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Panasonic Announces World’s First Rewritable 100GB BDXL Disc

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:24 AM PDT

In July last year, Sharp showed the world’s first triple-layer BDXL discs with 100GB capacity. While the discs were great (and enough to store about 720 minutes of terrestrial digital broadcasting), they weren’t rewritable. But the LM-BE100J BDXL Blu-rays, announced [JP] by Panasonic today, are.

Panasonic says their made-in-Japan discs come with a "hard coat" to protect your recordings from scratches and dirt (needless to say, you will need a BDXL-compatible Blu-ray recorder to be able to use them).

The LM-BE100J will hit Japaneses stores on April 15 (price for one disc: around $120).

 

Report: Sony Android 3.0 Tablet To Hit The US This Summer (And Sony Kind Of Confirms It)

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 04:32 AM PDT

Japan’s biggest business daily The Nikkei reported some vague news today about a new tablet Sony is supposedly planning. According to the article (which has now been deleted on the newspaper’s Japanese website), Sony CEO Howard Stringer has said that his company is ready to launch an Android 3.0 tablet “this summer”.

Stringer was also quoted as saying that the Honeycomb device will hit the US, the biggest market for tablets, first (the picture above shows the Sony Dash).

Japanese tech news site AV Watch has followed up [JP] in the meantime: it just published an official statement from a Sony spokesperson who says the tablet will arrive “by year-end” and that further details will follow “sometime later”.

It looks like the Nikkei news item is more substantial than the one from the Wall Street Journal we reported on in March 2010.

 

CrunchGear Week In Review: Conversation Piece Edition

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 12:00 AM PDT

Jaeger-LeCoultre Grande Reverso Ultra-Thin Watch Hands-On

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 12:16 PM PDT

Jaeger-LeCoultre’s answer to the thin watch in 2011 was with their Reverso. Many of the Richemont brands were releasing their own slim watches, and I think the Grande Reverso Ultra-Thin is one of the sleeker models. As of now it will come in at least four versions. Some unlimited models including one with a more typical Reverso face guilloche engraved silvered dial with Arabic numerals, and a tribute dial that hearkens back to some of the original Reverso models. The limited edition models have slightly different dial or come in 18k pink.

Read the rest here….

Hercules Makes A Couple Pint-Sized eCafe Netbooks Available

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 12:14 PM PDT


Although the netbook craze has pretty much passed over, it’s easy to remember why they were so popular for a while. Look at these little Hercules eCafe guys: they’ve got a unique design, 10.1-inch screen, 13-hour battery life, they weigh about 2.4 pounds and are just over an inch thick. At $250 plus or minus a twenty, who wouldn’t want one?

Well, lots of people, probably the ones who got burned by the last generation of netbooks. The fact is no matter how cute they are, they’re pretty underpowered and end ultimately disappoint. In the eCAfe’s case, it doesn’t really even have a real OS, but a sort of faux-OS devised by Hercules that, while it boots in a fantastic four seconds, doesn’t sound too compelling.

The specs are buried pretty deep, and for good reason: the 800MHz Arm A8 processor, 512MB of RAM, and 16GB of storage aren’t very impressive. However, it is well-provided with ports: three USB 2.0, HDMI out, a card reader, and Ethernet. But while this might have pushed a few units back in 2009, I just don’t see it making a splash in today’s tablet-obsessed world.

[via Hot Hardware]
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