The Myka ION is powered by an Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor,equipped with 2GB RAM and 160GB HDD. The nettop also offers an optional Blu-ray drive, supports wireless connectivity and equipped with VGA, DVI and HDMI ports to suit different types of displays.

The OS of this nettop is Ubuntu Linux, comes complete with the Boxee and XBMC media center software and supports standard-def Adobe Flash and Hulu’s online streaming service. The nettop starts at a highly affordable price of $380. If you want a budget home theater system, this should be a great one to go for.

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The Super Talent USB 3.0 flash drive is expected to be available in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB. And of course you will need to have a computer that comes with the USB 3.0 ports to enjoy the high speeds of up to 200MB/sec. If you want the top speed 320MB/sec on USB 3.0 port, you need a separate UAS Protocol driver to achieve that.

The drive can also work on USB 2.0 port but operates at slower speeds. Anyway, no word for the price and release date.

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The Asus 17.3-inch G72GX hasn’t got its details revealed. But the 15.6-inch G51J3D has got some details which it’ll come with NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX160M graphics card, with 1G dedicated DDR3 video RAM. The laptop relies on the active-shutter specs to achieve the 3D effect, allowing up to 15 people sitting around the laptop and watching 3D film without any viewing angle problems.

The 15.6-inch G51J3D will be launched next month, while the 17.3-inch G72GX needs you to wait until Q2 2010.

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The Maingear Shift has been loaded with powerful components such as powerful GPUs to speed up your daily photo and video editing tasks. The Maingear Shift is housed in an aluminum case, with steel skeleton. The cooling system is pretty unique which uses top and bottom airflow and liquid cooling.

Two models of the Maingear Shift are available. The first model, Shift Intel P55 comes with an Intel Core I7 800 series processor, Intel Kingsberg P55 Extreme Series mainboard, ATI Radeon or NVidia GeForce graphics cards, up to 8GB DDR3 RAM, with storage either up to 6 HDDs or 12 SSDs and either a Blu-Ray or DVD drive.

The second model is the Shift Intel X58, which comes with an Intel Core i7 900 series processor, with either an ATI Radeon HD or NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards, an EVGA X58 SLI Classified mainboard, with massive RAM up to 24GB, choice of either 6 HDDs or 12 SSDs and either Blu-Ray or DVD.

The P55 model starts with a price at $2,199, while the X58 model starts at $2,600 and both models are to come with the Windows 7 OS.

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The rolltop would come with a flexible OLED touchscreen display. Once it’s fully rolled out, it’d serve as a 13-inch laptop/tablet, or a 17-inch dedicated computer display. The device would also come with a detachable hub with power adapter, a stylus and a couple of USB ports.

This conceptual device shouldn’t be too far from realistic, as OLED technology is getting matured, making one of these flexible screens would not be too difficult in the near future.

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This gestural interface is called Muscle computer interface, which allows your finger or hand movements in the air, without touching a device or instrument but allowing you to control or operate the device precisely. The interface can be developed for game play, such for playing Guitar Hero without needing a physical guitar controller.

The Muscle computer interface will have a couple of EMG electrodes which directly sense the electrical signals in the arms to capture finger movements that mimic the button presses. This interface should have a wide range of applications, video below shows how it’s used.

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Here comes the Vioguard keyboard, the first of its kind that features a UV sanitizer that can kill germs and viruses. The sanitizer is a 25-watt UV light that claims to be able to kill 99.99% of bacteria and viruses in about 90 seconds. Leaving the 0.1%, which should be defendable by your own body immune system.

Some more, this keyboard is motorized, equipped with IR sensor, which hides itself when it’s not in use so it will not get contaminated by dust and dirt around. Wave your hand in front of the IR sensor, it’ll come out to serve you.

The Vioguard self-clean keyboard was introduced at the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) 91st annual meeting, October 12-17 in Toronto. It aims at medical market uses and consumers in Canada. The keyboard should appeal to health-conscious geeks, especially during the time when H1N1 flu is still pretty active over the globe. Equip one of these for your family who possibly share only one computer at home. But it’ll run you with an expensive price of $899. Video below shows the self-clean keyboard in action.

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Apparently, in the picture below it shows the card has two GPUs. And it’s a power-hungry beast comes in big size, boasts 8-pin and 6-pin connectors, is kept cooled by a single fan with rotational speed of 4700 RPM. The length of this graphics card should have little problem, since it’s 13.5-inch long which will normally have issues to fit into even some full-sized chassis.

