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Apple MacBook Air - World`s thinnest notebook

In this picture is Steve Jobs, Apple Chief Executive releasing the World`s thinnest Notebook: Apple MacBook Air, a notebook less than an inch in height. Air comes with a lot of features like “The brilliance of multi-touch” that makes us to rember the iPhone, but no.. it`s an notebook.

At less than 1 inch you could ask where are the usb plug-ins and other things that you need to a notebook? Or how does it look? Simple, Apple developers checked all those essential problems and solve them in an elegant way. For example, this is the “flip-down door“, a “door” that keeps hidden usb, wireless and headphones plug-ins:

Apple MacBook Air comes with “a way-more-than-generous 2GB of RAM” running on a Intel Corel Duo processor and with a 80 GB storage space hard-drive, powered up by a 5 hour battery and the price starts at only $1700 for the 1.6 GHz CPU and $3098 for the 1.8 GHz CPU but built on a 64GB Solid Hard Drive, both with 13” displays. (you can preorder it right now)

AMD Spider with Quad-Core

AMD has just produced a new platform, code-named:”Spider“.

It has integrated a quad-core proccesor and a very high-quality graphic technology:The Ultimate Visual Experience.AMD Spider combines the comming-out of the Phenomenon Quad-Core and Ati Radeon graphic card, which supports the Direct X 10 developed by Microsoft.

This is wanted to be a major step to Accelerated Computing, AMD vision in co-proccesing acceleration.

ICDUX70 and ICDUX80 - New Voice Recorders from Sony

Today, 15 January 2008, Sony released two new recorders: ICDUX70 and ICDUX80.

Recorders are available at 1 or 2GBs able to recorder up to 581 hours. Both versions are able to play mp3 files and record music on the move. Stereo recording is captured by the built-in microphone.

Both versions are powered up by USB so you could transfer files and charge your bateries directly from your computer.

(Photo Credits: Pocket Lint)

$29.000 USB Flash Drive

This is miiStore Ice flash drive, a $29.000 flash drive.

Not the features are making this price. This is a usual 4GB SanDisk Flash Drive running on Windows or Mac.. but it`s covered in 456 white diamond. Perfect for Paris Hilton or for one of these geeks.

Telescope for Your RAZR V3

A new gadget that blown me away was a telescope for the RAZR V3 from Motorola, “dead” for a long time. This is a thing that may revive and boost the popularity of Motorola’s RAZR and also KRZR V1.All that you have to do is attach the telescope and start exploring.

The gadget is available at no more than 19 $ , pretty cheap, if you want to do James Bond.

Pixel Qi:$75 Laptop

The former chief of technology at One Laptop per Child Fundation, Mary Lou Jepsen, has founded a new company called Pixel Qi, which has a purpose of making and selling thecheaper laptop,cheaper than the one build in 2005.

Costing just 75$, it has almost the same functions as the earlyer project and is hoping to be a “spin-out” from the non-profit group.

Sony Cyber-Shot

The new digital camera from Sony, the F730,is light and easy to use, it’s said to be a break-thru in digital photography.With a optical zoom of 3x and 7.2 megapixels, it can make outstanding pictures, able to print in even in a A3 dimension.The great autofocus system makes possible great photos of moving objects.

The captures can be viewed on a 2.4 inches LCD screen.Also it suites the begginers in photography, having a complete guide of functions included flash,macro or delay release.

On yhe screen you can see also tips about choosing the best picture size or what means every functions and effects given by it.

World Cheapest Car: $2500 Tata Motors Car

As everybody knows in India $100 are a lot of money. So what should do an indian to buy a $10.000 car, that is cheap in Europe? Simple.. nothing, because Tata company has relased a new cheap car, the world cheapest car: Tata Nano for only $2500 (or 100,000 rupees).

The car looks like Daewoo Matiz also a cheap car, but not so cheap. Tata Nano puts big companies in a big truble right now because this year a lot of cars should be relased in India.

CES: Mobile Phone 3M Projector

You can listen to music, play videos, full movies, you can surf the internet and read books on your own mobile phone… And now, guess what? You can make conferences powered by it.

3M is a small LED projector dedicated to mobie phones that can generate a 40 inch image at VGA Resolution. This small thing was presented at CES and it utilizes an advanced liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) electronic image in conjunction with proprietary 3M optics technology. If you don`t have a mobile phone (and this is weired) you can use it on any digital device that support projectors in your house.

Pretty cool, ah?

Samsung F490

The newest phone from Samsung , the F490,  has a new and unique design, suited with a touchscreen of 3.2  inches.Besides the large display, it has a camera of 5 Mp rarely found on usual mobile phones.It has a weight of 120 grame, and 115 mm x 53.5 mm x 11.8 mm, with a headset plug of 3.5 mm.It is capable of recording 15 frames sper second and can play movies at VA rezolution with 30 frames per second.  The internal capacity is 128 Mb, being easy expanded with a MicroSD memory card.