By Khoirul Walad on Friday, February 24, 2012 Filed Under: Gaming, Peripherals

The Siberia v2 Frost Blue Headset was introduced by SteelSeries at CES 2012 in Vegas last month, and it’s scheduled to ship in Q2 with pricing to be announced. The heaset features a glowing blue LED lights around the outer mess grill on the left and right earcups. It’s also bundle with SteelSeries Engine software that allows users to adjust both the lights and the soundcape which include illumination options, equalizer settings and profiles setting for multiple game titles and players. There 6 modes of illumination can be assigned to any game profiles, those include Active Mode, Slow Pulse, Fast Pulse, High Bright, Low Bright and Off.
Designed with comfortably in mind, the Siberia v2 Frost Blue Headset feature a lightweight, over-the-head suspension and circumaural earcups that feature 50mm driver units, covered by grey leather cushions for a noise-dampening sound. And for easy control, it comes with an in-line volume and mute controls those can be found on a durable, double-braided nylon cord which also sports a USB connector.
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By Khoirul Walad on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 Filed Under: GPS

Weighing only 300gr, the new Garmin Approach G6 GPS golf device is small enough to fit in your pocket (wait the minute, are you a golfer?). Designed for golf enthusiasts, this GPS device comes preloaded with over 25,000 worldwide courses. And the battery life can support your entire weekend of play just on a single charge, or it lasts up to 15 hours in numbers. The Approach G6 boasts 2.6″ display that’s still readable under sunlight, that’s very important for outdoor use.
Expected to be available in February 2012 for $299.99, the Garmin Approach G6 GPS was at CES 2012 in Vegas last week. And one thing that golfers will love it, is the layup arcs feature that can help them to make layup decision. The layup arcs are drawn on the map and offer at-a-glance references to 100, 150, 200 and 250 yards. And last but not least, it also allows golfers to measure, judge layups or zero in on hazards or obstacles, and zoom in the landing area by touching the place on the layout map, that’s pretty cool.
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By Khoirul Walad on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 Filed Under: Digital Cameras

Actually I’m waiting the successor of D700 instead of the successor of D3. So when I heard that Nikon announced its D4 Digital SLR camera, I was not so excited. Based on my budget, D4 is not for me. I want a full frame camera to replace my lovely D7000, but I’m waiting the D800 showing its nose, I hope it’s affordable enough for average people like me. I’m new to photography, so I don’t think professional photographers who use D3 and plan to upgrade their camera will read this post. You may ask, why I want a full frame D-SLR camera? Because it has larger sensor that offers more capability in capturing moment at low light condition, it means lower noise. But D4 is just out off my budget, that’s it.
D4 is currently at CES 2012 in Vegas now, so if you want to hand the camera just come and visit the Nikon’s booth. This top-end professional D-SLR camera comes with 16MP full-frame sensor and shoots at 10 fps with full autofocus, that’s very fast. Regarding sensitivity, the D4 has amazing ISO up to 204,800, please don’t compare with your pocket camera. What else you may expect from this high-level camera? Read these: EXPEED 3 image-processing engine, an Ethernet port, a 91,000 pixel RGB sensor, a 51 focus point AF system, Full HD D-movie movie recording function, and many more.
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By Khoirul Walad on Monday, January 9, 2012 Filed Under: Peripherals

I told you that I’ve spent $800 to buy computer hardwares including Motherboard, an i7 quad core Intel Processor, a 1GB DDR5 Graphic Processing Unit (GPU), and a 500GB Hard Drive. And I think I need $500 more to complete the task and run the PC. I still need to buy a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and sound system. I’m waiting extra money to buy all of them. In my mind, I have decided to buy an LED Monitor from Samsung, may be the 23-inch model. But I’ll be happy if I can have the Samsung’s new 27-inch Series 9 Monitor, who knows?
The new 27-inch Series 9 Monitor (S27A970) comes with Natural Color Expert technology, which is suitable for consumers working with photos, just like me. Photography is my new hobby, and now I spent more time with Photoshop for photo editing. Combined with Plane Line Switching (PLS) panel technology, the monitor offers more than one billion colors and features quad high-definition (QHD) resolution (2560 x 1440) that make the HD resolution becomes obsolete.
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By Khoirul Walad on Wednesday, January 4, 2012 Filed Under: Home Entertainments

Four new Home Theater System (HTS) are introduced by LG, and one of them (BH9420PW) will be unveiled at CES 2012 in Vegas next week. These new HTS boast the 3D sound technology and 3D Smart TV to deliver 3D home entertainment experience in a new way. What kind of HTS you have in your home? Have you join the 3D club. If you’re like me, then you’re still in 2D ecosystem. But If you have a plan to upgrade to the 3D HTS, then you need to watch carefully what LG has for consumers in March this year, the BH9420PW.
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By Khoirul Walad on Tuesday, January 3, 2012 Filed Under: Home Entertainments

Yesterday we’re excited with the world’s largest 3D UD TV, but now we’re excited with the world’s largest OLED TV. As we know, OLED is the future of home TV entertainment. It has many advantages compare to the traditional LCD and the newer LED technology, it’s faster and offers batter colour production. LG’s OLED TV is 1,000 times faster than LED/LCD displays. So how big is it? Scheduled to take a stage at CES 2012, the mentioned OLED TV has a display size of 55-inches.
The adoption of OLED TV is very low, but it will change soon as LG successfully found a method to manufacture OLED TV a lower cost. I don’t know yet how low the price at the moment, but it’s a matter of time until all of us can afford to have it.
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