If you’re ever curious about the exact number of people who are in space right now, the single-serving site aptly named how many people are in space right now? will tell you. The answer is 6. The lucky 6 who are currently living every kid’s dream? Americans Chris Cassidy and Karen Nyberg, Russians Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin and Fyodor Yurchikhin and Italian Luca Parmitano. Three of them have been up there 91 days, the other three 152 days.
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TokyoFlash’s watches aren’t known for their subtlety, but, despite taking cues from the aviation world, its latest design looks a bit more grounded than previous offerings. The Kisai Blade sports a custom-made turbine-style lens, and uses tube LEDs that rotate, like an airplane propeller, to tell time. The LEDs operate in three different modes, “Turning” uses a constant cycle to light up hours and minutes, while “Animation” turns your wrist into a rave with a constantly spinning diodes. In case you’re wondering how it displays the finer minutes, “Flashing” mode slowly flashes the minute hand at the standard five minute intervals, and four dots indicate minutes one through four. The timepiece uses a USB-rechargeable battery that can go a month between charges and is available with red, blue and green LEDs, and gold, silver and black bands; there’s a leather band option, too. If the Blade strikes your fancy, you have the next 48 hours to snatch one up for the launch price of $139, or if you miss the sale window, $159.
Filed under: Wearables
Source: TokyoFlash Japan
EIZO is gearing up to launch another LCD monitor namely the FlexScan EV2436W-Z. Adopting an IPS panel, this new 24.1-inch LED-backlight monitor supports a native resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels and provides 1000:1 contrast ratio, 300 cd/m2 brightness, 6ms response time and 178/178 degree viewing angles. In addition, it also has two built-in 1W stereo speakers and features D-Sub, DVI-D and DisplayPort connectors. The FlexScan EV2436W-Z will be available from August 29th for 56,800 Yen (about $575). [EIZO]
ASK Inc. Japan has also added MSI’s GeForce GTX 660 Twin Frozr III OC BIO graphics card to its product page. Powered by NVIDIA’s Kepler GPU, the card sports 960 CUDA Cores, a 192-bit memory interface, a core clock of 1033MHz (1098MHz Boost Clock) and a 2GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 6008MHz. Not only that, the card also employs the third-generation Twin Frozr cooling system and features dual-link DVI-I, dual-link DVI-D, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs. The MSI GeForce GTX 660 Twin Frozr III OC BIO will be available from August 28th for 25,980 Yen (about $263) and will come with a free download coupon of Resident Evil 6. [Product Page]
Storm System Technology hits back by bringing you their latest desktop PC, the Storm Linux Box Middle Tower Ubuntu SP. Adopting Enermax’s Ostrog mid-tower PC case, this high-performance system is equipped with a 3.40GHz Intel Core i7-4770 processor, an Intel B85 Express Chipset, an Intel HD Graphics, a 8GB DDR3 RAM, a 256GB SSD (Plextor M5 Pro Series), an optional HDD, a DVD Super Multi Drive, a 500W 80PLUS BRONZE power supply and runs on Ubuntu 13.04 Desktop 64-bit OS. The Storm Linux Box Middle Tower Ubuntu SP is available now for 99,750 Yen (about $1,010). [Product Page]
Ayuto is bringing you their newest NAS case, the MV-NAS25U3. Coming in three different color options: black, silver and red, the case is equipped with a USB 3.0 connection interface, a USB 2.0 port for expansion of storage, Gigabit Ethernet, built-in server function (Samba/WebDAV/FTP) and can house a single 2.5-inch SATA HDD/SSD (up to 2TB). The MV-NAS25U3 is available now. [Product Page]
Nissan has announced that a taxi version of its NV200 compact cargo van model is now in production at a facility in Mexico. Being called the “Taxi of Tomorrow,” the 2014 NV200 taxi is said to be designed specifically for the demands of New York City, with Nissan having gone so far as to set […]
Logitech will release the white version of its Logitech Wireless Touch Keyboard K400. Just like the black version, the white version also features a 2.4GHz radio frequency (works up to 10 meters), a built-in 3.5-inch touchpad, left/right mouse buttons and a tiny USB receiver (can be stored on the back of the body). The White Logitech Wireless Touch Keyboard K400 will be available in the US and Europe this September for $39.99. [Logitech]
Sony is hoping that by now you either don’t already own a PlayStation 3, or direly need a game console to match your primary colored living room decor before November 15th. To that end, the tech giant is releasing the previously Japan-only “azurite blue” PS3 Superslim exclusively to GameStop. The console sports a 250GB hard drive, one matching DualShock 3 controller and a $249.99 price tag — kinda makes that $200 12GB model look a bit silly now, doesn’t it? Pre-orders open up tomorrow and you’ll be able to pick one up from your favorite GameStop or Canadian EB Games starting October 8th.
Via: Joystiq
2 Chainz is likeable for several reasons. One, he used to go by Tity Boi, but he changed his moniker to be more family friendly. Two, he laces his lyrics with some of the best tech references of any rapper. Best example? Gotta pocket full of dead prez/attached to your girl like a jpeg.
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