The XBox 360 is a pure gaming machine, reduced to the essentials: a lot of power, good graphics and a more favorable purchase price. But for the future of gesture control, DirectX 11 and Blu-ray on the program.

The XBox 360 was the first console that was delivered with a wireless controller. And he also fulfilled its purpose: It was functional, was well in hand and did not bother even during long gaming sessions. But for the successor to Microsoft is working on a revolution: Project Natal is the magic word! This is a mixture of Sony’s EyeToy and Nintendo’s Wii. The control of the game takes place with the whole body. In contrast to react to the Wii controller is Natal Project on acoustics and understand spoken commands and even whole sentences. A first version there is to be said for the XBox 360, the next generation it will be then delivered as standard.

Blu-ray and wireless
Inside, there will hardly be big changes: how ATI will continue to produce the graphics chips for Microsoft, but these are then the current Shader Model 5 (XBox 360: support Shader Model 3), which is also used in DirectX 11.

The current generation does have a DVD drive so that the console but can not play HD content. Microsoft probably will equip the new XBox with Blu-ray drive – but this function is not to focus on, for matching Blu-ray players there are now significantly cheaper. Together with a large hard drive and the Xbox Live online store where you can buy or rent films and videos, the new console is not a pure gamers box be more, but, like Sony’s PlayStation a central multimedia interface in the living room. Speaking of XBox Live: It is expected that Microsoft will expand its online service. There will be certain programs similar to the App Store from Apple.

The XBox 360 is a console for contact – the same should also apply to the successor. Therefore, it will probably be shipped with USB 3.0, HDMI 1.4, Gigabit LAN and WLAN 802.11n fast. So that you will cover all current and future connections.

The biggest problem with the current generation is the drive: If you want to watch movies via console, reduces the loud hum of the movie fun – a real movie theater feeling comes on not. Here, Microsoft must improve. Another handicap: For a multimedia center to be able to support a few formats – also because we want better. Furthermore, we found the new Xbox backwards compatibility with the old console prima: Because not everyone wants to win his game collection just love buying new.

January 1st, 2010 by admin | No Comments »

A cell phone battery made from paper: although this sounds strange, a team of researchers at Stanford University in California, it is now, but actually succeeded in creating such a battery.

The current memory is manufactured from normal printer paper, whose surface with tiny carbon nanotubes covered – all these tubes is about 10,000 times thinner than a human hair. The tubes store electrical charge as the electrodes in a conventional battery, while the paper serves as an insulator.

The paper battery is of course very easy. Unlike a normal mobile phone battery paper battery can be bent arbitrarily and even cropped. Small problem: Because of the high cost price of the nanotubes is the production of the battery is currently extremely expensive – a production on a large scale is excluded for the time being.

December 29th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »

The fact that the Apple Tablet hardware is one of the highlights of 2010 is now notorious skeptics doubted myself do not really – even though Apple itself had never even discussed working on such a product. But all that changed now.

The News York Times quotes unnamed namely, two employees from Cupertino with very clear statements about the ominous device. An Apple employee told the newspaper: “You will be surprised at how you interact with your new tablet. Another insider even talking about Steve Jobs’ attitude toward the touch-screen Mac: “I can not reveal much, but we say it like this: Steve is extremely happy with the new tablet.

Could be resolved that all rumors about the hardware probably the worst-kept secret of the year 2009 already in January 2010, also indicates a company of Apple: The software and hardware company has for 26 January, a stage in the “Yerba Buena Center for the Arts” reserved in San Francisco. In addition, many developers were apparently popular iPhone Apps contacted and asked to prepare resolution-independent versions of their programs for a special presentation.

iSlate available from March?
Apart from all these indicators point to a presentation of the tablet in late January, it looks like all the sources but also in another punk t seem united: For retail, the Holy Grail among the gadgets will probably be available in March at the earliest.

Meanwhile, the product description seems to be leaked to the Tablet: In 2007 an unknown person secured the domain iSlate.com – and by updating the WHOIS record is now known that the person behind the company “Apple Inc.” from Cupertino, puts the state of Californians. This coincides with a presentation of the chief editor of the New York Times, which in October Apple Slate is mentioned.

How much the Apple Tablet might change the media consumption, demonstrated the Sports Illustrated in a video that shows their vision of an issue of the journal for the iTablet:

December 25th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »

“Super Mario Bros: Shine expedition” is one more, great remake of Nintendo’s Super Mario Brothers. Here you can expect many different and exciting worlds. The graphics are not quite as good as the original, but all in all simulated in great detail and colorful. Is controlled using the cursor keys for actions it takes X, Shift + Up, Shift, Z, Ctrl, Space, C, Enter, F1-F5.