According to the source, those photos are only early engineering samples, which AMD had earlier got hold of the original posters and taken down the performance figures along side of the photos.

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The data transfer speeds are whopping fast on the Asus USB 3.0 mainboards, which claim the transfer of a 20GB HD movie takes only slightly more than a minute (below 70 seconds), while it’s transferring at peak speeds with the new USB connection. These Asus motherboards have also been enhanced with the Asus’ hybrid processor, hybrid phase and hybrid OS technologies that boost the overall performance, including the ability of overclocking, active cooling control and instant-on Internet access.

The ASUS Xtreme Design P7P55D-E Series have both SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 on board, while the ASUS Xtreme Design P7P55D depends on a separate U3S6 PCIe x4 expansion card for the high-speed connections. Either uses the Intel’s P55 Express chipset and takes both Core i5 and Core i7 processor.

These Asus USB 3.0 mainboards have also been made to support Windows 7, which they’re to be shipped with Windows 7 drivers. But sadly, pricing and availability are still unknown.

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Samsung has announced two entertainment-rich LCD monitors, 19-inch 933HD+ and 23-inch 2333HD, which come equipped with TV tuners to let you tune into TV signals like a regular TV.

The 19-inch 933HD+ supports 720p (1360×768), whereas the 23-inch 2333HD supports 1080p (1920×1080) resolution. The inclusion of the digital TV tuner allows the user to tune into TV signals, and some more it also offers an optional cable or satellite TV connection. The two LCD monitors also have two HDMI inputs, which you can hook them up to Blu-ray player./p>

Both monitors feature a dynamic contrast ratio of 10000:1, 5ms response time, 16:9 aspect ratio. The 23-inch 2333HD has integrated speakers backed by Dolby Digital. The 19-inch 933HD+ costs $250, while the 23-inch 2333HD costs $330.

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The Latitude XT2 XFR is based on the Dell XT2, but has been ruggedized to meet the needs of customers in military, police and border patrol etc. It meets the MIL-810G standards, which can stand up to military-grade of harshness and IP54 for Ingress Protection and resistance to moisture and dust.

Under the rugged case of this tablet is an Intel Core Duo 2 processor, 5GB DDR3 RAM. And you can have it equipped with optional hot-swappable modules including GPS, webcam, optional expansion sliver that provides camera/light, serial, and RJ11 inputs. The 12.1 display is capacitive multi-touch gestures-enabled (may have problem with fingers in thick gloves) and sunlight-viewable.

This Dell tablet also includes the QuadCool Thermal Management System, which allows it to keep its top performance even operated under extreme temperatures from minus 10 degrees to 140 degrees Fahrenheit. It will be available in 4-, 6- and 9-cell battery options, and of course the more cells the longer they will last. Price starts at $3,600.

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The Asus ESC 1000 desktop supercomputer is able to deliver an amazing speed of 1.1 teraflops, which has been achieved by the mixed configuration of a 3.3 GHz Intel LGA1366 Xeon W3580 server processor, 960 cores inside three Nvidia Tesla c1060 graphics processing cards coupled with a Quadro FX5800 GPU.

The RAM, HDD and power supply of this system are massive too, they are 24GB DDR3 1333 MHz RAM, 500GB SATA II HDD and 1100 watt high-capacity power supply respectively. With all these super components stuffed in it, it will definitely not come cheap, costs a massive $14,500.

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How do I find this Dell Mini 10 netbook? Of course, the screen definitely gives me some problem that will always strain out my eyes. When I’m developing PHP applications (using Notepad++, WAMP and browsers only) on the Dell Mini 10 netbook, I’ll always have to connect an external 19-inch monitor to it in order to have a comfortable screen size. Yes, when using a netbook, screen size is the main problem. Of course, it’ll lose its portability when you always need a bigger screen to connect to it.

The other issue I face on the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 is the performance. I can’t have my RealPlayer running, playing me some lovely songs, while I have a few other applications running such as Notepad++, GIMP etc. Perhaps, I could be the only person who has maxed out a netbook and I’m still using it on quite a number of my daily tasks. To me it’s still tolerable.

