http://www.readerslab.com Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:33:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en TRADITIONAL ECONOMICS You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies and the economy grows. You retire on the income. INDIAN ECONOMICS You have two cows. You worship them. PAKISTANI ECONOMICS You don't have any cows. You claim that the Indian cows belong to you. You ask the US for financial aid, China for military aid, ... http://www.readerslab.com/2008/06/07/economic/ Apacer announced the latest addition to its proud line of memory storage solution, the Apacer Handy Steno AH225. Apacer's USB 2.0 Flash Drive AH225 trumps the commonplace features found in today's flash drives with an added ability to organize those all-too-often runaway office notes with its magnetic cap - providing ... http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/31/apacers-new-ah225-flash-drive/ Sony today announced its MicroVault™ Click and Click Excellence ranges with both mid-range and high-end device availability. The new MicroVault™ Click line-up offers advanced performance with increased storage capacity, high speed data transfer rates1 and Windows® ReadyBoost™ compatibility; to improve PC memory performance on Windows Vista™ Operating System ... http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/31/sony-launches-new-microvault-click-usb-key-ranges/ HTC today unveiled its latest flagship phone, the HTC Touch Diamond. Boosting a 3D touch interface called TouchFLO 3D in a super slim profile, the Touch Diamond improves where the HTC Dual and Touch left off."Today we mark a new era in mobile phone evolution, an era where beauty ... http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/31/htc-launches-the-htc-touch-diamond/ With small form factor notebooks like the Asus EEE PC getting rave reviews and hype, it's no surprise that almost every other manufacturer and brand is heading that route. After all nothing screams sexy and cool then a small cute little notebook being toted around. So in comes HP with ... http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/31/go-mini-with-hp/ Earth Trek, from Korea, introuduces the 90-805R mini projector which may be the world’s smallest. Measures 105×58x25mm, the Earth Trek 90-805R can display images in 22-inch. It comes with a SD/TransFlash card slot, integrated MP4 player and speaker. It has built-in Lithium battery that offers 1-2 hours of battery life. Source:Akihabaranews http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/31/earth-trek-90-805r-mini-projector/ BestBuy presents the Insignia NS-BRDVD budget-priced blu-ray player, which costs you only $349.99. The Insignia NS-BRDVD supports 1080p Full HD output, Dolby Digital Plus, DTS-HD, and 2 channel Dolby TrueHD. Source:Engadget http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/31/insignia-ns-brdvd-blu-ray-player/ Samsung announced its latest development of the world’s fastst 2.5-inch 256GB Solid State Drive (SSD). The multi-level cell-based SSD uses SATA II interface and offers a 200MBps of read speed and 160MBps of write speed. The new SSD is only 9.5mm thick. “With development of the 256GB SSD, the notebook PC ... http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/31/samsung-developed-fastest-25-inch-256gb-ssd/ Buffalo introduces two external hard drives, the 32GB HD-UME32GS and 64GB SHD-UME64GS. Both of them supports TurboUSB. They measures W57×H14×D89mm and weighs 52g. HD-UME32GS is priced at 21,300 Yen while the SHD-UME64GS at 35,400 Yen. Source:Buffalo http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/31/buffalo-shd-ume32gs-and-shd-ume64gs-external-hdd/ PC Microworks offers the EDGE notebook, which claims to be the world’s most powerful 15.4-inch laptop. The EDGE is poered by Intel’s Montevina Dual and Quad Core processor, up to 4GB of RAM, up to 4TB of hard drive, and nVIDIA Gefore 9800M GTX graphic card. You can also find Blu-ray ... http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/31/pc-microworks-edge-notebook/ Impress Watch has tested MSI’s Wind PC, not Wind Laptop, which is an Intel Atom-based mini notebook. The Wind PC is powered by an Atom 1.33GHz processor, 1GB of RAM and runs Windows Vista. Test result after the break (click to enlarge): Source:MSI http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/31/msi-wind-pc-tested/ This is the SmartQ T5-II, a portable media player that can also do emulation. It comes with 600MHz processor, 5GB of capacity and a 3-inch display. It supports MP3, OGG, WMA, FLAC, APE, AAC, WAV music and AVI, XviD, DivX, MPEG and MP4 video formats. Other than media playback, the SmartQ ... http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/31/smartq-t5-ii-pmp/ Logitech unveiled its Pure-Fi mobile speaker system.  