This last weekend I finally broke down and bought a Wii to keep my Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and various other technology toys company. At the end of the day as I cradled my now-worn-out right arm, the irony of the fact that the two game systems which most likely belong in someone’s bedroom were focused on family room content while the one game system that belonged in a family room didn’t do any of the multimedia stuff the other two do.
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Mini-box.com Rolls Out Low Cost Car PC
We’ve often felt that while modern digital technology adds real value to our existence and compliments our collective lifestyles, one thing that’s been missing has been a way to make annoying commuting time more productive. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to watch digital movies or slide shows—or just catch up on email or debug that pesky PHP script—in our car?
In-car PCs haven’t been in the realm of science fiction for several years now, but Mini-box.com wants to make the idea more practical and more affordable than ever with its new VoomPC-2 low-power, low-cost in-car mini PC system.
Go Big Screen with the DLO HomeDock Deluxe
Digital Lifestyle Outfitters—a.k.a. DLO—have announced their HomeDock Deluxe for iPod, the second generation of their A/V dock for Apple’s portable media players designed to let users pump their iPod audio and video to their home music and televisions systems.
“Instead of linking back to your computer, HomeDock Deluxe accesses the files stored right on your iPod—so you can easily take it with you and reconnect to any TV or stereo system,” said DLO Creative Director Andrew Green.
PC MicroWorks Vega Offers Dual SLI Graphics
If the Falcon Northwest FragBook TLX wasn’t enough to get your juices flowing, PC MicroWorks would like you to consider their new Vega Super Notebook. PC MicroWorks claims to offer the fastest consumer systems in the world, and the Vega looks to be their big for the ultimate desktop replacement system, sporting an AMD Dual Core Turion TL-60 X2 processor, up to 600 GB of storage, support for 4 GB of memory, and a massive 20.1-inch LCD display with dual SLI Nvidia 7950GTX X-treme GPUs with a up to a gig of video RAM. And did we mention the optional Blu-ray burner?
TuneView iPod Remote Sports LCD Screen
Peripheral and accessories maker Keyspan has announced its new TuneView for iPod, a combination iPod docking station and wireless remote which enable users to connect their iPod to a stereo or television and manage it from afar with a wireless remote. Nothing much new there—except the TuneView remove offers a 1.4-inch LCD display which lets users manage their iPod content using the familiar iPod interface.
“TuneView is unique. It’s unlike any iPod remote that you’ve used before,” said Mike Ridenhour, Keyspan’s president, in a statement. “TuneView features a color LCD screen that lets you remotely view the contents of your iPod and control playback—allowing you to manage the iPod as if it were in your hands.”
Acer Brings Ferrari Notebook To U.S.
The Ferrari 3400 from Acer is an elegant, slim and lightweight chassis in grey and Ferrari red encases the most advanced technology available for today’s mobile users. Acer’s newest notebook is a full-featured, thin and light notebook with a brilliant, 200nit 15″ SXGA+ (1400 x 1050) TFT display, 512MB of DDR333 SDRAM upgradeable to 2GB system memory and an ATI(R) MOBILITY RADEON(TM) 9700 graphics card with 128MB DDR video memory. In addition to wireless 802.11g, the Ferrari 3400 offers four USB 2.0 ports, a FireWire (IEEE 1394) port, FIR (fast infrared), Giga LAN connection, 56K V.92 modem, S-video output and Bluetooth support.
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