Laptop-DRV » Case http://www.laptopdrv.net It's your driver in the gadget world. Notebooks, Apple, IPod, IPhone, Mobile News and much more... Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:08:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 The Vyne lets you wear your iPhone or iPod hold, either you wish to is still up for discuss http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/05/the-vyne-lets-you-wear-your-iphone-or-ipod-hold-either-you-wish-to-is-still-up-for-discuss/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/05/the-vyne-lets-you-wear-your-iphone-or-ipod-hold-either-you-wish-to-is-still-up-for-discuss/#comments Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:57:30 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/05/the-vyne-lets-you-wear-your-iphone-or-ipod-hold-either-you-wish-to-is-still-up-for-discuss/ The Vyne lets you wear your iPhone or iPod hold, either you wish to is still up for discuss

It seems like wearing your gadgets is all a fury these days, as well as the Vyne is no exception. A belt-like stretchable strip of cosmetic with the shave on a end for your iPod hold or iPhone (though we suppose it should work with any gadget that has a right measure, this product isn’t unconditionally unlike the Gorillapod. There’s no word upon price or recover date just nonetheless, but just consider of all a attention you’ll get whilst regulating this in public. Then again, your hands will be free to do tons of other things — similar to checking a time on your iPod nano wristwatch.

Via Engadget

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Mophie Pulse haptic diversion hold hands-on http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/04/mophie-pulse-haptic-diversion-hold-hands-on/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/04/mophie-pulse-haptic-diversion-hold-hands-on/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:25:12 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/04/mophie-pulse-haptic-diversion-hold-hands-on/ Mophie Pulse haptic diversion hold hands-on

Today during CES, Mophie showed off a prototype of the Pulse diversion grip for the 4th-generation iPod hold, which facilities battery-powered front-facing stereo speakers as well as haptic feedback by Reflex Technology. We outlaid a little time regulating the Pulse as well as came away rather than tender. Game audio, music, and even the keyboard tick tune get translated into convincing pulses and vibrations. The iPod touch interfaces with the Pulse via the 3.5mm headphone jack, as well as a switch on a bottom left edge turns a haptic feedback on and off. As a reward, the Pulse additionally offers full box protection. No word nonetheless upon accessibility or pricing, but you can check out the prototype in a art studio below.
Mophie Pulse haptic game hold hands-on

Mophie Pulse haptic diversion hold hands-on

Mophie Pulse haptic diversion hold hands-on

Mophie Pulse haptic diversion hold hands-on

Mophie Pulse haptic diversion hold hands-on

Mophie Pulse haptic diversion hold hands-on

Via Engadget

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Fractal Design’s Define Mini law PERSONAL COMPUTER box ditches LEDs for character http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/01/fractal-designs-define-mini-law-personal-computer-box-ditches-leds-for-character/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/01/fractal-designs-define-mini-law-personal-computer-box-ditches-leds-for-character/#comments Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:17:54 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/01/01/fractal-designs-define-mini-law-personal-computer-box-ditches-leds-for-character/ Fractal Designs Define Mini law PERSONAL COMPUTER box ditches LEDs for character

As anyone who’s shopped around for the custom PERSONAL COMPUTER case knows, the options have been virtually unconstrained — but it’s a bit of the different story if you’re seeking to keep things as neat as well as elementary as possible. Thankfully, a folks during Fractal Design have now provided one more option for a some-more modestly-inclined folks out there in a form of their new Define Mini box, that is a Micro ATX version of their larger Define R2 and R3 cases. As you can see above, it’s suitably monolith-like, as well as it doesn’t come with as well many compromises in terms of specs — in actuality, you’ll essentially get the generous 6 HDD trays among all the common accommodations. No word upon a price only nonetheless, though we’re guessing it won’t direct as well much of a premium if the company’s alternative Define cases are any indication.Show full PR textLaunch of Define mini

A brand new generation of character!

As a name implies, Define Mini is the smaller kin of the acclaimed as well as endowment winning Define R2/R3 box. Being the Micro ATX version of Define R2/R3, it offers a number of engaging functions with the really in vogue coming. It’s the box focused on low sound level, but neglecting alternative important facilities such as cooling, expandability as well as palliate of use. The Define Mini excels in including a lot of facilities in the tiny distance!
The Define series is reaching new heights in mixing in vogue, contemporary design with limit functionality as well as noise interesting features. The minimalistic, nonetheless overwhelming front panel pattern, propitious with sound absorbing material upon a inside, creates an aura of exclusivity.

