Usually Fifa can randomly test up to two players from each team for drug testing but for the first time it tested seven players from Costa Rican team.
Argentinean soccer legend Maradona made a comment on Fifa discriminating saying if the authorities tested 7 players from Costa Rica then they should have tested seven from Italy’s team too.
The team of Costa Rica not only beat world champion Italy 1:0 but also Uruguay 3:1.
AOC has released G2770PQU which is a gaming focused 27 inch monitor with an excellent refresh rate of 144 Hz. It packs full HD resolution 1920×1080 and full 3D support. The AOC G2770PQU has response time of 1 ms and 300 cd/m2 brightness levels.
However G2770PQU is plagued by narrow viewing angles and mere FHD resolution because these days FHD is no longer considered top of the line.
There are four input ports that include Display Port, HDMI, D-Sub and DVI. It supports height adjustment and can swivel too.
The price is 419 Euros / $567 and will go on sale by the end of June 2014.
Sharp has extended its range of professional tablets with its latest tablet sporting a 15.6 inch WQHD display packing whopping 3200 x 1800 pixel resolution and backed by latest processor by Intel. It is being called the Sharp Merilis and it comes with Intel Core i5-4200U (Haswell) with a clock frequency of 1.6 GHz to 2.6 GHz.
Graphics are handled by Intel HD 4400 graphics and 8 gigabytes of RAM. Of course the main high light of the tablet is its 15.6-inch Sharp IGZO 16:9 matrix WQHD screen with 3200 × 1800 pixel resolution which translates to 235 pixels per inch. The screen has active digitizer enabling stylus input.
Other Sharp Merilis specifications include dual band WiFi, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0, three USB 3.0 ports, HDMI, Mini DisplayPort, and a slot for SD cards. It has weight of 1,250 grams and that includes a 128GB solid state drive, 2 mega pixel front camera, stereo speakers and a rechargeable battery that provides up to nine hours on a single battery charge.
Emdoor I8080 is a cheap windows 8.1 tablet that retails for just 100 dollars. It comes with decent specifications such as IPS display and Atom Z3735SE processor both of which will make it enjoyable to use.
8 inch display with 1280×800 pixel resolution
Multi touch – up to 10 points
16GB flash storage
1 gigabyte of RAM
Intel Atom Z3735SE processor that runs at 1.33 – 1.83 GHz clock speed
Intel HD graphics @ 311 MHz – 646MHz
Windows 8.1 OS with Bing search engine
Stereo speakers
Mini HDMI, microSD slot, micro USB
Camera
355 grams weight
18.5 Wh battery
The Atom Z3735SE is not a slow CPU by any means. It has quad cores and supports turbo boost technology. For doing day to day activities you will not get any lag thanks to the ample 2MB cache. However since there is just 16GB flash storage, the user available storage is just 2GB.
We have been told that there will be another model with just 7 inch display that will run Windows 8 as well. Like i8080, it will have bare essentials to run the operating system.
Apacer has released AH175, a OTG Dual Interface flash drive that works with any Android phone that supports OTG functionality. The drive has both normal size and micro USB connectors both of which make use of USB 2.0 technology.
As expected the Apacer AH175 is backwards compatible with USB 1.1. It comes in 8, 16 and 32GB capacities. It has a loop that lets you to use it in a chain.
For those who do not know about USB OTG, it lets you use your smart phone as host to a flash drive – just like your PC. This one has micro USB on one side as mobile phones have micro USB ports and not full size USB port. It shall be noted that there is no performance difference between the two.
Self encrypting storage devices are on the rage right now as more and more companies and government institutions adapt these devices. SanDisk wants to make full use of this opportunity and has churned out X300S, a M.2 2280 single sided SSD that can be used with any laptop or desktop. It comes in five capacities 64 GB, 128 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB and 1 TB.
Form Factors: 7mm 2.5-inch Cased, M.2 2260
Capacities: 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB
Interface: SATA Revision 3.1 (6 Gb/s) backward compatible to SATA Revision 2.0 (3 Gb/s) and SATA Revision 1.0 (1.5 Gb/s)
Sequential Read/Write: Up to 520/460MB/s
Random Read/Write: Up to 96/80k
Endurance (TBW): >40 (64GB), >80 (128GB-512GB)
Latency Read/Write: 55/65μs
Active Power (W): 0.12
Slumber(mW): 80 (64GB-256GB), 90 (512GB)
DEVSLP(mW): 5.0 (64GB), 5.0 (128GB), 5.0 (256GB), 6.5(512GB)
Weight(g): 2.5” 7mm Cased: 51 (64GB-128GB), 55 (256GB-512GB); M.2 2280: 7 (64GB-512GB)
Operating Temperature: 0 C to 70 C
Non-operating Temperatures: -55 C to 85 C
Operating Vibration: 5.0 gRMS, 10 – 2000 Hz
Non-operating Vibration: 4.9 gRMS, 7 – 800 Hz
Operating/Non-operating Shock: 1,500 G @0.5 msec half sine
Certifications: FCC, CE, UL, ULc, TUV, KC, BSMI, ACA, VCCI
No matter which capacity you get, you will benefit from its AES 256-bit FIPS 197 certified hardware crypto engine that encrypts everything stored on the disk. The SanDisk X300S is 2.5 inch type which means you can use it in your laptop too.
While you can use software side encryption on any storage device, it is always painfully slow. The M.2 ones as expected, do not come with any cases.
