It’s taken ASUS a while, but there’s finally an Eee PC with more than 600 pixels of vertical resolution — the new Eee PC 1005HR sports a 10.1-inch 1366 x 768 display, which is good enough for 720p HD. Of course, it’s debatable whether or not the 1.6GHz Atom N280 and integrated GMA 950 graphics can actually make decent use of that much screen, but at least you’ll be able to rock some huge spreadsheets. Or at least you’d be able to if you were in Japan, where this unit was found — there’s sadly no word on availability or pricing Stateside. Check a video after the break.
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We’ve seen the pros effortlessly tapping away classic tunes on the Stylophone Beatbox, so naturally we had to give it a shot for our faithful readers. Essentially the Beatbox is a portable electronic musical instrument that activates when the stylus contacts the metallic pad. For us the functions were pretty straight-forward to use — there’s a sliding switch for the three sound packs, a loop tool with record and play controls, a volume dial, a loop playback speed dial and a tuning dial underneath. We dig the loop function, but sometimes the Beatbox struggled to reproduce multiple effects at any instance, which is probably why the famed Brett Domino got help in his video. Another issue was that we had to tap fairly hard to get a response, and while you can isolate the tapping noise by plugging in your headphones, your hands would still quickly grow tired from the rapid beats. Of course, you can always cheat by putting in a sample loop via the “MP3″ port, but where’s the fun in that? Enjoy our amateurish electronic beatboxing after the break — just promise you won’t laugh. Deal?
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In case you missed it, we are recording the live video from the shows and re-releasing them. This is still in the experimental phases, but I hope everyone enjoys! If the feedback is positive we will do this for each…
ASUS‘s good-looking, switchable-graphics boasting
UL30Vt-X1 is one those Windows 7 laptops you really need to check out for yourself. The thin and light, 13.3-incher will get super strength battery life with the discrete graphics on. This one packs DDR3 memory, and a 1.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo SU7300 processor (which can be overclocked). It’s up for pre-order at Amazon now for $799 with Windows 7 Home Premium, so if you’ve been waiting around for this one… well now’s your time.
ASUS UL30Vt available for pre-order at Amazon originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Creative sure seems to be taking the incremental approach to upgrades with its
Vado HD pocket camcorders, but if you’ve found the previous two models just a tad lacking, you might want to consider the company’s newly announced 3rd gen model. From the looks of it, most of the core specs remain the same, but Creative is promising some improved low light video recording and manual exposure adjustment, along with a new motion detection mode, support for an external stereo mic, a headphone output, and even the ability to take some still photos. You’ll also now get out of the box Mac and PC compatibility, and five glossier than ever colors — though Creative has curiously dropped the 8GB model in favor of a single 4GB option, which will set you back $179.99.
[Thanks, Kingone]
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