Zink, which stands for Zero Ink, is a small company with pretty big ideas. They believed right from the start that their mission was to “shake up” the NORM of the inkjet printing world and convert it to an “Ink Cartridge Free” system. The Company started back in 2005, with its own management team. It took on some private investors, acquired the technology and assets to build what is now known as its imaging team. In 2007, they purchased a manufacturing plant from Konica Minolta where it produces the technology. The combination of these assets developed an “imaging” technology that catapults the ink cartridge world onto the next level, which we will call “cartridge less”. Basically, it’s all in the paper, that’s the technology.

This new way of thinking, out of the box so to speak, will deliver to the market digital printing without the use of toner or ink cartridges. In addition, to feed the new technology, Zink will be able to bring their own printing products to the market as well.

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AMD has today resurrected the once highly popular All-in-Wonder lineup of hybrid solutions. The new card is simply dubbed the All-in-Wonder HD; the first ATI based graphics card ever with HD tuner support embedded.

The graphics card itself is based around the 55nm Radeon HD 3650 with 120 Stream processors, a 128-bit DDR2 memory interface, DirectX 10.1 support and a unified video decoder for HD video decoding at the hardware level.

The tuner implementation comprises support for analog TV, free-to-air HDTV and ClearQAM unencrypted cable. Furthermore, there is the added benefit of hardware MPEG-2 encoding.

As far as the I/O goes; we see the inclusion of both DVI and HDMI outputs as well as a daughter card with S-Video, stereo-in and component video connectivity; this making it an ideal partner for HTPCs.

Following the Dell XPS One and the Apple iMac, the Sony Vaio LT is an all-in-one PC designed to look as sexy as its two main competitors.

This baby features a 22-inch widescreen display, a wireless keyboard and mouse, a Blu-Ray drive, an integrated webcam, an external TV tuner and runs Vista media center on a 2.5 GHz Core 2 Duo processor with 4GB of RAM.

As far as I’m concerned, its only setback is the price. The cost, about $3300 or almost 150 thousand pesos, is a lot of money for a computer that isn’t all that powerful. But I suppose sexiness has its price, and if you want to impress the ladies (or hunks, for you girls) with your brand new media PC, you’ll have to shell out a pretty money in return.