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Alienware Notebooks Offered With Solid State RAID 0 Array

Alienware’s always chased the speed demon with its laptops, and now the performance-obsessed company wants to make them even more efficient with a RAID 0 array, strapping together two 32GB solid-state drives. Offered on its Area-51 m5550, Area-51 m9750 and Aurora m9700 notebooks, the option also includes a garden-variety 200GB hard drive, just in case…

Japanese Hand Pillow: A Haiku

Only in Japan Would a pillow for your head Look just like Goatse. [TokyoMango]

Western Digital My Books Go to 2TB

A scant five months since the My Book external hard drives hit 1TB, Western Digital upped their game and doubled the storage to 2TB. The My Book World Edition 2 has remote access, UPnP support, Gigabit Ethernet support and RAID 1 capabilities. There’s actually no mention at all of USB 2.0 support, so this is…

Coolness Roundup Talks Hot Topics

Coolness Roundup takes a foray into hot topics this week as Gizmodo’s Charlie White and Sci Fi Tech’s Stephen Schleicher figure out why broadband connectivity is so much better in other countries. They also talk about how some artists such as Prince are happy to give their music away, and whether a home theater in…

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

This week at TreeHugger: Bosch’s new ultrasonic dishwasher stands to end the dishwash vs. handwash debate; not with super-efficient water use or extra-hot drying, but with ultrasonic sound waves, which will rock (like Zeppelin) the water off the clean dishes. We’ve been waiting for the day when we pop open the ol’ RSS reader and…

TiVo HD Review From Late Last Night

That’s a beauty shot of the $300 TiVo HD we reviewed last midnight. If you use a DVR, you have to check it out. This thing is pretty badass for three bills. [TiVo HD Review] https://gizmodo.com/300-tivo-hd-unboxed-and-fondled-verdict-hell-yes-281624

Monday’s Best Stories

Yesterday we had movie news (Iron and Bat men), iPhone stuff (Bluetooth headsets and security headaches), Zune items (the new ad and its Christmas plans) and outdoors stuff (boat-in-a-bag and tents). This is just some of the stuff you missed. • We had a look at Apple’s bluetooth headset unboxed. • Take a butcher’s at…

Toshiba Gigabeat U103 Ships in 24 Colors

The Toshiba Gigabeat U103 takes the idea of colorful digital media players to an unprecedented level, splashing on enough colors to populate a good-sized crayon box. The $114 player that’s now available in Japan is now offered in 24 different colors, which is certainly some kind of record. Besides all that cheery colorplay, what else…

Crashed iPhone in Single-User Mode Shows Need for Changes at Apple

Click to viewFirst the homegrown hacks showing its weak points, then a serious Safari security breach, and now here’s a picture of the iPhone in single-user mode after a crash at an AppleStore. Is this the last sign of a pending disaster or just another hint for Apple to change things? Apparently, there are no…

Video of a WWII-era Airplane Landing on a Busy Highway

Boy, here’s something you don’t want to see while driving to grandma’s house. It’s a WWII-era airplane making an emergency landing on a busy Wisconsin highway, and the entire thing was caught on police video. The 1943 plane was on its way to an air show when it got engine trouble. The pilot, who has…

KEF Picoforte 1 Digital Component Audio System Pwns Other iPod Docks

If this KEF Picoforte 1 Digital Component Audio System sounds even half as good as its full-sized KEF big brothers, you’re in for a treat. Continuing KEF’s tradition of flying-saucer-like design, this iPod dock is modern-looking without going so far as imitating alien heads. Composed of a couple of six-inch KEF 1001 speaks, each powered…

AMD’s New Chips Leak

AMD has been surprisingly quiet with their 65nm chips, and now we might know why. The company seems to be having problems with leakage in their new processors, a common problem with shrinking components, where electricity can literally burrow out of a semiconductor and even blow entire circuits. Hit the link for the test results…

Transformer Sofa Magically Morphs into Bunk Bed

If a 400-square-foot apartment sounds big to you, you may be interested in this space-saving Doc XL sofa that can transform into a bunk bed in a flash. Pull up a certain area of the sofa and thar she blows—your sofa is suddenly a pair of bunk beds, complete with a ladder that helps you…

AT&T Earnings Call; Apple’s Stock Down Due to Wild Analyst Predictions

AT&T is saying that they activated 146,000 iPhones in the first two days. This is low compared to the 500,000 estimate that analysts were predicting. Apple’s stock is down a bit today, but you know what’s stupid? No one remembers that the internet orders for the iPhone weren’t delivered until 3-6 days later. That’s well…

Senate Bill Could Compel “Top 25 Piracy Schools” to Use Anti-P2P Technology

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (pictured) has a fun summer vacation souvenir for institutes of higher education: His latest amendment to the Higher Education Reauthorization Act would require a college named to the list of “top 25” worst file-sharing schools to implement anti-p2p technology into its network, or risk losing some of its governmental funding.…

Rock Band May Not Cost $199

Yesterday we reported that a Rock Band bundle had hit Amazon for a retail price of $199. We were skeptical, as Amazon (and many retailers) can jump the gun on pricing, and EA has just announced that the $199 is nothing but “pure speculation.” It does seem, however, that the bundle itself was not put…

PS3 firmware 1.9 (read about it here) is out in the US alongside PSP firmware 3.52. [qjnet] https://gizmodo.com/ps3-firmware-1-9-details-announced-best-update-yet-281234

Megaphone, Cellphone Gaming is Social

Without downloading any extra software or performing special networking, one design student came up with a viable social gaming concept for cellphones. A large screen projects a game in which people can join at any time by calling a number just above the screen. Then, using the standard touchpad (through key tones), users can control…

TuneView Controls iTunes on Macs and PCs from 150 Feet Away

Plug TuneView into your Mac or PC’s USB port, and then you can control iTunes from just about anywhere in your house, as long as you don’t live in a place that’s more than 150 feet wide. The remote has a sharp-looking color LCD screen that’s a whole lot like the iPod’s screen, showing you…

Everything is a Transformer

What if everything—not just guns and badass cars—transformed into a lethal robot? We’re talking, like, you pick up a box of Maxi Pads for your sweetie, and they turn into a robot in the shopping cart, saving your life during a robbery (not to mention your self-esteem). Here’s a brief glance at what such a…