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HP today unveiled the industry’s first touchscreen desktop PC to feature a 60 degree reclining display. HP TouchSmart610 Consumer PC, offers a increased range of motion, superior viewing experience and intuitive touch experience. The new TouchSmart610 Consumer PC features a 58.4cm (23″) diagonal high-definition display that reclines up to 60 degrees and tilts up to five degrees forward. Guided by pioneering HP ergonomics research, the reclining capability provides increased comfort for longer-term usage, making playing games or engaging customers easy.

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COMMA, a leading designer exclusive products manufacture today has launched a eco-friendly laptop cooling bag in the Middle East, which is made of special crystals-based cooling technology to reduce the temperature by 10 degrees Celsius and prolong battery and laptop life. The environment-friendly COMMA Notebook Cooling Bag, which can be used as Notebook Cooler is faster in cooling, airport friendly and offers mobility with ease. Laptop overheating does not only damage the notebook, it can cause serious health ramifications like Toasted Skin Syndrome, fertility-related risks and even skin cancer.
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Logitech today unveiled its new THX Certified, Surround Sound Speakers Z906, boostes 500 watts (RMS) output, creating a theatre-quality audio experience and delivers every single detail of movies, games and music. 5.1 digital decoding enables detailed surround sound, Dolby digital or DTS encoded soundtracks produces the house-shaking bass, the ported, side-firing subwoofer that delivers 165 watts of pure, distortion-free bass. It can also convert two-channel stereo into an immersive surround sound experience.Read More…

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OtterBox, the Irish brand of sleek and durable casing after capturing the european marketplace, now it extended its reach into Middle East by opening an office in Dubai, which would be led by Joonas Jantunen who has recently joined OtterBox from Nokia. Appointment of Emitac Mobile Solutions (EMS) as its first regional distributor for the Middle East region is part of the extention of OtterBox presence in the region. EMS will help build the brand to expand its channel network in the region.
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Toshiba today announced the launch of its Satellite R800 series, a new range of slim, light and high-spec notebooks targeted at consumers. The series includes the 33.8cm (13.3″) Satellite R830, the 35.6cm (14.0”) Satellite R840 and the 39.6cm (15.6”) Satellite R850. Thanks to a sophisticated heat management system Toshiba has managed to integrate Intel’s latest full-performance CPUs into the slim casings. The Satellite R800 series models are estimated to be available during the second quarter 2011 throughout Middle East and Africa.

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Intel today announced the launch of Intel Solid-State Drive 510 Series, which features fast SATA 6 Gigabits per second (Gbps) performance to take full advantage of Intel’s transition to higher speed SATA bus interfaces on the recently introduced 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processor-based platforms. Supporting data transfers of up to 500 megabytes per second (MB/s), the Intel SSD 510 doubles the sequential read speeds, and at up to 315MB/s more than triples the sequential write speeds of Intel’s current 3Gbps SSDs, to transfer more data in less time. This makes it ideal for demanding gamers, media creators, performance-intensive workstation users and any technology enthusiast.Read More…

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Toshiba today unveiled the new STOR.E ART4 external hard disk drives featuring SuperSpeed USB technology (USB 3.0) for super-fast data transfers with a transmission rate of up to 5 Gigabit per second. The sleekly designed external hard disk drives comes with 5 year warranty. The small dimensions and light weight of less than 190g, rubberised edges and power supply via the USB connection, STOR.E ART4 is ideal for mobile usage and makes it suitable for stationary usage, making a very smart desk too.
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Buffalo launched its new USB 3.0 multi-drive products in addition to its existing range of USB-attached storage products. The new range of USB 3.0 DriveStation Duo and DriveStation Quad will be available in 3 variants. The USB 3.0 DriveStation Duo is a unit that features twin RAID enable drives in two bays accessible via a USB 3.0 that connects and transfers data using 5Gbps USB 3.0 and 480MBps USB 2.0 connections to the computer. The USB 3.0 DriveStation Quad, on the other hand, sports four RAID enabled drives in four bays. Read More…

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SanDisk today announced the encryption and online backup features for all its entire range of USB portfolio. SanDisk SecureAccess™ software protects files against unauthorized access by creating an encrypted, password-protected folder or ‘vault’ on the USB drive. SanDisk is also expanding its USB product portfolio with two new drives to meet the needs of a broad set of customers. The SanDisk Ultra® USB flash drive features faster transfer rates and the SanDisk Cruzer® Edge™ USB drive offers easy portability.
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SanDisk, today announced the world’s fastest high-capacity CompactFlash® card. The SanDisk Extreme® Pro™ CompactFlash® card features 128 gigabytes (GB)1 of storage and up to 100 megabyte per second (MB/sec)2 write speeds. With its Power Core® controller and UDMA-7 interface, the card delivers the performance demanded by high-end DSLR cameras.Read More…

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Creative Technology Ltd. has announced the Middle East launch of Creative ZiiSound T6 – the latest addition to its extensive Pure Wireless speaker family. The all new speaker system assumes the position of the flagship Surround Sound wireless speaker in the Pure Wireless speaker range. It transforms all compatible stereo Bluetooth devices into a wireless remote control. USB 5.1 Surround The ZiiSound T6 also offers users the option of enjoying 5.1 Surround content via a wired USB connection. The three-piece-system is capable of “full-bandwidth” audio from 5.1 digital soundtracks. Read More…

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WD unveils its lastest innovation, the WD TV Live Hub™ media center (photo), a Full-HD 1080p media player with a 1 terabyte (TB) built-in network hard drive that gives users the freedom to play all their personal media on any screen in the home. The WD TV Live Hub media center brings new experiences to the WD TV family, including instantly renting or purchasing the newest releases through Blockbuster On Demand® service, the same day as DVD/Blu-ray release, as well as interacting with personal Facebook® communities.

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