Friday, January 09, 2009

Fulton Innovation has a wireless power coming out party at CES

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/08/fulton-innovation-has-a-wireless-power-coming-out-party-at-ces/


It was just a short year ago that we went to Fulton Innovation's tiny booth at CES and failed to get a working wireless power demo, but a lot's happened since then -- the company is at CES 2009 in force, with a much larger, swanker booth, partners like Energizer and Motorola demoing working products, and tons of working real-world examples of the tech in action. We were particularly taken with the modded Dish DVR that automatically turned itself on and off when the remote was placed on top of it to charge up -- oh, and the remote featured super-capacitors instead of batteries that charge fully in 10 seconds. There were also a ton of cell phones (including a modded iPhone, of course), new cooking demos featuring a blender, and a super cool Leggett & Pratt power tool charging workbench. Extremely impressive, all in all -- we're starting to think that 2009 could be the year that wireless power could really take off. Gallery below, video after the break!

P.S.- We asked if Fulton had anything to do with the Palm Pre's sexy Touchstone wireless charger, but the guys in the booth didn't know. We'll let you know if we find anything out.

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IOGEAR's Wireless USB Audio / Video Kit ships soon for $350

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/iogears-wireless-usb-audio-video-kit-ships-soon-for-350/


Based on the fact that this kit contains connectors for stereo audio, VGA and Wireless USB, we're inclined to believe that this here product is actually a renamed version of the Wireless USB to VGA kit we caught wind of last year. Even if not, however, this will help you stream content at up to 720p over VGA for 30 feet sans wires, and it's fully compatible with Windows XP and Vista. The bad news? The price has increased by around $50 since last mention, with the latest report suggesting a $349.95 sticker and a March ship date.

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VAIO P vs Eee PC... fight!

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/vaio-p-vs-eee-pc-fight/


We've got a VAIO P in the house, and we thought it'd only be fitting to put the quintessential "it's not a netbook, we swear!" up against the quintessential netbook, ASUS's Eee PC (in convenient 7-inch and 10-inch flavors). Stand by for further impressions, but boy is that screen densely packed with pixels. There's another shot after the break of the P being swallowed by a 17-inch MacBook Pro... juxtaposition!

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IOGEAR intros first HDMI-compliant KVMs: 1080p, lossless audio supported

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/09/iogear-intros-first-hdmi-compliant-kvms-1080p-lossless-audio-s/

We've been waiting for something like this for pretty much ever, and thanks to IOGEAR, we've finally got it. Here at CES, the company has introduced new 2- and 4-Port HDMI KVM switches with USB 2.0 Peripheral Sharing (GCS1792, GCS1794), which are HDMI 1.3b and HDCP compliant. As if that weren't enough, both boxes also support 1080p resolutions, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio. In related news, the 4-Port DualView Dual-Link DVI KVMP Switch (GCS1644) also saw the light of day today, and everything mentioned here should be up for sale in Q1. Oh, but don't think these suckers will come cheap -- prices range from $299.95 for the 2-port HDMI KVM to $679.95 for the DualView sibling.

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Posted by Augustine at 8:58 AM

Thursday, January 08, 2009

AMD Phenom II vs Intel Core i7 - specifications


CPU Model
 Athlon X2
 Phenom
 Phenom II
Dimensions
 230 mm2 285 mm2 258 mm2
Transistor Count
 227 M
 450 M
 758


The following table compares technical details of processors from both AMD and Intel:


 AMD Phenom
 AMD Phenom II
 Intel Core i7
 Intel Core 2
Core
 Agena / Toliman
 Deneb
 Bloomfield
 Yorkfield / Wolfdale / Kentsfield / Conroe / Allendale
Manufacturing Process
 65 nm
 45 nm
 45 nm
 65 nm, 45 nm
Top Clock Speed
 2.6 GHz
 3.0 GHz
 3.2 GHz
 3.2 GHz
L1 Cache
 64 + 64 KB
 64 + 64 KB
 32 + 32 KB
 32 + 32 KB
L2 Cache
 512 KB
 512 KB
 256 KB
 4 MB
L3 Cache
 2 MB
 6 MB
 8 MB
 N/A
Max Power (TDP)
 140 W
 125 W
 136 W
 136 W
CPU <-> Northbridge
 HyperTransport
 HyperTransport
 Quick Path Interconnect
 Front Side Bus
CPU <-> CPU
 HyperTransport HyperTransport
 Quick Path Interconnect
 Northbridge Internal
Max Clock
 3.2 GHz (25.6 GB/s) 3.2 GHz (25.6 GB/s) 6.4 GT/s (12.8 GB/s) 400 MHz (12.8 GB/s)
Min Clock
 800 MHz (6.4 GB/s) 800 MHz (6.4 GB/s) 4.8 GT/s (9.0 GB/s) 200 MHz (6.4 GB/s)
Reference Clock
 200 MHz
 200 MHz
 133 MHz
 400 MHz, 333 MHz, 266 MHz, 200 MHz
64-bit Support
 x86-64
 x86-64
 EM64T
 EM64T
Hyper-Threading
 N/A
 N/A
 Yes
 N/A
Multimedia Extensions
 MMX 3DNow! SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSE 4a MMX 3DNow! SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSE 4a MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4.1 SSE 4.2 MMX SSE SSE2 SSE3 SSSE3 SSE4.1
Virtualization
 Pacifica
 Pacifica
 VT
 VT
Energy Saving
 Cool'n'Quiet Cool'n'Quiet 3.0
 Enchanced Halt State (C1E), SpeedStep Enchanced Halt State (C1E), SpeedStep
Thermal Protection
 Thermal Diode
 Thermal Diode
 Thermal Monitor 2
 Thermal Monitor 2
Virus Protection
 XD bit
 XD bit
 XD bit
 XD bit
Trusted Execution
 Presidio
 Presidio
 LaGrandeTechnology
 LaGrande Technology
Active Management
 No
 No
 iAMT2 (V-Pro) iAMT2 (V-Pro)

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