Wednesday, January 12, 2011

The TDK ST-800 headphones give you the control you

Although the general public is not known for their personal sound systems, TDK has in its catalog a pair of headphones interesting. One of them, and put on sale officially these days, is called TDK ST-800, in addition to a good finish, with the extra built-in equalizer to keep the user has the bass and treble at your fingertips immediately.

Equalizer that allows the user to adjust the frequency curve according to your tastes is integrated into the cable and the size of a matchbox, you should take this into account. It includes a screen for the equalizer, and that space is also used to integrate the power button. The rise and fall of sound has been left to one of the helmets, turning it lets you control the volume of what we're playing.

Because PS3 Jailbreak: Sony Playstation moves against hackers

Console players revere him, Sony-manager rather not: The Hacker George Hotz, the iPhone, the iPad cracked and finally the Playstation 3. Now he gets in trouble with Sony's legal department. Which he wants to force a court to remove all information about the playstation Hack from the web. U.S. hacker using the pseudonym is geohot anger inside.

Because he has developed software that deal with the security barrier in the Sony Playstation 3 and other software can be installed on the game console, the Japanese group is now threatening with legal consequences. The company's lawyers have filed an application before a California court for a preliminary injunction against the 21-year, four members of the hacker group fail0verflow and 100 unknown.

Mibuk Life, brand new electronic book year

Wolder did not want to wait too long since we've opened the year to introduce its new electronic book reader. It goes on sale Jan. 24 at a price of 170 euros. The miBuk Life uses an electronic ink display Vizplex Class A, a guarantee of good visibility with 16 levels of gray. Design (186 × 122 × 9.5 mm and weighing 228 grams) treats the use of physical controls on one side, although we see a huge amount because it has opted for a simple interface with almost all functions accessible from these controls.

Packard Bell EasyNote S Series notebooks for all public

Packard Bell has announced the arrival in this part of the notebook series Packard Bell EasyNote S Series, a large family of fairly conventional laptop, but affordable for the general public. S Series consists of models Packard Bell EasyNote NS, TS and LS whose main difference is the diagonal of 14, 15.6 and 17.3 inches respectively.

Although Packard Bell has not been very explicit with the specifications, we do know that the platform based on Intel Core 2 second-generation with LED backlit LCD screens, and up to 8GB of RAM. Configuration, as usual, is highly customizable in terms of power and we want to pay the final price.

Ground will create energy with LED lights

Technology continues to be part of the change that the planet is experiencing and that society seeks to contribute towards the environment. This time, the novelty in this area comes from France, more specifically from the city of Toulouse, where they plan to light the streets with nothing less than walking in the footsteps of passersby.

If it is something that has already been experienced, a nightclub in Rotterdam uses this system to illuminate your dance floor, is the first time would be implemented on a massive scale. The aim of this new lighting system is to reduce lighting costs and in turn, use the energy released by people walking by reusing the absorbed through the streets.

Chrome leaves the H.264 format videos »

Chrome, the Google browser will leave in two months to support the H.264 codec, a proprietary compression format for video on the web. The company announced in its blog that it has decided to support the solutions proposed by WebM and Theora, which are open source. Google argues that "although H.264 plays an important role in the video, our goal is to enable open innovation." A commentary on Twitter stresses that this militancy in open source is not complete because Chrome supports Flash (which supports H.264).

Sony calls in the U.S. to close the sites accused of pirating PlayStation

Sony has asked a California court to close the sites and failOverflow Geohot to it accuses of piracy to take advantage of a security breach of the PlayStation 3. This morning, both only offer information on demand. failOvverflow explains that his goal was to install another operating system and encouraged not to pirate games or published methods or decryption key.

The multinational accuses the defendants of violating the digital copyright Sony. The lawyers are also seeking to seize the defendants' computers that may contain tools to circumvent or crack their security. Sony accuses Geohot holder to benefit from income through a Paypal account of the violation.

HP dm1z, the evolution of the ultraportable with AMD Fusion

Another interesting notebooks under the AMD Fusion platform is the HP dm1z. We have to consider an ultraportable, since both their physical characteristics (11.6 inches and 1.60 kilograms) and its hardware (AMD GPUAMD E-350 with integrated 6310) fits the model of small equipment and restrained power.

Thus, HP has that processor dm1z 'Grass' E-350 AMD, dual core and 1.6 GHz AMD introduced a few days, and as you probably know that brings the novelty of being an APU (Accelerated Processing Units) in which dedicated CPU and GPU have been developed on the same chip. We also have 2 GB of DDR3 memory, 250 GB disk and VGA video outputs and HDMI.

Yahoo! working on an alternative to Google on TV

Internet companies are interested in use the television platform. Google has proposed a system that combines Web browsing with the viewing of programs on TV. But Google TV hits the rejection of the major broadcasters are no clear business model and they fear cannibalization by Google for their content.

Yahoo! prepares a proposal that may seem more friendly. This is an application platform that would recognize the program you're watching and offer information or services. Presenter also serve to advertising. This is an interactive extension of Yahoo TV Connect currently about five million equipped monitors.

Casio watch with Bluetooth 4.0 connectivity

I present a prototype of Casio watch shown in the past CES 2011 of which we had spent devote a story, and that is if more advanced mobile phones go playing with Bluetooth 3.0, the clock does the Japanese and the fourth Bluetooth specification. BLE has particular connectivity (Bluetooth Low Energy), one of the options within the Bluetooth specification 4.0, which is characterized by using the lowest possible consumption in the short-range connections.