The company PQI announced the launch of a new product that is supposedly intended to be the first 2.5-inch portable hard drive in the market incorporating the new standard for connection of peripherals: USB 3.0 (Superspeed). Inside a metallic case with a minimal size and with a theoretical maximum data transfer rate of 5Gbps (10 times faster than USB 2.0), this hard drive is available in three versions with different storage capacities: 320GB, 500GB, and 640GB.

The PQI H566 is a portable hard drive with a 2.5-inch format and support for USB 3.0. It is also backward compatible with USB 2.0. The unit has a metallic protective case and weighs 200 grams. Its dimensions are 128 x 82.5 x 17 millimeters.

With a theoretical bandwidth of 480Mbps, the data transfer rate is increased up to ten times when it is compared to the USB 2.0 standard. The hard drive includes software for Windows systems; in particular: “Free Ur-Smart” for documents administration and “Free Ur Foretress” to protect your data by using AES256 encryption technology (256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard).

Other features like HDD SATA II Interface, hot-swapping, and plug-and-play are also included.

NuLOOQ is a tool designed for creative applications, as well as basic applications,It is very easy to use. it has specific uses in the design field, with applications such as the Adobe Creative Suite 2, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premier Pro and more. It is a strange little devices but having lots of qualities.It is very useful for Graphic designers, desktop publishers, digital artists, art directors, photographers, web designers, illustrators.

The Important thing is this that how does it work and how well does it work. Will it really make using tools easier and faster? Let’s take a closer look at the NuLOOQ and its variety of uses.

System Specs

* Mac O/S: Mac OS X V10.4.4 or greater
* Processor: PowerPC or Intel Core Processors
* Language: English only
* Memory: As needed by your application
* Disk Space: 10 MB of free disk space
* Port: Available USB 1.1 or greater port

* Windows O/S: Windows XP Service Pack 2 or greater
* Processor: Intel Pentium 4 (or equivalent) or greater
* Language: English only
* Memory: As needed by your application
* Disk Space: 10 MB of free disk space
* Port: Available USB 1.1 or greater port

System Specs

Adobe Creative Suite 2
Adobe Photoshop Elements 4
Adobe Bridge
Microsoft Word & Excel
Final Cut Pro (Macintosh only)
iMovie (Macintosh only)
Adobe Premiere Pro (Windows only)
iTunes
User configurable for virtually any application

NuLOOQ is about the size of a tennis ball cut in half. The outer gray ring is the navring, which allows user to scroll, pan and zoom. On the top are the tooltuner dial and the programmable trigger points. The tooltuner dial is the circular center that is touch sensitive, and can be used to control option values like opacity, flow, brush size, and so on. The trigger points are programmable values that you can assign short cuts to, like specific keystrokes, short cuts or special keys.

The IdeaPad U1 is industry’s first hybrid PC for consumers.

The IdeaPad U1’s unique design is engineered to provide consumers with two PCs in one device – each with its own processor and operating system – that work together and independently as either a clamshell laptop or a multitouch slate tablet.

The IdeaPad U1’s fashionable scarlet red exterior has a footprint just smaller than a piece of notebook paper and is paired with an equally impressive 3.8 pound thin and light design. With its unique detach-and-converge design, users can easily remove the screen to instantly switch from clamshell mode into a multitouch slate tablet. When the IdeaPad U1 is in its traditional clamshell form, the system boasts an 11.6 inch HD LED screen and runs Windows 7. When the 1.6 pound, multitouch screen is removed, it becomes an independent slate tablet with a powerful ARM processor, running Lenovo’s customized Skylight operating system.

Leveraging the benefits of both CPU, the two devices can synchronize to work as one with the ability to share battery power, 3G wireless, data and documents. In this way, the base laptop system can serve as a hub and docking station and the slate tablet as a mobile device. The two PCs have been engineered to work together and independently through Lenovo’s Hybrid Switch technology that enables seamless toggling between the two processors. For instance, users can surf the Web in laptop mode and then continue from the same point without interruption if they detach to tablet mode.

Lenovo’s hybrid notebook also features a customized “Me” centric tablet interface for comfortable landscape and portrait viewing. Users can switch between a six-section display and a four section display. U1’s six-section screen display is designed to enhance the mobile internet experience by letting users easily multitouch access multiple Web-based applications at once such as email, calendars, RSS readers and social networking Web sites. The four-section screen display option is perfect as a media center on the PC such as photos, music, videos and to view/edit documents.

The IdeaPad U1’s laptop and tablet modes each support more than five hours of 3G Web browsing and 60 hours of 3G standby. In addition, the U1 comes with integrated video camera and two stereo speakers with integrated microphone with echo cancellation make this the ideal PC for users who need flexibility but do not want to compromise features or functionality.

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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a fully stretchable form of single-crystal silicon with micron-sized, wave-like geometries that can be used to build high-performance electronic devices on rubber substrates.

“Stretchable silicon offers different capabilities than can be achieved with standard silicon chips,” said John Rogers, a professor of materials science and engineering and co-author of a paper to appear in the journal Science, as part of the Science Express Web site, on Dec 15.

Functional, stretchable and bendable electronics could be used in applications such as sensors and drive electronics for integration into artificial muscles or biological tissues, structural monitors wrapped around aircraft wings, and conformable skins for integrated robotic sensors, said Rogers, who is also a Founder Professor of Engineering, a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology and a member of the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory.

To create their stretchable silicon, the researchers begin by fabricating devices in the geometry of ultrathin ribbons on a silicon wafer using procedures similar to those used in conventional electronics. Then they use specialized etching techniques to undercut the devices. The resulting ribbons of silicon are about 100 nanometers thick — 1,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.

In the next step, a flat rubber substrate is stretched and placed on top of the ribbons. Peeling the rubber away lifts the ribbons off the wafer and leaves them adhered to the rubber surface. Releasing the stress in the rubber causes the silicon ribbons and the rubber to buckle into a series of well-defined waves that resemble an accordion.

“The resulting system of wavy integrated device elements on rubber represents a new form of stretchable, high-performance electronics,” said Young Huang, the Shao Lee Soo Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. “The amplitude and frequency of the waves change, in a physical mechanism similar to an accordion bellows, as the system is stretched or compressed.”

As a proof of concept, the researchers fabricated wavy diodes and transistors and compared their performance with traditional devices. Not only did the wavy devices perform as well as the rigid devices, they could be repeatedly stretched and compressed without damage, and without significantly altering their electrical properties.

“These stretchable silicon diodes and transistors represent only two of the many classes of wavy electronic devices that can be formed,” Rogers said. “In addition to individual devices, complete circuit sheets can also be structured into wavy geometries to enable stretchability.”

Besides the unique mechanical characteristics of wavy devices, the coupling of strain to electronic and optical properties might provide opportunities to design device structures that exploit mechanically tunable, periodic variations in strain to achieve unusual responses.

In addition to Rogers and Huang, co-authors of the paper were postdoctoral researcher Dahl-Young Khang and research scientist Hanqing Jiang. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy funded the work.

James E. Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor