Some things are there for your eyes only! Like the red soles of your new pair of black patent leather stilettos or the elegant silk lining of your bespoke Italian business suit. Now, you can add the red back of this new LCD TV, the paper-thin Scarlet by LG, to your list. But beyond style, this set is designed to revolutionise your TV viewing experience with advanced features like a dynamic contrast ratio of 50000:1 and an amazing response time of 4 milliseconds. Its soft touch sensor makes even simple tasks like switching it on or off a fab experience. Go, click, watch!

No more do you need to put up 5–7 speakers all around for that surround sound effect. If you’re willing to spend, there’s a way to get that effect from a single source without compromising on performance. Check out Pioneer’s PDSP-1 Digital Sound Projector, a 500-watt panel that can fill your den with crisp, clear surround sound. It’s shaped like a flat-panel TV, so you can hang it just beneath your plasma screen (since you’re the kind that lurves to splurge!) and the speakers will bounce sound off the walls and ceiling, creating a surround sound environment without cluttering up your room with speakers and wires. Say boom!

Tired of bulky PDAs? Check out the ASUS P320 Mini, an ultra-compact business phone, which is nearly weightless! Operating on Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional platform and choc-a-bloc with features like GPS navigation, EDGE/GPRS, WiFi (for Internet access from anywhere), Bluetooth, USB and more, it’s the hottest accessory that brings you from work to play!

Intex, our indigenous IT giant, gives us more reasons to cheer. After dabbling in desktops and PC hardware for 12 years, they now step into the world of laptops. Here’s what they have…

1. Gaming Book
This machine is powered with the Intel Centrino technology and an Nvidia Graphics card. It also SRS WOW technologybased speakers and an inbuilt TV tuner.

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We don’t know why humans resort to racial abuse… After all, the blacker a product, the more beautiful it is! Thinking on these lines, Canon’s got out a glossy black laser printer, Canon LBP 2900B, offering fast, full colour network printing solutions at an amazingly affordable price to homes as well as small offices. And it’s equipped with Canon’s trademark print technology, which speeds up processing to maximise print performance.

If you stop to stare at this TV instead of the picture it shows, it’s OK. For this is a stunner of a TV, from any angle you see it.All the variants (32”, 37”, 42”) are 1.5”‘thin’.That’s 70 per cent thinner than conventional flat panels. Look at your little finger and if you’re a regular-sized human (ahem!), well that’s how thick or thin this TV is! But the images it throws at you have nothing flimsy about them. All thanks to Hitachi’s Picture Master Full HD and IPS Pro panels, which optimise backlighting to yield truer colours and more distinct contrast. Put up the eye-popping 42” version in deep black or pristine white on that wall you reserved for the Raza (yup!) and you won’t regret it. Or rest it on the sleek floor stand and swivel it any way you want. It’s not just a TV, it’s a home couture accessory!

With every notebook maker trying to chip in a bit of style, it’s time Lenovo also joined the fray. And so, the Lenovo IdeaPad U110 tries to blend technology and aesthetics, without compromising on either. And as it has won three Best-Of-Show awards at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas, you can be assured of its style quotient. All we need to check now is the functionality within this 1.05 kg, 11” wide and 18.4 mm thick notebook. Will Lenovo deliver yet again?

Backup is one of those things that we rarely think about until it is far too late. It’s usually a task that’s somewhere buried on your to-do list. It may even be a high priority task on your list, but somehow weeks and months pass and still, no backup. Could it be because too much pain is associated with the process? Or maybe it’s just being a bit lazy? Or more likely, we are all too busy and just don’t make the time. I know my friend Jacob is so busy at his public adjuster job, he says he literally never has time to back his computer up because it just takes too long to do.

Here, we take a look at some of the painful aspects of backing up our PCs and laptops and how we can easily overcome that pain to make sure we don’t end up losing our valuable data.

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‘Tis the season for parties and larger the picture you project, the better. To help you see the big picture, Sharp launches three multimedia projectors: XR-40X, XR-30X and XR-30S. They boast of a 2200:1 contrast ratio, DVI-D input, short-throw zoom lens, HDTV compatibility and lamp lives of up to 3,000 hours. And they weigh no more than 3 kg. Ah, the unbearable lightness of seeing!

This is NOT a phone. Seriously! It’s more like a micro-handheld computer fitted with security features that will put the CIA to shame and also put an end to TVs, laptops and what not! This small device has so much in it that I’m still striving to figure out what all gizmos it will soon replace! Its navigation system is as accurate as they come. It’s connected to satellites, which will in a year or so, let you click photos of places in NEW YORK even as you sit at the nukkad sipping chal! You can already watch all national TV channels on it; All this with a pretty decent battery backup of 1.5 days. And did I mention the amazing 5 meg camera, which shoots DVD quality videos? Phew!

SPEC CHECK

• 16 GB inbuilt memory, expandable to 24 GB
• Weight: 125 g
• 2.8 display
• 5 MP camera, Carl Zeiss lens, twin flash graphics card

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