When you purchase an LCD monitor. You should look at these stuffs for best performance and quality:
Response time - lower the number, the better.
Supports DVI and VGA.
The bigger the resolution, the better.
Look for LCD’s with 120Hz+ because thats the best right now. The higher the number, the clearer the video. For pictures comparision between 60Hz and 120Hz LCD Monitor, click here.
Contract ratio - (x:1) The higher the x number is the better.
A few days ago, maybe about 4 or 5 days, the iPhone was selling for over $1,500. I did not catch the hard drive capacity of the phone, but still even with the 8GB it cost about half as much as $1,500. Don’t worry that is not the retail price, but due to the limited stock of it people are willing to put out that much money for one. What can people say, they are addicted to brand names with unique features. It won’t be too long when imitators starts to come out. I will be getting one of those instead of the iPhone. I’m not a brand name kind of person.
I found this while looking up for unusual technologies. There are keyboards are there made of light. With this keyboard you will not need to worry about getting a duster to blow dust and weird matters out of your keyboards. Just turn it off every time you are not using it.
Well everyone fancy tech comes with a fancy price. This keyboard made of light cost around $179 USD. Maybe when I’m rich I will get one, but for now I’m sticking with the old fashion keyboards. Check out the virtual laser keyboard in action.
Doesn’t work like it should some time, That is the beauty if having someone demo it.
Here is a list of what you can use the Virtual Laser Keyboard on:
# Personal Digital Assistants (PDA’s)
# Cellular Telephones
# Laptops
# Tablet PCs
# Space saving Computers
# Clean Rooms
# Industrial Environments
# Test Equipment
# Sterile and Medical Environments
# Transport (Air, Rail, Automotive)
Today, Yahoo published an article on something interesting. In Japan, there is a technology that allows a person to send signals to electronic devices and then be mapped into something that device could understand. Hitachi is developing and researching with this device that does not need to implant anything into the human body, but rather measures brain waves.
Photo of Hitachi, Ltd. researcher Akiko Obata
In the demonstration, they use the problem solving part of the brain to make the train move. For example, when you are doing math problems or solving a problem, it will activate the train to go forward. When a person stops solving, the train will stop. This new technology is pretty interesting and fun for Hitachi. More research will need to be done. This demo is probably done so that department in Hitachi could get more funding. Currently the helmet is only capable of doing simple task. More complicated specific instructions may work in the future.
iPhone has no physical buttons that you can actually press, but the screen is an all in one. This is similar to Microsoft New Coffee Table, but it is a compact size. Every command you give to the iPhone is done by touching your fingers on the screen. It has a very user friendly interface, that without even looking at the instructions manual, people would still be able to figure out how to use it. Its kind of like using your fingers as a mouse where you just point and click. See it in action in the demo below.
It allows you to obviously make phone calls. It is also an iPod too where you can watch your movies and listen to your musics. It also have a picture viewer where you can use the fingers to zoom in and zoom out. When you pull two fingers away from each other, it would zoom in. To zoom out, you just move the two fingers closer together. It also has 2.0 MP camera, which takes very nice quality pictures. I have a w810i phone with a 2 MP camera on it and the picture is great. They only thing I don’t like about this phone is it is too big. This phone will be release June 20, 2007.
Microsoft has recently unveiled their new revolutionary computing system, which is a touch screen coffee table. This new technology will change the way people organize pictures going online, picture editing, video editing, wireless transfer of multimedia, etc. Below is a video demo of Microsoft’s touch screen coffee table that is available to hotels and big companies for $10,000+. I am actually looking forward to seeing one of these in the mall, hotel, coffee shop, and other high traffic areas. Just one to test it out and draw some pictures using my fingers and drag around pictures.
This technology looks fun to use and it may probably be available to consumers hopefully in the future.
Like big companies, they all have hot swappable drives to protect their data in case of hard drive defect. If one hard drive is broken or becomes corrupted, all they need to do is replace a new hard drive. I have experience with a few defect hard drives, which cost me to lose a lot of valuable data. I lost all my pass school work that are done from Freshman year of college to Junior year of college. There were a few occasion where it would be nice to reference my past work, but due to the hard drive defect and lost of data I could not check my work for referencing. I also had a few gigabyte of high quality wallpaper, which took years of online surfing of acquiring. It was all lost when the hard drive became defect. Well, all these can be prevented with an smart external enclosure, where you can put in four hard drives.
It is called the Drobo, which obviously came from data robot. What it does is it will auto format any SATA hard drive you put in and back up your data into it. So if you put four 500GB hard drives, it would probably display 1TB. This is actually an external enclosure so you can take the data to wherever you want to. It is so easy, all you need to do is buy internal SATA hard drives and stick it in the Drobo. It will then do the rest by auto formatting. So whenever an increase in size of hard drives becomes available you can swap out the smaller size hard drive with a larger size and nothing will be affected except that the size of your external enclosure hard drive becomes bigger. This would be great to have, but for the cost of protecting your data is pretty big because this thing costs around $500. “Good lord, that’s a lot of money.”
See below to watch the video demo of the Drobo in action.
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