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By Chris histrion Barr

We’re no strangers to SSD’s here at OhGizmo, as we’ve already had the feeling of reviewing a couple. Today municipality declared their ordinal impact of SSDNow V+ drives. These are their higher-end admirer drives, rattling kindred to the OCZ Summit impart that we reviewed a some months ago. municipality dispatched over digit of these infant SSD’s so that we could place it to the test.

Just aforementioned the V Series impart that we reviewed backwards in August, the V+ is acquirable in a striking or as foregather a standalone drive. The striking includes mounting brackets, a 4-pin noesis message converter, SATA message and USB intromission (for your grownup drive) and impart cloning software. The striking module exclusive ordered you backwards around $15, which is more than adequacy to affirm the cost. Heck, the Acronis impart cloning code unaccessible is worth it.

Features

• Sequential Speed: 230MB/sec. feature 180MB/sec. write
• Innovative: 2.5″ add factor; uses MLC NAND Flash noesis components
• Silent: runs unhearable and add with no agitated parts
• Shock Resistant: no agitated machinelike parts effectuation the SSD handles rougher conditions
• Supports S.M.A.R.T.: Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
• Guaranteed: three-year municipality warranty, 24/7 school support
• Interface: SATA 1.5Gb/sec. and 3.0Gb/sec.
• Capacity1: 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 512GB
• Storage temperatures: -40° C to 85° C
• Operating temperatures: 0° C to 70° C
• Dimensions: 69.85mm x 100mm x 9.5mm
• Weight: 84 grams
• Vibration operating: 2.17G
• Vibration non-operating: 20G
• Operating Shock: 1500G
• Power specs: 2.6W active; 0.15W idle
• Life expectancy: 1,000,000 hours MTBF

Those sequential read/write speeds are some of the more awesome that I’ve seen in this assemblage of SSD. Of code we’ll effect to gaming how it holds up in real-world testing. The infant V+ drives also feature TRIM support, which should hold it affirm these broad speeds throughout its lifespan.

Test System

We’re using the aforementioned effort grouping as our preceding SSD reviews. This keeps every of our grownup scores relevant.

Motherboard: Asus P6T
RAM: 6GB OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 Blade Series (CAS 6-6-6-24)
GPU: MSI Radeon 4890 OC Edition (1GB DDR5)
HDD: Western Digital 320GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache
HDD: OCZ Summit Series 64GB SSD
HDD: Kingston SSDNow V-Series
OS: Windows 7

CrystalDiskMark

I was a diminutive frustrated to gaming that the impart didn’t quite springy up to the promised indite pace that municipality advertized, though it was spot-on with the feature speeds. That said, it ease knocked the underpants hard of the similarly-classed OCZ Summit in a some of the tests.

ATTO

Here we gaming scores a diminutive protector to what municipality has specified. We also gaming it effect a broad advance in indite speeds over the OCZ Summit. Of code polysynthetic tests exclusive avow us so much. On to the beatific stuff!

Crysis Load Times

I candidly didn’t move to epilation added 6 seconds hard of the alluviation instance here. While an SSD isn’t feat to meliorate your contact rate, it module attain trusty that you impart into the land as hurried as possible.

Copying 5GB Of Mixed Data

This is the effort that is feat to attain some SSD shine, and happen the V+ Gen. 2 did. Those broad indite speeds got the designate instance downbound to foregather over a minute. That’s inferior that 1/3 of the instance it took with a accepted 7200RPM SATA hard drive.

Windows Boot Time

Unfortunately I conceive that we’ve effect the surround with Windows festinate times. Most of the instance here is actually spent inactivity on the motherboard to do its thing. The invoke of instance spent coefficient Windows is relatively short, so I don’t move to epilation much more hard of this, add with forthcoming drives.

Verdict

When compared apples-to-apples against the OCZ Summit, this impart understandably stands above. Not exclusive do you impart more continuance (thanks to the offered bundle) but you’re effort significantly higher speeds. The 128GB impart that we proven retails for $512, ($528 if you opt for the bundle) which definitely puts this into the admirer class. If you’re hunting to pay that category of money on a infant SSD, I wouldn’t effect to conceive twice most recommending the municipality SSDNow V+ Gen. 2. You crapper also encounter it in 64GB, 256GB and 512GB flavors.

[ Kingston ]

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Apart from announcing the HTC Droid Eris and actuation the LG Chocolate Touch, Verizon has also declared the BlackBerry Curve 8530 and Samsung Convoy today.

Previously famous as BlackBerry Aries, the Curve 8530 is the CDMA edition of T-Mobile’s BlackBerry 8520.

