One Gigabit per Second, Home Internet Speed in South Korea by The End of 2012

By the end of 2012, South Korea intends to connect every home in the country to the Internet at one gigabit per second. That would be a tenfold increase from the already blazing national standard and more than 200 times as fast as the average household setup in the United States.

A pilot gigabit project initiated by the government is under way, with 5,000 households in five South Korean cities wired. Each customer pays about 30,000 won a month, or less than $27.

Hong Kong and Japan offer gigabit service. Australia has a plan in the works for 2018. Google is drafting pilot programs for part of the Stanford campus and other locales in the United States. And Chattanooga, Tenn., has started a citywide gigabit service, reportedly at a staggering $350 a month.

[Via NYTimes]

Sony Europe Introduced Redesigned Vaio S

Sony Vaio S

Sony intorduced new Vaio S (VAIO VPCSB1A9E/B) in Europe. This new Vaio S comes with an Intel Core i7-2620M, 8GB of RAM, 128GB of SSD, an 13.3” Vaio Display plus monitor with a 1366×768 resolution, an AMD Radeon HD 6630M + Intel HD Graphics, Blu-Ray, WIFi, 3G, Bluetooth and even USB 3.0!

Netgear Announces New Line of 3G/ LTE Mobile Broadband Routers

Netgear just introduced four new 3G/ LTE mobile broadband routers at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona. According to Netgear, these latest additions to its router line feature some of the same tricks and technologies as the company's wired broadband devices.

The four new models all offer either 3G or LTE connection, failover to wired 10/100 Fast Ethernet (FE) WAN, FE LAN & 802.11N WiFi for multiple user sharing. The line-up includes:

• MBR1200: Quadband 3G HSPA+ (21Mbps x 5.76Mbps) with HSPA fallback and failover to wired FE WAN
• MBR1310: Quadband 3G DC-HSPA+ (42Mbps x 5.7Mbps) with HSPA+/HSPA fallback and failover to wired FE WAN
• MBR1517: Euro LTE (100Mbps x 50Mbps) with HSPA+/HSPA fallback and failover to wired FE WAN
• MBR2000: Quadband 3G DC-HSPA+ (42Mbps x 5.7Mbps) with HSPA+/HSPA fallback and failover to ADSL2+

[Via Hot Hardware]

Samsung Demonstrates New 3D SmartTV

Samsung 3D SmartTV

Samsung has shown its latest 3D SmartTV that comes with a full set of interactive features and media/info accessible via Samsung’s Smart HUB that not only gives you the possibility to enjoy Video On Demand contents, uses Skype or GTalk, YouTube and gives you access to any of your media stored on external devices or on your network (DLNA), but also, from the comfort of your sofa offers you the opportunity to control your TV experience directly from your Samsung Android Smartphone and/Or your GalaxyTab Tablet.

[Via Akihabara News]

Umeox Apollo Solar-powered Phone

Umeox Apollo

 

The Umeox Apollo is a solar powered cell phone that runs on Android and would take about 2.5 hours of sunlight for refilling the battery after daily use. There are two models: one for the US (MTK6573) with support for 850/1900Mhz bands, and one (MTK6516) that works in Europe and much of Asia.

Thanko PC Waterbed - Little Bed for Laptops

Thanko Waterbed Laptop Cooler

I have seen many fans-based laptop cooler. There are some brands of them at local computer stores. Here we see there is a new kind of laptop cooler, it is a water-bed laptop cooler.

This laptop waterbed is basically a cushion with cooling unit. There are 2 parts. the outer part can be filled with air and the part under your laptop is filled with water. 

It’s available for ¥1,980 ($24 USD) at Thanko.

[Via Dv!ce]

Megxon X57nv, Digital Camera with Night Vision Feature

Megxon X57nv - Night Vision

If you like taking picture at night or doing surveillance duty (but not stalking people) now you can get this handy Megxon X57nv Digital Camera with night vision capability.

Features:

• 12M pixels interpolation
• Auto / Smart Auto (Scene Recognition) Portrait, Face Detection, Night Vision, web camera
• 8X Playback Zoom (base on the different image size)
• 5X Digital still photo, 3X Digital video, D1 video recording!

The price is $73.99 (1 Year Product Warranty).

[Source BrinVo]

The Motorola Xoom: $600 for WiFi-only and $800 Unsubsidized

Motorola Xoom

 

The Motorola Xoom is on the market at $800 without carrier subsidy for the 3G version and the WiFi model costs $600. The 3G version is a little bit more expensive than the 3G 32GB iPad, while the Wi-Fi version will sell for the same $600.00, the iPad Wi-Fi 32GB.

The specifications include dual-core processor, Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), front and rear facing cameras, a camcorder Adobe flash Player, 10.1-inch Widescreen HD display.

[Source CrunchGear, Motorola]

Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY, the Latest Phone in Its Xperia Range

SonyEricsson XperiaTM PLAY

Sony Ericsson game changing XperiaTM PLAY introduced at Mobile World Congress 2011 is the latest phone in XperiaTM range.

XperiaTM PLAY delivers the smartphone functionality that the most serious power users could need, teamed with the immersive gaming experience that any gamer would want. In portrait mode, the Android smartphone offers all the benefits that users have come to expect from Sony Ericsson’s existing range of XperiaTM smartphones with best-in-class entertainment experiences, a great 5 megapixel camera, a brilliant 4” multi-touch screen and great social networking features.

Acer Aspire One D257 Revealed

Taking advantage of the futuristic setting of MWC 2011, Acer has presented its latest innovations in mobile computing, The Acer Aspire One D257 that definitely appears to be one of the thinnest netbook cases around  measuring less than one inch thick.

Samsung Series 9 Seen in 11.6-inches

The Samsung's ultrathin 9 Series laptop seems to come in 11.6-inches.

The specifications include an 11.6 inches dispay (1366 x 768 pixel), Core i3-380UM processor, 2GB of DDR3 RAM, 64GB SSD, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Gigabit LAN, Bluetooth 3.0, 1x USB 2.0, 1x USB 3.0, HDMI, audio jacks, RJ45, microSD card slot, 4-cell 5,680 battery and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

The price is under $1,200 ($400 less than the 13.3-inch model).

[Via Engadget]