The patent pending feature ModuVent™, in that you can select either to have fan slots in side as well as tip panels open or not, creates a box delectable for users seeking optimal silence, as good as a performance hungry ones.

The sleek black interior is matched with pre-fitted, unenlightened noise interesting material upon a side panels, efficiently interesting sound as well as vibrations. You can fit an astonishing total of 6 tough drives into this box, using the user friendly HDD-trays. All embellished in the nice white tone and regulating black silicone mounts. PSU is mounted in a bottom of a box, with a available pull-out filter beneath it.

Are you one of those users regularly finale up with the case full of tangled cables? No some-more. The Define Mini offers a convenient and great looking way of stealing them away. The motherboard has rubber covered holes in that you can simply track a cables behind the motherboard.

Key facilities
§ Stunning front panel pattern
§ Patent pending ModuVent™ design, allowing the user to possibly have optimal silence or optimal airflow
§ Pre-fitted with dense, noise absorbing material
§ 6(!) white embellished HDD-trays, with silicone ascent
§ A sum of 6 air blower slots (2x120mm in front, 1x 120/140mm in tip, 1x120mm in behind, 1x 120/140mm in side row,1x
Specifications
§ 6x 3,5 in. HDD trays, compatible with SSD!
§ 2x 5,25 inch bays, with 1x 5,25>3,5 inch converter included
§ On tip of front row: 2x USB2, 1x USB3 and Audio I/O
§ No PSU included (removable filter next PSU)
§ M/B harmony: Mini ITX and Micro ATX
§ 4+1 expansion slots with neat white painted brackets
§ Supports graphic cards with lengths up to ca 260mm when removable HDD-bay is in place
§ Supports graphic cards with lengths up to ca 400mm when HDD-bay is removed
§ Supports CPU coolers with tallness of ca 165mm
§ Supports PSU’s with a abyss of limit circa 170mm, when regulating bottom 120/140mm air blower place.

Via Engadget

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A couple of some-more iPad set of keys cases – Video http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/12/15/a-couple-of-some-more-ipad-set-of-keys-cases-%e2%80%93-video/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/12/15/a-couple-of-some-more-ipad-set-of-keys-cases-%e2%80%93-video/#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:00:05 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/12/15/a-couple-of-some-more-ipad-set-of-keys-cases-%e2%80%93-video/

A couple of some-more iPad set of keys cases – Video

The Apple iPad has a surprisingly decent on-screen keyboard, though if you prefer typing on the physical set of keys, there’s no shortage of protective cases for the iPad with built-in keyboards.

The folks during Shanzai.com managed to get their hands on dual dissimilar models, a single that connects over Bluetooth and an additional which connects to the iPad regulating a advancing port.

Both cases prop up a iPad so it looks similar to the laptop — at slightest when it’s placed on a table or tabletop. Of course, conjunction will essentially turn the iPad into the full-fledged cover, since the iPad is still the inscription that is essentially designed for touchscreen input — as well as you’re starting to need to stretch up from a set of keys to daub upon the screen to perform many actions. But a keyboard cases do let you launch some applications, adjust a volume or lightness, and of course, get a little serious essay finished.

You can check out Shanzai.com’s hands-on video after the mangle.

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IR-embedded Surc box converts iPhone into the concept guidance remote http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/12/14/ir-embedded-surc-box-converts-iphone-into-the-concept-guidance-remote/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/12/14/ir-embedded-surc-box-converts-iphone-into-the-concept-guidance-remote/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:59:32 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/12/14/ir-embedded-surc-box-converts-iphone-into-the-concept-guidance-remote/ IR-embedded Surc box converts iPhone into the concept guidance remote

