Beo Vision 8 by Bang and Olufsen (LCD HDTV)

Bang and Olufsen showed its 32-inch LCD HDTV at the CES 2008, particularly for the US market. The design very well and carefully made so that you can easily place it on a stand, either on a TV bench, or on just the floor, just anywhere in your house, as its designer David Lewis says: “...a television designed to be used instead of being switched off in the living room for most of the day”. So use it the way you like.
For this high-def TV the entry-level price is starts at $3950, which is quite cheap then the rest of other LCD HDTV in its class.

Most of the flat screen TV produces a flat sound, but its designer David Lewis created the Orchestra Pit feature, so that sound can move forward and up like in a real orchestra. There is a bass cabinet in the front of the screen fitted with bass speakers down facing, which provides a good experience while watching movies and just listening to music. In addition, the two front units specially meant for the reproduction of the human voice, so you can hear each word as clear as it possibly recorded.

This LCD HDTV Beo Vision 8 will soon be available in all Bang and Olufsen showrooms by coming February 2008 for the said price that is $3950.

Technical specifications

Designer: David Lewis
Dimensions (w x h x d): 72 x 44 x 22 cm + stand
Weight: 16.4 kg approx
Cabinet finish: Black/Silver
Remote control: Beo4 included
Power consumption: Typical 125 watt/stand-by 0.5 watts
HD-ready supports - 720p, 1080i
LCD: 32-inch16:9 TFT LCD (Glare surface with low reflection coating)
Resolution: 1366 x 768
Screen brightness: 500 cd/m2
Contrast ratio (center of screen):Typical 1200:1
Response time: Typical 6 msec.
Viewing angle: 178 ° both horizontal and vertical
Menu languages: English, Danish, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Swedish
IR control output: Built-in – supports two STB's or other external units (IR-blaster included)

Samsung introduced SGF-F490

Today at the end of CES 2008 Samsung surprised the crowd by introducing its latest Samsung SGF-F490. It has a 16:9 wide finger touch screen. Screen measures 3.2-inch with 262k colors; design seems similar to its Prada phone. The phone supports full screen browsing in landscape and portrait mode, it has a 5 Mega-pixel camera, 130Mb of internal storage facility with micro SD slot for storage expansion, also supports the standard 3.5mm audio jack, provides faster data connection on the road with the help of HSDPA network support. The camera can record over QVGA mode with 15fps, and can playback at VGA mode with 30fps video.
In addition, features integrated Google search, Samsung's Croix user interface, and A2DP for Bluetooth stereo support.

The Samsung SGH-F490 measures 115mm x 53.5mm x 11.8mm (4.5" x 2.1 x .5") in size and weighs 102g (3.6oz). It supports GSM/EDGE connections on the 900, 1800, and 1900MHz bands, and UMTS/HSDPA networks that use the 2100MHz band.

The phone will be available in selected European markets by the February this year, later will get available to the Asian and American markets, and price expected to be around at 530 Euro.

Iomega Zip Drive is back as Rev

Remember in 90's, there were Zip Drives considered cool, as they can hold a lot more data then normal floppy disks. Soon the CD-R comes in with huge storage facility and Zip is gone.
Now Iomega is taking Zip Drives back in market, but they going to call it Rev, it is a HDD split in half - the head and mechanisms are in the reader, and in each removable cartridge is just a platter, which holds 70GB.
These disks are quite well durable as the person at CES 2008 demo, constantly slamming it on the table showing they have proud on its durability. Therefore, you can easily carry them in either your pocket and in laptop carry bags, and that too without worrying about any damage.
There is no exact idea about its price and availability.

150-inch World's largest plasma HDTV

Every year all the gadget lovers wait for the CES in Las Vegas, and the reason is that the companies show-off their latest gadgets in technology, and what is about to come very soon. This year most peoples attention is towards the Panasonic's world's largest Plasma HDTV. They going to break last years record which was taken by the Sharp's LCD TV and that was for 108 inch. Infact earlier in 2006, Panasonic had the same record for plasma HDTV and that one was measured 103 inch. So its like a revenge is taken back. This new 150 inch plasma HDTV is bigger by 47 inch diagonally as compare to the last model and will be the world largest. This is developed by Matsushita Electric Development Co. The display is 2 meter by 3.5 meter, known to be enough for displaying a full scale adult. The pricing for this world's biggest plasma screen is not disclosed yet, but we all know that, its going to be as hugely expensive as its size is. This 150 inch plasma HDTV may hit the stores in 2009.

SSD (Solid State Drive)

Toshiba announced the launch of its new 128GB SSD (Solid State Drive) in Japan, and it is expected to be in the market by the Q1 (first quarter) of the 2008. While on the other hand Super Talent has already launched its 3.5 inch 256GB SSD in USA. But if you are going to see CES 2008 then you can easily have a look at these. Toshiba will be offering both SATA-2 SSD as well as SATA-2 drives in 1.8" and 2.5" form factors in 32 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB storage capacities. The maximum read speed of the SSD products is rated at 100 MB/s, the maximum write speed is 40MB/s with a SATA-2 interface. The operating life of the drive could be near about estimated at 1,000,000 hours.

Toshiba said that SSDs are able to remove NAND flash produced in 56 nm technology and can be integrate an original MLC controller that can support fast speeds, parallel data transfers and wear leveling, and can achieve performance levels that can be comparable to those of single level NAND flash SSDs. The multi level cells was key to achieve a density of 128 GB, the firm noted.