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Just call me Mr. Green as i have news of yet another eco-friendly, carbon footprint removing piece of tantalising hardware for all you environment conscious people!

We quite frequently hear that we should unplug our TV’s, DVD players, Radio’s etc instead of leaving them in standby mode as its unnecessary energy consumption. Well your wireless internet router is doing a good job of increasing your electricity bill, especially as they are usually left on all the time.

D-Link have taken note of the unnecessary electricity drain on products and released three new models that use a lot less power than your average gadget.

The new Xtreme NT router range uses 40 per cent less power than it previous models. This means that you will only see a small cost drop when you get your next electricity bill, but operating in large numbers around the country this could help reduce power consumption significantly.

D-Link’s three new routers; DIR-655, DIR-855 and DGL-4500 are available from £70 to £150.

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Samsung and Sony have come together to create the eighth generation of the TFT-LCD production. S-LCD already has the eighth generation glass but the designers are looking at increasing the capacity due to LCD demands.
The production will cost $2 Billion Dollars and the release date is due half way through 09.

The 8th generation Glass Line is called 8-2, Tangjeong in South Korea are expected to create 60,000 Glass lined based on the 8th generation. Dimensions are expected @ 2,200mm by 2,500mm.

Current production: 7th generation S-LCD glass 100,000 a month at 1,870 mm by 2,200mm compared to the 8th gen figures. Start recycling your glass bottles!

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Originally we had the USB (Universal Serial Bus) version 1.1 running at 1.5 Mbps to 12 Mbps data rate. After the creation of USB firewire came into play running at 400Mbps. USB needed a newer version! Intel hit back with version 2.0 of their USB interface which runs at 450Mbps. In today’s data transfers standards the transfer rates were perfect for MP3, printers and even Internet connections via modems, USB wireless dongles etc.

So where is USB heading? What happens when systems need faster transfer rates? what happens when the bandwidth of the technology is to low for peripherals? Well USB 3.0 is ready to hit the computer market in 2009.

USB version 3.0 is to potentially run at speeds of 5gGbit/s, to put this into perspective this translates to downloading a 27GB HD movie in 70 seconds!

With the newer video technology of HD (high definition) HDTV and so-forth USB needs to contemplate moving forward. Apple invented firewire for either apple platforms and USB 2.0 counter attached the technology. Now Intel is in the correct frame of mind by bringing this faster data transfer to the market.

How will Windows OS use this technology? Do you remember when USB 2.0 driver was only found with Service Pack 2 of Windows XP OS? So will Windows Vista use 3.0 and make XP redundant? Who knows?

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