computer technology

The desktop all-in-one highly attractive offer for touch panels, although they have a problem associated if we use their touch screens too: fatigue in the arms producing a position so strained. Concepts like this new MSI Butterfly come to solve the problem.

The idea of MSI is that the touch screen all-in-one can be pushed to be in a position similar to the traditional keyboard, comfortable to manipulate the panel without fear of fatigue. As noted Device is a solution for those who just do not see touch screens integrated into desktop, as Steve Jobs.

MSI Butterfly screen can be seen this week at CES, a prototype has a modest 10 inches. However, by the time the company has no concrete plans to bring the concept to market.

Lenovo took advantage of CES (Consumer Electronics Show) this week to show the first tablets, diving and a rapidly growing market currently led by Apple iPad Galaxy Tab tablets and Samsung.

Executives Lenovo have advanced to be two of tablets that the company will present in CES. One of them could be LePad, As announced by the company and will be based on the Android operating system. Both are aimed primarily at the consumer segment; although the company plans to release include the possibility of ThinkPad tablet for business users.

Lenovo has been working on the design of tablets since last year but still has no product of its kind in the tender. While last year, also at CES, introduced IdeaPad U1, A laptop that included a detachable touch screen that could be used as a tablet. It initially planned to launch Lenovo IdeaPad U1 market in the second half of 2010, but finally the release was postponed.

According to data from market research firm Gartner, sales of tablets are growing at spectacular rates. The consultancy expects that in 2011 sold 54.8 million units.

Three major manufacturers have announced new SSDs in their product ranges for 2011. So while Intel and Transcend are focused on providing smaller devices, Kingston announces developments in the speed of adoption of USB 3.0 bus.

Intel announced the new Series 310 hard drive (solid state SSD), With which it delivers the performance of their X25 units but eight times smaller in size, allowing two drives installed on a laptop without increasing its size, or install in tablets.

The SSD 310 Series have dimensions of 51 x 30 x 5 mm with a weight of only 10 grams, according to the manufacturer, may improve the overall performance of a PC up to 60%. They are available in m-SATA format with capacities of 40 GB (99 $ in quantities of 1,000 units, about 75 €) and 80 GB (179 $, € 135).

The announcement Transcend SSDs are new half-slim and MSAT are designed for applications requiring thin disks and light notebooks, netbooks, tablets, GPS and mobile Internet devices.

The MSAT discs measure 29.85 x 50.8 x 3.5 mm and are manufactured in capacities of 32 GB (78 €) and 64 GB (114 €). The half-slim are 54 x 39 x 4 mm, and are available with 4 GB (SLC and MLC € 36 € 26), 8GB (MLC 28 €), 16 GB (43 €), 32 GB (78 €) and 64 GB (144 €).

Both units have a SATA 3Gb / s.

For its part Kingston has introduced an external drive HyperX MAX 3.0, which includes SSDs and USB 3.0 interface to provide highly portable drives and high performance.

The discs are designed for advanced users, technology enthusiasts and professionals who seek to accelerate the transfer of data to the PC without sacrificing the benefits of mobility. Using them on computers with USB 3.0 bus, the new Kingston HyperX MAX 3.0 provide a speed of 195 Mbps and 160 Mbps reading in writing, allowing as evidence of the manufacturer, transfer a 10 GB movie in one minute and 12 seconds. In addition they are also compatible with USB 2.0 computers.

The Kingston HyperX MAX 3.0 is offered in capacities of 64 GB (€ 163.04), 128 GB (€ 266.80) and 256 GB (€ 578.06), and has some measures 73.49 x 118.60 x 12 mm.

Transcend has announced new portable hard drives StoreJet 2.5 “750 GB capacity, shock-proof models: StoreJet 25D2, StoreJet 25M2, 25D3 and StoreJet StoreJet 25m3.

Among the new models Transcend Two USB 2.0 connectivity feature, these are the StoreJet 25D2 and StoreJet 25M2. The StoreJet 25D2 is the size of a passport under his shell has an internal hard drive suspension that helps prevent damage from accidental slips or falls during travel and is available in white, making it a snap for computers Mac.

For its part, StoreJet 25M2 has a shock protection system of three phases that incorporates a silicone outer shell that absorbs vibration and does it comply with standard landing U.S. Army, making it one of the available hard disks more resistant.

The other two models feature USB 3.0 connectivity; these are the StoreJet StoreJet 25D3 and 25m3. Both offer a transfer rate up to 90MB / s (USB mode 3.0) and allow users to copy large files without spending too much time.

All models have 750 GB capacity are available: StoreJet 25D2 (123 EUR), StoreJet 25M2 (123 EUR), StoreJet 25D3 (130 EUR) and StoreJet 25m3 (130 EUR).

The new SDHC memory cards Panasonic premieres UHS category that gets speeds up to 60 MB/s.

Panasonic has announced a new category of SD cards, which will be renamed UHS SDHC (Ultra High Speed) and allow faster transfer speeds, but at the expense of being incompatible with conventional cards.

Speed Class UHS is a category created thinking of HD video recording and allows reaching the 104 MB/s, but by the time the card launched by Panasonic becomes 60 MB/s.

Panasonic will manufacture the new SDHC UHS with capacities of 8 GB (RP-SDY08G) and 16 GB (RP-SDY16G), which incorporates the Super Intelligent Controller (SICS), which is designed for greater protection of stored data. This driver is responsible for continuously refreshing the data with automatic error correction.

Power Failure Protection Technology Function reduces accidental data loss by a power outage and to retrieve the data automatically when a fault occurs.

