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Have you ever attempted to show a group of friends an awesome video on your iPhone or iPad, and then had to pass your device around so that everyone can watch it back with a decent view? With the Epson MegaPlex MG-850HD, you can project your latest home recording onto any white background so that all of your friends — heck, even your whole street! — can get a good view first time around.

What makes the MegaPlex great for iOS (formerly iPhone OS) users is its built-in dock that features a 30-pin connector compatible with your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. That means all you have to do is stick your device inside and hit play. But it’s not just for iOS devices; it’ll also play nicely with your computer, games console, Blu-ray player, and many other smartphones and tablets.

The MegaPlex isn’t just an awesome way to show off your videos and movies at 100-inches in 720p, but it’s also great for gaming with friends, and sharing slideshows and presentations. Epson promises the device will provide you with a “remarkable” 720p resolution, with “2,800 lumens of color and white light output.”

The device also offers built-in stereo speakers, which you can use just for music when you don’t want to project, and it’ll charge your iOS device when you’re using it.

However it isn’t cheap. This particular model will cost you R8499.99 incl VAT and it’s available to buy now from the WebAntics Online Store.

But if you’ve got the money to blow on something awesome, the Epson MegaPlex MG-850HD could be the perfect companion for your iOS device, and a surefire way to impress your friends and family.

What do you think of it?

It’s not just high-end, feature-rich projectors that Epson release into the market. They are also hoping to pull gamers apart from their control pads with the attractively priced EH-TW480 Home Theatre Projector.

The projectors are boasting Epson’s  latest 3LCD technology with HD Ready at resolutions of 720p for super sharp images at wall-filling sizes and that are far more affordable than their flatscreen counterparts.

Quick response times mean that Gaming fanatics can stay competitive using the projector, with contrast ratios of 3,000:1 and brightness levels of 2,800 lumens offering vibrant images even in sunny ambient conditions.

“The EH-TW480 offers a lot of great features without the large price tag. It’s slim, lightweight design allows users to easily transport their big-screen experience conveniently, whether to a different room or even a friend’s house,” says Madlyne Colson, product manager at Epson Europe.

“The quick set up is great for quickly arranging online video games or making sure fans don’t miss the start of important sports events, while the lamp’s long 4,000 hour lifespan means they can also enjoy their HD-Ready content much longer.”

Full specifications of the EH-TW480 are 3LCD/WXGA (1280 x 800), 2800 ANSI Lumens, 4000 hours, 3000:1 Contrast Ratio, 16:10 Native Aspect Ratio, 2.3 kg, USB Display, HDMI, 2 Years Warranty, 12 Months Lamp Warranty.

The EH-TW480 Home Theatre Projector is now available @ R7626.05 Incl VAT, along with the rest of the Epson Projector range from WebAntics Online.

Love getting all dressed up in a suit, and heading off to corporate meetings ? Well, then make sure you have the right kind of tablet device to go along with you, and an iPad is way too casual, while the BlackBerry PlayBook does have an air of authority, the lack of decent apps have proved to be its Achilles’ Heel.

Asus’ latest Eee Slate B121 business tablet will not suffer from that fate, as it intends to deliver power, portability and security features in a single device, targeting businesses, health care facilities, and other institutions as the market of choice.

The 12.1” Eee Slate B121 features the power, security, and performance that professionals need to get more done. Equipped with an Intel Core i5-470UM processor and a Windows 7 Professional operating system, the slate delivers the processing power and business productivity tools of a notebook PC in a portable tablet form factor. Confidential data is protected with an onboard Trusted Platform Module (TPM) that is ready to protect your data in the event of theft. A bundled Bluetooth keyboard, an integrated Wacom Digitizer stylus, and a multi-touch screen built with durable Corning Gorilla Glass provide users with multiple data input options.

You will not find Android running here, but rather, the Intel Core i5-470UM processor will be there to keep a copy of the Windows 7 Professional operating system chugging along nicely, delivering PC-like performance on-the-go. The clever use of an ultra-low voltage Intel Core i5 processor allows the B121 to remain a mere 0.67” thin, tipping the scales at only 1.16kg.

In addition, the Asus B121 will ship with a 64GB SSD, 4GB RAM, a Bluetooth keyboard, a Wacom Digitizer stylus, a front-facing 2-megapixel camera, and a battery which is touted to run for 4.5 hours.

Other hardware specifications include a 12.1” LED-backlit multi-touch display at 1280 x 800 resolution with Corning Gorilla Glass to make it even more durable. Throw in a couple of USB 2.0 ports, mini HDMI output, a memory card reader (SD/MMC with SDHC/ SDXC) and a combo head-out/ mic-in audio jack, and you’re good to go. Just make sure you haveR12,699.00 to bring this puppy home.

