Just a few months after we presented you the USB mini refrigerator for the hot summers, it looks like we already have Brando with another one popping out. It’s a can cooler and chiller that you can take at your office to keep your beverages (cans only) cool while you’re on a meeting with a very important client.

The mini fridge gadget has a built-in mini fan, is powered by USB and is Plug and Play. It has a button to choose from chill or warm, weights 460g and the dimensions are 14 x 11 x 13 cm. The price is $32, so this new gadget for the lazy, is really affordable but what interests me more is if anyone would really get one!

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It all started with Ricoh Caplio RR730 that got now some small upgrades. Higher resolution 2.5-inch TFT-LCD screen and better lens resolution for better picture quality. Ricoh RR750 which is in fact an entry level digital camera, has a 7.16 megapixel CCD sensor, 4x digital zoom and 3x optical zoom.

Ricoh Caplio RR750 comes with a 32MB built-in memory, USB connectivity and one SD expansion slot. Working on two AA batteries, weighting 128g and with a combined zoom of 12x you can consider it a good solution for a point-and-shoot partner for photography on the go. Ricoh RR750 was only announced in Japan so far, with no release date or price.

[via Engadget]

Great news for laptop users with the launch of the new high-end Intel Core 2 Extreme X7800 processor. It’s the first laptop CPU in the Extreme Edition brand to bring a lot of goods in one small and expensive chip. It runs at 2.6GHz with a 4MB L2 cache and an 800MHz front-side bus.

I know many will think of it as the perfect tunning processor and I say the same, because Intel just took the over-speed protection off. This is just like an invitation to overclock the X7800, but keep in mind that you’re the only one responsible if anything bad happens. Apart the 28% speed boost above the Core Duo T2600, Intel Core 2 Extreme X7800 has two new appreciated features: Enhanced Deep Sleep, consuming less power when the system is idle, and Advanced Media Boost so that you can edit your videos, images or music faster and better. The price is really steep, $851.

Prepare your dollars, because in about two weeks we get to see Core 2 Extreme X7800 processors live. I suspect it won’t be better than a Core 2 Duo ($300 cheaper) and I wonder if it’s going to be a MacBook Pros we’ll see it in!

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Canon, the biggest digital camera maker, announced they’ve started working on a new factory to produce complementary metal oxide semiconductors (CMOS sensors) in May and is located near Tokyo in the Kanagawa Prefecture.

Once alive and kicking, the company will almost double the production capacity from 3 mln chips they are manufacturing right now in another factory in Kanagawa, that will be used both in SLR (single lens reflex) cameras as well as compact models. Canon is trying to have their key components, manufactured in-house, to lower costs and to become less dependent of Sony’s CMOS. Their targets for 2007 are 24 million digital cameras, out of which, 3 million are high-end SLRs.

Canon will invest 55 billion yen in this new factory ($451 mln) and should become operational in July 2008.

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About two weeks ago Taiwan decided to replace the halogen traffic lights with LED units for the sake of the planet by reducing power consumption. It looks like the city of Seville (Spain) announced the same and that is because LEDs have a power output of 6 to 15W instead of those incandescent bulbs going for 35 to 70W.

These actions will save somewhere near 85% of the traffic light electricity (~ 4 million KWh) that will reduce CO2 emissions in 4,000 tons. Another reason to do it is an increased life span, because LEDs are much better. Another green project in the city of Seville is a light tram/train system that will cut down the costs of transportation.

[via AutoBlogGreen]

We have news regarding Lenovo Xiang, or call it the Olympic Games Lenovo Laptop, that was exhibited at a Southeast Asian expo. It comes with a “Cloud of Promise” design that is specially made for the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the only specs we have are a 12-inch widescreen, 1.66 GHz Core Duo processor, three USB ports and a multi-format card reader among others. That’s not much, and we are still waiting for the most important ones like the release date and price.

I see the same marketing used on the iPhone for the new Lenovo Xiang, but I don’t think it will have the same success. Deluding someone with news about a product is not always the best advertising. Pictures, thanks to Aving!

It’s news day from Samsung and here are two new blu-ray players that they’ve announced. Samsung BD-P2400 and BD-P1400 are both blu-ray players with native HD at 1080p / 1080i / 720p that can play at a resolution of 1920 x 1080. There’s something else I can note down here, bigger brother BD-P2400 uses the HQV standard from Samsung, “Hollywood Quality Video” that will make Harry Potter’s spells to be extremely real. Both the blu-ray players handle up-convert DVDs to 1080p via HDMI.

Audio : coaxial and optical digital outs serving 5.1 stereo, MP3 playback, Dolby Digital Plus with DTS HD and supports Dolby TrueHD
Video: HDMI, S-video and composite outs

Samsung BD-P2400 will cost $649, going live from October and BD-P1400 is $549 but has a release date in September. The price is still very high from what people say, and if you think the PS3 plays blu-ray discs you might give it a good thought before buying one.

[via Engadget]

With all the fuss about Microsoft Surface(which is extremely expensive) and iPhone’s fancy display, there is a guy that thought of creating a step by stem tutorial to create your own interactive multitouch display with just a few hundred bucks, a little geek stuff like a projector, a modified webcam and a homemade acrylic whiteboard, community-made software and some work.

You can check out below an illustrative picture of how the finger interacts with the acrylic surface, a video of how the whole gadget works and the link to the step-by-step guide. It’s your geek chance to create something that everyone wishes these days if you put some work into it.

Link via Gizmodo

LG’s officials today announced the availability of a new colour for their Shine mobile phone. Since the new “Titanium Black” colour is “edgier than ( regular) black and more chic than silver“, the device is supposed to “appeal to customers who demand the highest standards in style and technology“, says the official announcement.

For those interested in more than just colour the phone hasn’t changed as it packs exactly the same features as its other colour siblings (audio and video playback, digital camera with autofocus, a microSD expansion slot and more). The Titanium Black version of this multimedia handset will be available in the UK, France, Netherlands and Austria from the very end of this month.

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BenQ’s digital camera line-up just got an update with the E820 and C740i models. Being upgrades to the E720 and the C740 series, the new devices feature bright 2.5″ displays and 3x optical zoom. You can have a better look at the features of each device from the following comparison:

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