Canon has announced a new film and document scanner, the CanoScan 9000F, for use in photographic applications.

The new CanoScan 9000F uses a CCD sensor of 9600 x 9600 dpi and offers a color depth of 48 bits. In addition, Canon improved speed in relation to 8800F, which it replaces.

Thus in the 9000F uses a new film adapter allows more light to penetrate and get to scan a negative frame of 35 mm in about 18 seconds (at a resolution of 1200 dpi).

The CanoScan 9000F can digitizing slides mounted and medium format film (positive or negative). It also has automatic scanning modes to send the output to a PC, by email, or generate a PDF, is one touch of a button. The scanner also has application in office applications, for which includes an optical character recognition (OCR).

When it is scanning film, one of the most common problems is clean of dust and scratches. This technology incorporates Canon FARE (Improvement and automatic film retouching) Level 3, based on the capture infrared light. It also includes Auto Photo Fix II to correct the tones of the photos, and Fix Auto Document performing advanced image analysis to correct the data automatic area by area.

Along with the CanoScan 9000F is delivered licenses Adobe Photoshop Elements, ArcSoft PhotoStudio, Silverfast SE MP Navigator EX.

You can simply browse a book that does not seem the best way to scan, but a group of Japanese researchers at the University of Tokyo created super fast scanner new software that allows hundreds of pages to be scanned in minutes.

Scan paper is usually a tedious process in which each page has to be inserted into a flatbed scanner, but a team led by Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa uses a high speed camera that takes 500 pictures per second to scan pages as they are passed .

Normal scanners can only scan the information to be placed directly before them on the page. Developing the new scanner has no problem with the fact that pages are usually deformed in some way to pass.

“Take a picture of the way, then calculates the form and use these estimates to record scanning,” Ishikawa said, explaining the system used to reconstruct the original page.

“As you can record while understand the underlying form is very easy to make pages that are being scanned and saved as a normal flat copy,” he added.

The current system can scan an average of 200-250 pages book in just over 60 seconds using a basic computer equipment available for sale.

Although it now requires additional time to process the scanned images, the researchers hope that with time the technology is faster and much smaller.

“In the more distant future, when it is possible to put all this on a chip and then put in an IPAD or iPod, you could simply scan using that chip. At that point, it will be possible to scan something quickly to record it and read it later” Ishikawa told Reuters.

To scan books with an iPhone might be a bit far, but Ishikawa said that a commercial version of the scanning system based on a computer may be available in two or three years.

Although technology has the potential to take paper books into the digital age, it remains to be seen how publishers will react to the fact that people can scan their books simply turning the pages.

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MK7559GSXP 5,400 rpm provides storage capacity up to now had 3.5-inch hard drives large form factor in a device only 9.5 mm, so it is integrated into portable premium, high-end PC external hard drive portable.

Toshiba has announced a new technical initiative with the launch of the first hard drive with a storage capacity of 750 gigabytes and a design of two plates.

MK7559GSXP provides an areas density of 541.4 Gbit / 2.54 cm², which allows OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) to develop new products such as premium notebook computers, which can provide high levels of internal storage, while maintaining a sleek design and attractive.

Launched by the MK7559GSXP, line MKxx59GSM hard drives offers high levels of storage with a three-plate design has been optimized to meet the growing market for external hard drives. MK7559GSM MK1059GSM and have a capacity of 1 terabyte (TB) and 750 GB of storage, respectively, in three plates.

‘We focus on providing OEM advanced capacity hard drives that are leading the adoption curve and offer high performance in terms of energy efficiency, speed and reliability, “said Martin Larsson, vice president of Toshiba Europe, Storage Device Division.

This revolutionary concept, named Skinput, Aims to make the largest organ of human body on a touch screen. It developed jointly by engineers from the American University of Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft. This prototype allows to make a call, change songs or play Tetris with a simple touch to your arm. It is based on acoustic sensors that collect low-frequency sounds that sound when touching the skin and correspond to an action in the system, according to a predetermined pattern.

As shown in the video that accompanies these lines, to operate this system the user must put a bracelet on his biceps, Where they are integrated with a projector that shows the images in his body and the receiving system that transmits the received data to other devices - such as a phone or a computer-through Bluetooth connectivity.

Skinput is able to detect interactions with five different parts of the arm with 95% accuracy and works even when the user is moving, its creators have explained to the specialized on website Cnet. This product, which will play Tetris, change songs or make a call with a simple touch to your arm, it released in mid April in Atlanta (USA), as part of the conference Computer-Human Interaction.

IBM has plans to manufacture high efficiency solar cell energy, but is open to make alliances with manufacturers of solar cells to demonstrate the technology.

IBM announced that it has built a solar cell, whose key layer that absorbs most light for conversion into energy is composed entirely of elements readily available - that sets a new world record for efficiency and has the potential to allow the technology of solar cells produce more energy at lower cost.

Due to its composition of copper (Cu), tin (Sn), zinc (Zn), sulfur (S), and / or selenium (Se), the cell shows an efficiency in energy conversion of 9.6%, ie 40% greater than the value previously achieved for this package. To enable a breakthrough in solar cell research, IBM is leveraging its expertise in technology, materials and manufacture of microprocessors.

“In one hour, reaching the earth more energy from sunlight to power the entire planet consumes in a year, but the solar cells actually contribute less than 0.1% of electricity supply, mainly due to its high cost,” said Dr. David Mitzi, who leads the IBM Research team that developed the solar cell. “The search for solar technology development that is comparable to conventional electricity generation cost per watt and also offers the ability Deployment to the terawatt level has become a major challenge that our research is closer to overcome.”