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Linde Werdelin, the famous maker of high-end sport watches presented “the world’s first luxury dive computer” named simply “Sea Instrument”.
Well, I don’t think this simple name can illustrate exactly what this gadget is, so let’s describe it a little! It’s made of solid 18k gold with a built-in processor, a 2.4 GHz wireless sensor and 128 memory, all encased in lightweight aluminum.



It’s resistance at 1000 feet under water makes it a good piece of technology that buyers can rely on. The 55 mm LCD is made of sapphire crystal allowing divers to see all the data with clearness and to be protected from scratches, sapphire crystal glass being second in hardness after diamond.

With this gadget you can dive, adventure in the darkest corners of the water and monitor your voyages without problems. A cool thing is that the transferring data to your PC is made wirelessly.
A must-have underwater equipment every diver than can afford should have.
The releasing of the Sea Instrument is expected later this year, in October.

Sony has launched a new range of versatile DVD recorders with a very large file storage capacity and some new features for this industry.
The HX/HXD range comes with a 120GB to 500GB hard drive, meaning space for about 1420 hours of TV program recording for the 500GB version.



An interesting feature for the HXD series is that it has a built-in analogue TV tuner for standard channels and a DVB-T tuner for digital broadcast.

These new products come with 2 news for 2008. First of all, the X-Pict Story feature allows you to create slideshows from your personal images stored, using only your remote control. More than that, when you’re watching the slideshow there is the possibility to listen to musical soundtrack also from your stored melodies.

The second new feature is that through USB you can transfer entire stored data from your Handycam’s hard disk (only those made by Sony) to the DVD recorder with direct digital dubbing, without losing the quality of your videos.
Featuring 1080p upscaling, this new range can be connected to your Sony Bravia TV through HDMI. Using Bravia Sync you can control the DVD recorder and other Sony devices through your TV remote. One for all, indeed a good usability of the remote!

It seems an interesting new range of products from Sony, with new and interesting features specially made to satisfy their clients’ needs and with only 0.75 watt power consumption, which makes them some good products to have in your homes.

Starting next month, BlackBerry Curve 8330 Smartphone arrives at Alltel Wireless in America’s retail stores but you can pre-order it at Alltel’s online shop.



BlackBerry Curve 8330 comes in titanium-colored housing with the already famous functionalities required by business professionals, including EV-DO support, trackball navigation, full QWERTY keyboard, a built-in 2MP camera with video recording capability, GPS tracking, USB, media player and expandable memory.

If you are used to do things fast you can use the Smartphone’s voice-activated dialing technology, handsfree calls and Bluetooth wireless transfers between compatible handsets.
Alltel's Axcess Voice2TXT service converts incoming voice mails into text messages and you can talk on the phone for up to 260 minutes until recharging.

Alltel provides the BlackBerry Curve 8330 at a price of $299.99 with a $100 mail-in rebate and a 2-year agreement.

You have some pretty efficient ways of storing data nowadays. HDDs and SSDs on one hand and Flash memory sticks and cards along with CDs/ DVDs and Blu-rays on the other. Let’s not forget about the magnetic tape and the ancient floppies… and maybe ZIP drives. A reasonable variety and some decent prices, I’d say. Am I forgetting something? Oh, the holographic storage devices. Well, you wouldn’t actually buy something like this for now, but let’s take a look at the latest developments in this field.

<-120x240 Vertical Banner - left->InPhase‘s 3D Holographic storage device uses holograms and two coherent laser beams - a reference beam and an illumination beam - to create an interference pattern that is recorded on photosensitive media. When a special “reading” laser inside that black box is concentrated on the recorded interference pattern, the original image is reconstructed through 3D means.

Maybe some of you are experts in holograms and sci-fi tech, so please feel free to skip the following stuff if you already have a degree in holography. OK, so these holograms are pretty impressive; some might even say that the Universe could be based on this principle, but I digress. Just imagine that only a small fragment of a hologram can reconstruct the entire data image. So if you happened to store a 3D image, the fragment will not let you move as far to make a full revolution around it. In the case of 2D images, however, it means a scratch isn't fatal.

The holographic R/W device from InPhase uses a 5.25″ film-based clear disk in a cartridge as recordable media. This cartridge has an estimated lifespan of about 50 years and you can use it millions of times over and over again during this time frame. Plus you get to store 300 GB (for now, at least).

Go ahead and pay $18,000 to own one of these, or you can wait for about ten years and buy it for $50 or even less.

Water resistant, 1.5 meters fall resistant, dust-resistant. A very solid camera indeed.
The new Ricoh G-600 has just been announced and has some really strong features, presented also in the previous models: 5x optical zoom lens, 1 cm macro function and a flash range of 10m.



Its enhanced shock resistance makes it a perfect digital camera for outdoor activities like climbing, marine sports and others. Well, you can even take photos underwater or in the rain, the camera has an impressive resistance in these environments.

It has lots of features, though the most important ones seem to be the large 2.7 picture display that shows the pictures easier, a 28-140 mm wide-zoom lens, a large capacity lithium ion battery that lasts for 360 shots, USB device, the CCD has 10 million pixels while the macro mode can get as close as 1 cm to the subject.

The package will come with its usual accessories like rechargeable battery, battery charger, USB cable and neck strap.
Ricoh announced that its G600 will be available in May at a price of 349,99 Pound incl. VAT.