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Top-10 Weeks Gadgets

Below is a Top-10 gadgets last week in the view of the resource Cnet News.

car-ford-focus-ses-2008.jpg1. Car Ford Focus SES 2008
Editors Rating: 8.1
(+): The newest progressive system Automobile Ford Sync System makes available on the Focus SES 2008, one of the most difficult performed to-date media and communications interface. Also impressive, and fuel flow rate while driving on the highway.
(-): The interior of the new Focus ordinaren fairly, and his stereo inconvenient and a bit difficult to manage.
(=): With the pre-set options in the standard system Sync System, fully updated Ford Focus SES is one of the highest technological relations / price ratio among existing at the moment of cars.

2. Razer Lycosa keyboard
Editors Rating: 7.7

(+): The small size, powerful software is easy and convenient to gather text; antiskolzyaschy good contact with the surface of the table.
(-): Only a spare USB port; faded, and unregulated LED backlight.
(=): Playing keyboard Razer Lycosa quite promising, mainly thanks to its sustainability, a handy set of text, and a powerful macro abilities. It is a pity that Razer has not paid more attention to the LED backlight, but gamers and users, printers blind method love Lycosa once touch to it.

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Panasonic Monster TV

If there is one word to describe the annual Consumer Electronics Show, it is “big.” Big convention center, big numbers of vendors, big crowds, big hotel bills, even big blisters. But every year, there’s at least one company that gives a whole new meaning to the word “big.”

This year’s winner is electronics manufacturer Panasonic, which opened the show by pulling the curtain back on the world’s biggest television set — a 150-inch monster dubbed “The Life Screen” that dwarfed the stunned showgoers standing in front of it.

“Screens like these are technology statements,” said Eric Haruki, research director for TV markets at IDC. “Panasonic wants to maintain its position as a global leader in the plasma screen industry, and this is a high-profile way to demonstrate their technological skill and manufacturing ability. Read the rest of this entry »

Panasonic unveils world’s largest TV

A 150-inch high-definiton plasma TV unveiled by Panasonic is the world’s largest to date, the Japanese consumer electronics company claimed Monday at the International Consumer Electronics Show.

The plasma panel features an 8.84 million pixel image resolution. Its screen is the equivalent of nine 50-inch sets, with an effective viewing area of 11 feet, the company said. It’s a step up from Panasonic’s 103-inch version, which cost $70,000 when it launched. The company did not say in a news release how much the 150-inch panel will cost.

Panasonic’s other prototypes introduced at CES include a 42-inch panel that uses half the energy but stays as bright as its predecessor, and an ultra-thin 50-inch panel that is less an inch thick, the company said.

Both plasma and LCD TVs have been selling well in the U.S. as consumers are switching out their old tube sets so they can watch high-definition TV and movies.
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