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Written by Bjorn Stromberg
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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 |
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VIA's Richard Brown has released another video about the VIA NanoBook. This time, he continues talking along the Beat theme while on California's Big Sur coastline. Richard envisions the NanoBook as the tool of choice for a whole new Beat generation, the bloggers & vloggers, the startups & mobile entrepreneurs. With it's long battery life and full size keyboard the NanoBook gives you the freedom to seek out new places where your creativity can run wild. | | Click to Comment | Comments [ 8 ] |
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Written by Bjorn Stromberg
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Monday, 06 August 2007 |
The Wibrain B1 was just unveiled in Korea with a 4.8" touchscreen, the first VIA based UMPC with a native 1024x600 resolution screen. This new UMPC is slated to be available in Korea markets come mid-October for a very reasonable $650. The B1 comes in a variety of configurations with the top end model featuring a VIA C7-M 1.6 GHz processor, 1GB RAM, and 80GB hard drive. For connectivity, look for WiFi, Bluetooth, GSM/GPRS/EDGE, and HSDPA.
From the pictures, it looks like this little UMPC could have two webcams, although the specs list one 0.3M webcam. The B1 also features a wide variety of input methods, a split QWERTY keyboard, a thumb touchpad, scrollwheel, and touchscreen. It's definitely got a lot of functionality, I can't wait to see how well it works. | | Click to Comment | Comments [ 0 ] |
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Written by Charles Engelbrecht
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Sunday, 05 August 2007 |
.jpg "Image") Suddenly the engine faded and the huge helicopter dropped like a stone. Around me I could see knuckles turn white and eyes freeze over with fear ...
Everyone was obviously hoping that the pilot would get his timing right. He was using a combination of low rotor speed and forward pitch to drop quickly, nose first through the dangerous, vulnerable last 500 meters. We all felt as if our stomachs were trying to climb through our mouths. At 50m the engines roared into full throttle and the rotors started kicking in. At 30m our stomachs started climbing the other way. At 20m the pilot flared while at the same time pushing the gas turbine engines to their limits. Amazingly, the helicopter stabilized at 5m and the pilot suddenly had to fight the rotors to get the machine to go lower.
Everybody slumped over in a visible expression of intense relief. Our eyes immediately sought out the red doorlight. The moment the pilot was sure he was stable at 3m he flicked a switch and the red light turned green.
Immediately, the three men closest to either doorway got up and leaped with their full battle kit into what would have been a bone-breaking jump. The cables attached to harnesses that were slung under the men's armpits immediately took their weight and transferred it to winches built into the top of the doorframes. Each winch acted like a bungee cord and caused each soldier to land softly, after which a simple pull on a rip cord released the harness, which shot back toward the 'bungee winch'. Total insertion time for the first six soldiers: two seconds.
I was in the second jumping line on the left doorway. We had to wait one agonizing second for the first jumping line's harnesses to shoot back into their winch chambers.
Then it was jump, drop, step, rip cord, shoulder the rifle, run.
As we darted for cover positions, the Puma hung over us for one more second before angling sideward and upward to make its escape. It had been only 30 seconds since the big helicopter had started to dive from 500m – a perfect insertion ...
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Written by Bjorn Stromberg
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Friday, 03 August 2007 |
I just learned about a new VIA based UMPC from a Korean company, Solpi. The pictures and specifications posted on umpcportal are very interesting:
- OS:Win CE, XP,Vista
- Processor: VIA C7 1.2GHz NanoBGA2
- Chipset: VIA VX700 Unified Digital Media IGP Chipset
- System Memory: 512/1GB
- VGA:Integrated VIA UniChrome Pro II 3D/2D AGP graphics with WMV9 decoding acceleration
- Screen: 5.6"SVGA widescreen TFT-LCD Transreflective touch screen(1024 X 600) OR (4.8"WXGA(800*480)
- HDD: 30 / 60GB(1.8")
- Connectivity: Ethernet LAN, 1 VGA port, USB 1 port, Wireless LAN, DMB, GPS navigation(option)/3D accelerated, HSDPA / Wibro(option) USB 2.0 2-ports, TV out /Mic-in, S/PDIF in, Stereo Speakers, Audio out
- Battery: 7600mAh(standard)
Since this UMPC was new to me, I asked my pal over on the CPU team what he knew about it. He didn't have many details for me, but he did tell me that he didn't think it has a 1.2GHz VIA C7-M processor, but that it has a VIA Eden processor instead. Of course none of this information is confirmed yet, there may also be a version with a C7, but that it may have an Eden processor inside would make more sense if this device is slated to run Windows CE. Regardless, I am trying to find out more details about this device. I'll keep you posted! | | Click to Comment | Comments [ 0 ] |
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Written by Charles Engelbrecht
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Friday, 03 August 2007 |
They folks at VIA ARENA have posted a fascinating article with a great video about the incredible BEAR rescue robot. Don't let the carefully calculated cartoonish exterior fool you: this robot can snatch a wounded soldier from under the eyes of an enemy sniper by literally sliding up to the wounded soldier and sliding its arms under the soldier. It then picks up the soldier and can crawl up and down stairs WHILE CRADLING THE WOUNDED SOLDIER IN ITS ARMS! The video is really cool too.
The robot's processing is powered by VIA processors and chipsets. Look out for this incredible piece of machinery in the next few episodes of Checkpoint Charlie - here on Ultra Mobile Life. | | Click to Comment | Comments [ 1 ] |
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