Samsung Electronics Ltd. introduced its high capacity 2.5-inch hard disk drive, the Spinpoint M6 featuring 320GB of storage capacity. The new Spinpoint M6 HM320JI is a SATA hard drive designed for notebook PCs, as well as slim PCs and blade servers. With its ultra-high 320GB capacity, the Spinpoint M6 can store the most content of any 2.5-inch drive and is ideal for notebook users who need large storage space for videos, photos, music and multiple multimedia applications.

“As 2.5-inch hard drives move further beyond traditional notebook PCs and into more consumer electronics and enterprise applications, we have the storage solutions and higher capacity drives to meet all the needs of businesses and consumers,” said Andy Higginbotham, director of hard drive sales and marketing, Samsung Semiconductor. “With its massive 320GB capacity, the Spinpoint M6 can store 91,000 digital images, 100-hours of DVD movies, and 38-hours of HD movies.”

Fujifilm introduced 8M compact camera ‘FineFix Z100fd’ in Korea market. It features ISO 1600 sensitivity, face-detection, i-flash, and double-shot functions. It also added a CCD-shift Image Stabilizer for amateur photographers. Its 2.7-inch 230,000 pixel LCD supports ‘micro thumbnail’ function to display up to 100 pictures on the screen at one time while it also has ‘blog mode’ and ‘auction mode’ geared to internet users so that they can edit pictures as they want on the screen to post them or do online shopping. Other features include infrared-ray connection called ‘IrSimple’ and a memory card slot compatible with both XD and SD.

NEOLUX announced the release of its portable e-book reader ‘NUUT’ in Korea market, which is designed to read 6-inch E-Ink electronic paper. The NUUT supports up to 1,000 e-books, and users can read 7,500 pages continuously with one charging.

Dell had a press event with the launch of its 12.1-inch tablet pc and Vostro notebook pc in Korea, which target mobile pc market.

Dell introduced 12.1-inch tablet pc ‘Latitude XT’ that features Intel Core 2 Duo ULV processor, 12.1-inch WXGA LCD screen, ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 graphic card, 802.11n, and Bluetooth 2.0. While it supports up to 120GB 5400 rpm HDD, you could still choose 64GB SSD.

Dell also presented its 12.1-inch notebook pc ‘Vostro 1200’ targeting business men or travelers. Adopting 1280 x 800 WXGA screen, it supports up to 4GB memory and up to 160GB 5400 rpm SATA drive.

Piezo electric technology originally developed for use in space and employed on the Rosetta satellite produces sufficient electricity to power a novel wristwatch type insulin pump for people with type 1 diabetes.

The “COR” has been devised by Nicole Schmiedel, an industrial student at the Braunschweig University of Arts in Germany, and the prototype recently won one of the three Design and Technology Student Awards at this year’s Materialica trade fair in Munich.

The insulin pump is powered by “DuraAct” transducers made by the German company Invent. One would in theory be sufficient to produce the 50 to 100mW required by the pump, but by having four to five transducers round the wristband, it can be powered by movement in any direction. The pump is attached to the user via a thin tube and a needle inserted under the skin to allow the insulin to flow continuously into the body, as an alternative to conventional syringe injections.

BenQ have announced the latest in their digital compact camera range, the stylish DC X-835, which, according to the product page is ‘exquisitely designed to flatter and complement absolutely any outfit in vixen-red and midnight black’ and ‘slips effortlessly between your fingers, letting you concentrate on capturing that once-in-a-lifetime moment’ – and with steamy descriptions like this, who could accuse BenQ of anything other than abject passion for their products.

The DC X-835 8MP, which is a mere 12.5mm in thickness, offers 8MP resolution (230,000 pixels) and a SMC Pentax lens ensuring vivid colour reproduction supplemented by x3 optical magnification capabilities (x30 digital magnification) allowing you to hone in on your subjects. And if your subjects happen to be people then you’ll no doubt be pleased to know that the DC X-835 also comes with face tracking functionality capable of locking on to up to nine faces ensuring that focus is spot on even in group shots. Nothing new, of course, but a welcome addition none the less.

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