Sharkoon reveals the Rush Outplay mouse pad
Sharkoon has today expanded its Rush family of gamer-oriented products with the Rush Outplay a gaming surface aka mouse pad that's abrasion resistant and also waterproof. The new pad measures 400 (L) x 345 (W) x 4 (H) mm, has a rubberized base that prevents slipping and a granular texture on top to ensure fast and precise mouse movements.
"The pad has a very fast surface due to the special yarn used," said Jan "moon" Stolle, multiple German Counter-Strike 1.6 champion with Team ALTERNATE. "The Slap Stick Effect (Status Friction Effect) is reduced to a minimum by the rough surface texture. Therefore, even smaller mouse movements are extremely precise! The sensitivity remains constant during a long period. For me, a genuine alternative to my plastic pad! My recommendation!"
The Rush Outplay Gaming Mouse pad is now shipping with a recommended price tag of 15 Euro but can be found listed in Europe @ 11 Euro.
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Corsair officially intros the Reactor and Nova series SSDs
First spotted three weeks ago, the Reactor and Nova series 2.5-inch solid state drives have today been announced by Corsair and have started shipping worldwide. The slightly cheaper Reactor SSDs come in 60GB and 120GB capacities, make use of JMicron's JMF612 controller and MLC (multi-level cell) Flash memory, have SATA 3.0 Gbps and USB 2.0 connectivity, 128MB of DDR2 cache memory and a MTBF of 1 million hours. Speed wise, these are claimed to reach 250 MB/s when reading and 170 MB/s when writing.
The 64GB and 128GB Nova drives feature the Indilinx Barefoot controller, MLC memory, 64MB of cache, a SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, the same MTBF rating as the Reactor models, and deliver maximum read and write speeds of 270 MB/s and 195 MB/s, respectively.
All four SSDs have TRIM support, are backed by a two-year warranty and come bundled with a 2.5" to 3.5" bracket. As for prices, the 60/120GB Reactor drives can be found @ 151/290 Euro, while the 64/128GB Nova drivers cost 158/300 Euro.
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Shuttle presents the XS35 ION 2 nettop barebone
Shuttle has started the countdown for the launch of it first ION 2 machine, a 3.3 cm thick barebone codenamed XS35. The upcoming nettop boasts a 1.66 GHz Atom D510 dual-core processor, an NM10 motherboard, am Nvidia GT218 GPU, D-Sub and HDMI outputs, a multi-format card reader, an optical drive, space for one 2.5-inch HDD or SSD, LAN, and five USB 2.0 ports.
Shuttle will showcase the fanless Barebone XS35 at CeBIT next week and release it in the second quarter.
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Team Group details its TP1021 and TP1022 external HDDs
In anticipation of their CeBIT launch, the TP1021 and TP1022 external hard drives have been presented by their maker, Taiwan-based Team Group Inc. The TP1021 driver, which will be sold under the name Pocketbook TL, measures 126 x 80 x 12 mm and weights 172 grams, has a USB 2.0/1.1 interface, and will be available in 250GB, 320GB, 500GB and 640GB flavors.
Offering the same capacities as its brother, the Pocketbook BS (TP1022) is 133.3 by 80 by 19.2 mm, it weights 250 grams, has a sandblasted aluminum enclosure and boasts USB 3.0/2.0/1.1 connectivity.
Both Pocketbook drives will be bundled with a carrying pouch and will be backed by a two-year warranty.
Picture courtesy of TweakTown.
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Smartbook AG readies the Logo 11.6-inch laptop
German company Smartbook AG is quite busy with trying to protect its 'smartbook' trademark from the likes of Qualcomm but that doesn't mean it stopped coming up with new products (that are not smartbooks). Next week at CeBIT in Hannover, Smartbook is going to introduce 'Logo' a 1.3kg ultra-thin notebook powered by an Intel platform.
Seen below, the upcoming portable PC features a 11.6-inch (1366x768) screen, an Intel CULV processor, 1GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, probably integrated graphics, a 3G modem, and a battery enabling up to 8 hours of operation.
The Windows 7 Home Premium-running Smartbook Logo is expected to cost 699 Euro / $952.
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HIS Radeon HD 5870s get the iCooler treatment
As just revealed, HIS has decided that its Radeon HD 5870 cards should also make use of the new iCooler V custom fansink which is present on the company's Radeon HD 5830s.
Coming in two versions (HD 5870 iCooler V and HD 5870 iCooler V Turbo), the new Cypress-based cards have 1600 Stream Processors, a 256-bit memory interface and 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM, DirectX 11 and CrossFireX support, the mentioned dual-slot (custom) iCooler V air cooling solution, and dual-DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort connectivity. Both models will be selling with (and without) a voucher for the download of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
The HD 5870 iCooler V (850/4800 MHz GPU/memory clocks) is now listed on pre-order with a price tag of 329 Euro, while the HD 5870 iCooler V Turbo (875/4900 MHz) is found @ 344 Euro.
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YouTube tweaks its new video page
In testing for about a month, YouTube's revamped video page has received a few more updates based on the feedback coming from those who tried it. The first tweak is the introduction of a new playlist design and an AutoPlay On/Off switch, enabling users to control if YouTube will automatically go to the next video available or not.
Another addition is the option of moving videos to the queue window when searching from within the video page. This should make it easier to plan your video playlist.
Last but not least, the comments section was modified a bit so it will list both text and video responses.
To check out YouTube's new video page just use this link.
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GlacialTech announces the IceLight series case fans
GlacialTech has just revealed the IceLight line of modding-oriented case fans which will be sold under the GlacialStars brand. The 80mm and 120mm IceLight fans announced come with blue or four color LEDs for a more pimpin' look, make use of a twister bearing, have detachable blades, and are given a glossy mirror-like coating.
As for specs, the fans look a little something like this:
- IceLight 8025 (80mm) | 1700 RPM (speed) | 19 dBA (sound output) | 24.5 CFM (air volume) | 30,000 hours (MTBF)
- IceLight 12015 (120mm) | 1000 RPM | 20 dBA | 45.8 CFM | 30,000 hours
The prices of the IceLight fans were not revealed (yet).
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Intel Core i7-930 hits European stores
Intel's Core i7-930 is set for a February 28 debut but those who want the new LGA 1136 part can already purchase it from a variety of European stores. Set to retire the popular 920 model, the 45nm Core i7-930 has a four cores @ 2.80 GHz, eight threads, 8MB of L3 cache, an integrated triple channel DDR3 memory controller and a TDP of 130W.
The new CPU can be found priced at 254.86 Euro which is some 25 Euro higher than the i7-920.
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Gmail experiences hiccups again
Yesterday afternoon (afternoon for us here in Europe) Google confirmed that a "significant subset" of users were getting error messages and reported unexpected behavior after logging into their Gmail account. One of the main problems experienced was a delay when receiving mail fetched via POP from external mail providers to Gmail.
As expected, Gmail staff was quickly on the case and two hours after the initial acknowledgment, at 7:34 PM UTC, most of the problems were resolved. Full service was restored today at 12:30 AM UTC.
Beside Gmail, Google Calendar also has a few issues but those affected less than 1% of its users and they were fixed after 30 minutes.
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