Acer Iconia




 H διπλή οθόνη φορητού υπολογιστή της Acer, Iconia είναι τολμηρή  γιατί αντικαταστεί   το  φυσικό πληκτρολόγιο με μια δεύτερη οθόνη αφής.Δυστυχώς όμως το  LCD πάνελ της είναι πολύ γυαλιστερό.π.χ.όταν υπάρχει φώς από πάνω σας τότε η οθόνη θα γυαλίζει με αποτέλεσμα να υπάρχει χαμηλή ορατότητα
 Η οθόνη είναι διαυγής και η λειτουργία αφής αρκετά έξυπνη ( αγκίζοντας  με πέντε δάχτυλα την οθόνη ανοίγει ένα widget, όπου μπορείτε να μετακινηθείτε σε άλλα apps με υποστήριξη αφής ).
 Το πληκτρολόγιο αφής, από την άλλη πλευρά, είναι αρκετά δύσκολο στη χρήση.


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Nvidia's GeForce 400M Series Roids Up Notebook Graphics of All Classes

Nvidia gave us a taste of what its Fermi-based notebook graphics cards would be like with the GeForce GTX 480M, but now it's time to meet the whole family. That's seven Fermi GPUs, running the gamut from face-melting to face-singeing.

What makes these graphics special? It all comes back to Fermi, which was built to support those juicy DirectX 11 graphics you're so excited about. But maybe more importantly, they're coming at a time when Nvidia's Optimus graphics-switching technology has been picked up in broadly. That means that solid graphics aren't going to automatically destroy your battery. At least, not quite as fast.

Nvidia's promising 40x better performance than the previous generation of GeForce—though that's based on a mystery amalgamation of a number of different benchmarks and internal tests—and the new lineup will support CUDA, 3D Vision, and PhysX. The real competitor isn't old Nvidia GPUs, though. It's Intel's integrated solution, which according to Nvidia handles game play and photo retouching 5x slower than the new GeForce hotness.

At the low end of the spectrum is the GeForce GT 415M, featuring 48 processor cores, and up to 512Mb memory. You can expect to pay about a $50 premium for it versus rig with integrated graphics. The top-end GeForce GTX 470M, by contrast, comes loaded with 288 cores, up to 1Gb memory, and 1.25 GHz memory clock. No benchmarks are available yet, but we're expecting plenty of pep when Nvidia's PC partners—basically everyone except HP—start announcing their fall line-up.

Hands on the Nexus Two by Samsung

The Nexus Two is real. It's made by Samsung

It's black and shiny, built with glossy plastic. Up close, though, it's "got this curve to it." While the screen, which our source thinks is the same 4-inch AMOLED affair from the Galaxy series, is flat, the front is "sort of concave" with hard edges. And the back is curved. The tapering makes it feel thinner than Galaxy S, though it might be about the same thickness. "It feels really similar to the Galaxy S in a lot ways." (Note: Our mockup is very approximate.)

Externally, the main difference from all of the current Galaxy S variants in the US is that it's got a front-facing camera, and it's running a stock build of Android that was still "really buggy." (Update: Forgot about the Epic 4G, which has a front camera.) Our source wasn't sure if the internals were any different. Google's supposedly trying to build video chat into Gingerbread, using the same protocol as Google Talk. So it makes sense that the flagship phone for the next year—the one that most Googlers will probably be developing on—comes with a front-facing camera, even if video chat doesn't quite make it into Gingerbread.

At first blush, it's a little disappointing that Google possibly isn't pushing things forward in the same way they did with the Nexus One, since it seems like the Nexus Two is a refreshed Galaxy phone. On the other hand, it says a lot that the Android ecosystem is so stocked with high-powered phones, from the Evo to the Droid X, that even Google won't radically jump ahead of its partners with a new flagship. Hopefully their plan for selling it is a little better.

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You know the feeling. Call it a senior moment, absent-mindedness or a sign of what a busy active brain you have. We’ve all asked ourselves that irritating question: “Where on earth did I leave my car keys?”

Now a team of Japanese scientists claim to have come up with the answer. And the secretive artificial intelligence project codenamed Smart Goggle does not stop at elusive keys. With Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s invention balanced on your nose, nothing – be it the remote control, mobile phone or iPod – should ever go missing again.

Simply tell the glasses what you are looking for and it will play into your eye a video of the last few seconds you saw that item.

Built on to the glasses is a tiny camera which makes a constant record of everything the wearer sees: the tiny display inside the glasses identifies what is being scanned and a small readout instantly announces what the computer thinks the object probably is. For some things that look different from a range of angles, however, the glasses offer only a “best guess” – they are better at identifying a guitar and a chair than a coathanger or battery.

The hardware itself is not extraordinary: what has taken Professor Kuniyoshi several years to perfect is the computer algorithm that allows the goggles to know immediately what they are seeing. It is, he says, a problem that has always vexed the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence.

