Something new - and cheap - just came out from Mini-box, the VoomPC-2 car pc. It does what a normal PC would and it uses less than your parking lights. We're not sure whether the design was meant to look like a car amplifier though.

Features include an anti-battery drain system that automatically shuts the PC off whenever battery power dips below 11.2 volts. The VoomPC-2 has also been tested in harsh temperatures (-40 to 55 degrees celsius) so you don't have to worry about the circuits frying in summer or freezing in winter.

Additional specs:

• Mini-ITX motherboard
• Jetway 1.5GhZ X86 VIA C7 processor
• I/O for VGA, S-Video, USB2.0, Firewire, Ethernet
• PCMCIA type I and type II CardBus interface for GPRS/WIFI/ and smart 5+1 channels audio
• Slim Cd-ROM to 2.5" IDE Adapter
• M1-ATX car PC PSU
  

The VoomPC-2 is now available from Mini-box and the car PC barebones version will cost you US$ 395.

Well, here's an innovative way of making a Touch-screen application using a GPRS modem! QJ has received news that it is possible, after all, to send a SMS message to a mobile phone using a Bluetree GPRS modem and CuTOUCH. The procedures are fairly easy, especially if you know your way around wires.

The materials needed for this project include a GPRS modem, your phone's SIM card (availability of which depends on your cellphone carrier), your CuTOUCH, and a null-modem, which you can actually make on your own. This application, if properly explored, could actually make it possible for you to make a touch-screen menu for different messages and numbers.

Now, that's being resourceful! Click "Read" for the step-by-step procedure.

Japanese company D-Clue Technologies Co. have developed a series of small WiFi chips suitable for use in Cellphones. The tiny WiMax chip can be integrated onto pretty much any cellphone circuit board.  The D-Clue DC11 series of WiMax amplifiers measure a miniscule 5x5mm, which is sure not to hurt anybody's pocket.

These chips can boost the original WiFi input signal by a whopping 50 times, which apparently enables users to connect to the internet as far away as 50km from a WiMax base station. This amazing little chip could end the painful situation on the state of cellphone internet at the moment. With a range of different services such as GPRS, WAP, and limited WiFi, so far you have to own a massive cellphone for WiFi capability in order to surf the entire internet with ease. Roll on WiMax chips!