Latest Inventions

posted by admin on Oct 30

I’d not really heard of this manufacturer until I was looking for notebook computer for my travels, but now I know a bit more about them - I thought I would share it with you.

# Asus won 2,568 independent awards in 2007 - that’s 7 per day for the whole year.
# Asus ranked 4th in the Top Notebook manufacturers listings
# Asus offer a 2 year global warranty
# Asus shipped over 60 million motherboards last year - making 1 in 3 PC’s sold last year.

Here are some of their finest divided into groups.

Ultra Portable Laptops:
Asus offer several designs of notepads to suit your travelling and portable necessities.

Battery life is important in these, so the features you use will need their performance settings and energy-sapping features life BlueTooth switched off when not using them.

Asus U2E:
from £1199 - Steel & Leather outer - 11.1 inch screen (1.25kg)
Runs Genuine Windows Vista Business with 32GB Solid State Disc and Wi-Fi, USB and Bluetooth. It also has fingerprint security!

Asus U6:
from £849 - Stylish metal finish - 12.1 inch screen (1.57kg)
Runs Genuine Windows Vista Business with 4GB of RAM and 320GB hard drive. Has Wi-Fi HSDPA and Bluetooth. It also has fingerprint technology.

Professional Laptops:
With an impressive selection of features in sleek and chic packages - allowing you to work without compromise in any situation.

Asus R1:
from £1119 - Stylish metal finish - 13.3 inch wide-screen (1.98kg)
Runs Genuine Windows XP Tablet Edition with 250GB hard drive and 2GB of memory. With Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and Intel Core 2 Duo processors.

Asus R50A:
from £899 - Modern palm held office assistant - 5.6 inch screen (520g)
Runs Genuine Windows Vista Business with 32GB hard drive and 1GB memory. With Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 3.5g with HSDPA connectivity and built in GPS.

MultiMedia Laptops:
With great images needed and a lot of RAM and storage - these are great finds.

Asus M50:
from £899 - 15.4 inch screen (3.02kg)
With a 500GB HDD and a 4GB memory, you can run the nVidia GeForce 9600 with ease. With HD screen and Blueray drive.

Asus X50:
from $419 - 15.4 inch screen (2.8kg)
With a 250GB HDD and a 2GB memory, you can run the ATI HD3470 graphics easily. With DVD super multi DL drive and photo editing capabilities.

Gaming Laptops:
With exceptional graphics cards and fast action needed, these certainly pack a punch.

Asus G70:
from £1799 - 17 inch wide-screen
With a 640GB HDD and a 4GB memory, running the nVidia GeForce 8700M GT and using Intel Core 2 Duo.

Asus G50:
from £1349 - 17 inch wide-screen
With a 500GB HDD and a 4GB memory, running the nVidia GeForce 9700M GT and using Intel Centrino 2.

Asus are also launching their Asus EPU, a bamboo ecobook!!

Find out more at techinstyle.co.uk.

posted by admin on Oct 25

Some Apple iPhone Applications

If you’ve got your new iPhone, but have been showing it off to everyone that you haven’t had time to see what it can actually do, here are some simple and fun applications to get you started:

1) Crash Bandicoot Nitro (£6)
A silly but addictive version of MarioCart with a bandicoot instead. Great fun.

2) Truphone VoIP (Free)
Free calls to other Truphone users and great international rates.

3) Brain Challenge (£6)
A slightly cheeky take on a popular game, but just as fun.

4) Pennies (£1.80)
An income tracker that allows you (if you have the time) to track what you spend on what and how much you have left!

5) BeatNaker (£12)
This application allows you to make your own music using simple musical components but can be a bit fiddly to get used to.

posted by admin on Oct 19

STUFF LIVE - The UK’s Leading Technology Show

Here is your chance to see the newest technology and computer games around today.

See exclusive gadgets

Play the latest video games

Quiz the experts

Chill out in the STUFF lounge

Hear the worlds best Hi-Fi

Touch tomorrows technology

Play Guitar Hero on stage

And win loads of great prizes

All at:

ExCel, LONDON - 31 October - 2nd November 2008

Book now to avoid the queues……

WWW.STUFFLIVE.CO.UK

posted by admin on Oct 15

Latest Games Releases:
Here’s a little glimpse at some of the latest console games you can find on the high street.

Motorstorm: Pacific Rift (PS3) - Out Now
This great racing game is now set on a deserted tropical island. Off road action better than expected in this fast-paced drive.

Gears Of War 2(xBox) - November 2008
Uber action hero Marcus Finix is back and he means business! With more blood and guts to keep you happy - this adventure is great on more than one level!

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (DS) - Winter 2008
Steal your favourite wheels in miniature! So when you are plodding along on the bus or underground in reality - you could be smashing your way through town on a truck on the mini screen. What a way to start your day!

Killzone 2 (PS3) - February 2009
This is the return of the alien bashing original. This next-generation mission sees plenty of gasmasks, big guns and great explosions. Hold on tight……

Wii Sports Resort(Wii) - Spring 2009
Last but not least ins the return of the sports compendium including jet skiing and fencing. All this is themed around the beach and the ocean so get your trunks out and get into character.

posted by admin on Oct 9

Oxfordshire in the UK could see the first commercial use of nuclear fusion to create energy.

Unlike all existing nuclear energy plants that create energy splitting particles (nuclear fission), this hoped for technology would be squashing particles together under immense pressure and temperature until they fuse together and release all their energy (nuclear fusion).

Why Fusion?
For decades science and technology experts have been working with the idea of copying the suns natural processes and to create and abundant supply of carbon-free electricity (even more important in today’s society).

Needless to say the process needs extreme heat - just like the sun itself - for this to occur and it could also be as dangerous as a normal nuclear power plant if if goes into ‘meltdown’. However, all the experts believe that this couldn’t happen - but then they go on to say that ‘if it did…..’ it would only be low-level radiation that was leaked out across the countryside! Well, they would be fools to tell us otherwise.

In addition, this method also has a much shorter life-span than contemporary reactors of only 12 years, so would need to be replaced every decade.

Is it better than existing energy-creation methods?
Previous attempts to perform nuclear fusion have actually used more energy than they managed to create, but the physicists are hopeful that they can change that in the future.

An international group headed by British scientists have put all their faith in HiPER. They believe that this ‘reactor’ will be built in the next few years and place Britain at the cutting edge of nuclear fusion research. Nuclear fission we know creates a huge amount of radioactive waste - and can be very dangerous in the event of an ‘accident’. Not so here, apparently.

Professor Mike Dunne is leading the team and hopes to create a ‘miniature sun’ here on earth - offering a solution to the worlds energy needs in the long term. He advises that this will be a source of carbon-free power which uses sea-water as its fuel - AND generates minimal radioactive waste.

Sounds perfect, doesn’t it?