Ever thought of a printer that can offer you a direct connection on or off the web and easily let you print your booked movie tickets, coupons, web pages and other web items without having to turn ON your computer?

On 22nd June, Hewlett Packard came out with its most convenient web enabled printer- Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web feature. This device supports wireless or wired Internet connection and Bluetooth to also facilitate printing of pictures and photo-sharing from digital cameras and mobiles. Partnered with Google, Coupons.com, USA Today, Fandango, Nickelodeon, DreamWorks Animation, Weathernews and Web Sudoku, HP - Photosmart Premium incorporates a 4.33-inch touch screen for navigating websites and a software for accessing Web content from all HP partners.

The company’s strategy in manufacturing this printer device is to change the printing future of smart phones and mini-laptop users. By providing printing at a finger touch, this device is scheduled to be retailed at $399 (Rs. 19,422 approx) and will be available late September!

On the same day, HP also launched its Apps Studio- a customized website for downloading future applications for the printer developed by the third parties. It supports open APIs to encourage third parties to create content and share the same. The technologies that HP Apps makes use of is HTML, Linux based operating system and IMX 31 processor.

The most awaited launch of Sony’s Vaio notebook series equipped with world’s recent technology Blu-ray optical disk drive has finally won the stiff battle with the HD DVD segment in Japan. This series of Vaio notebooks includes Sony’s XBRITE-ECO(TM) LCD technology that lets you view pictures and movies in an extraordinary clarity and razor sharp images.

This new series of Sony Vaio has created a buzz of high definition experience and also offers its users basic CD and DVD read/write functionalities. The PC comes pre-installed with Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit, an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and has an optional dedicated ATI Mobility Radeon(TM) HD 4570 graphics card that makes this series perfect for multi-tasking, fast processing speed and the best one for watching movies.

Priced competitively with Toshiba’s high optical disk players and disk drives, this series of Sony’s blu-ray notebooks is retailed at $800 (standard models) and $880 for those equipped with Blu-ray disc technology. The Sony Vaio notebook series comes with a 15.5 inch wide screen display, an HDMI output connector, three USB ports, SD card, memory stick slot, Express card and a quick-start Splashtop button for booting directly to the Web if the computer is turned off!

Available in three colors walnut brown, rattan silver & birch white, the Blu-ray notebooks are considered to be one of the economical range of Vaio notebooks released by Sony with advanced technology. So if you are looking on for a mesmerizing experience of watching high definition videos, then this product is definitely one to consider buying!