Spécifications techniques

* Radio FM
* Haut-parleur intégré
* Taille (LxHxD) : 55,6×35,7×17,5
* Ecran : affichage 64 x 64 pixels
* Poids : 21,0 g
* Source d’alimentation :
o Batterie : 1 x batterie lithium-ion rechargeable
o Bus USB alimenté lorsqu’il est connecté à une prise électrique ou à un port USB sous tension d’un ordinateur
* Formats de lecture audio
o MP3 (jusqu’à 320 kbps) - WMA (jusqu’à 320 kbps)
o WMA avec Windows Media Digital Rights Management (WMDRM) 9
o Audible
o AAC (non protégé)
* Formats d’enregistrement
o Voix (via un microphone intégré) : IMA-ADPCM (8 kHz, 4 bits Mono)
* Performances de lecture du MP3
o Rapport Signal/Bruit : jusqu’à 90 dBo - Séparation de canal : jusqu’à 60 dB
o Réponse en fréquence : 20 Hz ~ 20 kHz
o Sortie de distorsion harmonique : <0,1 %
* Connecteurs
o Prise casque : mini prise stéréo 3,5 mm, 5 ~ 7 mW par canal
o Port USB 2.0 : réceptacle USB mini-B standard
* Prise en charge du microprogramme : peut être mis à niveau via USB. Les mises à niveau du microprogramme sont disponibles à l'adresse www.creative.com/support.
* Caractéristiques des écouteurs
o Plage de fréquences : 20 Hz ~ 20 KHz
o Sensibilité : 109 dB ±3 dB SPL à 1 KHz
o Impédance : 32 O ±15 %
o Prise : mini prise stéréo 3,5 mm

Garantie

* Garantie matérielle limitée à 1 an

Creative

La Samsung ML-2010R est une imprimante laser monochrome d’une utilisation très simple, compatible avec les derniers Windows, plusieurs Linux et Mac OS X.

Dépourvue d’options farfelues - pas d’impression photo, par exemple, elle est idéale pour les gens qui ont besoin d’une impression de précision à moindre coût (elle est livrée avec un toner de mille copies, et les toners de rechange peuvent fournir environ 3000 copies) et elle est surtout extrêmement rapide, montant très vite en chauffe.

Elle a des défauts bien sûr, puisqu’elle est très bruyante et qu’elle est livrée sans cable USB (type AB), ce qui peut être une cause de frustration au moment du déballage et de l’installation.

75 euros en livraison gratuite chez Amazon.

Les caractéristiques sont un peu cheap, 4 Go de mémoire (mais upgradable via un disque dur externe et un slot pour cartes mémoire SD/MMC), 512 Mo de RAM, un processeur de 900 MhZ, mais les performances sont très correctes grâce à la vivacité du support flash et à la légereté du système d’exploitation.

Avec moins d’un kilo, il peut tenir dans un sac à main ou un petit cartable, tout en répondant à 90 % des besoins d’un utilisateur lambda : mail et surf internet grâce à la connectivité wifi, base multi-média (vidéo et musique) et applications bureautiques. Evidemment, pas la peine d’espérer mixer de la musique ou éditer de la vidéo là-dessus, mais ça peut se faire à la maison.

J’en veux un.

Being the big brother of the Zen Stone and I think, the true son of the excellent Zen Nano, the Zen Stone Plus appeared this summer and provide a simple screen and twice the capacity of the peeblish Stone in the same package.

The Zen Stone Plus offers a FM radio (32 stations presets), a multiusage clock (with countdown timer and a stopwatch), and voice recording. Its runtime is about 9 hours, with a one hour (wall power adapter) or two hours (PC USB charger) charge time.

It can play MP3, WMA and Audible files and can be used as an USB key.

Available in six cool colours (black, blue, pink, green, red, white).

.74 ounces (about 21 grams)

$ 69.99 at Creative

Review at Journal du Geek (with pictures, in French)

The Zen Stone is the new entry level of Creative MP3 players, and will replace the aging Zen Nano. This is a very simple 1 Go player, as its main competitor, the Apple Shuffle. The Shuffle benefits from its design and its clip to be classier, smaller and maybe more practical, but the design of the Creative is cute, and I like the colours. Its main argument is its price : it will cost at least half the price the Apple player.

It will be MP3, WMA and Audible compatible, with a 10 hours runtine (Shuffle : 12 hours, Zen Nano : 18 hours on an alkaline AAA battery).
One thing that I like, it’s you can drag-and-drop files through USB connexion, so you don’t have to use proprietary formats or software to listen to your music.