License: Free Games
Graphics: 3/5
Sound: 4/5
Fun: 4/5
Overall: 4/5
Category: Jump’n Run
Author: Hello Fan Gaming
System: Win XP/Vista/7
Size: 8.00 MB

Download here: Super Mario Bros: Shine Expedition

December 21st, 2009 by admin | No Comments »

Christmas – a time of silence and contemplation. This also arises at the computer in the right mood, offer a variety of distributors suitable USB accessory for the cold season.

This is the illuminated plastic fir up to the cup warmer for coffee and mulled wine all represented. Even cold feet and hands are, thanks to USB 2.0 and heating elements in gloves and slippers at last the past.

December 15th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »

CyberLink Media Suite 8 is the new successor to the DVD Suite 7 Just in time for Christmas sales of the software manufacturer CyberLink Media Suite 8 offering in the stores, all to the delight of all HD fans.

At that time, is still known under the name DVD Suite, Cyberlink Media Suite 8, the new must-have for the digital lifestyle. But, what sort of new suite anyway? Firstly, it is clear that there will be the product of Fima CyberLink has operations in three different versions.

CyberLink Media Suite 8
A model is called Media Suite 8 Ultra proud and costs 119.99 euros. Compared to the slightly cheaper model shows number two, the Media Suite 8 Centra. It will cost 67.99 euros. The third variant of the manufacturer is, however available as download only, called Media Suite 8 Pro and will cost 79.99 euros. Everything is not exactly cheap, but for true HDTV enthusiasts an almost inevitable product. First proposed by Cyberlink to include a picture archiving and editing tool designed for the DVD Suite successor.

Successor to the DVD Suite 7
To update your CyberLink Software is along here. For all those who think about the purchase of CyberLink Media Suite 8, here are a few facts. The new multimedia highlight consists of several components. These include the PowerDVD 9, the Power starter 8, the Wave Editor 1, BD Advisor 2, and PhotoNow 1, Power2Go 6.1 and PowerDVDCopy 1 and Label Print 2.5. There are many new features in this product from Cyberlink, which can be the predecessor, the DVD Suite 7, look really old. CyberLink Media Suite 8 has a faster face detection and an even more rapid conversion of videos. The 3 months trial version of CyberLink Live Other costs only 16.99 euros.

December 9th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »

The external 1.8-inch HDD Verbatim Pocket Drive you can now store up to 250 GB of data.

According to Verbatim hard drive weighs 85 grams and fits its compact dimensions of 90 x 64 x 14 millimeters, even in a shirt pocket. The aluminum casing with a USB port to protect your data from crude shocks. The scope of delivery includes a black bag, which Dmailer backup software and a tool for data synchronization.

The Verbatim Pocket Drive with 250 GB is available now for around 125 euros in the trade.

Conclusion:
Verbatim is advancing with the 250-Gbyte version of the Pocket Drive in the domain of Samsung and Toshiba. They offer, for example, the S1 Mini 250 GB (HXSU025BA/G22) or the same size StorE steel plates at a similar price. Slowly, the external 1.8-inch to the 2.5-inch hard drives competition. They are slower but have the unbeatable small form factor on your side and offer enough storage capacity for domestic use. The price declines in affordable areas.

December 1st, 2009 by admin | No Comments »

TomTom now offers both for his go-one-and-date as well as the Rider-navigation maps. At the same time, the manufacturer expands its card shop, at the regional records Middle East, Thailand, Russia and Greece.

The revised data sets (version 8.40), according to TomTom over 10,000 kilometers of new roads and trails in Western Europe, offering 21,100 kilometers in Turkey and 11,600 more miles in the U.S.. The updates / new cards cost around 50 euros. The data are based on the TomTom Shop. Subscribers to the map service can download the update files for free via the PC software application TomTom HOME on the navigation system.

Tips: If you have bought a few days ago a current TomTom pilots and registered with first use – be it the One IQ Routes, or, for example, the Go 950 Live – should take the manufacturer’s warranty card for a free update to complete.

November 26th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »

Nokia has launched mobile phone Nokia E72 with QWERTY keyboard for around 440 Euro without a contract. According to the manufacturer, there is the novelty now buy. In our comparison, the smartphone without contract has already been registered from 365 euros.

