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a strange toy company put up for sale Shomer-Tec – a device, Sonic Nausea able to deliver the stomach of his victim a few unpleasant moments. It generates a certain combination of ultrasonic waves, which cause adverse reactions in humans. These can be headaches, irritable behavior, sweating, loss of motor coordination, nausea, or even reverse peristalsis (vomiting and simply).

hid such a thing in the house of his neighbor, you once and for all break him hold midnight parties. And in the study of some bureaucrat, this educational gadget’ll bet he has a desire to extort bribes. Ultrasound mode will not allow the victim to identify the source of their troubles. At least, it does not at once. The energy source for the device Sonic Nausea is a standard battery type “crown” on 9 volts, and the pleasure is worth all $29 (batteries not included). By the way, sold, and more powerful version of the device called Super Sonic Nausea, for it would have already put $99.

Materials on the topic:

• Project WuFu help visually impaired to navigate through the ultrasound;
• « Electronic Nose “to the patient’s breathing type of cancer diagnoses;
• Photo of the day:” human “anatomy of the modern gadgets.

Source:

• ohgizmo.com

Managing Director Commodore USA Altman Barry (Barry Altman) portal Engadget reported that the company acquired the rights to the brand Amiga. For those who have recently followed the computer industry, stands to make a small remark. Amiga – a legendary name line of gaming PCs that were very popular in the eighties and early nineties. If you want to – Alienware at that time (of course, the analogy is very rough and conditional).

plan Commodore is the issue of computer performance, working with AROS, which is an open source-version of Amiga OS 3.1. For more detailed information from the famous American company has been received, so just have to wait, looking at the render of an old man Amiga 3000. Or, read the official press release in all its verbosity.

Materials on :

• Commodore release PC64 – greetings from the past with the modern “iron»;
• «Invincible rival ASUS Eee Keyboard of the Commodore;
• Apple endorsed Commodore 64 emulator for iPhone.

Source:

• engadget.com

At the start of the third of September in Berlin, the IFA among many new products will be on display multimedia player Philips GoGear Connect. The network came alive photos of this attractive device, details of which appeared a couple of days ago, the company’s website.

According to the resource Engadget, a new player, running the operating system Andriod 2.1, equipped with a 3.2-inch touch LCD-display with a resolution 480h320 points and 3.2-megapixel camera. It is also reported on the wireless network adapters, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, support for GPS-navigation, a compass, USB port and a slot for memory cards microSD.

player supports playback of audio files with the extension MP3, WMA, AAC, OGG and FLAC, video – WMV, MP4 (MPEG4 and H264 to 720p), AVI (MPEG4 up to 720p ), as well as view images in a format JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF.

To improve the sound in the player uses a technology Philips FullSound. On board the Philips GoGear Connect application is preinstalled Google Mobile App. The player has access to the service of Android Market. When you synchronize with your computer using the function Philips Songbird. Dimensions are 113h59h12 player, 6 mm, weight – 128 grams.

Implementation player Philips GoGear Connect will begin in late October. Recommended retail price model with 16 GB of memory – € 249.

Materials on the topic:

• photos portrait slider Motorola XT300;
• Android-smartphone Motorola DEFY is not afraid of water and dust;
• photo of a thin and light tablet LG Optimus Pad.

Source:

• engadget.com

Microsoft announced that Windows Phone 7 has reached the stage of RTM (final assembly for manufacturers). Works on OS completed, and the company sends it to its partners, so that the latter had time to prepare smart phones and cellular networks to a massive door WP7 market. Devices should appear on the shelves of European stores in October, and in the U.S. – in November.

Microsoft wrote in his blog that the Windows Phone 7 is the most thoroughly tested mobile platform from Microsoft ever presented. The company said that testing was conducted at 10 thousand units for a total of 3.5 million hours of men and 8.5 million hours in automatic mode. The company has worked with hundreds of independent developers, who also took part in the tests and told us excellent feedback.

