Singapore Gadgets

World’s Fastest SATA Drive

April 25th, 2008 in Hard Disks Drive, Western Digital by Uncle Sha

WD VelociRaptor™
300 GB, 3 Gb/s, 16 MB Cache, 10,000 RPM

Engineered for maximum speed! WD VelociRaptor, the newest member of unique class of 10,000 RPM SATA hard drives, combines a SATA 3 Gb/s interface and 16 MB cache, to deliver performance that’s up to 35% faster than its speedy older brother
Western Digital begins shipping [...]

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Working helicopters being built from old car and bike parts

November 29th, 2007 in Hacks, People by Uncle Sha

24-year-old undergraduate Mubarak Muhammed Abdullahi, a physics undergraduate from Nigeria has done so
This 12-meter-long yellow model aircraft was built in eight months
It has flown successfully at a height of seven feet so far and is powered by a second-hand 133 horsepower engine from a Honda Civic
Two Toyota car seats front as the cockpit seats
Mubarak [...]

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World’s Most Energy-Efficient Hard Drives

November 25th, 2007 in Hard Disks Drive, Hitachi by Uncle Sha

Hitachi replaced its DeskStar line with these P7K500 energy-savers, rolling out in capacities from 250GB to 500GB.
The drives run at 7200RPM, they’re up to 59% more power efficient, with the 250GB drive sipping just 3.6 watts when idle (the 320GB and higher drives use 4.8 watts)
Energy-saving features:

Switching regulators have replaced linear regulators for [...]

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Nokia shows off iPhoneesque touch interface

November 22nd, 2007 in Phone by Uncle Sha

Nokia’s forthcoming touch interface for S60
Nokia has announced a new touch-based interface for their Series 60 (S60) smartphone OS to be implemented in future products from Nokia and other Symbian-based phones.
It’s clearly in response to the iPhone
The HTC Touch, which uses a simple touch-based interface overlaid on Windows Mobile, wasn’t anything special.
Series [...]

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IsatPhone, a new compact satellite phone

November 18th, 2007 in Phone by Uncle Sha

The new IsatPhone from Inmarsat is relatively compact for a satellite phone
It is Pocket-size handset, easy to use, rugged design, dual mode satellite/GSM, 2 hours 40 mins talk time and comes with a range of accessories
IsatPhone can be used within Asia, Africa and the Middle East, using Inmarsat’s latest generation Inmarsat-4 satellite over the [...]

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Innovative ScanFront 220 and 220P shipped out

November 15th, 2007 in Printer, Scanner by Uncle Sha

Canon has today announced that its ScanFront 220 and ScanFront 220P network scanners have started to ship out in the US
ScanFront 220 and 220P devices represent Canon’s flagship network scanning solutions complementing the Company’s award-winning DR-Series Scanners.
Both the ScanFront 220 and 220P will be available through authorized Canon dealers and Canon resellers at the [...]

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A piano hooked up to a 80GB hard drive of songs

November 11th, 2007 in Hacks by Uncle Sha

Yamaha’s Disklavier player grand pianos now is equipped with a 80GB hard drive
And why?
Well some brain-niac wants to integrate digital electronics and grand piano for faithfully reproducing beautiful piano performances, thus Yamaha Disklavier made its debut
These computer-age ‘player’ pianos have reproduce not only ‘live’ acoustic piano concerts, but ensemble music with instrumental and vocal [...]

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Soap Dispensing Faucets with Proximity Sensing

November 8th, 2007 in People by Uncle Sha

I kid you not! Cool hur …
Now there’s a faucet that detects your incoming hand and will dispense the soap and water at programmed level
Designed by Miscea, not only will the faucet give you water but also soap and dishwashing liquid all without touching the faucet.
The glass interface is lit up with a [...]

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Prepara’s Herb Maker

November 4th, 2007 in Health, People by Uncle Sha

Want to prolongs the life of fresh herbs for up to three weeks?
Well you can now with Prepara’s Herb Maker
With the Herb Maker, you keep the herb encased with the ends submerged in water. Now you can enjoy fresh, flavorful meals every time you cook
It fits inside a typical refrigerator door while providing roomy [...]

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