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  Kinect-powered hacks are not new but this Kinect hack developed by a team of Indian engineers is pretty unique and helpful to the visually impaired. Dubbed as viSparsh, it’s a haptic belt that detects obstacles and vibrates so as to signify oncoming obstacles to the visually impaired. Basically, the Kinect sensor attached to the [...]

  Western Digital has started shipping its high-capacity 2.5-inch HDD line for notebooks in India. The 9.5mm WD Scorpio Blue HDD boasts a storage capacity of 1TB that utilizes two 500GB-platter form factor. WD says that its Scorpio Blue line of HDDs are designed to consume very less power and is coupled with WD’s WhisperDrive [...]

  Seagate has announced the latest generation of its unique Momentus XT Hybrid drives that combines the speed of a SSD and storage of a regular HDD. The Momentus XT features an 8GB NAND Flash memory along with 750GB of HDD and with the help of Seagate’s Adaptive Memory and FAST Factor technologies, the drive [...]

  Epson has announced a new printer for the Indian market that prides itself as the world’s smallest. The ME Office 535 is the world’s smallest all-in-one (AIO) inkjet printer that has a smaller footprint and gives a low cost per page. Apt for SOHO users, the printer is equipped with DURABrite Ultra pigment ink [...]

  Lenovo has announced two new All-in-one (AIO) PCs – ThinkCentre Edge 71z and ThinkCentre Edge 91z for Indian SMBs. Lenovo says small businesses look for space saving designs and performance and their latest offerings suffice both requirements. Lenovo ThinkCentre Edge 71z is a mainstream AIO that comes with a 20-inch widescreen display, Intel Core [...]

  Samsung has upped its Applications Processor (AP) game with the introduction of a new SoC (System-on-chip), Exynos 5250. The new Exynos chip clearly pips previous generation Exynos processors that boasts two Cortex-A15 clocked at speedy 2GHz. This dual-core configuration is developed by using Samsung’s 32nm-low power HKMG process that results in better performance while [...]

  With an aim to expand its operations in India, Belkin yesterday announced their new series of mouse and keyboards for the Indian market. The new range includes both wired and wireless options that start from an affordable sub-Rs. 400 price tag and go up to Rs. 2,700. The wired keyboards support PS/2 as well [...]

  Epson has unveiled their new LED laser printers for the Indian market. Boasting a variety of monochrome, colour as well as all-in-one devices, the printers come with LED technology that ensures high quality and high speed prints without taking much of desk space and power. Printers have a 20,000 pages monthly cycle and feature [...]

  Lenovo has expanded its All-in-One PC lineup for the Indian market. The newly announced C320 brings the space-saving goodness at an affordable price tag and decent hardware specs. Powered by Intel’s 2nd Generation Core i3 processor, the 20-inch AIO comes with a multi-touch enabled display, up to 4GB RAM, Windows 7 OS, Wi-Fi, DVD [...]

  Consumers looking for an affordable SSD can take a look at Kingston’s new SSDNow V200 Series. The new series from Kingston is touted to be cheaper and twice as fast than its previous V100 Series SSDs. Supporting SATA Rev 3.0 6Gb/s, the V200 Series SSDs come in sizes of 64GB. 128GB and 256GB and [...]

  We truly are moving towards making our compact mobile devices as powerful as our computers. After the quad-core SoC unveiled by Nvidia yesterday, ARM has announced an equally competent graphics processing unit (GPU) for high-end smartphones, tablets and TVs. The Mali-T658 takes advantage of ARM’s system-level approach to multicore design that delivers performance as [...]

  Nvidia had promised to launch the Kal-el platform by end of this year and well, here it is, toting the official Tegra 3 moniker. Tegra 3 features a quad-core CPU and 12-core GeForce GPU that touts to bring PC-like performance in mobile devices and also improve battery life. In perspective, Tegra 3 provides 3x [...]

  Cisco yesterday under its Linksys brand unveiled a series of Wi-Fi devices for Indian consumers. The Linksys X-series, a range of all-in-one home wireless products, helps consumer to create a high-speed wireless home network that works with both DSL and cable broadband connections. The Linksys X-series is the ideal solution for consumers to go [...]

  Nvidia has been touting Kal-el System-on-Chip to have four CPU cores however, an official whitepaper from Nvidia confirms that Kal-el has a fifth core that was not disclosed previously. The fifth core known as the Companion core works the same way as other processing cores but the only difference is that it is meant [...]

  Japanese firms like NTT DOCOMO, Fujitsu, NEC and Panasonic Mobile Communications have decided to come together with Samsung to produce chips related to wireless communications. According to highly reliable Nikkei business daily, these companies are joining hands with Samsung to produce baseband chips and thus, reduce the reliance on Qualcomm chips that controls 80 [...]