October 5th, 2011
some quirky bits of hardware from time to time and its latest addition, the LaPlug is just one of those things that could be immensely useful, but somehow turns out to be fairly pointless at the same time. If product design is more important to you than what you get for your money, then LaCie is most likely a familiar brand to you. However, the company does managed to come up with some quirky bits of hardware from time to time and its latest addition, the LaPlug is just one of those things that could be immensely useful, but somehow turns out to be fairly pointless at the same time. In essence the LaPlug is a compact NAS box at 119x119x37mm, except that by now you've most likely realised that by being so small there's no space for an internal drive. Rather than doing a NAS, LaCie put together a box that has both Gigabit Ethernet and support for 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi where the quirky bit is that it has four USB 2.0 ports for external storage devices. Three of the ports are around the back for more permanent connectivity and one is on the front. In addition to being able to accept storage devices the LaPlug also accepts printers for sharing over the network.
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them aren't likely to have Time Machine support built in, but they're likely to have more advanced features and you do get a router included as well. We can't but help to feel that LaCie priced itself out of the market a bit here, although then again, we're sure there will be plenty of less technically inclined users that would be more than happy to spend that kind of money for easy network access to their data stored on multiple USB drives.
Samsung unleashes multiple mobile building blocks Source: http://vr-zone.com/articles/samsung-unleashes-multiple-mobilebuilding-blocks/13669.html October 5th, 2011
It's actually quite amazing how many products Samsung makes and there's no wonder that the company is starting to have such a dominant place in the mobile market space. The company announced no less than five new products related to mobile products, a new HD CMOS sensor, a 16Megapixel CMOS sensor, faster 64GB eMMC flash memory, 3Xnm LPDDR3 memory and a new 1.5GHz Exynos SoC manufactured using a 32nm High-K Metal Gate low-power process. It's actually quite amazing how many products Samsung makes and there's no wonder that the company is starting to have such a dominant place in the mobile market space. The company announced no less than five new products related to mobile products, a new HD CMOS sensor, a 16Megapixel CMOS sensor, faster 64GB eMMC flash memory, 3Xnm LPDDR3 memory and a new 1.5GHz Exynos SoC manufactured using a 32nm High-K Metal Gate low-power process.
The neat trick is that LaCie provides software with the LaPlug that allows you to access the attached devices even when you're not at home, well, at least as long as the LaPlug is connected to the internet somehow. It's also possible to get access to the LaPlug via a web browser, but this isn't always the most convenient option in our experience. The LaPlug also supports UPnP and DLNA and will stream media to any other DLNA device. Being an Apple friendly company LaCie has also thrown in support for Apple's Time Machine backup software.
The problem is that LaCie expects you to pay US$74.99 (S$97) for the LaPlug, for that kind of money you can wide range of wireless routers with a USB port or two built in. So ok, most of
The HD CMOS sensor is maybe not the most impressive of the announcements, but the S5K8AA as it's called is a tiny 1/8.2-inch CMOS sensor with a 1.2Megapixel resolution and the entire camera modules is a mere 2.8mm deep. The trick here is that it'll do 720p30 video or 480p60 and combined with backside illumination it should make for better video call quality in slim handsets and tablets. On the other end of the spectrum is the 1/2.3-inch 16Megapixel CMOS sensor called the S5K2P1, that's the same size sensor as in the recently launched Pentax Q interchangeable lens compact and larger than that found in many budget digital cameras. Although this backside illuminated sensor was designed with high-end smartphones in mind, it can also be used with digital cameras and camcorders and it shows that phones are getting very close to entirely replacing entry level digital cameras, at least as long as you're not worried about having the ability to zoom. Samsung makes some impressive claims for the S5K2P1 as well, as it's meant to shoot 16Megapixle images at 30fps, or 8.3Megapixel pictures at 60fps, all without any shutter lag effect in 16:9 format.
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