Two things that I don’t like :
- the switch from AAA batts to integrated lithium battery : that means that if you travel, and not just commute, you must bring with you cables for charging and depend on anomad energy sources, rather than just bring one or two extra little batteries.
- the lack of an SD-card port, another cool MP3 player lacking of evolution capacities. 1 Go isn’t always enough.

Beside the Apple Shuffle, you may be interested in looking at the old Nano Zen, since you can find now 1 Go version for about $ 50 (and will probably keep lowering with destocking). You won’t have the cute pebble design and it’s almost twice heavier, but this challenger is available with some nice colours, and you got a recording function (micro and in-line), FM radio, a (tiny) screen (and it uses an AAA battery with good runtime).

54 x 35 x 13 mm for 18.5 grams. Retails about $ 35.

See also : Zen Nano on GrandesPoches

Creative Zen Stone

This dual keypad calculator will be available this fall, with a retail price to be announced.

The TI-Nspire handheld comes with a snap-in TI-84 Plus Keypad that provides the same keystrokes as TI-83 Plus, TI-84 Plus and TI-84 Plus Silver Edition graphing calculators.

Whether handhelds are provided by your school or your students bring in personally-owned units, this side-by-side compatibility between TI-Nspire handhelds and existing TI graphing calculators delivers a comfortable transition to TI-Nspire technology.

Texas Instrument

I think that since it works only with Windows, a less-iPodish finition would have been even better, something like a light pink or fun colours.

Encombrement is minimal, with 118 x 65x 38 mm dimensions. This pigglet is also a lightweight, with only 45 grams and it costs only $ 10.

Buy it at Brando

Pig light

Via Gadget Fosfor

An incredible story for an US soldier based in Iraq, saved by his iPod weared on the left side of his jacket:

Kevin Garrad (3rd Infantry Division) was on a street patrol in Iraq and as he rounded the corner of a building an armed (AK-47) insurgent came from the other side.

The two of them were within just a few feet of each other when they opened fire. The insurgent was killed and Kevin was hit in the left chest where his IPod was in his jacket pocket. It slowed the bullet down enough that it did not completely penetrate his body armor. Fortunately, Kevin suffered no wound.

Source

The french internet provider Cegetel is trying to take the succession of the first french telematic revolution (the Minitel) with the offer of a simple computer, running a proprietary-linux, and apparently very easy to use :

“We wanted to create something as simple and cheap as the Minitel to reach technophobes and people without much money,” said Frédéric Charrier, manager of the Easy Neuf project, which started its first national advertising campaign last week. “For a slightly higher subscription, customers get a simplified computer with all services they might need.”

For €39.90, or $53.30 - a €10 premium over the price of most broadband subscriptions in France - customers get a white computer roughly the size and shape of a toaster. A one-time payment of €29 buys a keyboard, mouse and camera; for €99 more, the customer can get a 14-inch color monitor.

The minimum subscription is twelve months long, with a 150 euros deposit as guarantee. For this price, you get a simple computer with only 512 Kb of flash-memory (but you can use an external hard-drive) and an open-source software suite (Firefox, Abiword, Gnumeric, The Gimp, a multimedia player, etc.), an integrated modem, an ADSL (up to 8 Mb/s) connection, and a free phone line.

The Box is build aroung an Intel i852GM chipset with Intel M600 processor (and a Broadcom BCN6348 modem), 512 Mo of RAM, an ADSL port, two ethernet ports, six USB 2.0 ports, audio and VGA connection.

The operating system displays icons along the bottom of the screen, and offers several versions, depending on the needs of the user. At the simplest level, the computer offers menus based on a theme. The screen button “search,” for example, has a submenu offering a telephone (which links to a yellow pages Web site), an encyclopedia (which links to Wikipedia) and another option that links to search engines.

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If the quality of the offer is good enough (reliability of the Box and of the internet-connection), they may enjoy the very important success of the first state-Minitel.

Easy neuf
IHT

[tags]Neuf Cegetel, Easy Box, Easy Gate, internet, ADSL, Linux, simple, minitel

Conçue par René Adda (ou Marco Pulga & Lucas Artioli, selon la source), cette petite radio AM/FM au boîtier en aluminium et plastique bleu (ou bois) fonctionne sur deux piles LR06/AA (ou LR03/AAA, selon la source). Son prix est de $ 48. Dimensions : environ 9.5 x 13.5 x 4.5 cm.

Lexon (Flash ! Flash !)
Notcot
Mini Dolmen (plastique) chez MomaStore
Mini Dolmen (bois) chez Skripta