Without a doubt, Sony's Vaio Z series notebooks are some of the most powerful, portable and elegant computing systems out there, the Japanese company really managing to outdo itself with the latest addition to the series, which we've had the chance to check out live, during a local launch event.First and foremost, it's important to mention that, similar to all of the other business Vaios, the Z series is manufactured entirely in Japan, at Nagano, in a factory Softpedia had the privilege of visiting earlier this year (you can find out more on this topic here and here).This ensures that the Z series provides a great build-quali... [read more >>] We can say that we're pretty lucky since, over time, we've had the chance to test most of the new products introduced by Sony in their various Walkman lines, whether we're talking about the company's super-slim A-845 model or their touch-enabled X-series (with plenty of other products in between), but we really wanted to check out one of their very futuristic-looking wearable Walkman products as well.So, without further ado, here's the Sony W252 Wearable Walkman MP3 Player (yeah, that's a pretty long name, by all accounts), a music player pertaining to the Japanese company's W series that tackles this whol... [read more >>] After checking out Logitech's Revue set-top box, the first-ever Google TV-enabled product, we were anxiously expecting Sony's own take on this thing, and sure enough, the Japanese company delivered by launching officially its Sony Internet TV, powered by Google TV, described as the world's first television with the ability to watch HDTV, enjoy apps, and browse the Internet seamlessly on one device.The Sony Internet TV is built on the Android platform, runs the Google Chrome browser and includes a powerful Intel Atom processor offering the ability to quickly search across Internet and television content for easy access to ente... [read more >>] Although Solid State Drives have been slowly but surely gaining momentum, traditional hard disk storage manufacturers have been reluctant to make their entrance into this market, Western Digital being the first such producer to release an SSD, the WD SiliconEdge Blue that we are going to take a look at today.Available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities, the latter model being the one that made its way into our testing labs thanks to ELKOTech, the SiliconEdge SSDs retain the naming scheme used by Western Digital for its hard drives, the Blue moniker being used to describe a drive that targets mainstream PC users, so don't expect this t... [read more >>] One element that's almost common-place in most Sci-fi movies are the fully-automated cars capable of driving themselves (via a sort of auto-pilot mode), and it seems that the future might be closer than we believed, because none other than search-engine giant Google is actually working quite seriously on developing a system that will allow vehicles to drive themselves.So, as Google informs us via their blog, the company's been working hard at developing the technology required for cars to actually “drive themselves”, and it seems that they've actually managed to achieve quite an OK level of success, the prototype ... [read more >>] After pretty much dominating the world of the Internet, Google has decided to tackle that of television as well (or better said, bring the two together), its Google TV initiative shaping up to be an extremely attractive solution,with Logitech being the first to release a finite product meant to grant access to this future service to all HDTV owners, namely the Revue set-top box.The Logitech Revue with Google TV is a compact, plug-and-play companion box that, with its Logitech Keyboard Controller, provides seamless control over the Google TV experience and home-entertainment devices.The company’s portfolio of products for Google TV als... [read more >>] As most of you probably know only too well, one of the most important product launches that occurred during IFA is represented by Samsung's Galaxy Tab, the Korean company's first Internet tablet and, in the same time, the “weapon of choice” against Apple and their already way too famous iPad.Luckily for us, during the local stop of an European Samsung event called the “Experience Samsung Tour”, we've had the chance to take the Galaxy Tab for a quick hands-on experience, which left us not only quite satisfied with the tablet's performance, but also hungry for more hand-on time (a.k.a. a complete re... [read more >>] Without a doubt, the popularity enjoyed by the USB 3.0 (also known as SuperSpeed) technology is on the rise, and if at least half of the products that will arrive on the market are as impressive as the Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate 3.0 32GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive we've just tested, then we're pretty sure that this particular brand of products will enjoy a huge level of success on the future.The storage solution in question is Kingston's first to grant users access to the very high data transfer rates enabled by SuperSpeed USB, provided, of course, they have a system equipped with an USB 3.0 port.Luckily, more and systems that c... [read more >>] We've talked so much about high-end compact cameras, super-zoomers and mirrorless, compact DSLRs lately that we actually missed getting close and personal with a true, full-size digital single-lens reflex camera, but luckily enough, we managed to do so courtesy of Canon, that let us play (albeit for a relatively limited amount of time) with their latest product in this category, the EOS 60D.Right from the start, we'll have to say that the EOS 60D feels great when held, especially if you're the type of photographer who's used with large-size cameras, complete with solid grips.Also, the quality of the build is quite OK and... [read more >>] In the last few years education has come a long way from what we were accustomed to, present day classrooms coming with projectors, netbooks and other tools of that sort in order to provide students with interactive content, BenQ's MP780ST taking an innovative approach when it comes to this. The concept behind this projector is actually quite simple, since it wants to replace the already familiar interactive blackboard/projector combo with a much more affordable solution made up of a projector and a pen like device that lets you write and draw anywhere on the projected image. What is so special about this device is that at about 15... [read more >>] | 
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