Tag archive: Toshiba

With the Excite X10, Toshiba is trying to have it all. The company claims that the Excite is the “world's thinnest” 10.1-inch tablet, but it also wants to be the most accessible. No, not from a pricing standpoint (this will be two or three times the price of the Kindle Fire); we're talking about ports here. Below are my first impressions of Toshiba's only new tablet announced at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. Thin… Read More

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) begins on Monday and the leaks are pouring in. The latest: a translated Japanese Toshiba press release claims that the company will release a 10.1-inch tablet that is both the “thinnest” and “lightest” in the world. Not impressed? The manufacturer also claims it will have the “world's thinnest and lightest” 13.3-inch laptop PC. The tablet will be waterproof and… Read More

Unveiled back in September, the 7-inch version of Toshiba's Thrive Android tablet is now available at retailers in 16GB and 32GB editions. Although Toshiba's 10-inch Thrive tablet has been on the market since summer — and generally been criticized for a hefty build — the 7-inch slims down the unit's form factor and weight (down to half an inch thick and 0.8 pounds) without compromising on features. The 7-inch version of the… Read More

As predicted, the price of hard drives has soared a staggering 180 percent, in some cases, due to widespread, long-term flooding in Thailand. According to computer engineer Marc Bevand, who has observed the soaring price tags, 1TB drives have experienced the most notable jump. The literal breaking point, writes Bevand on his blog, Zorinaq, came after the flood waters seeped into the Bang Pa-In Industrial Park, the Navanakorn Industrial Park and… Read More

There are a few truisms in the technology world, and one of them is that storage always gets faster and cheaper. Over the long term, that will undoubtedly stay true, but in the near and medium term traditional hard drive storage is facing a major problem: Record flooding in Thailand. The deluge has forced Western Digital and Toshiba to shut down their hard drive manufacturing facilities in Pathum Thani province, near Bangkok, and hard drive… Read More

Announced earlier today, Nvidia revealed the second generation of its 3D Vision wireless glasses kit. Compared to the previous model, the 3D Vision 2 glasses have 20 percent large lenses allowing for a wider viewing area. In addition, the new version of the glasses offer a higher color fidelity due to a more efficient design when it comes to blocking out external light. The previous version was designed from hard, black plastic that would dig… Read More

The withdrawal by some companies from the tablet market, together with reports of others struggling with sales of their own slates, evidently hasn’t deterred other electronics firms from entering the fray and having a go with their own similar devices. At the CEATEC electronics show being held near Tokyo this week, Toshiba unveiled a tablet which it hopes might draw Japanese consumers away from the current market dominator, Apple’s iPad.… Read More

Toshiba announced today a new addition to its line of all-in-one PCs, the DX735. As was the case for previous all-in-one Toshiba PCs, the company is billing the device as more than just a desktop computer – it's a “complete entertainment hub.” Adding weight to the entertainment hub description is a variety of audio and video capabilities. The fully multi-touch screen of the DX735 measures a respectable 23-inches and can display full 1080p… Read More

Discussed in a presentation at the IFA show in Berlin, Toshiba is diving headfirst in glasses-free technology with a 55-inch flat-panel high definition television. The Toshiba 55LZ2 doesn't require any glasses to view images in 3D and sends separate images into each eye using a technology called “lenticular lenslets”. In order to accommodate multiple viewers (up to nine), the television uses head-tracking technology to… Read More

Just as the rumors predicted, Toshiba has officially announced its next-generation Android tablet, the AT200, which the company boasts is the “world's thinnest, lightest” tablet PC. The AT200, which will purportedly be called the Excite in the US, was unveiled today the IFA conference in Berlin, Germany. And from what we've seen so far, this impressive-looking device could stand as the next major competitor in the… Read More