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Meizu's M8 mini One iPhone-like video

Cameron Wilmot | Mobile Devices | Mar 4, 2008 3:48 AM CST

While Chinese phone maker Meizu was absent from CES in Las Vegas earlier this year, they promised to many a working demo at CeBIT in Germany and managed to deliver.

Thomas over at Engadget managed to spend some time with one of the company reps in the booth for a short video preview of the Apple iPhone-like M8 mini One phone. The phone which is on display is a very early prototype but it gives you an idea at what can be done when you have passion and the ability to copy others ideas.

They probably should have went along with a translator but take a look at the video that they uploaded to YouTube just below.

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MSI enterting Memory Module market

Cameron Wilmot | RAM | Mar 4, 2008 3:08 AM CST

We are totally shocked to hear that MSI have plans to enter the memory module market under the "Star Memory" brand. We visited MSI in Taiwan for their pre-CeBIT bash but heard nothing about this.

On display in Germany at the MSI booth is the first set of Star Memory modules red or blue heat spreader. The modules on display are DDR2-800 with timings of CL5 - nothing overly exciting but you have got to start somewhere in the RAM business and this is a very interesting move by MSI.

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Marketing shots of GeForce 9800 GX2

Cameron Wilmot | Video Cards & GPUs | Mar 4, 2008 2:24 AM CST

Yesterday photos of Albatron's upcoming GeForce 9800 GX2 surfaced in their booth at CeBIT and today we were emailed official product marketing snaps of the upcoming dual-GPU single PCB graphics card which is due to go on sale March 18 or thereabouts.

Apparently Nvidia board partners are allowed to display GX2 products but are not allowed to discuss performance numbers and specifications.

So, without further ado...

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"Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto"

John Freeman | | Mar 3, 2008 7:54 AM CST

Styx fans will have to excuse my use of the famous quote from one of their more popular songs, but seemingly they are prophets of a future that is slowly being noticed.

It is widely believed Japan is leading the race to domesticate robots, and in this latest news stemming from Tokyo, a robot has been designed to simulate six basic human expressions: Anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust. The expressions are then linked to a complex grouping of words that lend strengths of association, so if someone were to mention a word, the robotic face could respond appropriately. The example given was "War" and the robot was able to quiver in a combination of fear and disgust. Similarly, the word "Love" brings a softened smile to its lips.

According to the article from Yahoo news, Robots are assuming many roles in modern Japanese society, with examples of them being welcomed on the first day of a job with Shinto religious ceremonies, or where they are used to cut sushi and other jobs for various levels of responsibility. The majority of current robots are not humanoid, and as a result are hardly associated to the typical "Terminator" robot class. According to the article Western cultures are less likely to embrace a robotic helper, but then Shinto religion, part of Japanese culture, doesn't differentiate clearly between animate and inanimate beings. This has led to the robot-being becoming more easily accepted into homes.

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Albatron CeBIT preview

Lars Nilsson | RAM | Mar 3, 2008 6:32 AM CST

With CeBIT starting in Hannover, Germany on the 4th of March, TweakTown managed to do the rounds to a few of the companies in Taiwan before the show starts. We've got an exclusive look at some of the things which will be shown at the show and some that won't be at the show. We'll start this little roundup with Albatron, one of the slightly lesser well known companies in the market. First up we have a couple of graphics cards and although we saw a GeForce 9800 GX2, we can't post the pictures due to NDA restricitions.

First up is a new low profile GeForce 8600 GT card, which should offer some more horsepower than Albatrons Blue Ray decoder card (no, that's not a typo, it's what they call it). It does run hotter than the GeForce 8500 based Blue Ray decoder card, so sadly this card is using a dual slot cooling design. It has native DVI and HDMI connectors and it has a header for D-sub and TV-out on a separate bracket as well as S/PDIF input via a separate header.

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