This brain simulator was developed by IBM’s Almaden research center. It consists of 1.6 billion virtual neurons connected by 9 trillion synapses, which is almost a cell-by-cell simulation of the human visual cortex.

With all the massive components, over 150,000 gigabytes of memory and power consumption of over million watts, the simulator is only as good as a cat’s brain. But the achievement is much better than the smaller rat brain simulator that they made two years ago.

To simulate the entire human cortex, they need computing power that is 1,000 times faster than what they currently have managed, but this could only be achieved in about a decade from now.

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Here comes the world’s first wireless USB external hard drive that has been launched by Imation. Called the Imation Pro WX, the hard drive can be remotely and wirelessly connected to your computer. The Imation Pro WX features a little antenna, which works as the transmitter that transmits the data wirelessly at 15MB/s to your computer, while the computer has a receiver connected to the USB port.

Besides the wireless USB connectivity, the storage capacity of this external hard drive is also worth mentioning. It offers a 1.5TB of storage which is sufficient for storing up to 300,000 photos and up to 750 hours of video. The little down side is the 15MB/s is far slower than a NAS transferring over WiFi. Consider a wireless N connectivity which could go up to top speed of 18+MB/s or more theoretically.

The Imation Pro WX wireless USB HDD costs $500. If the price matters but you insist to go wireless, you could also convert one of your existing external USB HDDs into wireless by connecting to it to the Winstar M4, which allows you to access the content via WiFi.

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Each GPU has the equivalent speed of a 5850 with a 725MHz primary clock speed, and also clams 1GHz GDDR5 memory, the 3,200 stream (effects) processors, 160 texture units and the 2GB of memory provides it as much performance as two 5850s but takes only half the space.

The HD 5970 also features CrossFire mode, allows two 5970 cards combined together delivering a processing power of equivalent to 4 GPUs for games that support it. The 5970 graphics card was made based on the newer 40nm manufacturing process, allows it to consume relatively low power.

Features such as DirectX 11, OpenGL 3.2 remain intact, and has been added with support for Eyefinity with three displays and OpenCL computing for platforms that support them. The 5970 has two dual-link DVI ports and one DisplayPort output.

The 5970 cards are most ready for highly demanding HD games, and available now from third parties such as Asus, Diamond and MSI. Each runs you about $599. Find more on product page.

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But there shouldn’t be an apple to apple comparison between the two NASes. The Addonics Mini NAS comes with single bay only which is not possible for any RAID configuration. It comes built-in with fast Ethernet 10/100Mbps connection, supports any 2.5-inch SATA HDD or SSD.

It can also work as a USB print server. Other goodies include features found on the Addonics NAS adapter, such as support for SMB, open source Samba, iTunes music sharing, FTP access for up to 8 users simultaneously and a BitTorrent client. Costs only $69.

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The Thecus N0204 NAS uses either 2.5-inch HDD or SSD drives and supports up to a maximum capacity of 1TB. It has two bays only, which you can only configure it at RAID 0, 1, or JBOD. Fancier RAIDs such as 0+1, 5 are not possible. The Thecus N0204 comes in highly affordable price, runs you only $150 but please note that no hard drives are included with this price.

This little NAS can also work as a print server and is compatible with Mac and PC networks. It supports WiFi or can be connected to wired Gigabit LAN via the Ethernet connection on the back of the unit.

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The Inspiron Zino HD nettop is stuffed with an AMD Athlon 2650e 1.6GHz processor, 2GB RAM, ATI Radeon 3200 graphics card. It also packs a 7200RPM 250GB HDD and an 8X DVD burner. Unfortunately the base model lacks WiFi connectivity, if you want WiFi, you’ll need to get the $399 model which comes with 3G RAM and Athlon 2850e processor.

These Inspiron Zino nettops are ready for connections to external HD displays, come equipped with HDMI connectors and also two eSATA connectors and 4 USB ports for hooking up to more storage drives. It can be pre-loaded with Windows 7/Vista or Ubuntu Linux 9.0.4. Options include AMD Athlon 2850e/X2 3250e/Neo X2 6850e, ATI Radeon HD4330 graphics card, up to 8GB DDR2 RAM and 1TB hard drive.

It’s super compact, measures only 8″ by 8″, offers 10 optional interchangeable colors and designs that shall blend well with your home decors and furniture.

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The Samsung P2770 HD comes with a number of interesting features, as mentioned it’s got an integrated TV tuner, and other goodies including an HDMI port, two 3-watt stereo speakers capable of two 3-watt stereo speakers. And the display itself supports full HD, boasts a response time of 5ms and a 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio.

It also features the Picture in Picture and Picture by Picture modes. It’ll be available in S. Korea for a price at approx. $473. Look, the Korean chick loves it!

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The ZiiLABS’ ZMS-08 is a system on a single chip that borrows a couple of features of its predecessor including 1080p playback, 24fps encoding, and HD video conferencing via simultaneous 720p encoding and decoding. And it offers more such as OpenGL ES 2.0 support, integrated HDMI controller, X-Fi audio and Flash acceleration.

The ZMS-08 media accelerator chip is paired with an 1GHz ARM® Cortex™ processor, which runs on custom Android and Plaszma OS and allows low-power but high-performance media-rich processing on low-power mobile devices such as web tablets, netbooks, connected TVs, video conferencing system and home media hubs.

ZiiLABS has signed up with a number of clients and is expecting the first shipments to be in Q1 of 2010. The following diagram shows the architecture diagram of the chip.

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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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