The Samsung Company is on up-grade today. It is swiftly working up the market of mobile phones and smartphones, and its profits enable it to create unique and high-quality products as well as to experiment with new technologies. Pico-projectors are one of the relatively new trends of the South Korean manufacturer. A pico-projector is a miniature of a regular projector. This device is notable for its small size and can be compared to a packet of cigarettes. It is able to display an image of 100" in diagonal, though. There appears a question: whether it’s going to be of a good quality? This article answers it and tells what else the pico-projector Samsung SP-H03 is capable of.

Those people whose childhood fell on the “happy” nineties, at least most of them, remember what the “hunt” for innovative at that time computer games was like. They could be called “computer” only at a stretch since the majority of the middle class in our country used to do with available games devices like Dendy or SEGA, cartridges for which cost as much as half of the device. Then there appeared computers with diskettes and disks. The latter kind of data storage device is still popular, but is it going to stay dominant long? The producers of Blu-ray are seriously concerned about movies brought online. But is the same going to happen to games? Judging by the latest events, it is very likely. Besides, the ideas of certain individuals have gone further – you won’t have to download a game, just get an image from the Internet that has been drawn on a remote server. It already exists and works now. And this article tells how it works and where it exists.

HTPC is the most topical issue when it comes to discussing the home theatre system. Let’s assume that a DVD payer that costs about $60 doesn’t satisfy everyone even though it can play back a score or two of formats. It’s much better to connect a computer to an LCD TV, which enables to gain greater independence in case new codecs appear and to improve the quality of the displayed image. And it’s a lot easier to update hardware stuff. But a full-fledged computer costs a lot even if you cut down on some “extras”. A single-purpose player is cheaper and more compact. And the price depends on its functionality. A device that provides the basic scope of playing back digital content and doesn’t cost much at the same time is at issue in this article. We are happy to introduce Apacer AL460.

Electronic paper (e-paper) and electronic ink (e-ink) are inventions which are 30 years old. They came into our life comparatively not long ago. The first prototypes ready for mass production were introduced as early as 10-15 years ago but only now real product has appeared on sale. As usual it had begun with single hardware devices, the number of which rose to a score in the course of time. This market is still in its initial stage of development. Yet even now one can estimate its prospects. The prospects of this sector and the technology of e-ink itself are at issue in this article.

In the middle of 2008 AMD presented a new mobile platform Puma. Among its plural innovations technology was meant ATI XGP, which allowed connecting external videocards to the notebooks. By the end of 2008 the first products began to appear on retail sale. A company differed in particular Fujitsu Siemens Computers, producing a notebook AMILO Sa 3650, to which it is possible to connect AMILO GraphicBooster external accelerator. We’ve got both of these products and now we are glad to present their review, combined with the detailed description of ATI XGP technology.