Geeks Gadgets

Epson have came up with its latest Endeavor Pro4500 desktop computer, featuring lacquered case designs which adopted the Japanese traditional patterns. Available only 200 units, the machine comes with an Intel Core 2 Quad processor, 2GB RAM, 500GB hard drive, DVD super-multi burner, an ATI Radeon HD4870 512MB graphics card, and your choice of the “Dragon”, “Cherry Blossoms” and “Moon and Rabbit”. case. The Endeavor Pro4500 prices start from €1,700 upwards.

Here’s a fun gadget to ensure your cooking is up to scratch, the Digital Thermometer Pan. Absolutely Incredible, amazing gadget i ever seen..

Happily, one enterprising cooking geek put a thermometer right inside the pan, and a readout in the handle. So, now when the recipe calls for “medium-high heat”, and the pan reads “400 degrees F”, and your traditional Oaxacan Platanos Asados come out just right, you can mark down in the margins the precise temperature, and get it right every single time. Science - it’s all about being able to duplicate results. So is cooking!

MIU introduced its new wireless IP-based hybrid portable device dubbed ‘HDPC (Hybrid Dual Portable Computer)’ in Korea market, which is equipped with dual OS(Windows XP/Windows CE 5.0 or Linux Qplus). Adopting a keyboard of general PC and a 4-inch display with 800×480 resolution, the HDPC supports dual-mode function and wireless internet function. It is the concept that user can make a choice of any type of soft/hard ware according to users’ needs.

As the name ‘HDPC’ signifies, user can converge the stand-alone technologies of existing portable devices such as car PC, navigation, mobile phone, PMP, mp3, UMPC, electronic dictionary, internet phone, PSP, digital camera, voice recorder, mobile IPTV into HDPC.

The HDPC is expected to be available in July 2008, and the price would be between 400,000(KRW) and 500,000(KRW).
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