Asus shows great concern about your health when it produced the Vit W1 wireless mouse. For sure the first thing to come to your mind is how can this teeny device have anything to do with the status of my health? This seemingly unassuming mouse is capable of monitoring your heart rate whenever you use your computer. Keeping track of your heart rate is achieved through the pulse rate sensor inside the Vit W1 mouse. This sensor collects information and transmits it to the computer. Pre-installed software that works with the mouse is required for the proper interpretation of the collected data. A corresponding emoticon will be displayed onscreen whether you need medical attention or not.

Environmentalists will be glad to know that there’s a new “green” external storage that can be an option for techies out there. The company, Fabrik, introduced the Simple Tech drive that is green because it is made from bamboo and aluminum. Furthermore it has an Energy Star adapter and fan-less cooling system for less energy consumption. These features allow up to 90% power savings according to Fabrik. Aside from being good to the environment, Fabrik also claims that Simple Tech has the capability to transfer data at 25% faster than other products having standard USB 2.0 ports. This also works fast because of the “Turbo USB 2.0” port. And aside from fast data transfer, Simple Tech also boasts of a 2GB online storage and automated backup software.

Technology never really rests. Each day new things always get discovered. Take for example this one. Japanese company Pioneer developed what I think is the optical disc that has the largest storage capacity in the world. Yesterday the company announced that they came up with a 16-layer, read only disc that has 400GB storage capacity. Pioneer made this possible by integrating 25GB storage in each of the 16 layers. Imagine 400GB is more than the storage space you’ll ever need.

Maybe by now AMD is feeling the blow that DreamWorks dealt them with. DreamWorks dropped AMD for Intel. After 3 years of partnership, what motivated it to make the switch? The movie studio mentioned that it is after Intel?s upcoming processors namely the Nehalem processor and Larrabee graphics chip. It seems that DreamWorks is after better 3D filming technology for its future projects. What the company is planning for next year is a film in stereoscopic 3D. To have good viewing experience, the viewer needs to wear special glasses. And for this plan to come through the company needs multiprocessing cores that Intel provides.

It’s not just Intel, and it’s not just Nvidia who launched a new microprocessor for the market. Yesterday, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) unveiled its latest chip code-named Puma for the computing world. Puma has a CPU which is the Turion X2 Ultra chip having two K8 cores that is also used in the Athlon chips. The new platform Puma also has independent dynamic cores that help set different power level to the cores. Aside from that, Puma chip also possesses optimized HyperTransport 3 and a mobile-optimized memory controller.

The battle for processor supremacy is on the rise once again. Intel released its new Atom Centrino lineup of processors back in April, and its fierce competitor, Nvidia, is not far behind. Yesterday, Nvidia launched the new Tegra line of processors. All of the chips under this line are capable of handling multiple tasks. The Tegra processors are aimed for Mobile Internet Devices or MIDs. Experts see a lot of potential in Tegra chips because it already carries everything that’s needed to develop a Mobile Internet Device, from GPU, CPU, and graphics to imaging.

If you think you already have the best graphics card in town then you need to reevaluate. You must know that Nvidia released what experts dub as a powerhouse graphics card – the Nvidia GeForce 9800 GX2. Gamers who haven’t done any upgrade on their graphics card will surely want to try this new one out because of its promising capabilities. If you are content with the performance brought about by a 128 processor core, then you’ll be astounded by the 9800 GX2’s two 128 Processor Cores.

It’s hardly been that long since Toshiba’s HD DVD bowed out of the market but a new disc format is about to take its place. The Blu-ray is no longer the only format that will be available in the market, the new HD VMD by New Medium Enterprises will be offered through Amazon in five weeks time (VMD means versatile multilayer disc).

What are HD VMD’s qualities that can make it a threat to Sony’s Blu-ray disc format?
One, HD VMD is more affordable. First and foremost is the price. A Blue-ray cost over $300 but the HD VMD is only $199. This aspect alone shows a big gap and I’m sure practical buyers will opt for the more affordable one. The production cost of the player is also quite low enabling the company to Second difference is what’s inside the player. HD VMD makes use of a red-laser technology that is commonly used in standard DVD players.

Hardware developers are working hard continuously in order to bring better and more convenient products to the digitized community, just like Panasonic. This company has announced the release of their new offering which is the 32GB SDHC memory card or the RP-SDV32GU1K. This card is said to be the fastest of its kind because it has the fastest SDHC speed classification of 6. This 32GB space is capable of storing 12 hours of video taken at 1440 x 1080i resolution, as well as 4 hours of 1290 x 1080i HD video.

Nvidia is out to make its services better by purchasing the chip-maker Ageia Technologies. The attraction for Nvidia in this buy out is the chip called PhysX that is being manufactured by Ageia Technologies. It is Nvidia’s intention to count in PhysX with their own GeForce graphics chips. The PhysX offers excellent potential for enhancing the capability of Nvidia’s own chips. Why? If you love the graphics being offered by the different gaming consoles then it’s all thanks to PhysX. You probably don’t know that this chip from Ageia Technologies is the used on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. Ageia’s PhysX chip is a very important part of a gaming system. This is the third element that takes the gaming experience a notch higher because it makes action and interaction better.

It is already mind-boggling to have a disk space capacity as big as 160GB so what more if you have 500GB of space?! Man, oh man, it’s kind of hard to think what files and other stuff can be kept in that massive space. 500GB is equivalent to movies, mp3s, games and others that you can hardly have time to explore. Your dream of having this kind disk capacity is now within reach with the newly announced 500GB mobile hard drive from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. This kind of disk capacity is more than enough for personal use. Chopped down into the kinds of files that can be stored you can have 178 movies, 500 hours of digital videos, 250 games or 125,000 songs, WOW!

One of the problems that come with using PCs and notebooks is the high electricity bill. It’s a fact that these devices use up considerable amount of energy in order to work. But because the PC and other electronic devices are already a part of our everyday life and work the high electricity bill at the end of the month is something that cannot be helped. But Marvell MRVL says they have the solution to this problem. They have come up with a chip that can reduce power consumption to almost half of the usual use. The new chip is actually an AC-DC power conversion controller chip or smart power device.

There is another new hard drive from Samsung. The 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch 64 Gigabyte solid-state drives (SSD) are now said to be the fastest in the industry. It has a very fast SATA or Serial ATA II or native SATA interface. This new hard drive makes use of a 51-nanometer class technology that can deliver 100 megabits per second of write speed and a corresponding 120MB read speed. This new drives opens up better opportunities for computing because of the features that are way above the traditional rotating drives. In order to work well, it also makes use of a single-level-cell 8GB flash chip.

Data storage hardware developer Iomega based in San Diego unveiled their latest batch of drives that is aimed for home network use. Since it is for such market the drives are dubbed as “Home Network Hard Drives”. The 320GB, 360GB and 500GB capacities would seem ample enough storage for household use. Making the drives functional is the 7200rpm hard drive with 8MB cache and 10/100 Ethernet jack. These Iomega hard drives would be great to use for sharing and keeping different types of contents including photos, music and videos.