Samsung N310 Netbook kills germs fast

Samsung has announced a 10-inch Netbook which, among other things, kills bacteria. The N310 has been styled by award-winning Japanese designmeister Naoto Fukasawa and will presumably be welcomed with open--but latex-gloved--arms by OCD sufferers.

It boasts a frameless 10-inch screen and pebble design keyboard, which Samsung reckons is 93 percent of the size of a desktop keyboard for easy typing.
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Logitech's new laptop cooling options

Laptop cooling devices generally fall into two categories--plastic stands with little fans inside and plastic stands without little fans inside (we checked out several examples in our laptop cooling device roundup).

Logitech has managed to hit both categories with its announcement of two new laptop coolers on March 18.

The Logitech Cooling Pad N100 is a gently waving riser, with a fan pointed up through its slotted top. The air intake is from the rear edge, to reduce the chance of blocked airflow, and it can draw power from your laptop via a USB cord.
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Rumors of 11.6-inch Acer Aspire One surfaces

If you feel the 10.1-inch Aspire One AOD150 (pictured) is too stingy with screen estate, and the 12.1-inch Dell Inspiron Mini 12 just too darn big, you'll probably want to wait for this. Blog site macles* suggests that an 11.6-inch version of the Acer Netbook, Acer Aspire One Pro 731, is in the works. If this is true, it means Netbooks will start invading another niche market currently populated by only the Vaio TT series.

This new model targets the prosumer and business user, which is similar to the positioning of the HP Mini 2140. Besides the high-resolution 1,366 x 768 display, the other noticeable improvement is the redesigned keyboard
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Sniffing keystrokes via laser and keyboard power

Presenters at the CanSecWest security conference detailed how they can sniff data by analyzing keystroke vibrations using a laser trained on a shiny laptop or through electrical signals coming from a PC connected to a PS/2 keyboard and plugged into a socket.

Using equipment costing about US$80, researchers from Inverse Path were able to point a laser on the reflective surface of a laptop between 50 feet and 100 feet away and determine what letters were typed.

Chief Security Engineer Andrea Barisani and hardware hacker Daniele Bianco used a handmade laser microphone device and a photo diode to measure the vibrations, software for analyzing the spectrograms of frequencies from different keystrokes, as well as technology to apply the data to a dictionary to try to guess the words. They used a technique called dynamic time warping that's typically used for speech recognition applications, to measure the similarity of signals.
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Viewsonic prepping for a 22-inch laptop?

We thought the age of gargantuan laptops, which included machines like the Dell XPS M2010 and HP HDX Dragon (pictured), had gone the way of the Dodo bird. However, an unlikely brand is seeking to revive this category.

According to Digitimes, Viewsonic has plans to develop a 22-inch notebook for the China market. Better known as a maker of LCD panels, the Taiwanese vendor does have some laptop models in the Mainland, and its current marketing strategy is to bundle its notebooks with monitors.

Considering that desktop replacements, especially models with more than 20-inch screens, are niche markets, we doubt this move is meant for Viewsonic to increase its laptop penetration in China. In all likelihood, the 22-inch notebook is meant to create brand awareness, as there are only a handful of machines (most of which are no longer being retailed) in this category. No specifications or images has been released for this 22-inch behemoth, but we are certain it'll be easily recognizable when it starts popping up in China's retail stores.

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