But working in a team with Tatsuya Harada, one of Japan’s masters of the science of “fuzzy logic”, Mr Kuniyoshi believes he has cracked the problem. Behind the goggles is possibly the world’s most advanced object recognition software and a computer that can learn the identity of new objects within seconds.

So if the user wanders round the house for about an hour telling the goggles the name of everything from that coathanger to the kitchen sink, they will remember. Then if, at some point in the future, you ask them where you last saw a particular item, they will play the appropriate footage.

Professor Kuniyoshi has even greater ambitions for his software, ambitions that owe a lot to the visual display of the Terminator of science fiction. He describes his goggles as the ultimate connection between the real world and the cyber world and believes that they could eventually be loaded with vast quantities of data from the internet.

With that database installed, the glasses might actually know much more about what the wearer is seeing than the wearer himself – species of animal, technical specifications of vehicles and electronics, or even the identity of people. In a demonstration, the professor showed how the user might, for example, gaze at a selection of unknown flowers and the glasses would say which were begonias, which were ferns and which were pansies.

Although the experimental model, shown exclusively to The Times yesterday, is still too bulky for daily use, the team at the Tokyo University School of Information Science and Technology are confident that it can soon be miniaturised. It could even, they suggest, be small enough to look little different from a normal pair of glasses.

But unfortunately, of course, there is one irritating question they would not be able to answer: “Now where did I put my glasses?”

Διέρρευσε στην δημοσιότητα το Playstation Phone

Φωτογραφίες από τη φημολογούμενο PSP Phone δημοσιεύτηκαν στο διαδίκτυο. Μπορεί να είναι αληθινό;

Τον Αύγουστο, το blog τεχνολογίας Engadget αναφέρθηκε για πρώτη φορά ότι ένα PSP Phone ήταν στα σκαριά, και τώρα φαίνεται ότι έχουν την απόδειξη. Πρόσφατα δημοσιεύτηκαν φωτογραφίες από το υποτιθέμενο PlayStation Phone, που απεικονίζουν ένα smartphone slider κινητό το οποίο μοιάζει με το PSPgo στο στιλ πίνακα ελέγχου, έχει  d-pad, shoulder buttons, και κουμπιά ενεργειών του PlayStation.

Όπως αρχικά αναφέρθηκε, η συσκευή έχει το  εμπορικό σήμα της Sony Ericsson, μάρκα κινητών της εταιρείας, και φαίνεται ότι διαθέτει την  Android πλατφόρμα της Google, η οποία θα στηρίξει τους ισχυρισμούς, για ένα νέο Sony Marketplace για downloadable τίτλους του PlayStation, συμπεριλαμβανομένων εκείνων που προέρχονται από μεγάλα franchises όπως God of War.
 Λέγεται ότι η εικονιζόμενη συσκευή διαθέτει επεξεργαστή 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8655 φορητό επεξεργαστή, 512MBs του RAM, 1GBs της ROM, ένα 3,7 - 4,1 ιντσών οθόνη αφής, ενσωματωμένη κάμερα με φλας LED, καθώς και τα προαναφερθέντα slider panel.
Πιο συγκεκριμένα, ωστόσο,  η μονάδα δεν διαθέτει έναν αναλογικό μοχλό, και αντ 'αυτού όπως ισχυρίζεται από μερικούς,είναι μια ευαίσθητη  επιφάνεια αφής. Ενώ στερείται επίσης κάθε επίσημη ταυτοποίηση PlayStation, αν και αυτό μπορεί να οφείλεται στο ότι είναι ακόμα πρωτότυπο.

Λίγα είναι  γνωστά για τη συσκευή αυτή μέχρι  αυτό το σημείο, αλλά αν αποδειχθούν αληθινά, μπορεί να δούμε το Playstation Phone να  ανακοινωθεί επίσημα αργότερα αυτού του χρόνου ή στις αρχές του 2011.

Windows Server 2008 παίρνει ώθηση virtualization

Microsoft is updating the server version of its Windows operating system to give the OS more virtualization capabilities.

The company has posted a release candidate, a post-beta-but-not-yet-production-ready version of Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2008 R2. The service pack can also be applied to Windows 7 as well. This service pack is a compilation of previously released updates, as well as, in the case of Windows Server, a number of new features.

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The new Windows Server Service Pack will feature a number of new technologies to help organizations virtualize both their servers and desktop OSes. Virtualization allows administrators to run multiple virtual servers on a single physical server, as well as stream a desktop operating system to a user machine instead of maintaining it on the local machine.

For the client side, the service pack offers RemoteFX, Microsoft's next-generation remote desktop protocol. Based on Microsoft's Hyper-V hypervisor, RemoteFX can be used to serve graphics-intensive applications and USB support to thin clients or desktop computers.

On the server side, SP1 includes Dynamic Memory, which should allow servers to more efficiently manage how memory is allotted out to the virtual machines they run.

"With Dynamic Memory, IT administrators are able to pool available memory on a physical host and then dynamically dole that memory out to virtual machines running on the host, based on current workload needs," explained the Microsoft Web page where the service pack can be downloaded.