Subject:	HardwareCentral newsletter 6/13/06
Body: Your Ad Here	HardwareCentral newsletter for June 13, 2006 ___________________________ Sponsors ________________________________ Jupiterimages _____________________________________________________________________ Tuesday, June 13, 2006 Volume 9, Issue No. 24 All newsletters are sent from the domain "internet.com." Please use this domain name (not the entire "from" address, which varies) when configuring e-mail or spam filter rules, if you use them. = = = In this issue: * Review - Adesso Flexible Full-Sized Keyboard Several vendors offer compact or foldable keyboards to pack alongside your PDA or notebook PC, but this sealed silicon strip not only folds but rolls up -- and survives spilled liquids or even washing with soap and water (in the sink; it's not dishwasher-safe). Better yet, it manages to have an actual typing feel instead of being a mushy mess, and it's a bargain to boot. * Latest News and Analysis = = = Review ------ Adesso Flexible Full-Sized Keyboard Do Fold, Don't Spindle or Mutilate Airport security attendants will ask you to take the notebook PC from your briefcase, but usually send other stuff through the X-ray machine with only a glance. If they see a rolled-up rubbery strip with a cord hanging from it, they'll assume it's the cuff of a blood pressure monitor (four out of four of our coworkers did). If they notice a Windows key on the strip, they'll just think that Microsoft is getting into everything these days. The cord, however, is a USB cable, and the rolled-up object is a 109-key keyboard -- Adesso's Flexible Full-Sized Keyboard, a seamless silicon peripheral suitable both for work in wet or dusty environments and as an easy-to-pack alternative to a cramped laptop keyboard. Available in either black or white for a thrifty $30, the Adesso shrugs off coffee spills, rough treatment, and the skepticism of a reviewer prepared to dismiss it. Taking 17.5 by 5 inches of desk space (Adesso offers a 14-inch, no-numeric-keypad model for the same price), the Flexible plugs into any Windows 98/Me/2000/XP system with a free USB port. An old-school PS/2 keyboard port works too, thanks to a supplied adapter; no software-driver shenanigans are required for either. While not an especially ergonomic design, the keyboard reduces wrist strain by lying flat, with no tilt or slope from rear to front -- and at only half an inch thick, it's about as flat as you can get. Set it up and come back to work the next morning, and you'll think for a second there's a giant Band-Aid stuck to your desk ... Eric Grevstad HardwareCentral (See complete text at http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2ilm,1,1fww,9dfg,gd02,3wbp ) = = = /-------------------------------------------------------------------\ Jupiterimages - your search ends here Jupiterimages offers online subscriptions and single image downloads for clipart, Web graphics, photos, footage and music (including flash versions) via a comprehensive network of design-oriented Web sites for industry professionals and individual consumers. See what you're missing. Go to: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2ilm,1,dh1n,3138,gd02,3wbp \--------------------------------------------------------------adv.-/ = = = Latest News and Analysis ------------------------ Platform Trends: AMD's Next-Generation Ambitions Intel has beaten AMD in the race from 90- to 65-nanometer-process engineering, and is about to sound the trumpets for its all-new Core 2 Duo "Conroe" CPU. But the underdog chipmaker was bubbling with confidence during last week's presentation to market analysts, taking a short cut to quad-core performance and throwing open the doors to third-party HyperTransport hardware. ( http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2ilm,1,drxt,98ww,gd02,3wbp ) WinBook Debuts Core Duo Widescreen Slimline All the latest items on your laptop-shopping checklist -- from an Intel Core Duo CPU to a wide-aspect-ratio display, DVD±RW, and 1GB of DDR-2 memory -- are ready to go in WinBook's newest 5.4-pound portable. So are a spacious 120GB hard disk and 802.11a/b/g wireless. ( http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2ilm,1,asxs,ioxg,gd02,3wbp ) New External Storage Solutions from Seagate and Western Digital WD beefs up its, er, book-shaped My Book desktop storage device line with triple-interface 250GB and 500GB models, while Seagate takes its shirt-pocket Pocket Hard Drive to 8GB and one-touch Pushbutton Backup series to a whopping 750GB. An improved version of Seagate's Mirra network-shareable, Web-accessible compact server is on the menu, too. ( http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2ilm,1,cqbe,ky23,gd02,3wbp ) Visit us at http://www.hardwarecentral.com You are subscribed to the Hardware Central newsletter as 1@informationstreams.com. To unsubscribe from Hardware Central please send an email to: u-1caaa-ba5d22c665-1790@nl.internet.com To manage your newsletter subscription preferences, visit this location: http://nl.internet.com/profilepage.html?uid=ba5d22c665&eid=14470072 To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Newsletter Subscription Dept. 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This email is powered by EmailLabs (http://www.emaillabs.com) Contact us for a FREE demo
Date:	2006-06-13 - 17:20:09

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