More Photo-Pixel
The slim and elegant looking Nokia E72 (Size 114 x 58 x 10 millimeters) is the successor of the popular Nokia E71. New: E72 snaps as compared to the previous images in 5 instead of 3.2 Megapixel quality. A flashlight function and an improved sound by active noise reduction have also been also incorporated in the new edition.

Equipment tired
In addition, the user finds the E72 as the E71 one QWERTY keyboard and all the current data rates. Thus, in addition to Wi-Fi is also HSDPA and HSUPA, USB 2.0 (high speed) and Bluetooth 2.0 on the feature list of the E72. In an optical Navi key and a 3.5-millimeter headphone jack on its own was not waived as well. The kit includes a 4-gigabyte card, the memory can be increased via microSD up to 16 gigabytes.

According to the Nokia E72 also offers A-GPS and Ovi Maps for navigation, including compass function. Were also pre-installed QuickOffice 5.3 and Instant Messenger services, including the Microsoft Live Mesenger, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger and chat Ovi.

November 17th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »

The Fast 12-Hour Notebook
New duration record and top price-performance ratio: Asus goes with the UL50VG-XX003V successful confrontation with Acer’s timeline series.

ASUS has sent the announcement of the UL50VG-XX003V his mouth quite full taken: a 15.6-inch notebook for affordable 800 euros, despite the battery is practicable to hold twelve hours Amenities: It has been Acer’s own widely praised for their mobility Timeline series failed. We left the Asus notebook to proof in our test center.

Power-saving dual-core and GeForce graphics
The Asus UL50VG-XX003V working platform for Intel’s ultra-light and perennial notebooks. In this case, it consists of the dinuclear CULVER Core 2 Duo Processor SU7300 (1.3 GHz), the GS45 chipset with integrated graphics core, and together X4500M HD 4 GB of DDR3 memory. The newcomers also built-in card GeForce G 210M (512 MB of graphics memory is our own) can be switched off.

Overall, the power for office work enough, for Internet browsing and media playback. Despite the good for the Asus GeForce graphics UL50VG-XX003V but not for current graphics-intensive games – Core 2 Duo and GeForce graphics are too weak.

Good equipment: 500-GByte harddisk and DVD Burners
The equipment of the UL50VG-XX003V is practicable. It contains a 500-gigabyte hard drive, a card reader, Gigabit LAN, HDMI and VGA output, three USB ports, a webcam and a previously rare in CULVER notebooks, built-in DVD burner. There’s a modern-n WLAN with 300 Mbps and Gigabit LAN. Modem, Bluetooth, Firewire or eSATA are missing. Too bad, at least one of these features, we would have expected, despite the attractive price.

Satisfying ergonomics, slightly dark screen
The sleek, high-grade aluminum case with screen cover like the keyboard is slightly under pressure. Similar to Apple’s MacBook, the keys are individually pushed through from below, resulting in a more attractive design. They have a short pressure point, but give a better feeling than to write many other Asus notebooks of this size and price range. Plus point: Asus was able to integrate a separate number pad, without tying the recording area too much.

The touchpad is an area dotted indicated. While this looks nice, but annoying in the long run, because the finger at the small holes uncomfortable rubbing. Furthermore, the rattle is made of a piece of mouse replacement keys. You straining the UL50VG-XX003V low or play a DVD, so you hardly hear anything about him. Under load, but it sounds a loud, audible 3.0 sone.

The reflective 15.6-inch display gets an average rating of our lab: It has indeed a very high contrast ratio of 890:1, but only glows with 172.8 cd / m². While this saves energy, but it is much too little for use outdoors.

Sensational: energy for more than one working day
Given the extremely good values for the duration UL50VG-XX003V you must be in the truest sense of the word set only once – and then needs to rise more than one working any more. For, thanks to energy-efficient components and the 84-Wh battery goes) once charging for 11:41 hours (Office Trial. Under full load, the energy after all, still sufficient for 4:35 minutes.

On behalf of one 15.6-inch notebook very low height of just three centimeters, and the relatively low weight (2.4 kilograms), will help bring the UL50VG the full 100 points in the mobility championship standings.

Conclusion
Asus has promised at UL50VG-XX003V much – and kept his word. It is for his class not only relatively light and thin but keeps a battery capacity of almost half a day, even the new duration record. The workmanship was indeed a little on the track, but the attractive price and practicable facilities make things up for it.

Alternative
The 15.6 inch too large and almost silent X520 Samsung SU2700-aura Addi only costs around 640 euros, runs well and has a nearly nine hours comparable equipment. However, its lack of DVD burner.

November 4th, 2009 by admin | No Comments »