The Asus Eee Slate B121 will be available from WebAntics Online – an Asus South Africa Registered Partner. Visit www.webantics.co.za for more information and pricing or contact their Call Centre on 011 839-0716

Lose the cables and enjoy the Epson EH-TW6000W Full HD 3D Wireless projector, one of the first home projectors to feature wireless Full HD projection with 3D technology. With the Epson EH-TW6000W Full HD 3D wireless projector, you can watch films, sports or play video games in stunning quality with the lights on or off by connecting wirelessly to Blu-ray players, laptops and other devices for a real cinematic experience.

Epson has introduced no less than five new Epson 3D models: the EH-TW9000, EH-TW9000W, EH-TW5900, EH-TW6000, and EH-TW6000W. Some of these model numbers look pretty similar but actually the extra ‘W’ at the end of two of the names is very significant. For it signifies that – in a first for the projector world – the TW9000W and TW6000W support wireless HD. This system allows full HD signals to be broadcast wirelessly from any HDMI-carrying sources to the projector, finally doing away with the cabling problems that usually accompany a projector installation. The Wireless HD standard even supports the ‘beaming’ of full HD 3D images from source to projector, and from reports, there was absolutely no sign of any interference or loss of quality reported from the transmission system, with either 2D or 3D sources.

The TW6000W is the first to be released in South Africa and available at WebAntics.co.za, and with its 40,000:1 contrast ratio and 2,200 Lumens of brightness, it is the first full HD 3D projectors designed to cater for relatively casual, sociable users who want a ‘fun’ 3D projector that’s easy to set up, bright enough to use without completely darkening the room; and most importantly of all, cheap. The TW6000W is set to cost just R21,153.05 Incl VAT, while remarkably the TW6000 is likely to retail for less when it launches towards the end of October. This unexpectedly aggressive pricing effectively open us up a whole new – and very welcome – 3D projection market.

During the introductions to the new 3D projectors, an Epson spokesman declared that Epson ‘may not be the first to the 3D projector market, but we intend to be the best’. And on the evidence of what we’ve seen so far, he may have a point.

Features:

- 3LCD, 3D Full HD 1080p with wireless feature
- Contrast ratio of 40,000:1
- Colour/White Light Output of 2,200 lumens
- Great sound quality with 2 x 10W integrated speakers
- 1.6x optical zoom
- Bright 3D technology
- Viewing clarity with auto-colour optimizer
- Keystone Correction
- One pair of active shutter glasses for 3D viewing

The new Epson EH-TW6000W 3LCD 3D Full HD Wireless Projector is available from WebAntics Online Shopping Store and will be available from the end October 2011.

Wacom has introduced Inkling, a new digital sketch pen that captures a digital likeness of your work while you sketch with its ballpoint tip on any sketchbook or standard piece of paper. Designed for rough concepting and creative brainstorming, Inkling bridges the gap between paper sketching and digital drawing by giving users at the front end of the creative process a way to rough-out ideas with real ink on paper and capture their concepts digitally so that they can be later refined on their computer. Inkling even allows users to create layers in the digital file while sketching on paper in the following creative software applications: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Autodesk Sketchbook Pro.

Spontaneous and Liberating
Virtually anyone who uses sketching to capture their creative ideas and wants to have their drawings in a digital format to e-mail, archive or further refine on their computer can benefit from Inkling. For example, artists, illustrators, or story boarders who appreciate the convenience, speed and spontaneity of loosely sketching their ideas on paper could profit from the capabilities of Wacom’s Inkling digital sketch pen. In everyday use, a graphic designer could use Inkling to create rough concepts on paper for a new advertising campaign and then review and share these concepts on the computer with colleagues or clients. The pen and receiver store and recharge in a compact case making it easy to transport Inkling between, home, office, hotel or any typical workspace.

“Inkling’s inspiration comes from a desire to give artistic people the freedom to draw on paper and to provide an easy way to transition the drawings to digital media,” said Glenn Tsunekawa, Global Product Manager at Wacom.

Inkling Specifics
The Inkling digital sketch pen is comprised of both hardware and software components. Hardware includes both the pen and a wireless receiver that captures a likeness of the sketch and stores it digitally. The ballpoint pen uses Wacom’s pressure sensing technology (1024 levels of sensitivity) to detect how hard the pen is being pressed to the paper while sketching. These pressure variations will appear in the digital version of your drawing. “Through its pressure sensitivity, Inkling captures the varied line weights created by the ink pen,” adds Tsunekawa.

