Below is a Top-10 gadgets last week in the view of the resource Cnet News.
1. 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.
Japan’s JVC will launch new flat-panel LCD TVs in the U.S. this year that it says are the world’s thinnest, the company said today on the eve of the International Consumer Electronics Show here.The 42-inch and 46-inch models are just 1.5 inches thick across most of the back of the panel — which is significantly thinner than most flat-panel TVs on the market today — but are just under 3 inches at the panel’s center, the company said. Both offer high-definition resolution and will hit the U.S. market in “early summer,” with pricing to be announced at that time, JVC said.
Thin Is In
After several years of developing sets with ever-bigger screen sizes, the flat-panel TV industry appears poised to focus on the thickness of sets and several companies, including JVC, Hitachi and Sharp, all recently showed prototype TV sets that were around 1.1 inches thick.
JVC managed to thin down its TV by using a new backlight unit — the light source that sits behind the LCD panel in the set — that is 40 percent thinner than those used on its current TVs. It also developed a new power-supply that is both thinner and more efficient so overall power consumption of the new TVs has also been cut to 145 watts.
The same techniques are being pursued by JVC’s competitors and both Sharp and Hitachi are expected to show their thin-LCD TV prototype sets at CES, which officially kicks off on Monday. Read the rest of this entry »
LG.Philips LCD is planning to unveil a 52-inch multi-touch LCD (liquid crystal display) at next week’s Consumer Electronics Show, it said Monday. The screen is 5-inches larger than one it recently showed in Japan and is the largest display of its type in the world, the company said.
Multi-touch screens differ from conventional touchpanels because they allow input from more than one spot on the screen so, for example, an image can be manipulated from opposite corners. Probably the most famous current example of the technology is the display on Apple’s hit iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Read the rest of this entry »
1. Car Ford Focus SES 2008
2. Razer Lycosa keyboard
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