Review: Netbooks meet luxury in ultra-light Sony Vaio X _ watch so it doesn’t blow away

more images Review: Netbooks meet luxury in ultra-light SonyReview: Netbooks meet luxury in ultra-light Sony NEW YORK — Netbooks have been a hit among laptop buyers because they’re cheap and they’re easy to carry. Now there’s the option to pay a lot more and get a lot less — a lot less weight, that is. Sony’s Vaio X is the runway model of netbooks: stylish, super-thin and without an ounce of weight to spare. It’s expensive too: the base model is $1,300 at Sonystyle.com and Sony Style stores. The price is nearly four times as much as a standard netbook. Its carbon-fiber body, just over half an inch thick, houses an 11.1-inch screen and weighs...

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Acer Aspire Revo 3610: A Haven For The Users With Space Crunch

Portable and small form factor computers have got a new lease of life after the arrival and popularity of the netbooks and net-tops. These are ideal for the users who need a second computer that can supplement their existing workstations. Acer has a range of netbooks and small for factor computers that are ideal for the users who are short on space. The Acer Aspire Revo R3610 is a compact PC that uses very little desktop place and is ideal for basic computing tasks and web browsing. However, the RevoR3610 is a little more powerful than conventional net-tops as it features a newer Atom Dual Core CPU and Nvidia Ion GPU instead of the under-powered...

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Best Laptop Under Rs 40,000 in India

Laptops have now become a must have gadget for the mobile professionals and also for the gadget freaks like us at gadgetophilia. A few years ago, purchasing a standard laptop with decent performance would mean selling an arm or a leg but today there are many decent performing laptops available under Rs 30,000 in India or even under $500 in US. Apart from the value for money laptops, there are some good laptops available under Rs. 40,000 in India. Here is a take on them. Have a look at the list.Best Home Laptop Dell Studio 15 This is undoubtedly the best laptop in the 40,000 range. It has a Core 2 Duo Processor T5850 and 3 GB Dual channel RAM....

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Study Find eBook Readers

HANOVER - All of the competitors in the current generation of electronic reading devices are equally good when it comes to presenting digitalised books. They offer long battery lives and their displays are easier on the eyes than the displays found on smartphones or laptops. That’s the conclusion reached in a recent comparison of six current models by German computer magazine c’t.The review showed that each of the tested devices has strengths and weaknesses: the Digital Reader 1000S from Irex, for example, is not a good choice for novel readers, since the model has few options for buying best-sellers. On the other hand, only one single device...

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Future eco-friendly airplanes to resemble UFOs?

Label: Design Concepts, Technology Apparently, flying saucers are the future of eco-friendly vehicles. Who knew? While highways being full of hover saucers might not be happening anytime soon, some aeronautical engineers envision airports loading passengers up into flying saucers and sending them off into the air. Apparently, the age of tube aircraft with wings is coming to an end.Right now air travel accounts for 3% of carbon emissions worldwide, but that figure stands to rise to 5% if planes aren't redesigned to be more efficient. Apparently, ditching the wings and throwing flying saucers into the air will help do that. I'm no scientist,...

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The Telepathic Helmet

Label: Gadgets, Technology The days of keeping your thoughts to yourself may be numbered, as scientists in Switzerland have begun developing a machine that can actually read minds. Adapting the same thought-reading technology that allows paralysis victims to type with their brains, the Swiss managed to go a few steps further, creating a helmet that's, uh, totally mental.The Telepathic Helmet picks up the thoughts of the wearer, sending them to a computer, which writes them out on the monitor. Although the technology isn't perfect — using it while hungry leads to stray thoughts about food getting jumbled in, apparently — it represents a big...

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The Emotions Jacket

Label: Gadgets, Technology Eindhoven, the Netherlands - The Emotions Jacket is a research platform that uses the sense of touch to take the cinematic experience to new levels, allowing viewers to experience the intense emotions felt by characters on-screen. While other viewing enhancement techniques focus primarily on audio and visual aspects, the Emotions Jacket instead stimulates the biggest, our heaviest and most sensitive sense; the human skin. This exploration is part of Philips’ wider ‘sensory experiences’ program.Over the years, there have been many developments which have made the TV viewing experience more immersive. Examples include...

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Super Sexy Bathroom

Label: Home Appliances, Technology It’s always about the future, and in the future you guys are going to realize the need of doubling up your interior spaces by adding more than one function to a room. Like, you may want your bathroom to double up as a gym when you’re not taking a bath. So how about you get the Roca Active & Relax Bathroom? It’s this luxurious room where the sunken bath is really sunken, invisible till you don’t open up the floorboards. No windows too, instead 3 floor-to-ceiling LCDs giving you the illusion of a panoramic view.Still not satisfied? How about we give you a bathroom where the screens are connected to the Home...

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Tesla S Cars

Label: Otomotif, Technology The long-awaited sedan Tesla S - history's first electric car that can flourish in the fast lane, which should go into mass production.According to Tesla Motors, is expected to produce annually up to 20 thousand such vehicles, though not on the mass price: the love of clean technologies will cost big bucks, from 50 thousand dollars.For this price is expected to sell a basic version that is capable, without charge up to 260 km, but the more "advanced" options and can handle the 370 and even 480 miles, that is nothing less than a conventional car rides on a single tank. These indicators provide an array of 8 thousand...