Whoa, Nelly! ThinkFlood won’t similar to this… not one bit. If you’ll recall, a RedEye universal remote dongle was good perceived, as the simple 3.5mm adapter combined IR lucent to Apple’s line-up of iDevices. But now, Mashed Pixel has taken a formation a single step serve, seamlessly embedding an Infrared emitter into the case . Simply pop the Surc around your iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4, download the (free) concomitant app and begin programming. Before prolonged, you’ll be dictating your home party setup sans any external accessories, as well as heck, you may even improve your phone’s accepting all a while. The only downside to this proceed compared to ThinkFlood’s is which the iPad is patently not upheld, as well as once you ascent to a iPhone 5, your reliable IR box becomes the glorified paperweight. If you’re kosher with which, yet, you can get your pre-order in right away for $69.95, with primary shipments expected to have their approach out in Q1 2011.
Mashed Pixel Surc iPhone IR case

IR-embedded Surc box converts iPhone into the concept guidance remote

IR-embedded Surc box converts iPhone into the concept guidance remote

IR-embedded Surc box converts iPhone into the concept guidance remote

Show full PR textMASHED PIXEL UNVEILS SURC© DURING CES

THE CONCEPT GUIDANCE REMOTE CARRY OUT WHICH ENABLES USERS TO CARRY OUT INFRARED-ENABLED DEVICES ANYTIME, ANYWHERE

CES (Booth #4037) LAS VEGAS- December 15, 2010 – Mashed Pixel currently voiced a launch of, Surc©, a patent-pending easy-to-use universal guidance remote control (URC) that provides users with anywhere, anytime carry out over InfraRed (IR)-enabled electronic devices and appliances.

Launching during CES 2011, Surc combines in a neat case the revolutionary IR-connector as well as a free companion mobile app (downloadable from iTunes App Store) that spin any iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS as well as iPhone 3G into a true URC with excellent operative operation and built-in Micro USB connection for easy charging as well as synching without having to remove a box.

Highly customizable, Surc lets users personalize their remote control from the buttons to the layout, look and feel, and create their own mobile lifestyle experience. Additionally, Surc can sense a codes from virtually any of a users’ IR-remote controls as well as store them or download them from the endless database, that removes a need for the users to pair most of their remotes. Users can additionally carry out what they watch upon their television by a Surc built-in TV Program Guide.

“Surc addresses a flourishing consumer direct for intelligent inclination which fit their needs for more interactivity as well as connectivity inside of the connected home as well as while they have been upon a go,” pronounced Daphna Kalman, President and CEO of Mashed Pixel. “We designed Surc to be the centralized, personalized gateway which allows extravagant communication in between mixed calm delivery platforms as well as a users, whilst simplifying their everyday mobile lifestyle experience.”

Surc’s alternative pass features embody:

• InfraRed Communication – No WiFi or mixed receivers are compulsory. Users can carry out many IR-connected inclination as well as appliances, in any case of their location.

• Apple Compatibility – Surc uses a latest Apple-approved chip technology. As part of a Apple Made for iPod/iPhone program, Surc is concordant with iPhone 4, 3GS as well as 3G – shortly concordant with iPad and iPod Touch 3rd generation.

• 20 Grams of Sleek Design – Surc’s neat, light case allows users to hold a device of course in their hand. It additionally includes a Micro USB cable so users don’t have to remove it to charge and sync their iPhone.

• Join the Surc Community – Users can stick on Getsurc.com to be partial of a online Surc village, where they will be able to urge their user experience by pity their tips and expertise and get help from alternative users. They can also share, search and import customized remotes from alternative Surc users as well as are speedy to yield feedback as well as indicate ideas that would assistance urge Surc.

Surc is usurpation orders for delivery in a first entertain of 2011 www.getsurc.com. MSRP for Surc will be $69.95 USD.

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About Mashed Pixel
Harnessing smart device record and web 2.0-application growth, Mashed Pixel’s group of seasoned engineers, designers as well as developers is dedicated to creating an integrated suite of highly-customizable devices as well as user-friendly applications for smartphones as well as intelligent devices which fit into consumers’ mobile lifestyle. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with offices in Haifa, Israel, Mashed Pixel was founded in 2009. For some-more information about Mashed Pixel and the innovative online as well as smartphone inclination as well as applications, gratefully revisit http://www.mashedpixel.com.

