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Esquire Magazine is planning to be the original magazine ever to use ELECTRONIC PAPER ON ITS COVER. Funded partly by advertiser Ford, and working with with E Ink Corporation (the folks who prepare the screen for the Amazon Kindle), Esquire will create a cover where words and pictures scroll. On the inside cover, the electronic paper will be utilized for a full-motion ad pitching the Ford Flex Crossover. Some are complaining that the use of electronic paper — often touted as a “green” technology — is super wasteful when utilized for a disposal product like a magazine (especially when utilized to advertise a gas-guzzling SUV). It’s not transparent how they’re going to handle the battery issue. The issue hits newsstands in September.

Japan’s Geisha Tokyo Entertainment detailed a product named “Dennoh Figure ARis,” or Cyber Figure Alice, that will hit stores in the fall. Here’s how it works. You plug an included “cube” and an included “stick” into your PC and run the software. An interactive 3D “maid” seems on screen standing on superior of a software representation of the cube. By using the “stick,” you can impact what happens to the on-screen maid — for example, she reacts (presumably with horror) at the touch, and can even be undressed. (The product uses your webcam to figure out location.) Bloggers are calling it “augmented reality,” but it’s the contrary of that. With augmented reality, the true world is augmented with something virtual. In this, the virtual world is affected by something real. In other words, it’s just software for lonely nerds with a CREEPY POINTING DEVICE to go with it.

An advisor to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown missing his BlackBerry while in Republic of china on an official visit with the prime minister. Was it a Chinese government “honeytrap”? The unnamed advisor was seduced by a Chinese woman who approached him in a disco in Shanghai. He went back to her apartment… yada, yada, yada… next daybreak his BlackBerry was gone. Some speculate that Chinese government spies stole the gadget as part of its Thousand Grains of Sand approach to stealing the secrets of other countries. 10 Downing Street states security wasn’t compromised. But that is just the latest instance of a UK government official losing a mobile device packed with secrets. According to a recent report, the UK Ministry of Defense has missing 747 laptops and 131 memory sticks since 2004 and the government as a whole has missing more than 1,500 laptops. Why can’t the UK government HANG ON TO ITS MOBILE tech gadgets?

A survey by Direct Line insurance conducted on behalf of the Mirror found that a little 300,000 accidents in the UK have been caused by RELIANCE ON GPS, 1.5 million have “suddenly veered dangerously or illegally in engaged traffic,” while slavishly obeying the orders of their GPS devices, and a whopping 5 million have been sent the incorrect way down one-way streets.

Buffalo has detailed the release of outside as well as internal 8x Blu-ray burners for Japanese market. The internal Buffalo 8x Blu-ray burner BR-816FBS and outside BR-816SU2 (USB2.0 & External SerialATA), are based on Panasonic SW-5584 BD burner. Both Buffalo 8x Blu-ray burners support 8x recording for single layer Blu-ray recordable discs (BD-R) and 2x for double layer BD-R, BD-RE and LTH BD-R media.

Buffalo outside BR-816SU2 8x Blu-ray burner with 8MB buffer memory, measures 50×164x281 mm, weighs 1.8 kg and will be obtainable in Tokyo & Japan by early August for about 44,500 yen ($416). The Buffalo internal BR-816FBS 8x Blu-ray burner with 8MB buffer memory, measures 146 × 41.1 × 190mm weighs 900g and will be obtainable in black and white colors for about 39,100 yen ($366) by early August

Thanko known for innovative products has released a Keyboard with built in fan to keep your nerves cool. Using the key board for a lengthy time particularly during humid summer makes your palms sweat. If you are using the Thanko keyboard with built in fan, just switch on the switch located on the front of keyboard for cool strong blow of air. The built in three fans blows out strong cool air so as the sweaty palms receive dried quite fast.

The Thanko Cooler Universal Serial Bus (USB) keyboard degree 51 x 22 x 3.5 cm and is obtainable in Tokyo & Japan for about 6,650 yen ($62).

WD detailed yesterday the WD VelociRaptor 10,000 RPM enterprise SATA tough drives in an enterprise-class 2.5-inch form factor for blade servers and 1U and 2U rack servers. The newest WD VelociRaptor tough drive is built for business-critical applications with enterprise-class mechanics and packs up to 300 GB of capacity into the enterprise little form factor bays, while consuming 35 percent less power than the previous-generation WD Raptor drive. The new 2.5-inch WD VelociRaptor drive is the only drive obtainable that can offer server users the flexibility of integrating SATA technology while benefiting from server-class performance and reliability.

