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On Toshiba’s website are available the latest devices added by the company including the new Toshiba USB 2.0 portable external hard drive called The Storage You Need. The new models come in Gecko Green, Hot Rod Red and Carbon Grey, supporting 160GB, 250GB and 320GB of data.
Conceived as durable portable storage devices for backup needs the USB portable storage devices come with the NTI Shadow software which doesn’t require activation but instead it does its job automatically when plugged in. The smart software will run in background without disturbing your activities and updates automatically to save your media on the external device.

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A few years back, Marin Soljačić was driven from bed by the insistent beeping of his mobile phone. But it wasn’t beeping for him to answer it, it was beeping for him to plug it in. Since that night, the assistant professor of physics at MIT, has been thinking about ways to start his phone charging as soon as he enters his home - without the need for plugs or wires.

Jennifer Chu at Technology Review writes that Soljačić considered using radio waves, but found that most of their energy would be lost in transmission. Targeted methods like lasers require a clear line-of-sight and could be dangerous for anything in their way. According to Chu, he eventually settled on a phenomenon called magnetic resonance coupling, in which two objects tuned to the same frequency exchange energy strongly but interact only weakly with other objects.
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I’ve always been a defender of Windows XP against Vista, but it looks like the much expected Service Pack 3 for XP has something against computers using AMD processors, or at least this is what Jesper Johansson, former program manager for security policy at Microsoft, says.

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Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console will be getting smaller chips, with news breaking the popular games console will soon be using 65nm GPUs.

Revisions to the cooling and a smaller CPU have already helped later model consoles avoid the dreaded red ring of death, but the news the next revision of Xbox – code-named Jasper – will have a smaller graphics chip, replacing the current 90nm IBM designed chips, will be welcomed.

Smaller, cooler, more productive

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If you’re looking for the best gaming mouse then you may be surprised by just how much choice you have.

The best gaming mice don’t come cheap so you want to be sure you’re not making the wrong choice and wasting your money. To help you out here’s my top 10 best gaming mice.

3200dpi laser sensor with adjustable sensitivity | Variable weights | Interchangeable grips | 5 button profiles | Right-handed.

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