Via Engadget

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Screen Grabs: Thermaltake Level 10 plays decorous upon NCIS: Los Angeles http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/10/13/screen-grabs-thermaltake-level-10-plays-decorous-upon-ncis-los-angeles/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/10/13/screen-grabs-thermaltake-level-10-plays-decorous-upon-ncis-los-angeles/#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:10:50 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/10/13/screen-grabs-thermaltake-level-10-plays-decorous-upon-ncis-los-angeles/ Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today’s cinema as well as TV. Send in your sightings (with shade squeeze to screengrabs at engadget dt com.

Screen Grabs: Thermaltake Level 10 plays decorous upon NCIS: Los Angeles

It ain’t the first time we’ve seen uninformed hardware strike a small shade, though you can’t consider of the chassis much incomparable than this creation a cameo upon the tele. Thermaltake’s grievous Level 10 enclosure popped up on NCIS: Los Angeles this week, with Chris O’Donnell you do his darnedest to lift valuable report off of a internal HDDs around telepathy. Or maybe we missed the point.

[Thanks, Daniel]

Via Engadget

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tPhone competes with Apple Peel 520, turns your iPod Touch into the corpulent phone http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/08/13/tphone-competes-with-apple-peel-520-turns-your-ipod-touch-into-the-corpulent-phone/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/08/13/tphone-competes-with-apple-peel-520-turns-your-ipod-touch-into-the-corpulent-phone/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:36:33 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/08/13/tphone-competes-with-apple-peel-520-turns-your-ipod-touch-into-the-corpulent-phone/ tPhone competes with Apple Peel 520, turns your iPod Touch into the corpulent phone

Well, it didn’t take prolonged for the Apple Peel 520 to go from pioneering phone-maker to foe. Enter a tPhone, an also derivatively named and similarly positioned device which attaches to an iPod Touch as well as turns it into the phone. This a single packs the 1,200mAh battery, 50 percent larger than the Apple Peel, though offsets which by existent as the “super-duper thick” tough box that clips upon to the Touch. It naturally also offers a SIM slot and a dock port, protracted by the handy microUSB port upon the side. It’ll set you behind ¥700, about $100, so you’re paying the bit of a reward over a $75 Apple Peel. Worth it given a additional bulk as well as cost? That depends: just how large have been your pockets?

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Honey, Daryl Brach shrunk a Cray-1 supercomputer http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/08/02/honey-daryl-brach-shrunk-a-cray-1-supercomputer/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/08/02/honey-daryl-brach-shrunk-a-cray-1-supercomputer/#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:44:41 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/08/02/honey-daryl-brach-shrunk-a-cray-1-supercomputer/ Honey, Daryl Brach shrunk a Cray-1 supercomputer

The original Cray supercomputer, the Cray-1, is an iconic square of computing history, so big it had the ring of padded seats around which engineers could lay and contemplate esoteric questions of life while the machine humming at the back of them answered a more finite ones. This semi-hexadecagon shape has been brought behind to life, scaled down quite the bit, by box modder as well as woodcrafter Daryl Brach. The strange 5.5 ton behemoth is right away a desktop-friendly distance, and though those seats have been now as well small for tellurian behinds they’re still leather-covered and padded, stealing the pair of DVD-ROM drives continuous to not a single but two motherboards. We’re not sure what other hardware Brach populated the thing with internally, though since that strange Cray-1 had 8MB of memory to work with we’re guessing this complicated version would have no problem computationally wiping a building with the impulse.

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NZXT Phantom proves there’s still holdup in corpulent desktop towers http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/07/29/nzxt-phantom-proves-theres-still-holdup-in-corpulent-desktop-towers/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/07/29/nzxt-phantom-proves-theres-still-holdup-in-corpulent-desktop-towers/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:40:24 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/07/29/nzxt-phantom-proves-theres-still-holdup-in-corpulent-desktop-towers/ NZXT Phantom proves theres still holdup in corpulent desktop towers

Did a new reappearance of a Phantom console hint the little bit of nostalgia in you? If so, you’ll be happy to hear that NZXT has picked up the moniker for the latest full tower framework, as well as it’s the suitably futuristic-looking beast of burden. The bony steel enclosing provides tool-free access to 5 5.25-inch drive bays plus a room to fit in 7 HDDs, 7 fans (up to the mammoth 230mm distance, and a dual radiator within the walls. A top-mounted filigree window is accessorized with the slightly more utilitarian form of USB, E-SATA and audio ports, whilst the innards are privately designed to accommodate the bulkier graphics cards and CPU coolers out there. Sounds similar to a leader to us, as well as a $139.99 price seems about right for the flagship product which aims to parasite all the boxes — see a Phantom on video after a break as well as design it to arrive, in all its glorious hues, this September.
Show full PR textNZXT Unveils Phantom Enthusiast Full Tower Chassis

