Computex 08: more pics, more gadgets
When you put on some cool sunnies (with one eye in a different polarisation to the other) this smugey image became one of the best 3D displays we’ve seen. Sapphire plans to launch the monitors at the end of the year for around $500.
3D monitors – Sapphire will launch monitors.
Also of note was the new Toxic card. Rather than a massive, water cooling system, it uses a super-thin, one slot, innovative vapour-cooling heat sink fan which is far more efficient than normal. As such you can make the fast 3870 card much faster and only take up one slot.
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| Sapphire’s Toxic vapour cooler is small but very efficient. |
Sapphire also showed us a passively-cooled 3870. It gets hot, so you need a well-ventilated case, but it’s the fastest silent card available.
Microsoft showed off a load of mobile devices. Many were smartphones which we won’t see in Australia, but of more note were the new range of Eee PC-insprired web-books... few of which will appear in Australia.
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| Web-books – the new tiny laptop |
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| Mio showed off a new GPS which takes a SIM card. This lets you also use it as a phone and download weather over GPS. Just what the world has been crying out for |
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| Glofish, a Taiwanese manufacturer of stylish smart phones, made a phone which displays digital TV... |
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| And a weird one which takes two SIM cards at once: 3G and GPRS. No mention was made as to why anyone might want such functionality |
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| 3rd party Guitar Hero guitars. There’s wahwah pedals too! |
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| WiMax is very prominent on the bill-boards of Taipei and there’s a whole hall dedicated to it now. It will be big in a city like Taipei which has grown up with WiFi hotspots. However, it’s looking increasingly irrelevant for Australia which has embraced 3G |
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| There’s not much to see when you’re dealing with a wireless internet infrastructure. These were the most exciting looking Wimax devices we could find |
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| However, we did unearth a gem in the Wimax hall: Acer’s new Eee PC-killing One is a great little web book and should cost less. It’s also got Wimax built in |
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| Finally, on the way out we walked past these two, erm, things in one of the shopping malls. One is for a kids bra and pants shop called Lolita. Right opposite is a Paris Hilton shop. Double wrong. In so many ways. |
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