Archive for April, 2008

300 GB Western Digital VelociRaptor HDD

Posted by Anton on April 22nd, 2008

Western Digital did it again with the next generation Raptor hard disk drives – the VelociRaptor, 10,000 rpm, 2.5-inch, 300 GB SATA Hard Drive that are actually about 35 percent faster and twice the capacity of the previous performance king – the 150 GB Raptor X drive.
The new WD VelociRaptor hard drives are designed [...]

Myka the BitTorrent Aduio/Video TV Player

Posted by Anton on April 7th, 2008

Myka is a new internet video player with built-in BitTorrent client for direct downloading of the multimedia files on the device. Video and audio files are downloaded from the internet on to Myka’s internal hard drive and after that these files can be played back directly to a television. Myka is controlled by a handy [...]

Laptop ExpressCard to USB Adapter

Posted by Anton on April 6th, 2008

Now that is something that is usually hard to find and a bit expensive, but it might be very handy at times. If you have an old laptop that uses the older PCMCIA (CardBus) standard for extension cards you might be out of luck if you have to insert a new ExpressCard device for some [...]

Hand Cranked Eco-friendly MP3 Player

Posted by Anton on April 6th, 2008

This a bit strange looking Japanese MP3 player may not win a design award, but that is beside the point, because it has a different idea behind it. This time the guys from Thanko turned up with a MP3 player that can be recharged with hand cranking if you don’t have a PC with a [...]

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