Category: Miscellaneous

LG has introduced two new projectors in to the market, Mini Beam PH1500 Pro and TV PW800. The LG Mini Beam PH1500 Pro specifications include full HD projection on to an area of 120 inches with a brightness of 1400 lumens and a contrast ratio of 150,000: 1. It measures 132 x 220 x 84 mm and weighs 1.5 kilograms making it very portable and light. It is like carrying a mini laptop with you.

LG Mini Beam TV PW800 specifications include dimensions of 140 x 140 x 50 mm and weighs 600 grams, packing 1280 x 800 pixels on a maximum surface area of 100 inches at a distance of 3.25 meters. Compared to the PH1500 Pro, it has lower brightness of 800 lumens with a contrast ratio of 100,000: 1.

The LG Mini Beam PH1500 Pro and LG Mini Beam TV PW800 is now on sale in Korea and United Status by the end of March. The company has not yet officially announced the price.

Archos Activity Tracker 2 is a smartband that doubles as smartwatch. Archos Activity Tracker 2 price is 28 euro or 30 dollars. We do not have its release date but we have already spotted on some European online stores.

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Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge features a dual edge display which makes it more functional than the single edge display of Galaxy Note 4 Edge. If the new report from koreaherald is to be believe, then Samsung might include the same dual edge display design in the Galaxy Note 5 Edge.

This all depends if the Galaxy S6 Edge enjoys good sales. If it does not then Samsung might do away with the entire Edge range including Galaxy Note 4 Edge and S6 Edge.

It is being said that the Samsung Galaxy 4 Edge is not very successful like the regular Note 4. So only if the S6 Edge is successful, the company will be using the same design in Note 5 Edge.

Crucial has launched some really good solid state drives that an average consumer can afford and buy. Called the Crucial BX100 it will be made available in four capacities –  120 GB, 250 GB, 500 GB and 1 TB. The BX100 makes use of Silicon Motion SM2246EN controller.

Specifications include read speed is of up to 535 MB/s and write speed of 185 MB/s. The 250GB, 500GB and 1TB solid state drives offer 370 MB/s and 450 MB/s write and read speeds respectively. Random performance is of 70,000 4K read/write input/output operations per second (IOPS).

It features a standard 2.5 inch form factor that can be used in any laptop or mini laptop and will retail for $70 for 120GB model, $110 for 250GB, $200 for 500GB and $470 for the 1 terabyte model.

Shipments of Crucial BX100 will commence in first quarter of 2015. The company will be bundling an app called Storage Executive tool that will allow you to monitor SSD’s health, temperature and status.

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Olixar BabyBoom is a wireless mini speaker that can be used with your Bluetooth equipped phone or laptop. It packs enough punch with enough volume to fill a small room nicely. Here is how the Olixar BabyBoom looks like in my hand.

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The Micro SATA 1.8 inch SSD-HDD to 2.5 inch converter is for using 1.8 inch SSD drives in laptops with 2.5 inch HDD bay. In simple words, it lets you use a small SSD or hard disk into your conventional laptop.

I bought one for just $5 from Amazon to try it out and it works like a charm. I had a 128GB 1.8 inch SSD from Toshiba lying around and I thought of using it on my Lenovo ThinkPad X120E laptop that is slow snail when it comes to performance. I came to the conclusion that only an SSD can rescue it but I did not want to buy one since I already had one at home.

This Micro SATA 1.8 inch SSD HDD to 2.5 SATA converter worked like a charm. It adds around 1 inch to the length of the SSD. Here is how it looks like with the 1.8” SSD attached.

After attaching simply slide it into the 2.5 inch connectors of your laptop. You may need to add some padding on the bottom so that it does not rattle. I added thermocol for padding. It works perfect and has solid construction.

It shall be noted that this converter does not works with mSATA drives.

Conclusion: It is cheap and it is functional. It lets you use your 1.8 inch SATA SSD drives in your big laptops. Buy it from amazon for just $5.