The New 13″ Macbook Pro
Apple have finally beefed up their 13″ Macbook and added the Pro to the end of it. If you have been delaying your purchase then count yourself lucky as now you can get a 13″ Macbook Pro starting from $1,199. With that you get an Nvidia Geforce 9400M graphics adapter, SD Card Reader, Firewire 800 and a whooping 7-hour integrated battery. And if you have more money to spend then you can opt for a Solid State Drive as well.
NEC CRV43 Curved Widescreen Display
If your using two widescreen display for any reason and find that you dislike having the gap in the middle, then this new curved widescreen from NEC is the one for you. The 43″ NEC curved widescreen display has a 2880×900 double WXGA resolution, a 10,000:1 contrast ratio, single link DVI-D, HDMI inputs and USB 2.0 ports.
Buy: $8000
Perfect Unison Plywood Headphones
Ever thought about wearing a skateboard around your head. Well not that you ever would but if you did, then we have found someone out there crazy enough to come up with something along those lines.
Parra a Dutch artist has handcrafted headphones made out of Finnish Birch Plywood usinf the same moulding tecnique as skateboards. Apparently, using wood produces better quality sound than plastic, so they say. The headphones are only 1.2mm thick keeping it lightweight and flexible.
The headphones will be coming out soon but Parra has not revealed how much he will be selling them for.
Orion SkyQuest XT10 Classic Dobsonian Telescope
As a kid I always wanted a telescope, not to just spy on the girl next door but to look at other educational stuff like the moon, planets and maybe spot a flying saucer. Well now I can with the Orion SkyQuest XT10 Classic Dobsonian Telescope. The reason for chosing this telescope over many others is because it looks the best and at datscool.com we like anything that looks good but not only that it provides the best mass-produced Newtonian optics as well.
The Orion SkyQuest XT10 is human powered. You move the scope manually – which is faster, quieter, and much less expensive than a motorized system. With only two major components to assemble (tube and base), and a heaviest single component weight of a little under 31 pounds, the scope takes only a few minutes to set up and is easily managed by any reasonably fit individual. Its good optical quality and very reasonable price for such a big telescope make it an excellent buy for the beginning and advanced astronomer alike.
Mini desktop with Nvidia Ion Platform
There has been a lot of talk about Nvidia’s Ion platform and now finally a few sites have been able to get there hands on one. PC World recently took delivery of a mini desktop equipped with Nvidia’s Ion platform.
The palm size desktop features a Seagate Momentus 200GB hard drive, 2GB of RAM, and a host of I/O ports, along with a 1.6-GHz Intel Z330 Atom CPU and an nVidia GeForce 9400M graphics processor.
The cool thing about this is that it allows you to play games and watch movies at 1080p. Now if you’re not excited then try using a netbook or a mac mini to watch and play games at HD res, yep its like running todays games on your old 486DX4100 and 14″ VGA monitor.
We are expected to see the first desktops and netbooks equipped with the platform early June and Nvidia has said it will cost about $50 – $100 more to a standard 945GM/E configuration.
Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 All-In-One PC with Motion Remote
The IdeaCentre A600 by Lenovo is an ideal purchase if you’re looking for a PC/Media Centre/Gaming Machine. It has the thinnest design out of all its competitors and the company boasts that this is due to most of the component being in the bottom of the computer. It also features a touchpad keyboard, Levono’s Motion Drive Remote that can also be used as a VolIP handset, an ‘air mouse’, game controller and a Media Center remote.
It has a 21.5″ screen with HD resolution display at 1920 x 1080 pixels and a 16:9 ratio, digital TV tuner, Intel Core Duo, Up to 4GB DDR3, Up to 1TB of storage, 6x USB 2.0, 1x Firewire (1394), and Up to 2MP cam. (read more)
Cost: From $999