The Large Hadron Collider, now you know that in all the seams, had to slow down to its small problems with heating.

It was now a date for its next re-start: early April 2009. You can still enjoy Christmas. Everything is not related to the problem encountered during startup, because the LHC should anyway follow a maintenance phase from 15 November to next April, and this will be the case every year.

This interruption reduced the strain on electricity demand in France during the winter months and ensures that the collider is always in the best shape.

HD Guru reports that Sony is preparing to lower the price of platinum Blu-ray BDP-S350 $ 100 for stores to sell $ 300 in September.

Suddenly, Funai will also reduce prices of its readers (also found under the Philips / Magnavox, Sylvania and Insignia) from $ 50 to $ 250 in order to remain competitive in the marketplace. Sony is also preparing a Blu-ray high-end, the BDP-S550, $ 399 for early October.

Albatron will launch a new model of UMPC called the PC Tee which could be an interesting multimedia tablet. The device has a touch screen and a stylus for entering, works with Windows CE 6, and offers all kinds of connectivity including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and a webcam articulated for conferences improvised mobility .

The technical characteristics are not particularly robust, with an ARM processor at 400 MHz, but it will be quite sufficient for surfing the Internet and similar tasks.

The Brazilian blog Zumo has published these pictures of Tablet PC Gadgets Classmate the IDF, but the netbook touch is apparently not the Classmate 3.0. Zumo indicates an Classmate 2.0 format tablet. This version will touch netbook Atom processor clocked at 1.6 GHz, a disc DSS, a 8.9-inch screen, a location for SD card, 2 USB ports and a VGA output. No information about price or release date for this device.

They would have undoubtedly looked at these hard drives external Meninos Design Studio. Their acrylic boxes covered with a vinyl customizable home hard drives at 7200 rpm from 250 to 500 GB They have developed a range of skins rather high in color. Judge for:

The housing gap with the USB is sold coquette the sum of 250 $ (160 €). And if you want a hard drive inside, prices start at 400 $ (260 €) for the model to 250 GB.

Until recently, the Xacti HD700 Sanyo was the smallest camcorder 720p in the world, and we liked her. But things change quickly and Sanyo already offers a new Xacti, the HD800, and apparently progress is important in terms of video quality. The new camera has a CMOS sensor 8 megapixels and films of the 720p video at 30 frames per second MPEG4 format.

The iPhone classified natural world of making means. The iphone smart phone treated with the same level of secrecy that manufactures services. But a seller of 3G iPhone claim to have conventional his handset preloaded with three pictures memory with your mobile phone taking shots starting inside a factory produce iPhone.

Two of them were unclear, other than the third photo is suitably clear therefore with the purpose of clearly distinguish the blister plastic in which the Apple iPhone are all set during the assembly. It be Cell Phones faraway from the last covering environmentally right.