Pioneer Japan release the world first Car in-dash GPS with Augmented Reality Navigation

Pioneer Japan has introduced this morning a series of four new dash-in car GPS with the 1D+1D AVIC-VH09CS and AVIC-VH09 as well as the 2D Series AVIC-ZH09CS and AVIC-ZH09 featuring the world first live Augmented Reality Guiding system.

Thanks to a camera placed on your windshield, these Pioneers Navigation systems will shoot live pictures of what’s in front of you and display them on your cars GPS with the instruction needed for more accurate guidance. Thanks to a clever set of calculation, these AR GPS will be able to calculate exact distance between any giving points (Cars, Point of Interest…) in order to give you the most accurate information possible to not miss your next turn but will also be capable to identify on which lane you are, red lights and others traffic signals.
Other specs includes: a &” Wide VGA screen, Digital TV Tuner, DVD Video, CD, Bluetooth, USB, SD, 5.1Ch Audio System and HDD Navigation maps.
These four car navigation systems will be available in Japan at the end of May at a price yet unknown.

PQI releases the smallest USB 3.0 thumb key with the U819V

PQI’s latest Intelligent Drive U819V may not offer you a huge amount of storage capacity (max 32Gb) but is arguably the smallest and faster USB key you may own! Indeed this new USB 3.0 Thumb key just weight 3.6g for 31.5×14.8×7.3mm!
Want one? Well you will have to wait a little bit more since PQI did not release any prices or dates yet for this new little wonder.

PQI leads the industry with its exclusive release of the world’s smallest USB 3.0 traveling disk. The Intelligent Drive U819V is the solution to bulky traveling disks and thick USB 3.0 transfer interfaces. PQI applied COB encasement technology to USB 3.0 interface and overcame the transmission overheating problem after continuous research and improvements. At the same time, PQI solved the data reading problem caused by high-frequency noise while creating the lightest, thinnest, shortest, and smallest USB 3.0 traveling disk. The 3 centimeter disk delivers high performance and allows users to experience high speed transmission like never before!

PQI’s Intelligent Drive U819V traveling disk has a sleek and simple look featuring clean lines and smoothly curving trim, creating a seamless, unitary exterior. The disk’s glossy exterior coating in ivory white and midnight black gives off a beautiful, glittering silvery radiance. Additionally, there is a special LED display at the tip that flickers when data is being read. Furthermore, with user experience in mind, PQI has come up with a cap retention design. The complimentary, square shaped, transparent soft rubber not only serves as a cell phone ornament but also attaches to the end of the disk. When the cap is removed from the Intelligent Drive U819V, it can be inserted into the transparent rubber. This exclusive cap retention design is unusual, funny, and charming!

As user demand for high quality multimedia increases, the rise of the USB 3.0 transmission interface offers the greatest transmission speed of up to 5 Gbps/sec, which is 10 times faster than USB2.0 (480 Mbps/sec). USB 3.0 significantly reduces the time required for data transmission, reduces power consumption, and is downward compatible with USB 2.0. Also, the stable current of USB 3.0 prevents data loss caused by current instability. Being energy-saving and environmentally friendly makes USB 3.0 the best choice in an age that demands ever increasing storage capacity. For the latest information about PQI, please visit PQI’s global website at http://www.pqigroup.com. To choose from PQI’s entire line of products, please visit PQI’s shopping site at http://shop.pqigroup.com.

KT introduces 4G WiMax Sleeve for iPhone 4 in Korea

KT or Korean telecom has announced the launch of its new Portable Mobile WiMax Egg Series with the KWF-B2500, a WiMax Sleeve for iPhone 4 and the KM-MR100 a Wireless WiMax portable hotspot.
The KWF-B2500 is only design for iPhone4 and comes with a 1500mA expansion battery in order to not only give you the thrilled to surf in WiMax all over Korea but more juice to do so! Only available in Black the KWF-B2500 weight 68g for 62×126.5×17.2mm.
The KM-MR100 in the other hands is now 60% smaller than previous KT’s WiMax portable hotspot and will offer you up to 4h of continuous WiMax experience on a single charge.
Finally both models are sold in Korea at around 128,000 Won.