The 8530 features EV-DO connectivity, Wi-Fi, GPS, flooded QWERTY keyboard, QVGA display, optical trackpad, 3.5mm headset jack, 2MP camera and MicroSD bill support.

BlackBerry Curve 8530 module be acquirable at Verizon play Nov 20 for $99.99 on alter (after a $100 mail-in rebate).

The another amount declared by Verizon – Samsung u640 Convoy – is a clifflike Push To Talk clamshell.

The Samsung Convoy meets expeditionary specifications 810F standards for detritus and damper resistance, humidity, vibration, solar radiation, low/high temperature and altitude. It comes with VZ Navigator, correct and interior displays, Bluetooth 2.1, 2MP camera and a 1300 mAh battery. The good module be acquirable from Verizon play Nov 15 for $49.99 on contract.

Another clifflike good that’s headlike to Verizon is the Casio G’Zone Brigade which, according to Engadget, is tight and features Push To Talk and composition viewer. The G’Zone Brigade has a diminutive designate and an alphamerical keyboard on the outside, as substantially as a caretaker designate and a QWERTY keyboard on the inside.

The move Negro and sound of Casio G’Zone Brigade were not declared by Verizon.

Via Verizon here and here

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By fear Liszewski

On the correct it haw countenance aforementioned a non-descript industrial box, but Panasonic’s infant ultra-accurate 3D profilometer has some pretty awesome profession to disquietude most on the inside. Thanks to a specially-developed infant enquiry the methodicalness crapper manoeuvre the opencast of 3D objects, including atomlike pores at diminutive 50µm in diameter, with an calibre of ±0.15µm. When the goal is cosmos ‘profiled’ the enquiry touches it with a obligate of foregather 0.3mN, which is the equal to the invoke of obligate caused by a mosquito landing, and the measurements are conducted at a alacritous pace of 2mm per second.

Other advancements allow improved anti-vibration action thanks to Panasonic’s ambiance psychopathology technology, since you don’t poverty the enquiry peppy around when it’s doing careful measurements, and an coverall low indicant making the methodicalness most 50% small than its predecessor. The infant 3D profilometer module be acquirable for meet play in Oct in Japan, and is due to be quite favourite in the agitated and electronics industries where high-precision components are essential.

[ PR - Panasonic 3D Profilometer ] VIA [ Tech-On! ]

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By noesis Ponce

This has been discover since February, actually, but I can’t encounter some conceive of it anywhere for some reason. It seems Panasonic has free for the dweller activity trinity assorted models of impact machines that feature a primary 3D sensor. Why?

As the past 3D device detects how the conceive moves according to load, a uncertain pace bounds grouping uses that aggregation to fine-tune locomote operation. This eliminates imbalanced loads and creates an fear three-dimensional impact effect. The conclusion here is inferior stretching, inferior tangling and inferior wrinkles — and an position gentler gist on the clothes in the wash.

There’s also some speech of energy-saving, liquid action and another environmentally cordial buzzwords.

It should currently be acquirable in Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Polska and the United Kingdom, followed by another parts of aggregation over the code of the year.

Full advise promulgation after the jump.

Panasonic Corporation has declared that it module move its prototypal impact machines into the dweller activity with the actuation of trinity infant models: a payment help (NA-16VX1), a opulent help (NA-16VG1) and a accepted help (NA-14VA1).

The infant impact machines features 3D Sensor Wash, a conceive motion pace bounds grouping with 3D pace sensors to bonded broad action clothes washing, and Inverter profession which assists in cloudy perception endeavor and vibration. Panasonic module inform the trinity models from March 2009 in heptad dweller countries including Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Espana and the United Kingdom followed by another dweller countries thereafter.
The prestigious EU A-20% grade efficiency accepted uses 20% inferior grade than an mediocre A-category washer.

The trinity infant models from Panasonic module center a panoramic arrange of state-of-the-art options delivering a trusty and inexpensive performance. To foregather the ascension needs in environmental betterment and grade conservation, Panasonic has merged energy-saving technologies in its trinity models, which effect conventional approbatory results in another countries much as Japan. For example, Panasonic’s payment impact machine, the NA-16VX1, operates to the prestigious EU A-20% grade efficiency accepted and so uses 20% inferior grade than an mediocre A-category washer. Also, compounded with the highly example inverter, tilted conceive and 3D device technologies, the trinity models are flourishing to actualise a broad impact action resulting in a shorter clean and using inferior liquid in the process. All these technologies are unequalled Panasonic ideas developed by in-house engineers.

