Whether you’re wowed by the iPad or not you can’t deny that it will sell – loads.
UK company, X2, can obviously see the potential as well as hearing what a lot of comments have cited as the iPad’s short-comings. They’ve even named it the iTablet!
X2 says “the iTablet will revolutionise the way that Windows users can access and use data on the move”.
You get the option of a 10.2 inch widescreen TFT or 12.1 inch widescreen XGA, 1024 x 768 resolution touchscreens (multi-touch is listed as “optional”).
Specs include 1.6GHz Intel processors, up to 250GB hard drives, built-in stereo speakers, three USB ports, Bluetooth, a 1.3 megapixel webcam and optional HDMI output.
It will connect to the web using Wi-Fi, though X2 has opted for the 802.11b/g standard, which is slower than the 802.11n standard used by the iPad. As with the Apple iPad, there is optional 3G connectivity too.
Robin Daunter, technical director of X2 Computing said: “The iTablet is extremely powerful with a vast array of features and data storage capacity and, what is more, it uses the well-received Microsoft Windows 7 operating system making it a more compelling proposition for users wishing to share data with their existing Windows-based systems and networks.”
There’s even a range of finishes including solid and metallic colours.
No word on pricing just yet but the iTablets should be hitting the streets in April.
It has 24 frets and a large multifunctional touchscreen which hooks-up to the appropriate software on your pc.
It is an advanced type of MIDI controller that is powered by a 500MHz AMD Geode CPU and runs Linux under the hood – you don’t need Linux to use the guitar though.
The Linux firmware code is open source, which allows programmers to modify it to their liking.
While MIDI controllers and guitar-emulating synthesizers are nothing new to the music world you have to admit that the Misa does look rather more special than a short keyboard with dials and knobs.
I am obsessed with digital guitar. But I also love electric guitar, and I have learned what it’s good at and what it’s capable of. Some of its most important qualities and characteristics stem from the very fact that the electric guitar is made out of wood and strings. A guitar string is “beautiful” – because the sound generated comes from the very vibration of the string, interfering with a magnetic flux and inducing an electric voltage, which is then amplified. Why would you want to emulate that? It is perfection. It is pure nature. It is in the analog domain. I did not intend the Misa digital guitar to replicate a traditional guitar.
For those that want to stay hip with the latest fashions Lenovo bring you the IdeaPad U1.
Everyone seems to be talking about tablets and/or netbooks – Boom! The IdeaPad U1 is both!
You can use it as an Intel Core Duo SU processored Windows 7 netbook who’s spec includes 4GB of RAM, 2 USB ports, HDMI [...]
Else is an Israeli company that has designs on the European and British smartphone markets.
They’ve taken quite the novel approach with the First Else which they’ve started from scratch with a Linux-based user interface with some equally novel innovations.
You get a honeycomb-shaped options menu which is accessed by a button along the side of [...]
I use Google Chrome as my default browser pretty much these days along with Firefox but this nearly slipped past me.
Chrome OS is now available for download albeit in beta.
Here’s the official announcement:
New Chrome OS 0.4.223 beta is available now!
Chrome OS is a brand new free operating system built around the revolutionary Google Chrome browser.
The [...]
I think Google’s Chrome browser is pretty good – I now tend to use it instead of Firefox, and that’s a big step for me!!
But they’re not resting on their shiny laurels, oh no!
Google are now stroking their collective chins and figuring out another way to take Microsoft’s profit away – they’ve decided an all-new [...]
This is Sheevaplug.
No, it’s not some hippy power-sipping appliance lover but a computer in a plug!
Dreamed up by Californian-based Marvell and it has everything you need in a computer – cpu, memory, network connectivity and USB ports.
More specifically, it’s packing a 1.2GHz CPU, 512MB of flash memory and 512MB of RAM, along with a gigbit ethernet [...]
Hillcrest Labs has released what at first glance appears to be some funky geek jewellery but is infact the Loop controller.