A netbook definitely lacks the comfortable screen size and performance that a laptop has. Even Dell CEO doesn’t recommend netbooks despite Dell being one of the biggest suppliers of netbooks. Michael Dell believes that customers will not get long term satisfaction with a Netbook. As they’ll face the screen size and performance problems with a netbook and will definitely want a laptop back after a couple of hours using the netbook. Read more at: GeekWithLaptop

The 3D viewing on this Acer notebook will be best used for watching action movies and playing 3D games on it. The Acer Aspire 5738DG notebook allows you to easily switch between 2D and 3D modes. The 2D is used when you’re using standard applications such as Word, spreadsheets, documents and email etc. And only a simple click of the mouse allows you to get into the 3D mode.

The notebook features a 15.6-inch Acer CineCrystal HD display coated with a special 3D film that clings to the panel pixel by pixel, allows LCD technology to deliver 3D images. The users just need to wear a pair of the included 3D polarizer eyeglasses, which filter 2D to 3D, to enjoy true cinematic high-def movies, games and videos.

The TriDef Media Player is the included application that lets you playback 3D videos or photos. And the TriDef Ignition tool enables 2D to 3D conversions for games and applications supporting DirectX 9 and above.

Hardware specs of the Acer Aspire 5738DG are an Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 processor, 15.6 inch HD 3D display with 1366 x 768 pixel resolution, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 graphics (512MB of dedicated DDR3 VRAM), 4GB of DDR2 1066 MHz memory, 320GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive, multi-in-1 media card reader, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, 8X DVD-Super Multi double-layer drive, webcam, Dolby surround sound system with two built-in stereo speakers, multi-gesture touchpad, 4x USB 2.0 ports, 6-cell battery, and Windows 7 Home Premium.

With all these excellent specs, surprisingly, the Aspire 5738DG 3D laptop costs only $780! Yes, $780, as it’s Acer, which always maintains their style targeting budget user base.

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Anyway, PCMag has got a few more pictures of the Dell Adamo XPS laptop, showing how the super thin laptop looks like with its lid open. And they’ve also laid hands on the slimmest laptop briefly with some positives : Very cool! Despite the super thinness that measures only about half an inch, it feels very solid with its aluminum construction. As what we’ve heard, brush your finger across the heat sensor on the lid, it automatically opens, wait for a click, the screen pops open.

Sadly, Dell has not yet determined the price, launch date and even the specs of the Adamo XPS, but they’ve confirmed that it’ll ship with Windows 7. Dell is currently kinda reserved to talk more about the laptop’s details.

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But if you’re so curious about this super thin laptop, Business Week has got a bit more information here. According to them, the ultra thin laptop is going to cost $2,000 and it’ll come with a unique feature that a heat-sensing strip that runs along the lip of the lid. When gliding your finger across the strip, it’ll then grow white and automatically open the aluminum lid.

Anyway, the laptop is slated to be released on October 22, which is also the Windows 7 launch day.

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Due to the laptop market has been bitten quite a big chunk by netbooks, the laptop makers now have a fight back. Laptop makers start offering laptops with much cheaper price, even some under 400 Euros and laptops are definitely providing processing power as good as what you can get with a desktop. If you need a portable computer that allows you to do almost similar what you can do with a desktop, then you should opt for a laptop instead of a netbook.

Anyway, when you’re about to stop by a computer shop, in the decision making stage whether to buy a netbook or a laptop, you’d better not listen to the sales staff of the shop, as they seem to fail to tell you what is good and bad about a laptop and netbook. Read the article on GeekWithLaptop to learn more about it: Laptops fight back against netbooks but don’t trust the sales staff

The newly announced Origin Storage 1TB HDD has been incorporated with additional hardware encryption to protect its data. It’s also been given a promising name called Data Locker Secure Drive, to give the users more confidence on the security that it imposes to your data.

The Origin Storage 1TB external HDD is available in two versions. The Pro editions come with 128-bit AES encryption and the Enterprise version with 256 bit. These external HDDs are powered via USB port. It’s enclosed in a rugged case that should well protect it from drops. It’s equipped with an LCD display that shows status information and also comes with 2.5-inch SATA drive featured inside.

To access the drive, you’ll need to enter a 18 digit PIN number on the LCD screen. Since the HDD provides hardware encryption, you don’t need to install additional software on the computer that it’s plugged into. It is also able to detect brute force attacks, and with self destruct mode. The 1TB Pro version costs £399 (or about $650).

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