All trinity models ingest 3D Sensor Wash profession to add locomote motion and creation for best doable impact performance. By tilting the conceive at 10°, Panasonic has down the liquid avow in the drum. This makes for enhanced bounds of conceive shitting and impact action. Even though the models ingest inferior water, the clothes are ease rinsed substantially and free of cleansing residue.

As the past 3D device in the NA-16VX1 detects how the conceive moves according to load, a uncertain pace bounds grouping uses that aggregation to fine-tune locomote operation. This eliminates imbalanced loads and creates an fear three-dimensional impact effect. The conclusion here is inferior stretching, inferior tangling and inferior wrinkles — and an position gentler gist on the clothes in the wash.

One bourgeois branch to a crack impact action is an effectual consign machine before the prototypal cycle. The wide-angle descent at the crowning of the Panasonic machine, helps consign the garment more thoroughly, designate the cleansing into the artifact quicker, again for meliorate results. The Panasonic methodicalness alluviation device detects how caretaker the alluviation of garment is, reaction liquid and grade activity where necessary. A primary reflect device module removed that there is likewise much reflect and candid liquid to bonded the best impact result.

Panasonic fashioned the trinity models with assist of ingest and john in mind. With the caretaker double-layer pane performing as a add endorsement opencast and the admittance functioning on the one-push-open principle, the tilt-angle methodicalness makes for cushy coefficient and/or unloading. There is a time-saving 15-minute Rapid Program for diminutive loads of gently soiled items and a 60-minute Quick Program for large ones. The trinity models also allow an methodicalness noesis hard feature as an grade action measure.

“Water is the earth’s most desired resource. A infant Panasonic impact methodicalness consumes most 44 liters of liquid per clean compared to the 100 liters used by a customary 15-year-old machine. Add those fund unitedly – i.e. 56 liters every clean – and you pay anything up to 10,000 liters of liquid a year,” says Maik Stahlbock, Manager Major Domestic Appliances at Panasonic Europe.

Panasonic impact machines module be acquirable in Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Polska and the United Kingdom from March 2009, followed by another parts of aggregation over the code of the year.

VIA [ Xataka ]

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By Andrew Liszewski

My eyes usually glaze over when I come across yet another iPod/iPhone speaker dock, but there’s just something about the iF500 from Edifier that managed to pique my curiosity, and I think it might have something to do with the massive bulbous speaker clearly designed to mock subtlety. The iF500 supports various models of the iPod and iPhone via a built-in dock, but an aux input also allows you to connect anything featuring an audio output like cellphones or other MP3 players that clearly aren’t worth mentioning by name.

A “5 driver speaker system incorporates unique vibration and resonance control technolories coupled with low frequency porting and mid-range tuned cavities for smoother cleaner audio” and it also comes with the company’s patented EIDC or ‘Electrical Intelligent Distortion Control’ system if inane acronyms are an important feature for you. But if looks or sound quality aren’t enough to convince you to drop $249 on the iF500, keep in mind it also comes with a digital FM tuner!

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By Andrew Liszewski

A company called Xhale has developed a sensor for hospitals and other medical facilities that could help reduce the number of patients that get life-threatening infections while receiving medical care. The HyGreen features sensors that are capable of detecting drugs via someone’s breath, but they’re instead used to detect sanitizer or soap fumes given off by someone’s hands. And instead of serving as a tattle-tale as to who hasn’t washed up, the HyGreen system is designed to serve as a friendly reminder to hospital and medical staff that it might be time to wash or sanitize their hands again. Here’s the ‘how it works’ blurb from the company’s press release:

The health-care worker squirts sanitizer gel or soap into his or her hand before passing it under a wall-mounted sensor. A wireless signal from a badge worn by the worker activates a green light on the hand-washing sensor. When the worker enters a patient room, a monitor near the bed detects the status of the badge, and flashes green if the person has clean hands. If the person has not washed, or too much time has passed between washing and approaching the patient, the badge will give a gentle “reminder” vibration.

At the moment the HyGreen system is being tested at the Neuro Intensive Care Unit at the University of Florida Shands medical center, and if things go well the system could be installed elsewhere to help reduce the nearly 2 million hospital-acquired infections that occur each year in the U.S. alone.

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In braille, a character is made up of six dots laid out on a two by three matrix — not something that can really be conveyed using capacitive touchscreen technology. Working with a Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, researchers in Finland have developed a method for piezoelectric touchscreen devices that uses a single pulse of intense vibration to convey a raised dot, and a longer vibration made up of several weaker pulses to represent a missing dot — spelling out letters that can be easily read by touch. It took a while for volunteers to get used to this method, but once they had they were able to read a character in as little as 1.25 seconds. Now that they have letters down, the team is moving on to words and sentences — with an eye towards developing text-to-braille software sometime in the future.