Medion’s clone offers good price for notebook

Let’s talk about Medion gadgets which production is let out in the market. Germany Medion declared about their novelty that seems to be named a clone of Eee machines. Therein it becomes a habit for these firms to do copies of some big competitors (like Chinese for example) with the purpose to occupy the market. Most of them are trying to look attractive to the buyer and to prove as the best. Despite this fact we are not talking about how the firms do their gadgets but we describe them and try to make a general review of them. So, the magnificent Medion Mini notebook is presented to our sight. Its handsome Atom processor works with 1.6-1.8 GHz and 1GB of operative memory runs very cool all the programs as they could work. You could choose by your own wish operating system be it Linux or Windows XP. I should notice that choosing Linux you get much more pleasure to feel that you use perfect beefier machine with all ought to it hardware and software. The built in 1.3 megapixel camera makes it more attractive and useful. Other included accessories are the memory card reader, two USB ports, an output used by VGA, an Ethernet port. Actually, it represents a pretty PC not only for working. It looks very smart to my mind. Moreover, its price will be established in Europe below ˆ399 that specifies that it is cheap enough. Some people say that soon this cheap gadget will become as “over-saturated as the MP3, digicam or cell phone”. I would like to have this one at home. As an conclusion I should say that now we have a great possibility to use this wonderful gadget without crawling behind the TV set with the purpose to connect it with the devices we use.

Sanyo Xacti E2 video camera

We recently rejoiced to the newest Sanyo’s gadget – a waterproof camcorder Xacti E2. So the novelties don’t force us to wait for them and we get more pleasure! Meet Xacti E2 – second variant of their model. Its advantage consists in function that allows you making video when your hands are occupied. And moreover – it does its work perfect! Choose the color you mostly like: blue or white and enjoy shootings and pictures. Another feature is its waterproof ability. Sanyo’s camera records video and photo using state-of-the-art AVC/H.264. Imagine only winter or summer vacation with the maximum extreme having this cool gadget in hands. Waterproof function allows to camcorder to work through the hours underwater. Camera supports SDHC memory card format. This card may be an 8GB card storing 2000 images and working continuously 8 hours. “Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0” application that is included in makes the shooting original and allows changing photo modes. It works in different conditions and includes next capabilities:
rotating and easy viewing 2.5’’ LCD color display;
anti-shake image stabilizer;
5x zoom;
easy video sharing;
9.1 oz weighting;
8 megapixel camera resolution for the best recordings;
high-quality video;
video sharing that allows to minimize photo to small files;
sequence shooting function;
selectable menu making colors different and clear;
The price of the gadget is 399.99 USD. The real price for real things

Asus Eee Top - All-in-one PC with touchscreen

"All-in-one" PC become more and more popular this days, with Apple Macs leading on this market. Surely, why keep clumsy and noisy black box under your desk with ton of wires hanging, when you can use stylish and wire-free all-in-one PC that sits on your desk and attracts attention? While this market is captured by Apple, many other manufacturers want to have a part of it with their own models. Asus, main player on the netbook market, decided to enter this domain. Company is extending borders of its Eee PC brand with the interesting hybrid of regular all-in-one PC and Tablet PC - and it looks very similar to all iMac owners. Let's look closer and examine this novelty.

Asus Eee Top - that's how it is named - is a very interesting all-in-one desktop, mainly because it is made with a Tablet PC abilities - wide and bright 15.6 inched LCD is touchscreen enabled, so it is possible to work with it without mouse or keyboard at all. Another thing that makes Asus Eee Top related to its netbook brothers is Intel Atom 1.6 GHz CPU, which is popular in ultra portable devices due to its energy saving and performance characteristics. Eee Top will also be equipped with 160 GB HDD, 1 GB DDR2 RAM, built-in 1.3 megapixel webcam and internal MMC/SDHC card reader.

While Eee PC was mainly sold with Linux inside, this one will be sold with Windows XP only (this is a subject to change, so we may see a Linux version later). However, new instant-on feature (copied from Voodoo Envy), which is called Express Gate, is based on Linux, and gives the ability to use basic functions like browsing internet, listening music and talking in Skype even without need to boot up in Windows - this shell boots up in seconds, so it is quite useful if you want quickly send a letter or listen to music.

This interesting model show that Asus is not limited to netbooks only, company wants to widen their product range with some new experimental models. This hybrid includes best parts of its every side - portability and touchscreen from Tablet PC and clean looks with good hardware inside from all-in-one PCs. Let's wait until it will be released, it will be a very reasonable purchase if its price tag of 700 dollars will not change.

Three-dimensional view with Minoru 3D Webcam

Do you always like the picture of your web camera, or your friend's and colleague's camera? Many people want more and more from it. And that is why we regularly see some new web camera gadgets appearing. Minoru 3D Webcam is the latest one among them. What they in Minoru decided to do is a great thing for web video chatting via Skype, Windows Live Messenger, ooVoo, AIM, or many other modern clients. They have decided not only to improve the quality of the video, but to expand greatly its features by adding a really good one – 3D vision. Minoru 3D Webcam will be announced in December for price close to 100 USD.


A usual price for most web cams is around 30 USD. You can always find a very economic variant for only 10 USD or a bit pricy camera but with a warranty and of a good quality for around 60 – 70 USD for Logitech and Microsoft LifeCam models. 100 dollars for Minoru 3D Webcam seems an outrageous price, but expenses become reasonable with a 3D feature. Actually this price doesn't seem quite big if we take under consideration the way it is built. To make a 3D picture of Webcam's user, Minoru decided on two cameras placed as far from each other as human's eye would be if they were of the same size with cameras. Such form factor creates a stereoscopic view and it can only be seen if you manage to persuade your fellow-talker to put on special 3D glasses. If not, Minoru 3D Webcam can work as a usual web camera using only one of two installed.

LaCie Internet Space hard disk - home data easy of access

The Internet is a great medium to dive in for any information one might ever need. Until so, many entrepreneurs will present their Internet gadgets to offer end users new possibilities in using Internet resources. LaCie have came up with a new idea how increase the amount of information that flows in and out our PCs. Not a novelty actually, but a very useful gadget anyway, especially for those, who face a strong need to make their personal data accessible any time and anywhere. How did they in LaCie manage? – Easy. The device is simple external hard disk, but with some new features.

Once again the device is aimed to make user's personal archives or media libraries accessible and transferable via Internet resources. It is called LaCie Internet Space. Hard drives come only with huge space on it starting with 500 GB up to 1TB. The basic idea of the gadget is simple. Owner of one is free to store everything on it as on a PC, but it remains opened for him from any other work station connected to the World Wide Web. It doesn't even matter if the local computer with a LaCie Internet Space connected is turned off. All one needs to access his personal data is to go to HipServ Home Server's web page, sign in and that's about it. By the way, if you are going to perform some serious data change, to download or upload some large media files for example, be ready to push your Internet connection to its limits. In rest, any type of connection will do. Another benefit of LaCie Internet Space hard disk is that more than one person can use the link to the local computer. A multi access is settled via invitation email system. To avoid possible unpleasant situation when one from the trusted list deletes needed data HipServ Home Server backs it up (they call it DesktopMirror). In addition, LaCie Internet Space is equipped with an extra USB 2.0 port.

LaCie designed their gadget to make its users more independent – a real helper in work for people who travel a lot. But in practice, many people notice Internet Space hard disk a good one for home usage, who have more than one computer at home and a notebook maybe. With a help of it, all the shared data is stored on one disk and internal hard drives save their space for personal files.