April 2012 – The Rock Band game packs are still being supported by Harmonics, however the hardware – guitars, drums, keyboards, etc are now being designed and made by MadCatz. We recently had a chance to test the “pro” series guitar that supports the full guitar mode – not just the 6 button interface. In [...]
March 2012 – We recently tested the SanDisk Extreme 240GB SSD for the commerical marketplace. This drive has a SATA III (6Gbps) interface and features SanDisk’s 24nm Flash cells as the core memory. This is a desktop and oriented drive that come in an eco freindly minimalist package without the mounting bracket, SATA cable, or [...]
March 2012 – Samsung has recently introduced their new consumer oriented SATA III (6Gbps) SSD the 830Series. This is a desktop and oriented drive that come with the mounting bracket, SATA cable, power cable, and software. The current kit includes both the Samsung SSD software and a copy of Norton Ghost to aid with drive [...]
March 2012 – We recently had a chance to test the Akitio MyCloud Mini Personal Cloud Server. The product which supports DLNA, UpnP, eSATA, 10/100/1000 Ethernet, and USB 2.0 is designed to be a central connection and NAS controller for a home/small business media network. The compact device (~12cm X 12cm X 3cm ) has [...]
March 2012 – We recently had a chance to test the Micron 200GB P400e Enterprise class SSD. This MLC drive is optimized and designed for the enterprise marketplace. The drive features a high performance read channel that is about double the throughput of the write channel. In most enterprise applications, the SSD is part of [...]
April 29, 2012 – The long awaited video game version of the classic graphic novel “the Walking Dead” was relesed this week on the Xbox platform. The game is based on characters from the original graphic novel, with a new story line and not aligned with the TV series. A trailer for the game can [...]
Wacom is best known for their interactive pen displays, pen tablets and digital interactive products. Photographers and graphics artists have used Wacom tables for years in conjunction with illustration, web design and photoediting software from Corel and Adobe. The latest product from Wacom is the Intuous5 pen tablet with multitouch functionality. Wacom Intuos Tablets [...]
January 2012, Anaheim, CA – President and CEO Kaz Tanaka of Roland Corp from Japan, kicked off their 40th anniversary product rollout at the Winter NAMM show. The company which has been dedicated to innovation since 1972, introduced the tag line a “Better Life with Music” at the event. The first announcement was that the [...]
January 2012, Las Vegas, In addition to the massive floor display of TVs, appliances, and mobile electronics which dominated the Central Hall of the LVCC, Samsung also filled most of the Cosmopolitan Hotel conference rooms with specialized product briefings. One of the briefings was an update and the release of the Smart Media Hub. Since [...]
January 2012, Las Vegas, One of the big discussions at CES was the prevalence of 4G networks, and the hopeful availability of video conferencing. The promise of 4G networks with their high bandwidth potentials has brought a great deal of excitement to the marketplace. At the CES show, Alcatel was showing an LTE transceiver pair [...]
