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The new PD-S2900 Digital Light Processing Projector set to be available later this year.

Foxconn has just recently showcased their newest DLP Projector. The PD-S2900 is small enough to fit in the palm of your hands, being just 4″ by 3.6″ by 1.4″ and weighing roughly a pound. Even though the concept of small projectors is nothing new, this one manages to get ahead of the others by possessing fifty-five lumens of brightness and the ability to project a clear screen from just  a few feet away.

Unfortunately, there have been no plans to ship this little device out of Taiwan any time soon, but I’m sure that once it is, it’ll become a very popular product. For those of you who live in Taiwan, check for it to be available later this year.

I can’t wait for these little devices to become commonly built. Then, I’ll finally be able to afford one.

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While SDD’s seem to be the new big thing in cutting-edge data storage, they still have yet to become a solid competitor to HDD’s (Hard Disk Drive) in the market in terms of price-to-storage space. While I usually favor the more cutting-edge technology, this 320GB Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive really restored my faith on them in several ways. Apart from an amazing price offered by Newegg.com as usual (only about 90 bucks!), the drive uses an interesting piece of technology that is revitalizing (if only briefly) the HDD market known as perpendicular recording. For those with an interest in computer hardware, click the link. Otherwise, its basically a newfound way to cram data ever-so-tighter onto the disk space and in an even more efficient manner.

As for my personal opinion about it, I have been using it for about 6 months, and I must say it has far surpassed my expectations. Quiet as a mouse, runs much cooler than I imagined, and with a reliability comparable to the old family dog (based on my past experiences with hard drives from the same series for about 10 years), it was one of the most amazing purchases I have made off that site.

NOTE: the exact deal I got on the drive is not availible anymore, but the same drive can be found here.

256 gigabytes in the palm of your hand.

This Monday, Samsung Electronics stated that they have a plan to begin selling an incredibly small solid-state drive. The 256gb drive trounces typical hard drive speed by 2.4 times, and boasts the small size of 2.5 inches long and only 9.5 millimeters thick.

In a statement made Monday, the company stated:

“[It] represents a bold step in the shift to notebooks with significantly improved performance and larger storage capacities.”

They also mentioned that they believe that nearly 35% of all laptops will be using a SSD by the end of 2012.

You’ll be able to find them on Samsung’s website dedicated to their solid-state drives at www.SamsungSSD.com where it shows all the locations that they’re being sold.

I am a connoisseur of gadgets with multiple functionality, and I must say, this is one of the cooler ones (and not to mention aesthetically pleasing) I have seen. Available on ThinkGeek.com, the USB Memory Watch is precisely as the name implies. Apart from being a stylish modern looking analog watch, this gadget also sports internal flash memory to store your favorite mp3’s, pictures, videos, or other documents, so you can always have them on hand (or wrist). Available in 2GB and 4GB flavors ($34.99 and $54.99, respectively), it comes with a built-in USB connector (free cable included), and is compatible with most systems.

For more information on the watch or if you would like to purchase one, click here.

The Nokia N810 Internet Tablet (WiMAX Edition) outperforms its predecessor, the Nokia N800 Internet Tablet.

I’ve always been a huge fan of Nokia’s Internet Tablets. The ease, simplicity, and the fact that it has an enormous community of developers making custom software has always drawn me to them. I got my first internet tablet from them, the now incredibly outdated Nokia 770, a couple of years ago for the price of $300.00.

Then, they came out with the new and improved Nokia N800, but it still lacked certain features that most geeks wanted such as a QWERTY keyboard and built-in GPS without the need of the Nokia Navigation Kit for Nokia N800 Internet Tablet.

The Nokia N810 Internet Tablet added on both of these. Now, the internet tablet has a very stylish sliding-down keyboard and built-in GPS capabilities, and kept everything we loved about Nokia’s line of internet tablets; Mozilla web browser, rss reader, image viewer, along with a plethora of open-source projects for Debian that have been ported to the device.

And finally, Nokia has unveiled the WiMAX Edition of the new N810, thus providing you with high-speed data and telecommunications services within the palm of your hand. Right now, the price is a bit steep ($431.99), but we can expect that to drop in the coming months.

Until then, I’ll stick with my Nokia 770.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a 37″ HDTV with a 1:1000 contrast ratio this cheap before. I swear that if I wasn’t a poor college student that I’d buy one of these in a second. The great people at Buy.com are offering it for $659.99 after a $50.00 rebate right now. I guess they expect people not to send in the rebate, because they’re also giving out free shipping. When I last checked, this product had 12 reviews with an average of 4.5/5 (A-). I think I’ll have to start putting some money aside so that I’ll someday be able to proudly hang this on my wall. Though, I know that within the first weeks that I have it, I’ll find a way to accidentally put a scratch in it like I did with my 22″ wide-screen monitor for my computer.

The Niko SV3706 - 37 LCD HDTV is a great buy for any geek that enjoys bragging rights.

One thing to note, however, is that one person reported having issues turning it on. If you’re serious about buying this product, you should probably do some research and see if it’s a common issue. If I ever purchase it, I’ll be sure to post whether or not this issue was present for me.

XO-2 Gets a new look from its predecessor

The One Laptop Per Child Foundation has drawn quite a bit of attention from the media over the recent months. Their claim to fame, the OLPC XO-1, is a notebook designed to not only be affordable enough($100 per unit or less) to be distributed to schoolchildren in developing countries, many of which electricity is a big luxury, but its ease of use must appease to people who have never even heard of a computer. This bold undertaking has been underway since 2006, and has been gaining in momentum and support ever since, despite all the road bumps they’ve hit.

Recently, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte unveiled the second iteration of the famed notebook, the XO-2. Two major external changes are noticeable from the get-go. First off, it breaks away from its green rubbery shell and cute bunny ear-like antennae for a more streamlined design similar to some modern notebook PC’s. The second of which is the lack of a traditional keyboard. Instead, it uses a touch-sensitive screen displaying a keyboard, giving it the versatility to act as a traditional laptop, or be used on its side, acting like a book. Aside from the more obvious changes, the expected price per unit has dramatically dropped down to $75, half the size of its predecessor, and thus more energy efficient and lighter to carry.

The expected release date of this new gadget is sometime in 2010.

For the full BBC article, click here.