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Ford F-650 Land Rover or Hummer

Label: Otomotif, Technology You think SUVs steeper Land Rover or Hummer can not be? Mistaken. 200 thousand dollars - and your service Alton F-650 XUV with 7.2-liter engine, audio system with 42 speakers, plasma panel, parquet (!) Sex and so on ...Manufactured by Alton Truck Manufacturing-based pickup Ford F-650 large and luxurious SUV Alton F-650 XUV was presented to the public at the Chicago Auto Show - 2008. Can say with certainty: sitting in a car, you can even owners of large and expensive SUVs Hummer and Porsche take kids.7.2-liter engine Alton F-650 XUV is powered fuel tank almost 100 hp and develops the power to 230 hp, which, however,...

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Google Android SDK 0.9 released

The launch of the first ever Google Android phone came one step closer with the release of the new Google Android SDK version 0.9, approval of HTC Dream by FCC and confirmation of the launch of HTC Dream by T-Mobile.Google has recently released the version 0.9 of its Android SDK and also published the Developer Roadmap for rest of this year. This certainly means that things are gearing up for the release of the final version of the Android SDK and the launch of first ever Android device (HTC Dream) by the end of this year. The new version 0.9 comes with a number of bug fixes, a number of new API's, an improved UI and some new features including...

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First beam for Large Hadron Collider

An international collaboration of researchers today sent the first beam of protons zooming at nearly the speed of light around the 17-mile-long underground circular path of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator, located at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland.The researchers also accelerated a second beam of protons through the path in the opposite direction, the goal being head-on collisions of protons that can offer clues to the origin of mass and new forces and particles in the universe. The second beam made one turn around the LHC.Celebrations across the United States and around the world...

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Washable Keyboard - join the scrub-a-dub club

The Washable Keyboard has got to be awesomeness incarnate. No more digging dead McNuggets out from under the spacebar, or wiping old rancid Mountain Dew stains from the numpad, just drop the whole dang thing into the sink and give it a good scrubbing. Lovely. It’s also dishwasher safe, and anti-bacterial, which puts it one step ahead of Windows Vista, eh? £39....

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10 Awesome Flash-Animated Interactive Websites

Ever wanted to draw a song or discover more about how the ancient Egyptians mummified their dead? How about learning about cocaine from Pablo the pooch, who just happens to be a talking doggy drug mule? No? Then what about connecting up the stars to create your own constellation then see it wrap around your screen in ...

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Rugged outdoor tablet netbook computer

Rugged PC makers, Trimble, have just released another go-anywhere PC. The Yuma is an outdoor, high reliability portable tablet PC designed for the more rugged and outdoorsy type jobs or for people who are a little more clumsy than most. The Yuma can survive most types of punishment. It has an ingress protection rating of 67, so it’s pretty much dust and waterproof and it can handle temperatures from -30C to 60C.It’s powered by the ubiquitous Atom processor with the usual 802.11 b/g, USB slots, Bluetooth and the Yuma adds GPS and 2 built-in cameras. The screen is a smaller 7″ model however it runs at 1024 x 600 so you can still see everything....

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All in one electric hub powers up your old bicycle

All in one electric hub powers up your old bicycle The boffins at MIT are working on an all-in-one electric wheel hub called the GreenWheel which when retrofitted to old bicycles converts them to electric power. There are plenty of Chinese electric wheels on the market, but this one goes a stage further by folding all the technology, including batteries, into the single hub, making it easier to install and use. The development prototypes still need to have the wheel spokes rejigged, but they’re working on an alternative so it can become more DIY friendly. What’s more, the single wheel should be able to power the bike for 25 miles, which is...

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Infrared Nighttime Camera

Camouflaged, waterproof, silent and heat sensing, this Infrared Nighttime Camera grabs 3 megapixel stills and/or video and stores them onto an integrated 1 GB SD card. We’re talking 2800 photos or 500+ 10 second video clips. The rechargeable battery lasts for around 14 days and charges up in 2 hours, and the whole thing hooks up to a USB port to allow downloading onto your computer. A great way to capture scavengers, ne’er do wells and the next door neighbour stealing your hubcaps. £219.00. Cameras like this are often used by professionals such as hunters, forestry workers, zoologists etc. There is no shutter noise and no flash to disturb...

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Bayer's Contour USB Meter Empowers Patients

Simple to use, the patient simply insert a test strip into the meter and take their test as usual. The Contour gives the test results on the easy to read color OLED display and logs it for later use. Able to hold up to 2,000 test results, the devices is a great way to track blood glucose patterns which can be a boon to both doctors and patients. Based on Bayer"s CONTOUR system, the meter utilizes the incredibly accurate No Coding technology for results patients can trust. Bayer also added the AutoLog feature that allows users to mark their tests as Before Meal or After Meal for more detailed recor...

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Weather Alarm Clock Photo Frame – triple function combo keeps you dry, happy and on time

The Weather Alarm Clock Photo Frame crams a lot into a mini desktop sized package. You’ve got yourself an indoor outdoor weather temp station thingy, a 16MB digital photo frame and an alarm clock. Wake up, check the weather, remember the wife and pop down for breakfast in the seedy motel dining room. Perfect. £49.95. Weather station, clock and photo frame in one. The first of its type we’ve seen, this neat little gadget combines 3 useful functions to free up space on your desk, worktop or bedside table. * Clock with alarm and indoor temperature/humidity * Weather station with weather icons and temperature trend indicator * 1.8″ digital photo...

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