The Creative Xdock Wireless unveiled

At Consumers Electronic Show (CES 2007), Creative, a worldwide leader in digital entertainment products has made one of the biggest announcements of this year mainly focused on streaming music around your home. Creative has unveiled a device the Creative Xdock Wireless, which docks an iPod and plays music beyond cd quality via Creative X-Fi Wireless Receivers. The Xdock Wireless can be directly connected to a powered speaker system or home theater to display photos and play video or music in DTS surround-sound. So, in the crowd of I-Pods Creative seems to dominate with their X-factor.
While the official launch of the product Sim Wong Hoo, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Creative, said, “We designed the Creative Xdock Wireless so an iPod can easily become the audio platform for your entire home. Your iPod goes in the Creative Xdock Wireless to play music through Creative X-Fi Wireless Receivers in as many rooms as you want - all upconverted to Xtreme Fidelity.”

Creative has equipped the Xdock Wireless with an analog audio input for other MP3 players and audio devices to take advantage of the integrated audio processing. It is also provided with an USB input. Along with that Xdock Wireless is also equipped with S-Video and composite video outputs.
The Creative Xdock Wireless is available in two prototypes, one is the latest Zen Vision media player which is designed for use with iPod video, iPod photo, iPod mini, and iPod Nano, will be available for $200 and the other will be specially designed for Apple’s video-enabled iPods. The Creative X-Fi Wireless Receiver will be available for $149. Both the products will be available in March this year.

Technologists, The world is getting warmer.

While man is worried about ipods, big screen TVs and new cars, the world is moving towards a dreaded direction.
United States recorded last year 2006 as the warmest year on record till date. National Climatic Data Center concluded that the seven months of the last year were much warmer than normal. Also they stated that the temperature readings in the last half of December were unusually higher than normal warm weather. Earlier they had predicted that it would be the third warmest year, but the unseasonable warm weather during the last half of December got it to the first place.
Based on an analysis of readings from 1,200 weather stations, the data centre had listed the daily average temperatures of 48 states from US. They found that the total average calculated was 55 degrees Fahrenheit. It was 0.07 warmer than the earlier warmest year on record 1998. Also the mercury showed that the climate was 2.2 degrees warmer than average daily temperature. The organisation has quoted it to be the sixth warmest year on recors, all over the world. El Niño event in the Pacific is held responsible for this unusual warming. Its time we get worried about global warming.