Filed under: Displays, HDTV
LG‘s FLATRON M228WA won’t go down as the first LCD display that can hold its own as a television monitor, but this 22-incher does a decent job at catering to both sides of the equation rather than leaving one aspect feeling slighted. Dubbed the flagship device in the M8W series, this unit sports a widescreen aspect ratio, 1,680 x 1,050 resolution, 3000:1 contrast ratio, five-millisecond response time, Digital Fine Contrast (DFC) technology to sharpen up images, and a pair of three-watt stereo speakers built right in. As for the port selection, you’ll find DVI, S-Video, component, HDMI, composite, and VGA, and while this may look mighty tempting for an all-in-one solution to your current display dilemma, we’re not sure how much it’ll cost you when it finally lands.
[Via PCLaunches]
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Filed under: Transportation
Now that Tesla Motors has resurrected the electric car in screeching sports car form, it’s the turn of the motorbike to get all Lithium Ioned up. While it’s not the first electric motorcycle, it is possibly the most rough and ready design: if you can afford the $15,000 odd fee for a custom modification, a team at the Electric Motorsport shop in Oakland will take out the nasty engine in your ride and replace it with an array of Lithium Ion batteries. As a prototype, the company created a fully electric version of the Yamaha R1 which has a top speed of 100MPH, a range of 100 miles, does 0-60 in 3 seconds, and looks pretty damn ugly to tell the truth. Ya’ see, the number of brick sized Lithium Ion batteries required to eke out this level of performance is 28, which have to fit all willy nilly underneath the bike. Fortunately, the company hopes to produce a more refined production model, as well as a cheaper design with less advanced performance.
[Via Digg]
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Filed under: Laptops
Akihabara News got their hands on Fujitsu’s new FMV-U8240 UMPC and have posted their impressions from using the device over a three day period. The first point worth referring to is the enclosure, which is undoubtedly compact but which also gives off a distinct mid-90s gadget vibe. (One of the machine’s quirks are two little LEDs for night typing: cute.) If you can stomach the style, you’ve got good ergonomics to make up for it: apparently the keyboard is acceptable, which is the closest you can get to a compliment for a keyboard that’s just under 7 inches wide. As is to be expected in a UMPC that only weighs 1.28 pounds (584 grams) the feature set is a bit of a compromise, with an 800MHz A110 Intel CPU appearing to be the weak point at first, although it’s apparently capable of playing 720p DivX video flawlessly. Battery life is a rather disappointing 2.5 to 3.5 hours of real world usage, and the reviewer had issues with the swivel screen and the touchscreen: he hopes that these are pre-production problems, and at $1,190-$1,360 a piece depending on configuration, we’d hope so too.
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Filed under: Displays
SunBriteTV have updated their range of weather resistant LCDs with a top end 46-inch model that brings the nature resistant features of it smaller siblings to a much larger screen area. The SunBrite 4600HD, which will debut at InfoComm in the second week of June, has a corrosion resistant enclosure that protects the internals from the elements. It has a built-in filtered fan system for particularly hot days, and a heater which allows it to work in temperatures of around -4 degrees C (24 degrees F), plus a watertight cable system for a range of sources including HDMI, component, VGA, S-video, composite, and RF. You won’t want to stick a regular antenna into this TV though, as it comes with a respectable 1366 x 768 resolution at a 1600:1 contrast ratio. All this high end outdoor kit comes at a cost — $4,995 to be precise, available from dealers this month — but if you have a use for a HDTV in your garden, there’s still the problem of figuring out how to weather-proof your HD sources. A perfect opportunity for the ever innovative console modders to get a tan, perhaps?
[Via CEPro]
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Filed under: Cellphones
We know you like to hear the good stuff first when it comes to reviews — in this case of the Motorola Q9 — so we’ll start there: the Q9′s keyboard is probably the best advocate for “good,” with reviewers from CNET, Phonescoop, and Trusted Reviews all digging its tactility (even if we didn’t). The only site to test battery life was CNET, which discovered an acceptable and now pretty much standard “lasts all day without recharge” ability. The main negative aspect of the phone is its chunkiness, which we noticed in our hands-on. Unfortunately that’s something you’ll have to deal with, along with the lack of WiFi, a slightly small screen, and yet another style of proprietary mini-USB port. Other quirks include a default install of the Opera web browser over Pocket Internet Explorer (to each their own we suppose), an eschewing of MobileOffice in favour of DocumentsToGo, and a strange flash that blinks at random in viewfinder mode. It seems as if Moto made an attempt at the basics and got somewhere, but let themselves down in the details. As always, it’s up to you whether you can put yourself above them.
[Thanks, Thomas]
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