Archive for April 29th, 2008

iPod building block speakers keep your dock connector company

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio Too busy to bother with external speakers for your iPod? Still can't shake that fascination with colored blocks after all these decades? Take heart, young buck, as the iPod building block speakers can keep that kid in you alive for a good bit longer -- though ...

Windows XP SP3 now available

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsAttention XP'ers -- your wildest fantasies are coming to fruition. Word on the street is that Service Pack 3 is now available for download all over the World Wide Web. When we say "all over" what we really mean is via Windows Update and the Microsoft Download ...

Manodo’s screen gives apartment dwellers the 411

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Filed under: Household Those looking for another good reason to set up camp in Sweden have just found it. Okay, so maybe Manodo's oh-so-informative display isn't that astonishing, but it certainly gives a select few apartment residents in the country access to an enviable amount of information. Reportedly, the screen is ...

Verbatim’s new SmartDisk HDD is so small we could just eat it up

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Filed under: Storage Because history has proven that hard drives must get smaller and more capacious, Verbatim went and released the 500GB 2.5-inch SmartDisk HDD. Despite claims from others, Verbatim says this marks the first available 9.5mm Z-height 2.5-inch hard disk. The drive is made up of three 166GB platters striped ...

Samsung intros ’smallest ever’ color laser printers

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Filed under: Peripherals We don't normally get too excited about printers, but when a company claims to have introduced the "smallest ever" of anything, our ears prick up. Apparently, the Korean electronics-maker has distilled color laser printers into their purest, tiniest form with the CLP-315K and CLX-3175FNK, clocking in at 20- ...

Sharp intros RD-CX310 electronic dictionary / PMP

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Filed under: Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video It seems like Sharp likes to make its electronic dictionary upgrades a yearly occurrence, with the company now trotting out its new RD-CX310 model, a nearly right on time follow-up to its not-very-dissimilar RD-CX300 device. Among the upgrades this time around are a roomier ...