Eclectic Electronics

Monster SuperThin HDMI cables will make your wallet SuperThin

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 01:45 PM PDT

Monster, in tandem with RedMere, have produced SuperThin powered HDMI cables which are only 3.5mm thick. The wallet-thinning-priced HDMI cables reportedly feature RedMere MagnifEye Active technology which boosts HD signals directly in the cable itself without the need for an external power supply or heavy-gauge copper.

What exactly does that mean? Is there even anything such as a powered HDMI cable? And are these possibly HDMI 1.4 cables since there is a high speed variant? Oh Monster, how unclear can you be?!

Monster SuperThin HDMI cables are priced quite unattractively (Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you!):

Digital Life™ SuperThin High Speed Powered Cable for HDMI

4ft. $89.95

8ft. $99.95

16ft $119.95

Digital Life SuperThin High Speed Powered Cable for camcorder; Mini HDMI to HDMI

8ft $99.95

Monster's Core Line of SuperThin Powered Cables for HDMI

1m $79.95

2m $89.95

4m $99.95

5m $119.95

[via Chip Chick]

Apple iPhone 3G S specifications leaked by T-Mobile Netherlands

Posted: 11 Jun 2009 12:30 PM PDT

T-Mobile Netherlands has (unintentionally?) released some specifications of the recently announced iPhone 3G S and it seems to have been taken down already. T-Mobile shows the iPhone 3G S as having a 600Mhz processor and 256MB of RAM.

Funny they left out mentioning that the latest generation of the iPhone is also equipped with a PowerVR SGX graphics chip/accelerator which will enable it to play great looking 3D games. OpenGL ES 2.0 is also supported, the iPhone 3G only supported version 1.0 of OpenGL ES.

I guess some rumors really turn out to be true.

[via dailywireless.org]