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Toshiba Announces 16GB MicroSDHC Card for January Release

Nerd Grind — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:39:26 +0000

Toshiba may not be the first out of the gate with a 16GB microSDHC card, but they sure are the latest. Trailing behind SanDisk by only two months, Toshiba’s version will provide plenty of room for all of the things you hold dear in life. The Toshiba cards are slated for mass production in January of next year. A price range has not been set yet but expect something similar to the competition. Thank God. My hard drive was getting perilously close to filled.

Toshiba Announces Their 500GB Laptop Drive Will Be Available for Holiday Season

Nerd Grind — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:19:04 +0000

Toshiba has announced it will be shipping their 500GB laptop drive in December, in time for the holiday season. The 500GB drive has a similar feature set to other drives. It’s 9.5mm, features a 2.5-inch 3Gbps SATA interface, 1.4 watt idle power draw and a 5,400rpm spin. It does lack full-disk hardware encryption, however. Toshiba has offered no word on the price.

Sony Battery Recall Triples – Now Includes Acer and Lenovo

Nerd Grind — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:17:47 +0000

The Sony laptop battery recall has hit 100,000, tripling in size since yesterday’s announcement that 35,000 were being recalled due to overheating problems. The recall now includes Li-ion batteries used in some Lenovo and Acer laptops as well as the original list of Dells, HPs and Toshibas. All of the recalled models were sold between 2004 and 2005, with two-thirds being sold outside of the US. Sony also noted that the faulty batteries were made by the same factory that produced a batch of recalled batteries two years ago.

Toshiba Releases Prototype of Decade-old Automated Volleyball Bot

Nerd Grind — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:13:25 +0000

Toshiba has issued a press release and a demo video of the prototype of their automated volleyball bot. This bot has been making the robotics rounds for over a decade now and it’s good to finally see some new information.

The bot can recognize spoken commands, react to incoming spheres, identify the actions of nearby people and even spike a volleyball at will. The company has released no word on whether or not this bot would be receiving a commercial push nor have they indicated any other potential uses for the technology.

Click here for the press release and here for a video of the bot in action.

Get Your Toshibas

Nerd Grind — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:13:50 +0000

Get your Toshiba Satellites – hot and fresh!

A bunch more hit the market with updated P205, M205, A205, and U305 models. If you like window-shopping, then head over there!

World’s Smallest Full HD Camcorder

Nerd Grind — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:30:19 +0000

Toshiba claims the world’s smallest "Full HD" camcorder with the A100F: a 1.8-inch 100GB disk with 1/3-inch CMOS sensor 2 megapixel stills or 1,920 x 1,080 recordings at 60fps with 16bit/48kHz Dolby digital stereo audio at a 384kbps bit rate. Add SDHC expansion, a big 3-inch LCD, 10x optical zoom, HDMI and component out, and USB linkup with your PC.

The gigashot K series features 720p video and 0.92 megapixel stills stored in a maximum 80GB disk.

The A100F starts shipping in mid November for $1,628.

Sony Sellout

Nerd Grind — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:52:27 +0000

AP and Reuters are reporting that Sony will be selling its chip production facilities to Toshiba for $865 million. This includes the chips for the PS3, might include image sensors, and is all in the air at this point.

Star Trek Player / Phaser

Nerd Grind — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:56:35 +0000

Toshiba in a joint promotion with CBS Home Entertainment’s launch of "Star Trek: The Original Series," Season 1 has unveiled this "Star Trek" Combo which features HD DVD on one side of the disc and standard DVD on the other.

Purchasers of the boxed set and any Toshiba HD DVD player will be offered the limited edition "Star Trek" Phaser – a remote for Toshiba’s HD DVD players.

Super Thin DVD Burner

Nerd Grind — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:25:20 +0000

Toshiba has given us a peek at their ultrathin PC HD DVD burners: HD DVD-Writer and HD DVD Super-Multi for about $400.

The HD DVD-Writer supports CD, DVD+/-RW, HD DVD-ROM, and single and double-layer HD DVD-R formats. The HD DVD Super-Multi supports all of the above except HD DVD-R. Both units supposedly measure in at just 5.04- x 4.96- x 0.51-inches and weigh 5.82 ounces.

Toshiba Makes 320GB 2.5-inch HDD, Keeps Up with Joneses

Nerd Grind — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:53:26 +0000

Toshiba didn’t want Samsung to get all the aclaim with its 1.8 inch 160GB HDD, so they went out and made a 320GB 2.5 inch drive. Yes, that would be the largest 2.5 inch drive, so essentially, Toshiba matched Samsung (short-lasting) record for record. What’s even niftier about the MK3252GSX drive is that, unlike its closest competitor, Fujitsu’s 300GB, it runs at 5400RPM rather than 4200RPM. Other specs include an 8MB buffer, 12ms average seek time, and a 3Gbps SATA interface. It’s also very thin, at only 9.5mm tall. No word on pricing, but they should start showing up in notebooks near you around November.

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