WD VelociRaptor 2.5-inch 300GB SATA Hard Drive can hold up to 85,700 digital photos, 75,000 songs (MP3), 130 hrs of DVD quality video and 36 hrs of HD video. WD VelociRaptor 2.5-inch tough drives are designed and manufactured to enterprise-class standards to supply high reliability in high duty cycle environments, resulting in the highest obtainable reliability rating of any SATA drive at 1.4 million hrs MTBF.

Ichikoh Industries, Tokyo & Tokyo & Japan showcased a white LED-based adaptive front lighting system (AFS) that can control the light angles of the right and left headlamps independently. The new Ichikoh headlamp is composed of two constant units and one swivel unit. Each of the constant units and the swivel unit is loaded with a white LED. The constant units are projector type and the swivel unit is rotated by a stepper motor. The white LED loaded on each unit has four LED chips. The swivel unit lights up the area ahead of a vehicle by reflecting the light created from the white LED twice. The headlamp has a total luminous flux of 12,000lm, which is equivalent to that of a HID lamp. The luminance efficiency of the LED is approximately 100lm/W.

The new headlamp permits adjustments of flux distribution, responding to steering conditions such as straight lane driving, curve steering and highway driving, as well as weather conditions. During heavy rain, the visibility of guardrails and side strips will be improved by directing the beams toward the shoulder.
The AFS was exhibited at AT International 2008, which took place from July 23 to 25, 2008, at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.

Kingston is shipping its popular DataTraveler 400 with MigoSync software and DataTraveler 100 in 16GB capacities. Also, Kingston has launched the DT101, a drive featuring security software and obtainable in bold, fashionable colors. The DT400 with MigoSync provides customers the freedom to work on multiple PCs. Data such as emails and Internet browser settings are stored on the drive, thus allowing customers to recreate their desktop on practically any PC. When the drive is connected to the “host” machine, MigoSync software spontaneously synchronizes to keep information up-to-date.

Built with simplicity in mind, the DT100 can hold large amounts of information in a little form factor with capacities amidst 2- and 16GB. There is no cap to lose as the thumb-action slider controls the retractable Universal Serial Bus (USB) connection for safe housing and ease of use. As the latest addition to Kingston’s family of Universal Serial Bus (USB) Flash drives, the DT101 sports vibrant colors (cyan, pink and yellow), a swivel design and capacities up to 8GB.

GeForce 9800 GTX+ Hydra Pack from Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) meets the requirement of performance-hungry gamers. With two N9800GTX+-512MX-W graphics cards, ECS Hydra Cooling System, and plenty of accessories bundled in a package, unprecedented gaming performance is now obtainable via the power of multi-GPUs. Supporting NVIDIA PhysX as well as NVIDIA CUDA technology, ECS N9800GTX+-512MX-W supplys amazing performance of physics simulation in games and unbelievable acceleration for applications such as video and sound encoding, oil and gas exploration, product design, medical imaging, and scientific research.

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For platforms that support NVIDIA SLI technology, ECS GeForce 9800 GTX+ Hydra Pack which has two graphics cards in the package is meant to be the excellent selection that supplys satisfaction and delight for gamers.

Taipei, Taiwan, July, 2008 – With innovative products that span multiple target markets, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), the world’s main motherboard, graphics card, barebone system, and notebook manufacturer, reveals the latest GeForce 9800 GTX+ Hydra Pack to encounter the requirement from performance-hungry gamers. With two N9800GTX+-512MX-W graphics cards, ECS Hydra Cooling System, and plenty of accessories bundled in a package, unprecedented gaming performance is now obtainable via the power of multi-GPUs.

The N9800GTX+-512MX-W graphics card comes with 512 MB GDDR3 memory and a 256-bit memory interface, and 738 MHz core and 2200 MHz memory clock speed. With its compelling 128 processor cores, the N9800GTX+-512MX-W graphics card convinced the gaming desire without any compromise of the graphics performance. Targeting at the enthusiastic gamers, ECS GeForce 9800GTX+ Hydra Pack offers a brilliant answer with delight and fun. For more details on that exciting Hydra Pack, contact your local ECS sales channel now.