OPTOMA PICO PROJECTOR

Saturday, March 21, 2009

It is a whole new product category. About the size of a cell phone weighing just 4.2 ounces. In the centre of the short end of this tiny black box, there's a very bright light-emitting-diode lamp. Inside, there's a miniaturised digital-light-processing (DLP) chip, similar to the ones that drive some HDTV sets. Together, they produce an astonishingly bright, clear, vivid video or still image. It can also run on battery power.

The minimum distance for this projector is eight inches from your "screen"; the maximum is 8.5 feet away, at which point you sit this little gizmo on your airplane tray table and project onto the seat back in front of you. Or you can lie in bed and point it straight up to see a movie playing on the ceiling. The 20,000-hour bulb is not replaceable. It also comes with a special composite cable.

But the Pico's true mission is connecting to fellow micro-gadgets: digital cameras, cell phones and iPhones. The necessary adapter for the iPhone comes with the projector.

PRICE APPROX. $430 (as on 15th December 2008 ).

WORLD'S THINNEST LAPTOP BY APPLE

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

The new MacBook Air was announced by Steve Jobs of Apple at MacWorld. The MacBook Air is now the world's thinnest notebook' and sure the be the hottest laptop of 2008.

The laptop features a very smooth design, hidden ports, backlit keyboard (sexy but useless) and it's small and light weighing in at 3 pounds. In fact, the size is bout 13 inches wide by 9 inched deep.
Eco lovers will be happy that the MacBook Air uses mercury and arsenic-free glass and less packaging.

SPECIFICATIONS

• .16 X .75-inch thickness on top
  


• 12.8 X 8.94 inches
  


• 3 pounds



• 5 hours of battery life with everything running



• Intel Core 2 Duo Processor at 1.6 or 1.8GHz, motherboard the length of a pencil.



• 800MHz frontside bus.



• 2GB RAM 667MHz DDR2 standard.



• 13.3-inch screen, LED backlit.



• 1,280 X 800 pixels



• Micro-DVI adapter (for DVI, VGA, composite and S-Video output)



• Intel GMA X3100 Graphics processor with 144MB RAM shared



• 1.8-inch 80GB HD or 64 GB Solid State Drive (no moving pieces, but for a stunning $1,300 price increase )



• Multitouch trackpad with gestures. Pans, zooms, rotates, etc.



• 802.11n and Bluetooth 2.1.



• Optional external HD for $99, USB-bus powered.



• Full backlit keyboard.



• One USB 2.0, one audio port, one Micro-DVI

MacBook Air is ultrathin, ultraportable, and ultra unlike anything else. But you don't lose inches and pounds overnight. It's the result of rethinking conventions. Of multiple wreless innovations. And of breakthrough design. With MacBook Air, mobile computing suddenly has a new standard.

PRICE APPROX. $1,799.