Archive for December, 2009

A Chinese leak has reported to the internet that Motorola is preparing an uber-thin Android smartphone. The phone is being referred to as two different names “Shadow” and “Mirage”. The phone will reportedly be just a third of an inch thick and will be capable of 1080p HD video.

The Team Group is showing off a new flash drive, the X092 that features both eSATA and a USB 2.0 connection, giving you a choice of a conventional USB port or the new, superfast, eSATA port. Yesterday, we covered a similar device from A-DATA. This could be a coming trend [...]

Acer had added another new, cheap, Pine Trail netbook to the market, adding to the already plentiful selection of netbooks for consumers. The new Acer Aspire 532h is Acer’s first entry into the Pine Trail market place (while some like Samsung already have three Pine Trail netbooks out).

Whatever you do, don’t call them netbooks. Sony has re-introduced their line of Vaio TT CULV notebooks. They were discontinued earlier this year after Sony faced increasing competition in the CULV market. Unlike the increasing selection of bland netbooks, these Vaio TT notebooks actually have some processing power under the hood.

The Owen E1 is just the latest in eBook readers we’ve seen pouring out of China. Unlike some of them, the Owen E1 is actually decent looking. It features some attractive dull black plastic and a 6-inch E Ink screen, a display size similar to the Kindle.

Brickhouse Security, a website that sells security and tracking equipment (like “Teen Trackers”, lock pick kits and “sex kits”) has begun selling a small ID card that actually contains a camcorder and can let you discreetly record conversations. Brickhouse claims that the Spy ID Card Camera uses the thinnest digital [...]

Communications giant AT&T wants to get rid of landlines. The phone empire sent a 32-page filing to the American FCC, asking that regulations that make it support an analog landline phone network be phased out, allowing them to go entirely with VOIP-provided phone service. This could be troublesome for the [...]

Netbooks sold incredibly well last year, with their low price point and the world-wide recession and the tech communities’ excitement over Intel’s new Pine Trail generation of Atom processors has gotten all of the netbook manufacturers releasing new netbooks that carry the Pine Trial chips.

Innergie has shown off the mCube Mini, a small cube-shaped white little aircraft/auto notebook charger. Innergie is claiming it’s the world’s smallest. The mCube Mini can be powered by either a 12V or 15V outlet from a car or passenger seat of a commerical airliner.

A new flash drive, the N002, from A-DATA features both eSATA and USB 3.0 ports on, covering you in both new data transfer ports. This is just the first in a ton of USB 3.0 gear that is starting to come out, even though there aren’t any Intel USB 3.0 [...]