A USB drive that thinks it's a chameleon

The manufacturer Silicon Power has announced the launch of the Blaze B10, USB 3.0 compatible SuperSpeed, showing dimensions of 72.4 x 17.4 x 10 mm and weighs 9.5 grams. Capable of reaching speeds of about 70 Mbps, this USB drive has the ability to change color (from red to blue) as a function of operating temperature.

More precisely, part of the hull is covered with a pattern printed with ink that reacts to temperature. Needless, therefore necessarily essential? The Blaze B10 should be offered in capacities of 8 GB, 16 GB and 32 GB The price and date of availability have not yet been provided by Silicon Power.

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3D mode window on a notebook

The manufacturer Toshiba has unveiled a new notebook model, the Qosmio T851/D8CR. Based on Sandy Bridge platform, this notebook has a 15.6-inch LCD screen with LED backlight that can display full HD resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. Toshiba also indicates that the Qosmio T851/D8CR is capable of displaying 3D content at the same time as conventional 2D content (in a separate window, so), all without requiring dedicated glasses.

Portal 2: How good is this puzzle game?

There are games that are true critic favorites. You grant from dozens Top Ratings and Awards by the press. They celebrated as a game of the year. In the past, they still turn out as duds. Examples of the action game "are" and the slow-shoot-"Dark Project - The Master Thief." Electronic Arts has just one title released in this country, which threatens a similar fate could be: "Portal 2".

The impression you get at least if you visit the website. The offer collects and publishes test notes the press and makes it into a scoring average. In the case of the PC version of "Portal 2" is an average score results of 95 percent (as of 21 April 2011). A perfect score, having reached only a few games before.

Practice Test: Smartphone: HTC Sensation: Android-power package with 4.3-inch display

Thus on the 4.3 inch display everything goes smoothly, tinkers in a 1.2 GHz HTC Sensation fast dual-core processor from Qualcomm (MSM 8260). In speed tests, the sensation is not just his name. The benchmarks showed average values, however, are to be treated with caution: The software is not yet final, and most measurement programs are not designed as multi-core processors.

This is true for almost all the apps so far. Much more important: in practice there is nothing to complain about! The sensation respond almost instantaneously to inputs. Everything is going very smoothly, despite elaborate animations. This is how the use of fun. The SLCD screen in 16:9 format 960x540 pixels brings (QHD) for blasting.

Galaxy: five screens on a GTX 560 Ti

The Galaxy manufacturer recently unveiled two new graphics cards that can simultaneously support a number of LCD screens. The GTX 560 Ti Display5 can be connected to up to five screens via its DVI (x1), DisplayPort (x1) and mini-HDMI (x4). The card also supports resolutions up to 5040 x 1050 pixels (or 1680 x 1050 pixels on each screen) mode triple screen handsets, and up to 5760 x 900 pixel mode quad screen.

Intel plans to unveil 3-class-E Sandy Bridge processors

Failing that Intel officially declare the details on which processors Sandy Bridge-E, thanks to a leaked slide we can see the thoughts of the company for its new top-end platform, the socket 2011 (X79 chipset). In the slide above we can see the 3 kinds of processors that Intel intends to establish, 1 for the Extreme range and 2 for the Premium range: - Extreme: Top of the range, with 6 cores at 3.3 GHz, 15MB L3 cache and fully unlocked to overclock.

"The" and "The" Game Boy?

Existential issue if any, which starts a huge debate on our Twitter account in the comments and news on our 22 years of Game Boy: they say "the" or "the" Game Boy. Use in Europe is to say "Game Boy", in reference to the fact that this is a console. In fact, communication of Nintendo and manuals for various models speak well of the Game Boy, a male.

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