Flagship enclosing offers exhilarating pattern with unequaled combination of tall opening cooling advantages, extensive expandability, and innovative screwless installation

El Monte, CA – July 28, 2010 – NZXT, the company built upon realizing a dreams of gamers worldwide, is proud to make known Phantom, a company’s many elegant as well as intelligent chassis design to date. Phantom exudes lack of simplicity with primitive contours and a strong menu of tall opening facilities which will satisfy the final of even the many discerning PERSONAL COMPUTER fan.

High Performance Cooling Advantages – Phantom’s extensive cooling capabilities embody 7 air blower cooling options with twin 200mm, singular 230/200mm, three times 120mm, as well as front 140mm fans. For extended control as well as expandability, NZXT includes twin radiator support, quad watercooling cutouts, and an integrated air blower controller with up to five 20W channels.

Extensive Compatibility as well as Expandability – Features await for larger heat sinks, graphics cards, and E-ATX motherboards enabling enthusiasts to embody any of today’s hottest components. Vast space inside of the enclosing allows for 7 hard drives with SDD support as well as up to 5 5.25″ bays.

Simple Installation – Phantom celebrates an form of innovative facilities written to enhance each theatre of a setup. Meticulous wire management is simply receptive with large spacing behind a motherboard. The innovative all-new 5.25″ screwless rails have installing and swapping HDDs an free process.

Additional Advanced Features – Further graphic facilities include an LED on/off symbol to control box lighting, rubber PSU and case feet to revoke vibration, simply removable front as well as top panels, and tip mounted USB, Audio/Mic, as well as E-SATA ports.

“This is a many smart as well as elegantly designed framework we’ve ever conceived” pronounced Johnny Hou, Founder as well as Chief Designer at NZXT. “The profoundly singular contours total with a rarely organic, strong feature set solidifies Phantom as one of a most innovative case designs upon a market.”

NZXT reached out to the fan village as well as enlisted the design input from a renowned modder of the L.O.S.I.A.S., Rogue, and OSIDIAS Projects, Craig Brugger, to aid in the origination of Phantom. “NZXT has shown which there are still companies peaceful to attend to the community, as well as which collaboration can lead to innovation and the product with couple of compromises,” remarked Brugger.

Phantom will be available in early September in White, Red, as well as Black for a MSRP of $139.99. For some-more report visit http://www.nzxt.com/new/products/crafted_series/phantom.

NZXT Phantom proves theres still holdup in corpulent desktop towers

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Thermaltake shoves SATA HDD docks into V9 BlacX Edition PERSONAL COMPUTER enclosing http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/06/19/thermaltake-shoves-sata-hdd-docks-into-v9-blacx-edition-personal-computer-enclosing/ http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/06/19/thermaltake-shoves-sata-hdd-docks-into-v9-blacx-edition-personal-computer-enclosing/#comments Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:55:58 +0000 admin http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/06/19/thermaltake-shoves-sata-hdd-docks-into-v9-blacx-edition-personal-computer-enclosing/ Thermaltake shoves SATA HDD docks into V9 BlacX Edition PERSONAL COMPUTER enclosing

PERSONAL COMPUTER chassis enthusiasts (yeah, there is such the thing) will surely know which Thermaltake’s V9 Black Edition has been out for a integrate of years right away, but there’s apparently utterly the bit of disproportion in the V9 BlacX Edition. Aside from that ungainly minute shift, of march. The otherwise ho hum mid-tower enclosure — complete with a black outer shell, 7 PCI enlargement slots as well as the grand total of 10 drive bays — spruces things up by charity the pair of SATA HDD docks right on a front panel. Basically, a association took a single of these right here as well as crushed it into a front of the newest enclosure. With it, you’ll able to shove any spare 2.5- or 3.5-inch SATA tough drive right into your system for discerning access, all without needing an external marginal to do it. In fact, we just made a promise to ourselves to never buy another case without this kind of pretentious formation. Check it this August for $99.

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