachi’s has 7,200rpm and a SATA interface.

I suggest waiting for the price to drop and buy two of these harddisk so that you can create a mirror for backups. So if you lose 1 harddisk (they sometimes fail for no reason) then u have another one to back it up.

Source: Gizmodo

A Japanese company called Y-E Data announced 6 months ago that they have created the world’s first wireless USB hub called YD-300. Now they’re ready to ship their product to anywhere in the world. However, they’ve got some pretty undesirable reviews from the guys at Engadget who says that they’re not living up their promise of 480Kbps for up to 10metres.

While they promise up to 480Mbps at distances of up to 10-meters, in practice however, this drops to a paltry 30Mbps (max!) and even that degrades significantly over just a few meters.

Yikes, that can’t be too good. But it’s good if you have two computers side by side then it’d makes things easier. Maybe because this is the first hence it’s till very noobie in the sense of functions and frills - this wireless USB hub doesn’t support isochronous data, quality of service, or medium bandwidth reservation to ensure data arrives in time so that means you can say bye bye to quality video streaming. This is probably for the basics only.

The YD-300 costs ¥39,800 ($338). I’d probably wait for something better to come out, really.

Source: Engadget

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Now if you have one of those old vinyl records of the Bee Gees or Beatles lying around or any of those golden classics, you might wanna invest in this InstantMusic Ripper that rips vynil and cassette tapes in no time. Now that you have a backup of all that music, it’s time to take out the puncher and punch holes into that vynil and make decorations with it. Or if you have a bunch of cassette tapes…well…recycle it so 1 thousand more can have plastic bottles to use.

The gadget even comes in bundled up softwares for PC and Macs so that your ripped music has a place to go and be managed. Pretty well thought out.

Here are some of the specs:

Product Features

* Record Your Old LPs and Cassettes to CD, MP3 or your iPod
* Save music as MP3, WAV, WMA and AAC (iPod) audio formats
* Burn professional quality CDs
* Capture from any audio source: cassette, turn table, TV, radio, DVD

Specifications

* Audio IN: RCA Stereo (Left and Right); SPDIF (Toslink)
* Audio Out: RCA Stereo (Left and Right); SPDIF (Toslink)
* Power: USB bus power (no external supply needed)
* USB: USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 compatible as a Full Speed Device

Capture:
* 16 bit Sampling Rate: 8, 11, 16, 22.05, 32 44.1 or 48 kHz
* THD+N = 0.01%
* SNR= 89dB

Playback:
* 16 bit- Sampling Rate - 32, 44.1, 48 kHz
* THD+N = 0.005%
* SNR = 96dB

This is a product of ThinkGeek.

Thanko has come up with a lot of weird USB creations in the past. And this time, they’ve created an Air Purifier that you can plug into a USB point in your computer. Cos uhm you know, most people are stuck on their computers so for their health benefits it makes sense to make health products USB friendly……

I actually laughed when I saw this creation. It just looks so funny. See for yourself:

“I can breathe in front of my computer again!!!!!”, is what she’s saying, I bet. LOL! She looks so funny and the guy did too…geez, how much did they pay those actors. The product only cost $20 bucks but I don’t know if I’d buy it even if it’s 5 bucks…i wouldn’t want to be caught dead wearing that weird looking mask.

Source: Gizmodo