You’ll know that you’re getting a premium product when they say that the product is also tuned “by engineers who tune stage earphones for your favourite artists”. So here we are, looking at an IEM (In-Ear Monitor) earphone from Logitech. Funkily called the Ultimate Ears 100 Noise-Isolating Earphones, these earphones from Ultimate Ears can even do noise-cancelling just like your few hundred bucks gigantic headphones. Whether your MP3 player is jamming techno songs from Tiesto, or smoky voices of Nickelback, or elegant piano notes of Lang Lang, these Ears-100s will have no problem punching those tunes into your ear accurately.

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I can safely say that more and more people are buying laptops instead of desktops. This is due to convenience and portability of laptops, besides their prices which are getting better with attractive specs. Each year, due to ‘back to the school’ seasons, more laptops are sold, with manufacturers giving attractive offers and some added marketing stuff to woo students to their brands. However, one particular issue about laptop is their awful speakers. No matter how they design them, and add stuff like “Harman/Kardon” speakers integrated into Toshiba’s notebooks, or “Altec Lansing” on HP notebooks, the sounds still aren’t impressive. Luckily, this issue has been solved thanks to Logitech. Read more…

Spectre Performance Team is a greedy team. Why? Because they want to break the 400 mph barrier record for a four-wheel, gasoline-powered vehicle. But you’ve got to respect them, as they never give up. Last year, their long metal stick with four wheels set a world record at the SCTA World Finals for the speed of 330.569 mph. This is made possible thanks to the twin-engine speedliner, which has a displacement of 1,026 cubic inches (that’s 16.8L for you, which is similar to the displacement of Bugatti Veyron’s W16 engine). With the additional of twin turbo bolted on each engine, they managed to achieve a total output of between 3,200 to 4,000 horsepower. Read more…

While the rest of the world drool over Apple’s new range of iPods, and busily explore their latest music social network ‘Ping’, things are getting slightly heated up over at Taiwan, the center of computer hardware and gadgets, caused by marketing strategy from Gigabyte that mislead some consumers, thus causing some upset and rage issues. Read more…

I’m not sure how many people actually activated their B.yond package in their satellite television services when Astro launched their high definition broadcast service throughout Asia. I’m pretty sure plenty did, as they also provide live broadcast of the FIFA World Cup 2010 in HD. But when Astro launched their B.yond package, they also promised a DVR capability for their new service, which will follow shortly after the launch.

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Alongside the iPod Shuffle, Apple has also announced their 6^th generation iPod Nano. From the picture above, it’s obvious that the buttons, or click wheels as Apple calls it, is not gone. Odd isn’t it. The Shuffle is getting its click wheels back, and yet the Nano is ditching it. But what’s gone, is replaced by a touchscreen panel. Obviously, you’ll be manoeuvring your new Nano with the touchscreen interface. This is obviously not an iOS interface, but merely a simple touch UI mod from the original Nano interface, to be ‘touch-friendly’. Read more…

It’s rather rare to see Apple going backward in designs. In 2005, Apple removes the screen thing by introducing the iPod Shuffle. Last year, they removed the buttons by introducing a new Shuffle with no buttons, only an OFF-ON-SHUFFLE button. Now, they’ve just announced a brand new, re-designed iPod Shuffle. The buttons are back! Read more…

Finally, the time has come for Apple to officially officiate their new iPod Touch. Like previous iPod Touch which got their design with the theme of ‘an iPhone without the phone’, the new iPod Touch is blessed with nearly everything that is from the iPhone 4, minus the slim slot and the ugly packing. New A4 chip, with Retina Display, and front-facing camera for FaceTime via Email, and a 3-axis gyroscope to improve your gaming session on your Touch. Well obviously Apple wants to push forward the gaming market of the iPod Touch with that new feature. Well, we’re getting three new iPods this time around. Let’s have a look at the first one. Read more…

BlackBerry’s upcoming replacement for the Bold 9700 seemed to have surfaced yet again, but this time in the face of snow white. As a fresh reminder, it’s presumably equipped with a new 5-Megapixel camera, 512MB of RAM instead of 256MB, and of kush the ‘awsm’ BlackBerry 6 OS. Still no indication of a release date, but Phone Arena is predicting a launch date in the October.

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Toshiba seemed to be on the lead in the development of NAND flash as of late. Nice engineering team they have there. Toshiba has finalized their 24nm NAND flash memory chips, and is moving them into the factories to churn out some delicious chips. These chips also support the standardized “Toggle DDR 2.0” 400Mbps transfer rate.

What all these mean is that we will see a shrink in chip size, allowing Toshiba to boost productivity and bring further enhancements to high density, small sized products. Less heat, and better energy efficiency, with faster transfer rates will result in better quality devices. As more mobile equipment, such as smartphones, digital video cameras and tablet PCs, provide support for recording high resolution pictures and video and editing and processing large volumes of data, demand is growing for smaller, higher density, memory products.

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