Archive for April, 2009

Netbook stand with built-in DVD super-multi drive

If you have a Netbook, and you miss your movies to see or burning data to DVD, there are now solutions from Japan. A Tokyo-based company called Century has a Netbook, which are also known as DVD-Super Multi drive.The Nippon-only device supports DVD±R/+RW (8x), DVD±R DL/-RW (6x), DVD-RAM (5x) and CD-R/-RW (24x). Size at 260×190×19 [...]

PeeWee Portable Netbook For Kids

With a name like PeeWee, you can not expect that these rebadged Intel Classmate PC very child friendly. And you are wrong. Despite the low price this tough nut is ideal for the kids.First indications. It is a Netbook that is a 1.6 GHz Atom processor, which is coupled with a memory [...]

Toshiba projects increased netbook sales in 2009

A Toshiba executive said the company expects that “up to three percentage points growth in Netbook in Europe, the Middle East and Africa this year. The Wall Street Journal reports that Toshiba sees tremendous growth potential for mini-laptops in the developed markets, but expects sales to drop off in emerging markets [...]

Ennova USB Drive Comes Complete With OLED Screen/Fingerprint Scanner

It’s still a little, like from a current release, but it looks like the people on Direct Ennova simply not help themselves from the announcement that they’ve received a patent for a newfangled biometric USB flash drive packs in an integrated OLED screen.
Even better that OLED screen seems really doubled, as [...]

Decorated Acer Aspire One

We’ve seen blinged Netbook before from Japan. But generally I would not touch it with a 17.5 meter pole.
But Japan’s gadget-renowned artist (he paints on gadgets) UFO Hayashi decorated Acer’s Aspire One is actually kind of attractive.
It’s also kind of expensive. It is in this little artwork on eBay with a starting price of $ [...]

Ultraslim Laptop Backpack

Backpacks are great – they keep the big, old laptop from you and distributed, that heavy weight on both shoulders. I know there are some of you to be cool to both shoulder straps of the backpack, but you do not realize the damage you do to your spine? We are talking about scoliosis, here! [...]

LEGO flash drive

You’ve probably seen EagleTec’s Nano flash drive, a gadget that defined “nano” in relation to the size gadget. The iPod nano is not nanoness in comparison to the Nano’s EagleTec. What could be more awesome than a small flash drive? A small Lego flash drive, that’s what. Etsy seller Stefan and [...]

Asus P30A Business Laptop Gets Official

Taiwan’s ASUS on Wednesday launched the 1-inch thick P30A business notebook, first spotted early last month, which is powered by a 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo ULV processor. There are two SO-DIMM sockets that can support 4GB of RAM. The notebook uses a 13.3-inch, 16:9, LED-backlit display with 1366×768 resolution and an anti-glare coating. ASUS opted to [...]

Sharp Mebius netbook comes with two screens

Just before Apple announced the latest line of MacBooks, there was a lot of speculation about what a glass trackpad can bring to the machines. There were pictures of mock MacBooks with a second screen and not as a trackpad, with the second screen of the host bank charges. These rumors have [...]

Toshiba Dynabook UX netbook

NB100 8.9-inch Netbook with 10.1-inch Dynabook UX. The LED backlighting of the screen is bumped up to 10.1 cm, if the native resolution remains unchanged at 1024×600, the Pitch button is now 19mm and comes with a “Chiclete” design that significantly improves the feel.
Besides the much sleek design, but also in the [...]