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Wacom have announced their latest Cintiq combination LCD display and graphics tablet.  The Wacom Cintiq 21UX has a full 21.3-inch 1600 x 1200 4:3 LCD display and an active digitizer that recognizes 2048 levels of pressure.  They’ve also thrown plenty of hardware controls at the tablet; the Cintiq 21UX has eight programmable shortcut buttons on either side of the display, together with a touch-strip on either side of the rear bezel.

Toggle buttons allow you to control up to four different features with each touch-strip, via the round control on the front.  That way you can cycle through multiple brush settings all with one hand, while actually using the stylus with the other. Read the rest of this entry »

Gigabyte released a new 10.1-inch (1,366 x 768) touchscreen tablet PC which offers a choice of the N450 or N470 Intel Atom processors.

Two versions of the T1000 will be offered, the T1000X with a 4-cell, 4,500mAh battery and the T1000P with a 6-cell, 7,650mAh battery.  Both netbooks will have 1GB of RAM, a 250GB HDD and Intel GMA 3150 graphics, along with WiFi b/g/n, 10/100 ethernet and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR.

Ports include two USB 2.0, an eSATA/USB combo, audio in/out, VGA, ExpressCard and a multiformat memory card reader; there’s also a 1.3-megapixel webcam, microphone and 1.5W stereo speakers.

Shuttle has announced its latest SFF PC called the XS35 that will be seen at CeBIT next month.

The tiny SFF PC is only 3.3cm thick and is HD compatible. This may well be the best SFF PC Shuttle has for use as an HTPC machine in the living room. The chassis used for the XS35 is 1-liter class and has a standard VESA mount interface. That interface means you can mount the PC to the rear of a TV or LCD display.

The machine is complete, runs the Intel Atom D510 processor at 1.6GHz, and uses the NM10 Express Chipset. Graphics are handled by the NVIDIA GT218, otherwise known as the ION 2 platform. The machine has HDMI out, five USB ports, VGA out, LAN port, memory card reader, 2.5″ HDD, and an optical drive.

The M780 convertible tablet computer was introduced and will be available at $1,799. The tablet is powered by an Intel Core i7-620M 2.66GHz processor, up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, a 7200RPM 320GB HDD.

The 12.1-inch machine is equipped with  a 1200 x 800 TruBright LED backlit, a HDMI out, 2X USB ports, microphone, webcam, Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi, a Ultra SlimBay DVD-SuperMulti drive (+/-R double layer) and runs on Windows 7 Pro OS.

Sony unveiled its slick LX900 line of 3D TVs at CES last month and the electronics giant has now announced that the sets are on display in Sony Style stores.

The BRAVIA XBR-LX900 series features integrated 3D functionality, Edge LED backlight, and Sony’s new Monolithic Design and Motionflow™ PRO 240Hz motion compensation technology, which helps produces smooth images in fast moving content such as sport and action movies.

The HDTV also includes integrated 3D functionality, BRAVIA Internet Widgets and integrated Wi-Fi which allows the owner to  access entertainment websites like Amazon Video On Demand and YouTube.

CeBIT 2010 will be available soon and MSI are tipping their hand for what pleasures they’ll have at the show.  Most interesting are the latest Wind Top all-in-ones, the 24-inch AE2420 and the 22-inch AE2280; rather than the nettop-based models we’ve seen before, these new Wind Tops will use Intel’s Core i3, i5 and i7 processors, ramping up to 3D capabilities on the top-spec machine.

The 24-inch Wind Top AE2420 has a 120Hz refresh rate and, with the appropriate dorky glasses, can show 3D visuals in 1080p resolution.  There are integrated 10W speakers, along with multitouch-capable displays.

The two new models will be on show alongside MSI’s other range of smaller all-in-ones and its Wind Box line of nettops.  No word on pricing for the AE2420 or AE2280 as yet.

Russell Brown, the Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems Incorporated, has released a special iPhone application: the Photoshop 1.0.7.  It allows access to the Photoshop 1.0 Levels panel, taking any image in the iPhone’s gallery as well letting you tweak white point, black point and gamma, in separate red/green/blue or combined channels – including the original image histogram feature. Then the modified picture can be saved into your iPhone library. The application was built entirely with Corona SDK, using UI graphics and font images from the original Macintosh System 6 version of the application (circa 1990). Read the rest of this entry »

Sony have announced their first 3D compatible A/V receiver, the STR-DN1010.  The DN1010 is a full 7.1-channel amp, with 110 watts power per channel (@8-Ohms, 1kHz, 1% THD) and a full seven HD-capable inputs (four HDMI, three component) with 1080/24p support.  Plug in a 3D-capable input and a 3D-capable display, and the DN1010 will happily pass through the video signal while crunching the soundtrack. Read the rest of this entry »

ASUS has just announced their newest multi-touch tablet PC called the Eee PC T101MT. Aimed specifically at students and professionals, the tablet boasts a 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 LED backlight/resistive multi-touch panel, an Intel Atom N450 processor, up to 2GB RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a 0.3MP webcam, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3x USB ports, a 6.5-hour battery and Windows 7 OS. Pricing and availability are still unknown at the moment.

Verizon has announced that the new service for the two mobile phones is available immediately. Along with controlling the TV from both of the smartphones, the new service also lets the user transfer photos directly from the handsets to the TV for viewing.

Verizon says that the same service will be rolled out to more mobile phones in the coming months. The new offering is called FiOS Mobile Remote and provides complete control over the DVR, My Photos feature, My Favorites for importing favorite channels lists, and Tele-TV Mute that mutes the TV when a call comes in.