Multimedia devices

MSI's Graphics Upgrade Solution is a device accepts PCI Express GPUs and connects to a computer via ExpressCard/34. The GUS comes with its own power brick that can support cards with up to an 84W TDP. 

The bare unit costs $100, and bundled with the ATI Radeon HD 5670 it costs $229.

Via Engadget

NorPix is introducing a new ExpressCard adapter for GigE or FireWire cameras, at 100 MB/s speeds. It's compatible with NorPix's StreamPix3, StreamPix4 and TroublePix.

Signatec released the EC14150, a wideband signal acquistion ExpressCard/54 - offering 150Mhz sampling rate on 2 channels, 14-bit resolution and 512MB onboard RAM. It consumes only 4.5W. 

The EC14150 was designed to maximize the quality of the captured signal in terms of signal-to-noise ratio and spurious-free dynamic range over a very wide frequency range. A 24 dB amplifier/attenuator circuit is at the input of both analog channels, where 20 dB of amplification and 4 dB of attenuation are available for selection in steps of 1 dB giving the EC14150 voltage ranges from 100 mVp-p to 3 Vp-p.

Leadtek has announced an external Toshiba-SpursEngine based accelerator, for professional developers, called the external WinFast PxVC1100. The device has a Toshiba SpursEngine SE1000 chip, 128MB of XDR DRAM, and an ExpressCard interface. It weights 700grams (quite heavy for a portable device...).

The SpursEngine is 4-Cell RISC cores SPEs, dedicated hardward for decoding and encogind MPEG-2 or H.264 videos. It can be used to decode/encode four full-HD (1920x1080 progressive scan, 1080p) videos at once. It can be used for video processing, graphics computations and other applications.

Via XBitLabs

Ki Pro records hours of media to a removable storage module with built in FireWire 800 or to ExpressCard/34 Flash SSDs. The device is a small, portable unit that can sit on a table, in a bay or mounted between a camera and tripod. Ki Pro is also ideal for on-set monitoring, providing instant access to multiple display devices simultaneously.

Core Ki Pro Features:

Imperx is bringing professional vision system video capture to ExpressCard/54 laptop computers. The company's newly-released HD-SDI Express video capture card is a highly versatile frame grabber capable of acquiring images from any standard definition (SD) or high definition (HD) SDI video source and sending them to an ExpressCard/54-compliant notebook computer at more than 235 Mbytes/sec for real-time viewing and storage. The card supports plug-and-play operation with live insertion and removal and incorporates advanced features such as lookup tables and histograms.

The Fujitsu Amilo Graphics Booster is actually an AMD ATI Radeon HD 3870 Graphic card, inside a small box that connects via ExpressCard slot to your notebook. The Amilo take over the video processing from the notebook's own graphic card. The box also includes 3 more video outputs (DVI, HDMI and normal VGA), to a total of 4 video outs (the last one is the laptop's own).

Each output features 24-bit/96kHz converters for the quality you deserve. Also included is a 6 foot audio cable for RCA or 1/4 inch connections.