The Loop controller is a Freespace mouse which is apparently aimed at those with some sort of Home Theatre PC (HTPC) setup.
The bangle is stylishly displaying four buttons and a scroll wheel and sports [...]
How cute are these little fellas?
These clever RoboCars will be used by researchers to experiment with autonomous vehicle systems.
Each little bot is kitted out with a stack of sensors and clever tech including the likes of CCD stereo cameras, image recognition sensors, accelerometers, proximity sensors and Wi-Fi.
“We have received orders for nearly 100 units, [...]
Garmin-Asus have just confirmed that their Android mobile will be making its debut by ‘Q1 2010′ – and there’s word that it could even arrive earlier than that!
The Garmin-Asus buddies have been keeping us guessing over its Android-based phone plans.
The Garmin-Asus G60 was originally rumoured to be running a varient of Android until the team confirmed that [...]
It has been reported that there’s more than 30 products lined up that will be packing Qualcomm’s next-generation Snapdragon chipset.
Qualcomm claims the 3G chipset, which incorporates graphics capabilities as well as a CPU, will enable low-power, always-on devices – these hybrid laptop-cum-smart-phone thingies Qualcomm has named ‘smartbooks‘.
Snapdragon will enable mini laptop style devices – with [...]
Ok techy turntablists!
This one goes out to you!
This is the new EKS Otus turntable and it’s probably the best fully customisable DJ turntable…… in the world.
Nope – it’s not made by Heineken!
You get fully remapable knobs, buttons, and touch-sensitive sliders.
The smoked glass surface and feet can be switched for a customised configuration and the corners [...]
MSI have announced a new internet device called, of all things, MSI Winki.
Stop that sniggering!
I would say that we’d get used to the name but, lets face it, playing with someone’s Wii still cracks a smile.
MSI says that the Winki is a new internet interactive device without an operating system.
The Winki seems to be based on the good [...]
The lightweight Linux variant Splashtop that’s pre-installed on some Asus motherboards is bounding over like a playful puppy to a range of Asus notebooks, providing instant-on functions like wireless, web browsing, Skype, etc. Good boy!
Since the software runs from the RAM there’s no need for the full OS to boot up - this also means that it saves that all [...]
If you cast your minds back to Shuttle’s Foresight Linux-based KPC; well now there’s another little box of beauty.
The XPC G5 6801M has the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ processor, 2GB of DDR2 RAM, a 320GB hard drive, LG’s GGC-H20L Blu-ray/HD DVD combo drive, ATI’s 256MB HD 3450 graphics card, a DVB-T tuner, 25-in-1 multicard reader and [...]
This is possibly the smallest Linux UMPC that I’ve seen. It is apparently no bigger than an iPod nano and goes by the name of LimePC M1.
The LimePC UMPC runs LimeOS, which is based on Linux (MorphOS). The Korean press-release says it is based on Debian Linux, full screen HTML based user interface and Web 2.0 applications.
Although the details [...]
The Linutop is small. Very, very small. In fact, the silver box actually measures just 9.3 x 2.7 x 15cm. It runs a customised version of xubuntu Linux and, although tiny, it could quite easily take over your desk-top puters everyday tasks- not bad for something that makes a Mac-Mini look cumbersome.
For [...]
Meet Tux Droid, a Linux only critter similar to the Nabaztag (but not as cute in my opinion). It is of course wireless fed (2.4GHz), text to speech enabled and programmable. It flaps, reads your email to you, tells the time, streams Internet radio, is a motion sensing alarm, provides VoIP phone services and generally does everything [...]
Following on from their $200US Linux desk top puter; Taiwanese maker Everex are planning to release a $300US notebook in 2008.
You will be able to choose from 12 inch to 17 inch screen sizes and they’ll all run the same gOS (Google OS) based on the Ubuntu Linux distribution.
“The company said that this edition [...]
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