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Toshiba has announced to ship its high density NAND flash chips fabricated with 32nm technology soon. Samples of 32nm based 16Gb (2GB) and 32Gb (4GB) flash chips are available now which can be used to integrate in memory cards, USB drives and other embedded products. The 32Gb chip will first be applied to memory card, [...]

  If you’re in the market for an AIO, the most you will have to settle is for an Atom based one. Atom powered AIOs are cheap, power efficient but not powerful. But Taiwan’s Cybernet Inc. is stepping up in the AIO game to offer users wanting that extra juice in the same compact form [...]

  Bangalore based Procsys is selling ION 2600 handheld device to cater businesses’ Point of Service (PoS) application needs. The ION 2600 is somewhat revolutionary for the PoS category because of the fact that it is powered by an Atom processor. It does effectively handle businesses various needs by supporting Smart card readers/writers, biometrics and [...]

  Thank Thanko for fulfilling your office spying needs. Next time you won’t be called a perv for filming a hot gal in the office as your necktie will handle all your dirty video duties. The tie sells for 12,800 Yen ($128), has 4GB of storage and can store video recordings of up to 4 [...]

  Samsung has announced SPF-87H, an 8-inch digital photo frame. Destined to launch in Korea next week for 145,000 Won ($110) and followed by other regions, the frame has almost the same set of features when you compare it other digital frames in the market. Agreed, it has Samsung’s proprietary Touch of Color design and [...]

  Samsung has announced the Mondi MID which was leaked on Samsung’s page a couple of days back. Mondi comes from a Latin word meaning ‘world’. The specs remain unchanged from the last time. The MID will use Clearwire’s WiMAX service and Wi-Fi for WiMAX less areas. The device runs Windows Mobile 6.1 and features [...]

  With Kindle rocking in US, FLEPia (about to rock) in Japan, Samsung thinks the ebook reader business is the next goldmine waiting to be dug. Dubbed as Papyrus, the device will have a touchscreen display with a size of around 6-8 inches. Other details to surface is the 512MB in-built memory, stylus and is [...]

  Fujitsu has announced its colored e-paper reader, FLEPia is now available to preorder from Fujitsu’s FrontechDirect online store. For now it’s limited to Japan but if it ever comes to US, the great feature set can beat Kindle hands down*. It has an 8-inch touchscreen 260K color display with 768X1024 pixel resolution support, up [...]

  The scientist at Osaka University, Japan has devised a gadget that can control other gadgets. Mimi Switch can start a new track on the iPod, turn on the room lights and even start a washing machine, all with the help of user’s facial expression. The device looks like a normal earphone but is fitted [...]

  Amazon unveiled its Kindle 2 at a press conference yesterday. The new Kindle is slimmer, has a longer battery life, more storage and is faster than its predecessor. The Kindle 2′s thickest part measures just 0.36” and weighs just over 10 oz. The feature set includes a 6-inch e-paper display, 2GB of storage to [...]

  UPDATE:Couple of videos have been added below. [via Wired] Researchers at MIT have invented a great piece of gadget that can perform actions by simply using hand gestures. The Sixth Sense was shown at the TED 2009 which has been created out of commercially available products. The components used were a web camera, battery [...]

  Japanese company, Omron has created a smile scanner that could rate a smile on the basis of percentage, in real-time. The device takes factors like shape of eyes, mouth, facial wrinkles into account to arrive at the desired result. Omron says this scanner can be a boon to the trainees seeking a career in [...]

  This one’s strictly for our Japanese friends. NTT is selling an earthquake warning device, Urgent Earthquake News Flash FLET’S Type that will send quake alerts to the subscribers. When an alert will be issued by the Japan Meteorological Agency, NTT’s Urgent Earthquake Bulletin service will relay the message on the subscriber’s computer screen. The [...]

  There have been many solutions to purify impure water but the Skywater machines from Island Sky is a bit different. Its patented technology actually helps to create safe drinking water from thin air. The thin air is nothing but the water vapor that is grasped by Skywater to create hygienic water, which in optimum [...]

  Another product revealed at the CES was Seagate’s FreeAgent Theater HD Media player that allows to play files directly from the external USB drive. The idea is pretty simple – just pop in a Seagate FreeAgent drive or any other USB external drive into the unit and play multimedia files on TV. It also [...]