Gizmo Hunter

From the manufacturer
From the secret performance labs at WD comes the revolutionary WD Raptor X SATA hard drive, the first ever drive with a view. Offspring of the immensely popular WD Raptor, fastest SATA drive on the planet, WD Raptor X focuses a large, crystal-clear lens on the drive to let you see into the inner workings and witness the drive in action.

Sounds simple? It’s not. With over two years of research and development behind it, the WD Raptor X is engineered to compromise nothing. At 10,000 RPM spin speed it delivers the killer speed of its illustrious parent, doubles the capacity to 150 GB, and provides enterprise-class reliability. This is the ultimate hard drive for PC performance enthusiasts everywhere.

Domination is in the Details

Crystalline polycarbonate lens - Provides clarity, structural integrity, electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection, durability and chemical neutrality necessary for the highest performance and reliability.

Native Command Queuing (NCQ) - Increases data transfer in high-performance multi-processor, multi-threaded environments.

Rotary Acceleration Feed Forward (RAFF) - Optimizes operation and performance when drives are used in vibration-prone multi-drive systems. Patent pending.

From the Manufacturer
Extreme dominance built-in. You’ve hard-core battled your enemies in this world and beyond, but never like this. With the Intel Core 2 Extreme processor, you get the best unrivaled performance in the universe. So let them challenge you and let the annihilation begin.

When “Extreme” is an understatement.
It’s not about playing the game. It’s about dominating and winning the game. Designed for extreme power, the Intel Core 2 Extreme processor for desktop PCs features the latest arsenal of performance-rich technologies, including up to 4 MB of shared L2 cache and up to 1066 MHz Front Side Bus. So you’ve got the future of PC gaming now, and only from Intel:

• Intel Wide Dynamic Execution, enabling delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve gaming execution time and energy efficiency
• Intel Intelligent Power Capability, designed to deliver extreme energy-efficient performance
• Intel Smart Memory Access, improving system performance by optimizing the use of all available data bandwidth
• Intel Advanced Smart Cache, providing a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for industry leading multi-threaded games
• Intel Advanced Digital Media Boost, accelerating a broad range of applications, including ultra-realistic game physics and human-like artificial intelligence for an intense gaming experience unlike any other

Warning: Graphics may appear to be too real.
The Intel Core 2 Extreme processor is frighteningly vivid, and perfect for your high-definition (HD) universe. Get inside amazingly complex HD games and applications with the incredible performance from Intel’s most advanced gaming desktop processor ever.

Energy-efficient performance? Rage on.
Intel’s 3rd generation dual-core processor, the Intel Core 2 Extreme processor was designed to run energy-efficient so you can run red hot. Plus, that added energy efficiency enables systems to run quieter so you only hear what you want to hear — the sounds of sweet victory perhaps?

Data is much richer than ever. You use your PC to store audio, video, and much more. Drobo combines up to four hard drives into a big pool of protected storage. Easily install hard drives into Drobo for extra storage space on your PC. Start with two drives, grow to four, then upsize smaller drives?get Terabytes of protection. Drobo is always ready to carry more storage!
Consumer and small business storage has entered the terabyte era and non-technical users are facing the daunting challenge of managing storage capacities. You’re struggling with managing and protecting valuable and costly data. Drobo is the first fully automated storage robot designed to ensure that data is always protected, storage capacity is virtually unlimited and it is exceptionally easy to expand. Drobo limits the amount of human interaction required and includes some of the most advanced automated features available, including self-monitoring, self-healing and an easy-to-understand visual status and alert panel. Drobo frees consumers and small businesses from the time-consuming chore of storage management, enabling them to focus more of their time on personal or professional interests. Data Robotics’ sophisticated technology utilizes the principles of storage virtualization combined with the ideals of cybernetics to deliver the first alternative to RAID. This unique combination provides a best-in-class user experience for mass-storage devices, especially in terms of initial set-up, autonomous data protection and future capacity expansion.
Unlike RAID 5-based systems, which often require you to tweak settings, Drobo needs no adjustments: The unit employs its own disk and storage virtualization algorithms to provide automatic data redundancy. Just plug it in, feed it with drives, and use it just like you would any external hard drive - except this one is self-protecting, infinitely expandable, and requires no complex configuration.

An industry first, the Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 hard disk drive delivers storage capacity for demanding consumer and commercial computing products. It leverages the industry’s most reliable perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) techniques and the latest advancements in silent acoustics, shock protection, and head technology to maximize capacity, performance and field reliability. Best-in-class power management and thermal emissions help manufacturers meet energy compliance targets and extend drive life.

Corsair Flash Voyager USB drives are rugged, stylish, compact, reliable, and exceptionally fast, making them ideal for transporting MP3s, digital images, presentations and more. Flash Voyager drives are fully Hi-Speed plug and Play with most operating systems and are backward compatible with USB 1.1. Their durable rubber casing is easy to grip and water resistant. These highly portable drives are available in capacities ranging up to 16GB.

Designed for two wheels, the TomTom Rider 32MB GPS Navigator for Motorcycles and Scooters is rugged and water resistant, and provides you with clear spoken instructions right inside your helmet. Easy to use, this unit lets you just plug it in, switch it on, and ride away, requiring no installation or activation for you to enjoy door-to-door routing to any address in North America, all with a simple touch-screen operation that is tailored for use even with your gloves on.

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Photos of the new N99 Nseries phone by Nokia have surfaced online. The phone reportedly will have 16GB Flash internal memory, 9-way front joystick, and up to a 4GB miniSD card slot.

That looks like a nine-way joystick button up front, and it supposedly has a 16:9 3.2-inch widescreen along with GPS capabilities, and plays back MP3, DivX, XviD, MPEG and AVI files. Add to that Wi-Fi, an 8-megapixel camera and 30FPS video capture using 3CCDs. Quite a feature list. No wonder they’re calling it a multimedia computer.

1) Dimensions (L x W x H): 86.00 x 55.00x 3.00mm
2) Weight: 15g
3) Available capacities: 64MB / 128MB / 256MB / 512MB / 1GB / 2GB
4) Hi-speed USB 2.0 certified
5) Compatible with USB 1.1
6) For Mac and PC, no driver required
7) No external power required Functions as hard drive
9) LED indicates power, read / write
10) Automatic system detection as removable disk
11) Shock resistance: 1,000g
12) Data retention: 10 years

- 2.4″ LCD, TFT color display
- Support max 2GB Mini SD card, with speaker and camera function 4.0 mega pixel
- Buildt-in interesting games, more than one thousand genus games

- Directly play: AVI, Play after transferred: ASF, WMV, MP4, MTV.3GP, MOV, MPG, DAT and VOB etc.
Play speed at 25fps or over, QVGA format. USB flash disk: 128MB/256MB/512MB/1GB/2GB built in flash memory

- Digital voice recording; 8 hours recording for 128MB and VOX recording.
- FM radio
-  ID3 support, lyric display
- Support two language system on manual: English, Chinese
- 7 mode equalizer
- Function of browse of JPEG picture
- Repeat A-B, normal, repeat all, random
- USB 2.0 specification supporting
- Long time playback
- Rechargeable lithium battery through USB/AC charger
- No driver needed under Windows ME, 2000, XP or above (except Win98

This innovative Flash drive design from TAIWAN will soon be available in your local market, made of molded rubber material this is a very good gift item.

This flash drive has USB 2.0 interface, and it comes various funky colors.

- USB 2.0 Interface
- Up to 1GB storage capacity
- Compatible with USB 1.1
- Fashionable design
- Supports Windows 98SE / ME / 2000 / XP / Mac OS / Linux