ThermalTake Presents the World’s First Hand-Cooling eSport Mouse

World renowned cooling expert ThermalTake has just announced the world’s first hand cooling mouse, on its official website. This mouse comes with a detachable cooling fan that it’s said to help cool the hand of professional e-sports player. The company is apparently thinking a lot about professional games and their sweaty hands and now has come up with a rather original idea of helping cooling those skilled palms. The fan is a rather silent version as it only produces around 21.7 decibels of noise despite a maximum rotation speed of 6000 RPM. The accessory is also removable in order to keep the reputation of true e-sports champions intact. The mouse itself has a rather sensible 6500 dpi sensor and has a range of 5 colors...

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PENTAX Launches the K-30 DSLR Photo Camera

Pentax has just announced the K-30 professional digital photo camera, on its official website. This model is a more affordable version of the K-5, but comes with newer capabilities while being dust and weather proofed. The viewfinder has 100 percent coverage thanks to the pentaprism and the camera comes with a new autofocus system. Filming can now be done in FullHD resolution and the new CMOS APS-C sensor used in this camera has a resolution of 16.3 mega pixels and a size of 23.7 millimeters by 15.7 millimeters.  The image stabilization is also provided by the sensor and this should make the lens sets come a little bit cheaper. The body of the camera is made out of stainless steel and is covered with reinforced polycarbonate. The...

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KINGMAX Launches ED-07 USB 3.0 Flash Drive

Taipei headquartered, well-known memory manufacturer Kingmax has just announced the ED-07 USB memory stick, on its official website. This is a very fast USB 3.0 model that comes in capacities of up to 128 GB. The new ED-07 USB flash drives from Kingmax use high speed Toggle or ONFI MLC Flash and thus is able to achieve read speeds of up to 170 MB/s and write speeds of 40 MB/s. These are much faster than usual USB 2.0 memory sticks that are so popular right now. The increased write speed is very obvious when trying to copy a non archived directory full of files of various sizes. When copying large and compact files, the USB  3.0 ED-07 will only appear two or three times faster than a normal USB 2.0 flash drive, but when writing...

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Script: OXID eShop

OXID eShop is a PHP-based e-commerce platform for creating your own online stores. It is a great alternative to other similar e-commerce platforms like Magento, PrestaShop, OpenCart, TomatoCart or osCommerce. OXID can handle any shop requirements and features, providing full access to a wide range of tools from themes, to plugins and up to marketing and promotion utilities. Of course, all classic shop features are supported, including static pages management, orders, product catalogs, numerous payment gateway integrations, coupons, shipping modules, localizations, users management and SEO tools. For more advanced features, various commercial versions are available for purchase. A demo for the Professional Edition can be...

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ECS Presents the “NonStop” Motherboard Series

Taiwanese motherboard company ECS has just announced the new “NonStop” motherboard series, on its official website. These motherboards benefit from a special electric discharge protection and are certified by “NonStop” testing for 72 hours. ECS motherboards have long been known for being affordable and offering “good-enough” reliability. The price advantage offered by the company helped it to achieve sales much greater than any of the traditional motherboard market players. Despite offering much less features and lower reliability, ECS succeeded in a market where innovative manufacturers like EpoX, Abit and DFI have failed. Other players wanted a piece of this low to mid-end motherboard market that ECS was ruling. ASUS...

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Chinese Maker Oppo Unveils World’s Thinnest Smartphone

Today’s smartphones are becoming increasingly powerful and feature-packed, but also tend to be slimmer and lighter than before. Apple’s iPhone measures 9.3mm in thickness, last year’s bestseller Galaxy S II is 8.45mm, while Motorola’s Droid RAZR goes down to only 7.1mm thin. However, none of these is a match for the new Finder from Oppo, which measures only 6.65mm, thus being the slimmest smartphone in the world. The Chinese mobile phone maker has already offered a glimpse at the upcoming device, showing its powerful and appealing specs and preparing it for the approaching availability. Thus, the device will arrive on shelves with a 1.5 GHz dual core application processor packed inside, complemented by 1GB of RAM. A...

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Thermaltake's Toughpower XT 1275W Platinum Snow Edition PSU

Ever since the 80Plus energy efficiency rating system came into play, PSU makers, in this case Thermaltake, have been in a race to see who could make the least energy-wasting PSUs. Thermaltake has formally launched a power supply unit called Toughpower XT 1275W Platinum Snow Edition. The name does a reasonable job of saying how much power the PSU provides and how efficient it is. The wattage is, obviously enough - 1,275W - while the energy efficiency is the pretty much the best achievable today. The 80Plus Platinum rating allows for nothing less. For those who want numbers, the 1275W Platinum Snow Edition provides an efficiency of up to 94%. The Full Bridge and LLC resonance with DC-DC module and interleaved PFC...

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New Photo of LG LS860 Emerges, Specs Confirmed

Sprint is gearing up for the launch of a new LG handset running under Google’s Android operating system, the LG LS860, which has been spotted on the web a few times before. A new photo with the device is now available, along with some confirmation on the specs and capabilities that it will arrive with. The smartphone, reportedly featuring the codename Cayenne, is expected to arrive on shelves at the wireless carrier in the not too distant future, the guys over at BriefMobile report. Moreover, they’ve got hold of some of the phone’s specifications, which suggest that it will be quite an appealing device when released. The handset is reportedly powered by a Qualcomm MSM8960 chipset, sporting a 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon...

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Gigabyte Adds Mini-ITX MSQ77DI Motherboard

There are certain products that IT product makers only provide to other companies, and Gigabyte's MSQ77DI mini-ITX motherboard is one such example. Rather than selling it to consumers, Gigabyte is shipping it to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), to be used in white-box all-in-one or standard all-in-one systems. Based on the Intel Q77 chipset, the MSQ77DI has a half-size PCI Express slot (for a Wi-Fi card), a mSATA slot, two SATA 6.0 Gbps ports and a pair of SO-DIMM memory slots (1,600 MHz memory). The back panel includes HDMI (or DisplayPort, according to the specs), two USB 3.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, a speaker jack and optical S/PDIF out. A second version of the board, certain to have HDMI, will be available...

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A Tiny Stick PC for $74, Android Included (Video)

It was only four days ago that we reported on the existence of a $49 VIA android mini PC and now we get to describe another such item, from Chinese brand rikomagic. This small device measures 8.8 x 3.5 x 1.2 cm, which is the same as 3.46 x 1.37 x 0.47 inches. Quite a small package for a computer, but we lost the ability to be surprised by things like this because of the Raspberry Pi. Anyway, the new mini PC is called MK802 and relies on an Allwinner 10 processor (1GHz Cortex-A8 CPU), as well as 512 MB of RAM (random access memory). The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system is loaded on the built-in storage, which is 4 GB NAND Flash. What's more, an USB port is present, for connecting a keyboard or a mouse....

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Galaxy S III Reportedly Gets Delayed

Galaxy S III, the latest flagship Android handset from South Korean phone maker Samsung, might have been delayed from the original launch date of May 29th, recent reports suggest. The push back reportedly affects the Pebble Blue flavor of the smartphone, and has been caused by a delay in shipments from the supplier. Galaxy S III was made available for pre-order in various markets around the world a few weeks back, and some of those who reserved the blue flavor report that they had already been informed that the handset would arrive later than expected. Rumor has it that a set of pebble blue battery covers of the high-end smartphone were defective, and that Samsung had to destroy them. If so, it does not come as a...

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