The Pure-Fi system allows users to stream stereo audio through the Pure-Fi Mobile speaker system via Bluetooth connection with A2DP profile. Then Pure-Fi is also a wireless speakerphone. It has two mics, one for picking up vocal nuances and the other for monitoring and ... http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/31/logitech-pure-fi-mobile-bluetooth-speaker/ Samsung SGH-J408 is a 3G clamshell mobile phone that supports GSM 900/1800/1900 and WCDMA 2100 networks. The Samsung J408 features a 1.8-inch 260k color internal display, a monochrome secondary display, a 1.3 Megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, 8MB memory and a microSD card slot. The integrated camera is able to capture ... http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/31/samsung-sgh-j408-3g-clamshell-hands-on-pics/ TrustedReviews has done a review on the Philips DVDR5520H DVD/HDD hybrid recorder. The DVDR5520H has a 250GB internal hard drive and it can also record videos on DVD-RW/-R, DVD+RW/+R and DVD+R(DL). DVD-RAM or DVD-R (DL) are not supported. The device is DivX Ultra certified and supports Dolby Digital and DTS ... http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/31/philips-dvdr5520h-dvdhdd-recorder-reviewed/ Creative has announced its Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series and Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series sound cards. Both of them are PCI Express-based sound cards. Creative has re-developed its X-Fi processor to provide better performance and Dolby Digital encoding has been added. Other than the sound card ... http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/19/creative-sound-blaster-x-fi-titanium-sound-cards/   JVC’s new super-slim LT-42S90 LCD TV features a cabinet that across most of its width measures a mere 39mm in depth, with a maximum thickness of just 74mm at the panel’s centre. This design ensures that from nearly any angle, these models present a super-slim appearance. Complementing the super-slim design ... http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/19/jvc-launches-super-slim-full-hd-lcd-tv-2/   ASUS has released the Z7S WS workstation motherboard. This innovative motherboard is equipped with dual socket 771 and utilizes the latest Intel® 5400 chipset for vigorous performance. It also supports fully buffered DDR2 800MHz dual-channel memory, dual PCI Express 2.0 x16 lanes; and comes in the compact CEB form factor. ... http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/19/asus-releases-their-z7s-ws-motherboard-2/ CXCSimulations presents its new Motion-Pro II Racing Simulator for crazy gamers. The Motion-Pro II comes with 3 46-inch Full HD 1080p LCD displays, a 505-watt 5.1 surround sound system and a full body support fiberglass shell. Source: http://www.itechnews.net/2008/05/18/motion-pro-ii-racing-simulator/ http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/19/motion-pro-ii-racing-simulator/ Fujitsu Siemens is planning to introduces the AMILO GraphicBooster external graphic card in the Europe market. Based on ATI XGP technology, the main purpose of the AMILO GraphicBooster is to allow Fujitsu Siemens AMILO laptop users to upgrade their graphic card easily. Fujitsu mentioned that the GraphicBooster can improve the ... http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/19/fujitsu-amilo-graphicbooster-external-graphics-card/   At the Fujitsu Forum 2008, which is held in Japan, Fujitsu presents the e-paper e-book reader. The e-paper is available in 2 sizes, 8-inch and 12-inch, which weigh around 320-480g. Source: DigiTimes http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/19/fujitsu-e-paper-e-book-reader/ Asus is going to release in 3rd June it latest update to EeePC series, the EeePC 901 that is powered by Intel’s Atom processor. According to DigiTimes, the new Eee PC 901 will only have EeePC logo. It will be launched at a price below NT$20,000 (US$650). Source:http://www.itechnews.net/2008/05/18/asus-eeepc-901-has-atom/ http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/19/asus-eeepc-901-has-atom/ Sony shows the world a prototype of its newly developed micro size fuel-cell system. Measures abut 50×30mm, the micro size box packs fuel cell, Li-polymer secondary battery, control circuit  and other components. The micro fuel cell uses methanol directly as fuel and it is an active fuel-cell system, which controls fuel ... http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/19/sony-micro-hybrid-fuel-cell-system/ Considering that most of us get our music fixes from iPods or other MP3 Players, it is not surprising that we want to take our audio experience into the water. If you are the type that wants your music in the pool, you could invest in something that will keep ... http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/19/ubanana-ucan-waterproof-mp3-player/   As men lumber through their elderly years, often times the game of golf becomes a welcomed getaway into nature. A place to go for sanctuary, away from the nagging wife, and away from money gobbling kids. By the time men reach the “average” golfing age, they have either lost a ... http://www.readerslab.com/2008/05/19/an-autonomous-golf-caddy-that-follows-you-from-hole-to-hole/