Icron Extreme USB
December 14, 2008
How long is your USB cable? The USB standard says that it should be no longer than five feet long, but the ExtremeUSB setup from Icron is able to reach a phenomenal 25 miles in length. Now that’s pretty lengthy by any means, imagine working from home using this setup while remaining connected to the computer at your office! The whole idea of this would be for governments to run secure connections to distant cameras, and the setup doesn’t really use USB. Instead, you will need to purchase plenty of boxes that will convert the USB signal to or from a proprietary signal, sending it over the wire/air/powerline. There is no word on pricing, but it ought to arrive at OEMs’ doorsteps sometime early next year.
SageTV HD Theater internet-enabled media streamer
December 14, 2008
SageTV have unveiled the HD Theater, a relatively low-cost high-definition media streamer that puts content stored on your home network, or streamed across the internet, onto your HDTV. As well as supporting UPnP streaming content from a computer or NAS, the SageTV also recognizes local storage via its two USB 2.0 ports. Install SageTV Media Center on a PC and you have a full DVR.
Other notable features in SageTV HD Theater include:
- Search for any content from USB, home network or Internet video.
- Works with flash or hard disk drive USB storage as well as UPnP, Windows and Mac compatible NAS or network storage.
- Access current weather and forecast with a touch of a remote button.
- Works with virtually any non-DRM video, music or photo format.
The SageTV HD Theater is available now, priced at $199.95.
ASUS 16:9 VH-series LCDs
December 14, 2008
Another batch of 16:9 LCD-panel monitors reveled today. Asus has announced a family of four monitors ranged from 18-5” to 23.6-inch with increasingly popular 16:9 widescreen panel that maximizing production efficiency, but crop out chuck of resolution compare to a 16:10 panel. All four piano-black models are capable of boasting 300 cd/ms2 luminance brightness, and are designed to deliver deep black movies playback and ultimate gaming experiences thanks to its aggressive dynamic contrast feature and ultra fast panel response rate.
Though restrained with its narrow view angles of 160/170 (TN panel), Asus VH series LCDs are good candidates for multimedia display. It’s said to equip with Asus’s exclusive Splendid Video Intelligence technology (dynamic color and contrast control) and manage to deliver stellar performance despite its green power designs.
Thanko MP4 Multimedia Watch
December 14, 2008
Made by Thanko, the MP4 watch sits comfortably on your wrist, and like the title suggest, it plays all your mp4 video files and more. An mp4 watch should come as no surprise since they’ve been around or mostly in concept, but this watch caught my eye because of its design. The Thanko MP4 watch has a 4 X 4 cm screen with excellent resolution and the most impressive spec is the 2gb of internal storage capacity. The 2gb storage should come in handy for those graduation videos that you value and the excursion videos we love to brag about.
For all you music lovers it also stores and plays mp3s. Additional features include voice memos, which are saved in mp3 format, so it’s excellent for listing to your music files and important audio. If someone ever doubts you just say you have it on video or on audio and they will deny it. Then, flip your wrist and play your music or video file as proof. The MP4 watch is also compatible with pictures files so you can store and view your photos and did I mention the most important function; it displays the time. There are two version of Thanko’s MP4 watch, the 1gb for $189.00 and the 2gb for $249.00 Does an alarm clock function matter when you have a multimedia viewer on your wrist? I don’t think so.
Price: 1gb $189 and 2gb $249
Flower Rock 2.0 Rocks
December 13, 2008
It’s back and better than ever! The Flower Rock 2.0 (made in collaboration with Sanyo) celebrates the 20th anniversary of the original Flower Rock, but with much more modern technology behind it. Integrating multicolored LED lights into the leaves and petals, Flower Rock 2.0 can flash seven separate lighting patterns with 50 different colors! Plug it in to your iPod or other audio source, and the flower will bump and flash to the music through its 1W 40mm speaker.
Flower Rock 2.0 features:
• Size: 12x27x10cm (4.7×10.6×4”)
• Mini stereo plug
• Power: AA battery x 4
• Seven LED patterns
• 50 color combinations
• Manual: Japanese