Review: Archos 705 WiFi Portable Video Player (160GB)

“The Gen 5 line from ARCHOS features the most advanced portable media players in the industry, with easy access to content and personalization options to fit individual lifestyles”, says Archos.
Personally, I’ve always been a huge admirer of portable media players. I travel frequently and having all of my favourite movies and music with me is an absolute god-send. I have a lot (and I mean a lot!) of beloved media, so I was keen to look for a portable media player with a large capacity and the finest qualities.
Enter the Archos 705 WiFi Portable Video Player (160GB). It is promised to be packed full of the best multi-media features and can be personalised to suit one’s lifestyle.
So let’s see exactly what it can do.
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Blyk: free texts and calls. This just may be the deal of the year

The best thing about being young is the lack of bills that mum and dad always grumble about paying. Well, that was true until mobile phone contracts came along and all of a sudden, the younger generation understood why forking out a monthly amount from your hard-earned pay packet warranted a good five minutes of over-exaggerated sighing. All is not lost though, as I’ve come across a new site that offers free calls and texts for people aged 16-24, meaning you may not need to do all of that overtime spent staring at the slow tick of a clock any longer.

If you are one of the fortunate to fit into this age bracket, the guys over at Blyk will send you a SIM card with 217 free texts and 43 free minutes to any UK network. This tops-up automatically with this same free amount every month. If all of this isn’t enough for you to organise your next pool party, you can purchase more credit at the pretty standard rate of 10p/text and 15p/minute. Top-up £5 or more in a month and you will also receive and extra 150 free texts on your next refill. Budgeting and keeping in touch with friends just got a whole lot easier!
So where’s the catch with this deal? Well you need to be willing to accept a few ads sent to you, but this is limited at 6 brand messages per day. The messages will be catered to your interests, and are free for you to receive and respond to (if they catered to your interests that well!) These brand messages will only ever come from Blyk to prevent privacy issues. From the number of ads I see everyday on bus stops, on TV and radio and even on my cereal box; six more really isn’t bad and I have to confess, I’m a sucker for hearing my SMS tone beep for my attention!

If you’re interested in this deal, you will need an unlocked phone with MMS capabilities as brand messages are sent as colourful pictures (at least they won’t bore the pants off you). If you’ve still got that Nokia from the mid 90s, the Blyk shop does offer a range of new, shiny phones to choose from.
With the price of living constantly on the increase, I am on the hunt for every bargain I can possibly get and I know all of my friends are on a similar quest. Blyk’s deal with no contract and no minimum top-up means that there really doesn’t seem to be any harm checking-out the Blyck website either for yourself or for the teenager in your life.

Rovio Wi-Fi Robot

This ingenious piece of gadgetry streams video and audio through a built-in camera, and can be controlled from anywhere. When I say anywhere, I do mean that you can be sipping mojitos in Hawaii and checking up on what’s going at home in London by controlling Rovio around your living room via the internet. more info here--

Rovio Wi-Fi Robot

Chang jiang A998

Alright the Chang Jiang A998 is just similar to the previous “TV 7000” clamshell. The Chang Jiang A998 comes with a 2.8 inch display screen, 3.0-megapixel camera, TV function, integrated MP3 and MP4 player, Bluetooth, GPRS, FM radio, dual SIM slots, microSD slot and other basic features includes FM radio, E-book , Currency converter, Unit converter, To do list, Incoming calls secretary and calculator. The Chang Jiang A998 is available for $180.86. also… it has the VAIO inspired logo.

Nintendo Limited Edition Dialga/palkia DS Lite

It has been a long time since I last heard the word Pokémon. Yeah, the Nintendo is going to release a new Pokémon Limited Edition DS Lite system. The Pokémon Pack will hit the stores in this coming August 17th and will come together with the “Diamond and Pearl cover Pokemons on the Onyx DS Lite itself, a DVD of an original animated feature based on Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness, a small poster to adorn your locker, and a Dialga and Palkia DS case to protect your DS from scratches”. And the good news is the price will still remained at $130.
[via Ubergizmo]

Rumor:PSP Chotto Shot Overheat

Their words flying around saying that the PSP add-on camera aka the Chotto Shot could overheat and spontaneously combust which means burst ~ caught fire. They believed it could melt off all your saves game in the memory stick as well. Hmm… Is that real? I have friends using it for a long time, it seems working pretty well. However, if it does burn, please do not forget to share with us.
[via Ubergizmo]

limited edition Dark Knight Xbox 360 in eBay

With $1200, you can get a limited edition Dark Knight Xbox 360 in eBay. It comes with wireless controller, 20GB storage, headset, network cable, standard/HD AV cable and Xbox LIVE silver membership. Only 110 of them were made, so bid fast.

[via Techeblog]

Miniature Olympics Stadium-the village version

The China’s Olympics stadium also known as the “Bird’s Nest”, cost around $500 million and took 7 years to build. The stadium fits in 91,000 people and will host both of the opening and closing ceremonies, and also all of the athletic events for the 2008 Olympics.
Besides that, it has also inspired some Chinese villagers in Hangzhou city to make a smaller and cheaper version of the bird nest stadium. 10 bamboo master used 1,000 pieces of bamboos to build a Miniature Bird’s Nest stadium in the village. They have completed it in 2 weeks time. They also plan to organize some sports events in that nest such as beach ball, bow shooting, loop rolling, etc. Coo!

AMD Lunches World's Fastest Graphics card

AMD (ATI) has launched their latest ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 which known as the fastest graphics ever made, comes with 2.4 teraFLOPS of processing power.
“Currently Nvidia’s RSX GPU found in the PS3 delivers performance of 1.8 teraFLOPS, while ATI’s chip in the Xbox 360 delivers 1.0 teraFLOPS”
Now ATI combined two ATI Radeon HD 4800 series GPUs into a single card become the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 with 2GB of onboard memory. The ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 is immediately available from e-tailers worldwide priced at USD $549 SRP. Check out more after the break
Key Features
- 2 GB of GDDR5 memory

- 2.4 teraFLOPS of GPU power

- DirectX® 10.1

- 1600 stream processing units

- 2 x 256-bit memory interface

- 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering

- Dual mode ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance

- PCI Express® 2.0 support

- Dynamic geometry acceleration

- Game physics processing capability

- ATI Avivo™ HD video and display technology1

• Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) for Blu-ray™ and HD Video

• Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)

• DVD Upscaling

• Dynamic Contrast

• Built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support

• Integrated DisplayPort2- Dynamic power management with ATI PowerPlay™ technology3

The green one looks familiar :-)
Press Release
[via TechFresh]

NVIDIA Quadro Plex D series of Visual Computing Systems (VCS)

The NVIDIA machine looks cool! It is the new NVIDIA Quadro Plex D series of Visual Computing Systems (VCS) with NVIDIA CUDA Parallel Computing Processor technology which can turn workstations and servers into visual supercomputers.
“The new Quadro Plex 2200 D2 is designed for large datasets and models, crunches data through two Quadro FX 5800 GPUs (totalling 480 CUDA cores) and 8GB of RAM, while the Quadro Plex 2100 D2 is optimized for large multidisplay rigs with four Quadro FX 4700 GPUs and support for up to eight monitors.”
The price is higher then we thought, it has a starting price of $10,500. It is designed for the professional workstation like the designer developing the latest automobile or a 3D artist working on the next blockbuster film.
[via Engadget PR Newswire]