After assembling «Technical Preview» Microsoft has corrected many errors, improved productivity, sharpened interface, added a number of functions. The company does not disclose details about the new features, reporting only some of them on Facebook. Users can now perform sample Facebook-friends, leaving only those whose contacts are present in the phone will also be able to celebrate your favorite entries in Facebook and to write messages on the wall of Facebook directly from People Hub in WP7.

Microsoft has also made more visible search in the contact list once said that participating in the testing, people rarely take advantage of this opportunity. Interestingly, the phone prototypes do not get the firmware from the final build of the OS. Obviously, there have been some changes in the requirements for the hardware.

Another important step towards entering the market will be the appearance of the final version of the tools software developers for Windows Phone 7, which will be held on September 16. In early October, the company will begin to accept applications for placement of programs in store applications. The first will be approved software manufacturers and mobile operators.

Thus, Microsoft is very little time to check the application and popularization of the store, but now, on reaching the final OS build WP7 team in the coming weeks can focus on partner and third party developers.

Materials on the topic:

• Soft iMac, on where you can sleep;
• Apple will hold a live video from the event on September 1;
• Philips GoGear Connect – rival iPod touch-based Android;
• Apple iPhone 4 & mdash from 22 th September in Russia.

Sources:

• windowsteamblog.com

If you have recently found a thick wad of money and are looking for decent equipment for your home theater system – do not rush to buy first got 3D-TV. It is possible that your choice will fall on the projector as the image source. Especially if it will be so handsome as the new Sony VW90ES.

In a strict black case are hidden opportunities for fun and pleasure for 3D-games and movies in the mode of 1080p. Of course, the ability to view in the classic “flat” mode is also present – but then why did you buy these expensive glasses gate type? On producer price too shy to speak, but when the gadget will be released this November, he obviously will not cost less than last year’s VW85 for $8 thousand

Materials on the topic:

• IFA 2010: Sony shows prototype 3D-laptop;
• Update line of notebooks HP: Envy and Envy 17 3D 14 Beats Edition;
• Razor 3D-TV LEX8 and intriguing OLED-concept from LG;
• Panasonic VIERA 3D – homemade dive in 3D.

Source:

• ubergizmo.com

Following the announcement of the tablet Samsung Galaxy Tab, today, a day before the opening of the exhibition IFA 2010, was submitted to another tablet, based on the platform of Android. It should be noted that confirmed rumors of a new name plate company Toshiba – the device actually changed its name prior to the official name SmartPad Folio 100. Of taste, of course, do not argue, but for some reason it seems that it is not the best choice.

Features tablet Folio 100 include 10.1 “touch screen with a resolution capacitive 1024h600 (WSVGA) points, and technology to support Multi- Touch, NVIDIA Tegra platform 2 and the operating system Android 2.2.

continue listing modem 3G, wireless network adapters Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n, 16 GB of internal memory plus a slot for memory cards SD (up to 32 GB) and MMC. On board there are also plug HDMI, port USB 2.0, 3,5-mm audio jack, 1.3-megapixel webcam, as well as software that includes the Opera Mobile browser that supports Flash 10.1, Toshiba Media Player, FBReader, Fring (for video calls), Documents To Go and Evernote.

Unfortunately, the battery plate without recharging the battery capacity of 1020 mAh is only 7 hours (for a mixed-use: 65% – web search, 10% – video, 25% – in standby mode). Size of the tablet are 281 x 181 x 14 mm, weight – 760 grams. The set includes a docking station.

in sale tablet Toshiba Folio 100 will go in the fourth quarter of this year at $505.

Materials on the topic:

• “Navitel Navigator” for the Android-enabled interface “multitouch”;
• Sony Ericsson announced A8i for China Mobile;
• Announcement T -Mobile G2 is close: the official images.

Source:

• engadget.com

Range manufactured by EVGA motherboards for Intel X58 Express chipset with ICH10R southbridge has expanded ATX-new product called the EVGA X58 SLI3 (code 131-GT-E767-TR), which initially supports high-speed interface USB 3.0 and SATA III (in the arsenal there are two ports of each type).

