The guys over at Brando have released another multimedia hard drive dock, the SATA HDD Multimedia Dock II.
The SATA HDD Multimedia Dock II can take 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch SATA hard drives, it connects to your PC via USB and also has a built in HDMI out port so you can hook it up [...]

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Can we have too many glossy, glowing boxes?  LaCie don’t seem to think so, hence their latest toppled-obelisk design, this time housing a hard-drive media player.  The LaCie LaCinema Classic Bridge can be used with any existing 3.5-inch hard-drive, outputting upscaled 1080p video via HDMI, but it also has a USB port for external, removable drives.
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Panasonic Japan announced a video-conferencing system today called the KX-VC500 that allows you to use HD-quality screens for communicating. This is really pretty cool and takes the entire idea of video conference to a new level of sophistication.
These connections will be made over the web and allow for HD-quality video to be sent both ways. [...]

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NEC has launched their new 43 inch curved LCD monitor the NEC CRV43, and from the looks of the photos this would be great for gaming.
The NEC CRV43 features a resolution of 2880 x 900, a 10,000:1 contrast ratio, USB 2.0 connectivity, a DVI-D and HDMI 1.3 connections, and it provides a 32:10 aspect ratio.
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Sanyo have announced an LCD projector with integrated WiFi draft-n, the first such model on the market.  Able to stream video content as well as readily connect via Vista’s Network Projector wizard, the Sanyo LP-WXU700 has a maximum WXGA 1280 x 800 resolution.
Brightness is 3,800 lumens from the 275-watt lamp and there’s a 1.8x optical zoom for [...]

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Kodak’s Zx1 720p pocket camcorder has quietly gone on sale at the company’s own store, priced at $149.95, as well as through a private retailer on Amazon.  Announced at CES back in January, the Zx1 has 128MB of internal memory together with an SD/SDHC card slot, and is capable of up to 60fps 16:9 720p [...]

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From the very start, ASUS’ Eee Box nettop caught the eye as a potential media PC, and the company themselves threw their hat into the ring with the launch of the Eee Box B206.  Swapping the DVI output for an HDTV-friendly HDMI, and slotting an ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3450 GPU with 256MB of its [...]

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Yesterday’s review of the Acer AspireRevo nettop might have cast some doubt over its Atom processor while simultaneously praising NVIDIA’s Ion GPU chipset, but it didn’t really touch on upgrade potential.  Small-form-factor (SFF) computers are usually no-go areas when it comes to most modifications, but bit-tech have discovered there’s a surprising amount of room inside [...]

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