Posts Tagged ‘RS’

CES 2015: Sennheiser launches new wireless & sports headphones

Wednesday, January 7th, 2015

Sennheiser is showcasing its products at the 2015 International CES between 6-9 January. The Sennheiser booth is located in South Hall 1, Booth 20606. The new products are targeted to be released in Singapore after March 2015.

Update (12 May, 2015):

Sennheiser MOMENTUM Wireless headphones are now available in Singapore.

The MOMENTUM Wireless headphones is priced at S$699 while the MOMENTUM On-Ear Wireless is priced at S$589.

The headphones can now be purchased at the Sennheiser Concept Store at Marina Square and other retailers.

Update (22 January, 2015):

The Sennheiser URBANITE XL WIRELESS is now available in Singapore. The headphones can be purchased at the Sennheiser Concept Store at Marina Square and authorised retailers at S$419.

All headphones in the SPORTS range are durable, lightweight and water-resistant with ergonomic designs that conform to the ear and allow maximum freedom of movement, while minimising noise from wind or from contact with the body or clothing.

All headphones in the SPORTS range are durable, lightweight and water-resistant with ergonomic designs that conform to the ear and allow maximum freedom of movement, while minimising noise from wind or from contact with the body or clothing.

The new generation of Sennheiser’s MOMENTUM line has been expanded with two new wireless versions.

A Bluetooth version of the URBANITE XL is also debuting at CES, as will the new RS range of digital wireless headphones for home audio.

Sennheiser is also launching an all new line of sports headphones.

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Demand for Raspberry Pi goes through the roof

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

From hundreds or thousands of units to hundreds OF thousands – that’s how demand for the Raspberry Pi has grown. The first 700 has shipped, with another 7,000 shipping within the next few weeks.

The Raspberry Pi is the size of a credit card and runs on an ARM11 chip with Fedora Linux off an SD card.

The Raspberry Pi is the size of a credit card and runs on an ARM11 chip with Fedora Linux off an SD card.

Raspberry Pi Foundation, the developers of the credit-card sized computer board, had expected sales going into hundreds – at most a few thousands if the product caught on.

So they were understandably surprised when a queue of some 280,000 worldwide signed up on their website to express interest in purchasing the Raspberry Pi once shipping commenced.

RS Components, one of two distributors for the single-board computer, estimates the first 75,000 of these orders to ship by July or August this year, while the rest of the 280,000 (and still counting) will have to wait even longer.

Model Price Configuration
Model A US$25 1x USB port, no Ethernet port
Model B US$35 2x USB ports, 1x Ethernet port

The bottleneck for the supply chain is the ARM chip from Broadcom, which, takes up nearly 60% of the material cost of the Raspberry Pi which is manufactured in Taiwan and China.

The Raspberry Pi is designed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation.Raspberry Pi designers already have ideas about Version 2 of the ultra-budget computer but they are not in a hurry to start work on that.

The current specs for the Raspberry Pi is more than enough to last a long time for the tasks it is designed for: computer programming, game playing, and watching HD movies.

Eben Upton, one of the designers of Raspberry Pi, has managed to play Quake 3 off the Raspberry Pi.

Upton, together with his colleagues at the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory, had conceived the idea of making a tiny and cheap computer for kids back in 2006.

They were concerned with the declining numbers and skills levels of A-Level students applying to read Computer Science at the prestigious university.

They wanted to make possible and available an affordable device that kids could play with to explore and experience computer programming.

Main technical specifications are listed below.

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