The receiver can be clipped to the edge of standard paper or sketchbooks and the position can be adjusted for left or right handed users to provide the receiver with an uninterrupted line of sight with the pen tip. When sketching is complete, the receiver is connected to the user’s computer via USB to transfer the digital files. Files can be opened with the included Inkling Sketch Manager software to edit, delete or add layers as well as to change formats and transfer the files for adjustment and editing in creative software applications.

Inkling can store thousands of sketches and export layered files directly to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator (CS3 or newer), as well as Autodesk Sketchbook Pro (2011). Alternatively, files can be saved in JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, SVG and PDF formats for use with other applications. According to Tsunekawa, “Inkling’s support of raster based applications such as Adobe Photoshop, as well as vector based applications such as Illustrator and Autodesk Sketchbook Designer, will provide users with options for incorporating their preliminary sketches into further developed work”.

The Ideal Companion for Intuos and Cintiq
Users of Wacom Intuos pen tablets and Cintiq interactive pen displays gain extra benefits by adding an Inkling to their creative toolbox. “For those working with our professional products, the pen is already their input tool of choice,” continued Tsunekawa. “Inkling can deliver an immediate ROI to these users by delivering an accelerated and more mobile workflow resulting in digital files that can easily and quickly be transferred to their home or office computer and redrawn using the Intuos or Cintiq pen.”

Pricing and availability
The new Inkling sketch pen is priced at R2,099.90 Incl VAT and will be available from mid October 2011 from South Africa’s Official Online Dealer, WebAntics Online

iLuv, the leader in providing the most appealing, innovative, and relevant products for iPhone, iPad, iPod and Macbook, has released the iLuv iMM747, the first fully-dedicated docking system for your iPad/iPad2.

This speaker dock features iLuv’s enhanced patented jAura soundcell speakers, with a tweeter, main audio driver, and a powerful built-in radiator subwoofer for more impressive bass. With a specific focus on the high, medium and low frequencies, Apple enthusiasts will enjoy clear orchestral, tri-component sound from music, apps, movies, and games on their iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. The iMM747 is now available for R1,299.99 at www.webantics.co.za.

“The iMM747 is the perfect complement to your iPad not only because of its ideal compatibility but because its design is a natural extension of the simple clean design of your iPad,” says Howard Kim, the Sr. Marketing Manager at iLuv. “The jAura sound technology will fill any room in the house with superb audio and the ultra fast charging capabilities ensure a fully juiced battery when your iPad is removed.” A great desktop or bedside speaker dock, the iMM747 features flexible dock connectors for solid support and easy docking through the 30 pin connector that automatically adjusts and supports your iPad, iPhone or iPod while in the dock. This is especially important, considering the relative size difference between the large iPad and the much smaller iPhone or iPod. This flexibility ensures not only a secure fit for whichever player is docked, but virtually eliminates the chances of breaking the connector or damaging the docked player. It also features an auxiliary line input for non-apple music players and a sync cable to connect to iTunes while your iPad, iPhone, or iPod is docked.

iLuv also offers a comprehensive line of other accessories for iPad, iPhone and iPod owners. To see the entire line of iLuv products visit WebAntics Online.

The new Acer Iconia W501 hit the market in South Africa earlier this month and at a starting price under R6770.00 Incl VAT, this hybrid tablet has a lot to offer. We ran one through its paces earlier this week to provide you with the pros and cons of this new technology.

The South African version comes with 3G and some of the models include the optional docking keyboard as standard. We obtained the 3G model with keyboard to provide you with the best test results. The unit comes straight out of the box with the tablet face and docking keyboard both sporting a sleek black look that dazzles the eye. At first look the unit has two cameras, one front facing and one rear, to allow for full video conferencing through Skype or other communications software.

Stock standard the unit comes with 32GB of memory on an SSD drive. However, it also has a memory slot for an SD card that can give you additional drive space of upto 32GB at 2mb/s transfer speeds. It comes pre-packed with Windows 7 32bit Home Premium (can run 64 bit) or Windows 7 32bit Professional as well as other packages which takes up approximately 20-29GB of your available space. This is why we recommend the additional 32GB SD card so you can store your documents and work without reducing your main drive.

Specs

Processor and memory
The unit sports an AMD C-50 dual core processor running at 1Ghz with DDR3 memory of 2Gb (SA Standard). The video controller is an ATI Radeon HD6250 Graphics chip that shares memory from the main DDR3. It has an external HDMI port that allows you connect straight into a TV hassle free but does not come with the cable so make sure you purchase this before leaving the store if you wish to use it.

Display
The display consists of a 10.1 inch WXGA LCM running at 1280×800 maximum resolution. Its screen responsiveness to touch is comparable to any apple ipad or iphone that I have used.

