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.

Samsung launch its WB700 Camera in Korea

Introduced in North America last December (in 2010), Samsung new Point and Shoot the WB700 has finally succeed to make it in South Korea, better late then never!
The WB700 is the WB650 replacement and comes with an 18x optical Zoom, and a 14Mpix Censor. 

Samsung Launches GALAXY S WiFi 4.0 and 5.0 : Smart Mobile Entertainment

Samsung launched yesterday the GALAXY S WiFi 4.0 and a fresh addition to its smart player portfolio, the GALAXY S WiFi 5.0. Each featuring 4” and 5” screen-sizes and delivering the powerful application experiences as the original GALAXY S, the two versions give users an unrivalled entertainment experience through a clear display, a swift 1GHz processor and the Android 2.2 “Froyo” platform. The GALAXY S WiFi 4.0 will be first available in Russia and will be gradually rolled out in other countries. The GALAXY S WiFi 5.0 will be first available in Switzerland.

LG unleash two new Blade Series Notebooks with the P430 and P530

The Blade Series from LG is the company ultra-slim series of Notebook that was first introduces with the P210 and P420. With today’s announcement of the P430 a 14” notebook and the P530 a 15.6” notebook, LG want to bring Intel Sandy Bridge Raw power with stunning Super Slim LED LCD of just 4.5mm and 4.7mm (respectively) thin thick as well as being 50% thinner than any other notebooks in their class.
Like usual, you will be able to get either one of these P430 and P520 in a wide selection of configuration with models running on Core i3, Core i5 or Core i7, as well as having the choice between an Nvidia GeForce GT520M or Intel HD Graphics 3000. Same goes with the choice between a 320GB HDD or 720GB one.
All models however are equipped with Bluetooth 3.0+HS, HDMI, a 1366×768 resolution, 6Cell Battery, DVD Super Multi and HD Aduio with SRS Sound solution.

NHK and NTT successfully Tests international Transmission of Super Hi-Vision Video (8K)

Photo Courtesy of the American Society of Cinematographers.

Super Hi-Vision Videos or 8K is the holy grail of all geeks, well at least to the ones who would love to see 7,680×4,320 Movies at home or wherever they can. Being 16 times the resolution of full HD movies, Super Hi-Vision Videos can be tricky to transmit without degradation from let’s say Japan to North America then to Europe.
But the Joint effort of both NHK and NTT finally paid-off! NHK was capable then to transmit Super Hi-Vision videos all around the world (80,000km) with just a 0.3 second lag, a huge improvement compared to the usual 1.2 seconds lag obtain when using satellites.
Strong from this success, NHK hopes now to be able to make Super Hi-Vision ready for the public in 2020 in order to broadcast International Sports event from Japan at first.