Atom has decided to lock horns with Nvidia Ion by bringing competition in the market with their own brand of chipsets with GPUs. The three processors (which come integrated with chipset) are named N450, D510 and D410 are expected to arrive in this month itself. These three promise to deliver better graphics apart from being faster and smaller. The speed of these processors is 1.66 GHz and there will be integrated Intel NM10 Express graphics chipset. Memory controller, CPU and GPU are all integrated in one and you can expect your Netbook size to reduce by 60%. Of the three chips, the D510 and D410 are aimed at HTPCs or nettops and N450 is aimed at Netbooks. The latter has a 512 kb L2 cache and 7 W of total TDP so there will be a significant rise in the battery life too. The D410 also comes with the same 512kb L2 cache but the TDP is of 12W. Finally, the D510 is a dual-core based processor, has TDP of 15 W and has 1 MB L2 cache. Such chipsets are  [...]

For everyone who is planning to get into shape before the heavy eating and the heavy drinking season during christmas, Nintendo brings in good news in the form of the Nintendo Wii Fit Plus. This one is being launched on the 30th of October in the U.K. Its older sibling the Wi-Fit is probably the only form of exercise that most of us get these days. The Wii-Fit plus pack offers around 15 new balance games and six new strength-training and yoga games. Like during actual workouts, this one also has options of customizing the exercise routines to work out specific parts of the body. For example it has specifics regimes for strengthening the arm muscles. It has health routines which help you work on the tummy and also a youth routine which helps you work on the body and the mind as well as the lower body. This one also has a calorimeter which helps you keep track of the exact amount of calories being burnt in a day. This calorimeter estimates the amount of oxygen  [...]

Bringing about a revolution in the way that kids read fairy tales, Disney has launched the Disney Digital books. This is a new beginning for Disney and it hopes that this new way of reading finds acceptance among the kids. It’s got a few trial books on offer as well which include 7 books, 1 Look and Listen book and 1 Story-Builder activity. On offer it has around 500 books which can be shared by three kids in a single subscription. Readers will have to log onto the site and select from the 500 books which are on offer. The website promises to be highly interactive with sound effects and also there is a feature through which the readers can listen to the words being pronounced. This is surely great for the kids who are still learning to read. It has also got an in built story builder just incase the kids want to make their own stories. The monthly subscription charges are around $8.95. Those who are interested  [...]

Well this is a real piece of beauty I must say. It’s very difficult to find watches with both unique functionality and design, and this one undoubtedly tops the list. It’s got the looks, the style and everything else that could definitely make it a showstopper of sorts. It’s got two overlapping disks which graduate from light to dark and at one point it turns absolutely black. The minutes are displayed by the outer gradient and the hours are shown by the inner gradient. It’s got a matte aluminium anodized case with 3 ATM water resistance. The crystal is scratch resistant and is raised above the watch. It comes with a one year warranty and the packaging of this one is done in pure tin. The watch is available in 6 marvelous colours which are Red, Purple, Black, Orange, Blue and Silver. This brilliant masterpiece could be yours for a price of $59. However there are only 200 i-Toc’s available… so what are you waiting for?? Go ahead grab it!!!

BenQ has announced the arrival of three new projectors- the W1000, W600 and the W6000. BenQ claims that this range offers better picture quality with more in terms of brightness and contrast. This one promises to cater to every individuals expectations from a home cinema projector. The first one in this range is the W600. This one is equipped with a dual HDCP-compliant HDMI ports, composite video and single video, RGB, and component video interfaces. It is a 720p projector and it makes use of the 6-segment colour wheel. This one could easily last for around 4000 hours. Its priced at £499. An improvement from the W600 is the W1000. This one comes loaded with a Full HD of 1080p while making use of the Brilliant colour processing.  It includes the Osram’s Unishape technology which is basically used for improvement of the colour and the contrast and could be yours for £999. A  [...]