Samsung releases a new 75” Premium Smart TV in Korea, the D9500

Samsung has released 75’ Premium Smart TV or D9500 in Korea. As the highest-end product in Samsung Smart TV line-up, D9500 is the biggest in size, clearest in definition, highest in performance. It opens a whole new exciting world of dazzling 3D visual with its 75 inch 240Hz LED backlight screen, the biggest 3D screen size in the world. It is also super-optimized with ‘Secret Design’ for perfect larger than life 3D experiences, movies as well as games, web browsing, SNS, and everything you can imagine in the stunning 75’ 3D screen.
Features :
- 75’ Active 3D Screen
- Black Diamond Panel
- Secret Design
- Qwerty Smart TV Remote
- Smart Hub
- 3D Hyperial Engine
- Samsung Remote Application
- Samsung Smart TV Contents

LG Optimus Black to debut in Euroe

LG has just announced that the new Optimus Black will make its international debut in Europe later this month.
LG says that, “Following successful unveilings at the Consumer Electronics Show and the Mobile World Congress, the LG Optimus Black has attracted pre-orders from 56 network carriers in 50 different countries. The phone will be available globally across six continents beginning in Europe before heading to North America and Asia.”
As stated in a report that we at Akihabara News published back in April, the new smartphone will include LG’s new NOVA display technology, “the LG Optimus Black provides optimal brightness and clarity that allows for enhanced readability.” The NOVA screen is also supposed to reduce battery consumption by 50% during general indoor use.
LG will be releasing the Optimus Black this month with a white- and- pink version to be introduced next month.
Specifications:
• 4-inch NOVA Display (700 nits brightness)
• Dimensions:122 x 64 x 9.2mm
• Weight: 109g
• 1GHz processor (Texas Instruments OMAP3)
• Wi-Fi Direct
• 5MP Rear Camera / 2MP Front Facing Camera
• Gesture UI powered by Gyro-sensor
• 2GB Internal Memory and Micro SD up to 32GB
• 1,500 mAh Battery

OCZ’s Vertex 3 gives 2011 Macbook Pro’s 200% speed gain

Recently the dudes at Barefeats did some testing with the 2011 Apple harvest. Most specifically with the Macbook Pro’s based on the new Sandy bridge chipset and Intel’s I5/I7 CPUs. What they did was order a default  Macbook Pro with as little options as possible and replace the hard drive / SSD first with default Apple drives and later on with 3th party “not blessed by Steve Jobs” storage.
Condensed report:
Different drives, ranging from hard drives to SSD were tested with very impressive results. First of all you need to know that the new Sandy bridge based notebooks support the 6GBPS SATA III interface. Thus can benefit from this incredible speed gain by default. Unfortunately Apple is still sticking to the 3GPPS SATA II generation of hard drives/SSDs.
Description: Read per sec (Small file/Large file)      Write per sec (Small file/Large file)
APPLE Toshiba 750G 5400 RPM:                                                          16mb / 104mb                                19mb / 108mb
APPLE Western Digital Black 500G 7200 RPM:                                21mb / 102mb                                47mb / 102mb
APPLE SSD 256G:                                                                                   104mb / 212mb                               114mb / 206mb
OCZ Vertex III (SandForce SF2200 chipset) :                                 203mb / 506mb                             234mb / 464mb


The numbers really do the talking here, at a whopping 506mb/sec read speed and 464mb/sec write speed for large files (think of Final Cut projects), the OCZ Vertex III really is worth taking the bottom plate off your new machine and do some modding. Knowing the Vertex III is currently priced similar or cheaper than Apple’s default SSD option, it sure is interesting to get double the performance from a 3th party manufacturer’s products.