Webcams
The webcams (front and rear) run at 640×480 resolution for video calls. This makes it perfect for Skype and has tested well under use.

Microphones
The unit sports dual mics to increase performance and noise reduction. In use they perform well and allow the use to wander around freely without the need of a headset. However, the sound comes across a little tinny to the receiver so we recommend the use of a Bluetooth headset or wired headset for better quality. In saying this, however, conversations where readily understood and, despite the reduced quality, posed no problems.

An additional note, however, when using wireless users may experience clicking and popping sounds in the background. To minimize this (it will never disappear 100% due to the wireless framework) go to the sound options in control panel, then recording tab, properties of the microphone, then click the levels tab and turn the microphone boost to 0. This will reduce the popping to a mild background noise. The issue is only present on wireless connections so Ethernet is the best way to go when you have it.

Connectivity
The 3G, Bluetooth and Wifi connections are easily turned on and off through the Acer Ring. The unit supports a Huawei EM770W 3G module that supports GSM/GPRS/EDGE/HDSPA and UMTS/WCDMA so most countries are covered. The bluetooth module is v3.0 and includes EDR. Wifi is IEEE802.11 b/g/n standard and the docking keyboard also has a cabled fast ethernet port for those that want it. And while we tested it, we found that the wifi provided just as clear use for Skype and video playback.

Dimensions
The unit is 275 (width)x190 (height) x15.95 (thickness,) the thickness being needed as it ports that HDMI and two USB ports. Its weight is 970g for the hand unit and an addition 670g for the dock. The main unit is comparable in weight to an 800 page book making it comfortable to carry.

Usability
We found the unit to be extremely user friendly with its touch. However, Microsoft still have not quite got touch screens designed well in Windows 7 as the re-sizing of windows takes some practice. This, however, does not take away from the fun of using the device. The touch screen sports multi touch so zooming in and out is a breeze.

As the unit is windows 7 we have been able to use all our favourite software without hassle, noting, however, that it is a small processor so using high ended programs such as Adobe Premier is not practical.

Overall
Overall we found the unit to provide a great supplement to your main computer without the need for a full laptop. This suit seems well suited to students and business people to run their office on the go. It supports full office applications from Microsoft or open office and there is enough space to keep things moving well. We tested office 2007 and found it took only an additional 1GB of memory leaving plenty of space.

The device, in our opinion, is definitely a rival to the Apple device and beats it when you need proper Office editability and compatibility as well as having a USB port. We were able to connect to any of our network drives and use one note with ease for office sharing.

The Acer Iconia W501 is now available from WebAntics Online  having passed our 100% guarantee test

Get super fast reliable internet connection, which is as well flexible with the help of Billion 7300N RE Wireless-N 300 Mbps ADSL2+ Router.

It operates on firmware change for some of the ADSL2/2+/Annex M DSLAMs. The device also offers IPTV application, thus ensuring GMP Snooping, Virtual LAN (VLAN), Quality of Services (QoS), IGMP Snooping and IGMP Proxy. ….Read more›;

ASUS announced via Twitter yesterday that it is currently playing around with Android 3.2 Honeycomb on its blockbuster tablet, the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer. ASUS is still testing Honeycomb’s latest and last version, and is looking forward to sending out the upgrade to all Transformers. No target release date has been specified, although it will most likely come out ahead of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS).

Android 3.2 Honeycomb will reportedly be the last pre-ICS version in the Honeycomb series. The earlier versions of Honeycomb were optimized for large-screen, mostly 10-inch, Android slates and tablets, and had limited support for mobile processors. Version 3.2 carries new features, such as the following:

- optimized for 7-inch devices,
- expands support for more mobile processors such as NVIDIA Tegra 2 and Qualcomm’s processors,
- fixes some bugs and improves hardware acceleration, and
- provides updates to widgets and apps (e.g., Movies, Movie Studio, Music, etc.). ….Read more›;

DELL Inc., a multinational information technology corporation and a well-known PC manufacturer, has released new top-of-the-line laptops – The XPS 15 and XPS 17. You can now order new XPS notebooks with the latest processor technology from Intel and a true HD display from WebAntics Online.

So, what’s new in these laptops?
First of all, these are the latest second-generation Intel Core processors. Both support a range of  i5 and i7 dual core and quad-core options. Also New GPU options and on the XPS 17, a new panel that brings 3D capability with a 1920 x 1080 screen have been added. These new features translate into increased performance compared to the previous versions. Powerful graphics. Powerfully smart. The XPS 15 and XPS 17 laptops have what it takes to take you to new levels of performance.

Leading edge technology
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