LG has finally announced the BL20, which rings in more style than substance. If the Buzz making the rounds is to believed then this one would surely be cheaper than the BL40. Now that’s like putting the slider back in the Chocolate and offering it for a more cheaper rate. What else could anyone probably ask for? Though the specs of this one aren’t as impressive as the one of the BL40 this one could definitely rule the roost thanks to its budget pricing. Its got a 900mAH battery on board which simply means a standby time of 450 hours and 5 hours of talktime. The resolution of the screen of this one is quite less at 240x320 pixels. It comes loaded with a 5 megapixel camera and Bluetooth 2.1. The micro SD slot can hold cards upto 16GB. The official date for the U.K release is not yet out but of what we ve heard this one would be offered by O2. Also those who want to have a quick glance at this marvel, the video is provided below.

The Ceatec show in Tokyo will see the unveiling of a 50-inch 1080p 3D Plasma TV by Panasonic. The Ceatec show will take place between 6th and 10th October. Well for everyone who is going to be present at the Ceatec show, make sure you do peep into Panny’s booth so that you could view this new 50-inch Full HD 3D compatible plasma display panel (PDP) marvel. Panasonic has plans of making this one available to the customers latest by 2010. This one uses the Panasonic's newly-developed high-speed 3D drive technology which helps in enabling Rapid illumination and creates a balance between the brightness levels. The entire idea behind this one emerged from the Full HD 3D 103-inch Plasma which was developed in the year 2008. Panasonic expects this one to be the latest fad in the home viewing plasma range.

For all the uninitiated ones, a brief introduction to the Fitbit. Basically the Fitbit is a device which clips onto the users clothing and tracks the user’s movements, sleep and calorie burn throughout the day and in the night. It gathers all the information about the user’s movement and provides the user with a detailed report of the calories burnt. Its got an internal motion detector which helps to track how many hours the user has slept and if it is enough and other information like that. By pressing a small button on the device, the LED display will alternate between showing how many steps you’ve taken, the calories you’ve burned, your distance, and also gives you a gauge of how high your activity level is. And it’s got a flower which grows as you exercise more. ( yeah, they have other icons as well). Now moving towards the territory no one has ventured in before…since the device is wireless it automatically gets synced to the computer and then the web  [...]

Good news for all the social networking fans. LG has finally announced the GW300- a budget QWERTY phone which is specially designed to bring social networking to the masses. This new phone being launched by LG will be offered in the UK by O2 and Orange. O2 will be launching the light blue model and Orange gets to lay its hands on the bright red version. LG has definitely come up with phones having better feature sets in the past. This one has a 2 megapixel camera and a 2.4 inch QVGA screen. Its got a 3.5mm headphone jack and the memory can be expanded with the help of a microSD card upto 4GB. It comes along with 900mAh battery which again is not that impressive because that would definitely mean that the user will have to charge it again and again. This one has got a designated application which supports updates to your facebook profile and also see the status updates of others as well. It also gets along with it the LG LiveSquare application  [...]

ASUS has announced the launch of two high end EEE top PC’s with blu ray support and half terabyte harddisk. The two models that have been launched are the ET2002 and the larger flagship ET2203. The ET2002 has a 2GB RAM, a DVD drive and a 1600x900-pixel 20-inch touchscreen display. It also comes loaded with the NVIDIA ION graphics to support the 1080p video playback and can even double up as a mediocre gaming platform. It uses the Intel Atom Processor and built in 802.11b/g/n WiFi. It can run the Windows Vista but will also be available with the Windows 7 in some time. This one could be yours for a price of £560. The ET2203 is the other one being launched and this one comes loaded with 4GB RAM, a 1920x1080 21.6-inch touchscreen screen and Blu-ray player. This one is comparatively more expensive obviously because this one has a better set of features. Your pockets would be lighter by around £820 with this one. Both of them come loaded with have 3W stereo  [...]