This platform is built using high quality solid capacitor design and equipped with the original design for passive cooling system, consisting of three separate iron radiators of different sizes. It is equipped with power system, made according to the formula 6 +2 phase, and is designed for Intel’s Core i7 family for Socket LGA1366. In this case the product provides such useful for the overclockers gadgets like the button Clear CMOS, Power and Reset, special contact pads EVGA EZ Voltage to measure the stress function EVGA VDroop Control and EVGA Dummy OC, as well as branded utility EVGA E-LEET to facilitate the dispersal system.

As for the other technical characteristics of the model, they are as follows:

• Six 240-pin DIMM-slots to accommodate up to 24 GB three-channel DDR3 memory with a frequency of 1600 + MHz;
• three PCI Express x16 support configurations NVIDIA 2-Way/3-Way SLI and ATI CrossFireX, two PCI Express x1 slot and one PCI;
• One IDE-connector;
• Six SATA II ports with an opportunity for RAID-arrays levels 0/1/0 +1/5;
• Audio Codec, which provides output 7.1-channel audio HD Audio;
• Gigabit Ethernet controller;
• placed on the rear panel PS/2 port, RJ-45, eight USB 2.0 ports and six standard audio connectors.

Buy EVGA X58 SLI3 through the company online store manufacturer can already Now priced at $200.

Materials on:

• Official Release dvuhrazemnoy board EVGA Classified SR-2,
• fee ASRock X58 Extreme6: six USB 3.0 ports, and SATA III;
• GIGABYTE GA-X58-USB3 – new fee on Intel X58 with support for USB 3.0.

Source:

• EVGA

remarkably many are now talking about stereoscopic technology. Once this had to happen. The appearance of the tablet, requiring special glasses, held.

While companies like Sharp are promoting the technology of obtaining 3D-effect without the use of special glasses, the Korean company has released i-Station 7-inch 3D-Z3D tablet with a screen resolution of 800×480, completed with polarizing glasses. The solution is based on OS-based Google Android 2.1, supports Wi-Fi 802.11g, Bluetooth 2.0, FM-radio, DMB-TV, has capacious battery 5000 mAh and 32 GB or 64 GB of internal flash memory (depending on model). The inventive ability to play high-definition 1080p.

for mobile devices with such a small screen sizes special glasses, perhaps, quite useless. Nevertheless, the decision looks pretty attractive, and without this feature. Exit him in Korea is scheduled for November for about $500.

Materials on the topic:

• Android-smartphone Motorola DEFY is not afraid of water and dust;
• photo of a thin and light tablet LG Optimus Pad;
• Competitors iPad ready to fight for the recognition of consumers;
• Tablet Toshiba Folio 100 present at the IFA 2010?.

Source:

• engadget.com

distinctive feature of creative people – the ability to simply and elegantly to do ordinary things unique and beautiful. Photographer Chelis Joey (Joey Celis) from San Francisco has demonstrated a stunning example of this thesis. He covered the back of your iPhone sticker depicting… the front of the camera body of the legendary Leica M9.

Unfortunately, This is very interesting thing will not be sold in stores – Joey made a sticker in one instance, just for yourself. Perhaps this will spur others on similar experiments. In the end, it came out very much even good! And how would you have decorated the back cover of your device?

Materials on the topic:

• thin film protector for iPhone 4 of S-view;
• Apple iPhone 4 – to 22 – September in Russia;
• adapter for two SIM-cards for iPhone 4.

Source:

• likecool.com

Sony Press Conference at the Berlin exhibition distressed owners of the PlayStation 3. Exit automatic update, which adds support for 3D Blu-Ray, moved from September to next month.

course, this is only one month, but for those who have so long been waiting for this, even such a short time will stretch tripled. In the meantime, you can take your brand new 3D-TV other things. For example, connect it to one of the new Samsung media player with support for three-dimensional technology.

Materials on the topic:

• New Mortal Kombat returns to the roots;
• Fresh details on multiplayer Crysis 2;
• To install Gran Turismo 5 to release the 10 GB.

Source:

• ubergizmo.com