Android Watch Z1 is The World’s First Android Wrist Computer

Miniaturization has been in full swing in the last two decades and only the TV market seems to be purposely going the other way, although the thickness is thinner and thinner. Japan is the first market to meet the Android Watch Z1 wrist computer. This is a full Android computing device featuring a 2” capacitive touchscreen sporting a modest 320 by 240 pixel resolution. The system is powered by a less known MTK6516 dual-core processor running at a maximum frequency of just 460 MHz, while the operating system of choice is Google’s Android in its 2.2 reincarnation. As reported by Akiba-PC-Watch, There are 2 GB of flash storage on board and a full pack of features like a microphone, speakers, GPS, G sensors , LAN wireless, Bluetooth,...

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ASUS High-Quality Custom AMD Radeon HD 7770 Video Card

Well-known motherboard and notebook manufacturer, maker of the legendary Transformer tablets, Taiwanese company ASUS has just announced a new AMD Radeon HD 7770 video card. The new device features high-quality components, improved cooling, hardware monitoring and is slightly factory overclocked. The GPU has 640 unified shader processors, 40 texturing units and 16 ROPs, ASUS’ HD7770-DC-1GD5-V2 video card comes factory overclocked with frequencies set at 1020 MHz for the GPU and 4600 MHz for the memory. We wonder why ASUS even bothered with such a low overclock, but this may, in fact, offer the HD7770-DC-1GD5-V2 an advantage over other comparable cards that adhere strictly to the reference default frequencies. The new...

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Office 2013 Customer Preview Now Official, Available for Download

Today, Redmond-based software giant Microsoft unveiled to the world the new flavor of its popular productivity suite, Office. Dubbed Office 2013, the new flavor of the application comes with a new, intuitive design, which has been developed to work great with touch, stylus, and mouse and keyboard. The new Office 2013 was announced with support for Microsoft’s Windows platform, and can be used on a variety of devices, including tablet PCs. Moreover, the application was conceived so that it would provide users with a great experience on touch devices that run under Windows 8. On top of that, the new Office 2013 was designed to be more social, and comes with support for new scenarios related to reading, note-taking,...

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TRENDnet World's Smallest Powerline Networking Adapter

Another month, another TRENDnet networking device, and this time we have one of those fabled “world's best” items on our hands. The product the company saw fit to release is called TPL-406E2K and is a Powerline AV adapter kit with a speed of 500 Mbps. Its real advantage lies in the compact frame of the two TPL-406E adapters it is made of, 50% smaller than normal 500 Mbps powerline adapters (world's smallest, as it were). As before, all it takes for a network to be established is to have the two devices plugged in different electrical sockets inside a house. "The combination of 500 Mbps speeds, a small form factor, and a reduced price point redefines the 500 Mbps Powerline category," stated Zak Wood, director of Global...

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ASUS AMD M5A99FX PRO R2.0 Mainboard with Dual Intelligent Processors 3 Technology

Well-known mainboard manufacturer ASUS has decided to do what it does best and now it has just announced the most modern AMD AM3+ mainboard in the company’s lineup. ASUS’ new AMD motherboard comes with the company’s latest mainboard technologies and practically upgrades AMD’s 9990FX chips with the best ASUS has to offer. The new component is officially designated as M5A99FX PRO R2.0 and ASUS touts Dual Intelligent Processors 3 technology. This practically refers to the TPU chip for automatic control of CPU voltage and the well-known EPU that takes care of efficient power use all over the mainboard. TPU is short for TurboV Processing Unit in ASUS’ dictionary and EPU is the acronym for Energy Processing Unit. ASUS also...

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Odroid-X: A Small Board PC To Send Raspberry Pi Reeling

The Raspberry Pi is the only ARM PC, the only mini PC of this sort really, to became famous so far, but it might not have this monopoly for long. There are noticeable differences between the Raspberry Pi and the Odroid-X, some of which might not be overly favorable towards the latter. Odroid-X is about twice as wide, for example, and it is, naturally, a bit heavier, although weight doesn't really matter for such small things. The other disadvantage of Odroid-X is the price. Raspberry Pi goes for around $35, or €28.66, give or take, but the newer gadget sells for $129 / €105.66. Once onlookers finally take a close look at the hardware though, the reasons for all this become obvious: Odroid-X is, quite simply, better...

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Blue and Huge Prolimatech Cooler

It isn't everyday that we see coolers something other than silver, given the materials normally used in their making, but Prolimatech has one of the few models that stray from the norm. Applying paint to a cooler doesn't usually help with heat conductivity and dissipation, hence why most people avoid it. Prolimatech must have found a really good paint. The product in the photos is called Megahalems Rev. B and, as one can plainly see, has blue-colored fins, even though the material is stainless steel. The color fits the one used on Gigabyte motherboard, though said company seems to be moving away from it. There are just a few fins, at the top, that have a chrome finish. There is a detail that may not be immediately apparent:...

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Giada's i53 Mini PC, Small but Strong Nettop

If we'd been given only the list of internal specifications and nothing else, we'd have easily thought Giada's new computer fit the bill of standard desktop, but we'd have been wrong. Instead, Giada has formally launched one of those very small personal computers, usually called nettops. The product name is i53 Mini PC. The default processor is the first clue that this is no ordinary small form factor personal computer. Whereas most nettops would make do with an Atom chip, this one has a Core series unit, and not just any weakling. A Core i5 proudly directs operations. That, of course, implies that graphics prowess stems from the built-in Intel graphics, and since this is the third generation of CPUs (Ivy Bridge),...

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Using Visible Light for Phones and Tablets Data Transfers

Visible light is just the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that we humans can see with our eyes, but that doesn't make it any less kin to radio waves and other radiation types (gamma, X-ray, ultraviolet, visible, infrared, microwave). In other words, there is no conceivable reason for it to not be able to transmit data, provided the right system is in place. Sure enough, data transmission through visible light was actually invented a while ago. Unfortunately, practical implementations are still a no-go. That doesn't mean people aren't trying though. In fact, Japan-based Outstanding Technology has introduced the Commulight location system, which gives smartphones and tablets downloading info through photons instead of radio waves. There are two dongles: one of them...

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