Wireless TV AMD, Intel competition is developing Widi

Intel promises Widi connection between the laptop and the TV wirelessly. We tested it last week with better results. This is where AMD has its place and in the future will bring to market AMD Wireless TV. Under the original name hides a technology with a similar idea to Widi, if not the same: to provide a wireless connection between a laptop and a TV-quality user adjustable (hopefully HD).

For now it seems the idea is to implement the Wireless TV on computers that use AMD Fusion and not as a second screen, if not in specific functions such as viewing a movie or view a PowerPoint style presentation. The key to this kind of development is to start with a good base of compatible devices and as cheap as possible, which for now does not comply with Widi, requiring an adapter of some 100 euros.

A fan without vanes

Soon will the long-awaited summer days. Much heat is coming and we must be prepared to cope, but as we like! That is why today we bring you Tech News Buzz rethinking the technology that is very particular. This is nothing less than a fan, but with the particularity of this and it has blades. How does it work then? 'll Find out in this note! This is the Dyson Air Multiplier, and has revolutionized the world of fans.

connect your computers iTwin

Has reached a new device to connect two computers to quickly and easily, without cables that hinder its operation. One of the gadgets that are most surprised by its functionality is among us: the iTwin. A dual-input USB key that you will use to extract information and transmit it directly from one computer to another without any intermediary.

One of the big news is that its use is not necessary to install any software or accessories, just deberáis have the USB connected to your computer. But not only useful for transmitting information from one to another, both being connected. But what can you do between ordenadors that are far apart, anywhere in the world.

Sony MRW-F3, card reader for your TV

Sony has been removed from the sleeve a new range of memory card readers quite compact and with the peculiarity that, in selected Bravia models, allowing the playback of videos and photos. This would be ideal if the reader actually granted the player to the TV feature, but I have to wake up and say that the card does not work miracles and is only a convenient and compact to bring content directly to a USB port on any TV.

Silicon Valley? There is no field Secrets of U.S. mobile network

NEW YORK - As a summit between the President of the world's superpower and the "masters of the cyber-universe" could be better. Barack Obama and top Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have been humiliated by the flop of their phones. There is a "yellow" after the dinner with the president and the leaders of Google, Facebook, Apple on Thursday night, because none of them said something about Twitter? Usually these events come from the mini-real-time signals, bits of gossip, or some philosophical meditation.

TDK Soundcube, sound everywhere

TDK has released this month of February a new personal speaker is fairly compact but able to emit sound in all directions. It does this with two six-inch speakers and two passive radiators to generate 360-degree audio total power of 20 W. The TDK SoundCube allows us to control the equalizer with a rotary knob on one side of the cube.

The sound may come from the FM radio or sources to be connected to the input of 3.5 mm or 6.35 mm auxiliary. Both can be used at the same time as a DJ mix home. We also find in their design a USB port. The design is shaped like a cube, with a padded handle in imitation leather comfortably carry equipment back and forth, then we can use it with batteries or connected to the mains.

Low-tech: 8-bit pixelated the Web browser

Surfing the Internet like a C64 or Amiga 500: The "Pixelfari" current sites in the blocky look of shows 20 years ago. The browser replaces vector fonts by pixel fonts and screws the resolution of images down - just for fun. A modern smartphone can display on its display 960 x 640 pixels - enough for a razor-sharp images and readable text.

It is not so long ago, there were far less generous resolutions even with home computers already quite good. Back when computers were clunky and gray-beige, 320 × 200 pixels were considered state of the art. The speech is 500 of the eighties, the era of 8-bit home computer from computers like the Commodore 64 and Amiga The software developer Neven Morgan with the help of a friend of the Mac browser Safari now converted to a time machine: your free "Pixelfari" can be use as a conventional browser - but it pixelated the Web.

iPhone 4 wins at home to Android: Picture of the Week

MWC 2011, as well as to show us the tablets and phones this year, served each year to appoint the best mobile phone of the previous year. And this time the winner has been one that is never at the fair: the iPhone 4. In it the judges highlighted the finish, design, display, and very importantly, its ecosystem.

IPhone rivals to 4 were not far from negligible, and among them were giants like S Galaxy, HTC Torch Desire or BB 9800. The other major award, Best manufacturer, has been HTC, which had a couple of years providing the best end of the market. Surely for Samsung next year will to win. So, in the middle week of MWC 2011, the iPhone 4, a phone that was present as such, has won at home for Android and our Image of the Week.

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Underwater filming in HD with Panasonic

Technology news still coming from Japan, always premised on the novelty and surprise among their products. This time the news about the new Panasonic digital camcorders, perhaps in their performance and design can be compared with any other style and generation, but there is something that unlike any seen before: they can shoot in Full HD to below water.

Panasonic has officially launched two models of camcorders, the HM-TA20 Panasonic and Panasonic HX WA10. These two models give you the chance to shoot up even three meters underwater, high-definition video. But that's not all, since they are also highly resistant to almost all the extremes to which they are exposed.