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Watching Movies While You Drive Just Got Easier

This clever homemade contraption turns your car’s cupholder into a laptop stand, letting you do work or watch movies while you speed down the highway. Because hey, that’s what cruise control is for. [Mike Davis via Make]

Tech News Adam Frucci Jul 14

Just Don’t Drop It in the Toilet

Oops. [Interbent]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 10

This Laptop Thief Has Balls Of Steel

According to a police report, 19-year old Jesse Phoutthaphaphone…pppppthft was sitting by a cracked window in his home, typing on MySpace when a thief suddenly popped in the window and stole the laptop right out of his hands. “I was typing and all of the sudden just woosh! I was like oh, what the hell?”…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 10

Eee Lights Up Like Christmas Whenever a Message Comes In

With all the lights that adorn modern notebooks, it’s truly a shame that most of them aren’t at all useful. One modder, sharing this philosophy, added a 3-color LED to an Asus Eee 901 to track incoming messages. Combined with an extra microprocessor and some custom scripts, the RGB LED illuminates with a different color…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jul 8

Microsoft’s Latest Laptop Hunters Find That PCs Are Perfect For Families On a Budget

Microsoft’s latest laptop hunters were looking for four things in a computer: a big screen, long battery life, the ability to share pictures and a price under $700. Naturally, they chose a PC over a Mac. Much like Lauren before them, the couple chose an HP dv7. However, this couple seems to be the least…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jul 8

Toshiba Portege R600 Review: 512GB SSDs Are the Bee’s Knees

Just last summer, Toshiba’s Portege R500 was the first laptop with a 128GB SSD. A year later, Toshiba’s Portege R600 is the world’s first 512GB SSD lappie. So for this one moment, Toshiba is on the top of the world. Design Note: The R600 has been out for several months, we just tested their updated…

Reviews Mark Wilson Jul 7

Sony’s Got an Honest-to-Goodness Vaio Netbook

Well, you wouldn’t take a real notebook into a kitchen would you? This Vaio W must obviously be a netbook. [Sony via Engadget Japan]

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 7

10 Ways to Make Your Keyboard Slightly Less Disgusting

Your keyboard is probably a SuperFund site waiting to happen—luckily there’s more than one way to skin a biohazard. Inc.com has 10 ways to clean your keyboard, blow dryer being their wiliest, if lightweight, method. [Inc.com via Lifehacker] https://lifehacker.com/clean-your-keyboard-with-a-hair-dryer-5308249

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 6

Ben Heck’s Latest Xbox 360 Laptop

Ben Heckendorn—true geek god amongst men—is back with revision 5 of his portable Xbox 360 console. https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360-elite-laptop-352233 Though he’s gutted the same Gateway 1775W laptop with 17-inch (1280 by 720) display, he writes that this design is from scratch, and has the following new features: • Built-in Ethernet port, finally. • Built-in WiFi adapter, as…

Tech News Danny Allen Jul 5

Cooler Master Offers the Smallest 95W Laptop Adapter You Can Get

It’s tough to tell without anything to scale this image, but the Cooler Master SNA 95 is the smallest 95W laptop adapter around—yet still manages to integrate some convenient extras. Measuring just 2.9 x 0.7 x 5.7 inches, the SNA 95 includes practicalities beyond its 9 bundled tips that are compatible with most major brands…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 29

So Long Desktop PC, You Suck

Desktop PCs have been in decline for a decade, and countless people have said their piece about it. But new evidence suggests the desktop tower’s death spiral is underway—and we’re not too broken up about it. I say this as a guy who was baptized into the tech world with a desktop; who still obsessively…

Tech News John Herrman Jun 29

Select Asus Eees to Get Free Windows 7 Upgrades…Technically

The good news: two models of Asus Eee, the 1101HA and 1005HA, are eligible for free upgrades to Windows 7. The bad news: your 1101HA needs to be preloaded with Vista Home Premium and your 1005HA needs to be preloaded with Windows XP Pro or Vista Business. As Lilliputing so eloquently put it, “I didn’t…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 29

Acer Quietly Poised To Surpass Dell As Second-Largest PC Maker

Don’t look now, but Acer—yes, that Acer—is on the verge of unseating Dell as the second-largest PC maker. Acer’s rise to the number two spot behind Hewlett-Packard was fueled in part by netbooks and other low-cost PC models, as well as what people in the biz call “vision” as it pertains to introducing new PC…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jun 28

Sony Finally Achieves the Unholy Grail: A $2,000 Netbook

We’re not sure if there’s been a lot of clamoring for an crocodile-skin laptop, but Sony’s new Vaio Signature Collection looks to fill that void. Even crazier is their customized Vaio P netbook, checking it at a crazy $2,000. We should note, in case anybody’s thinking of sending Sony a fake blood-stained laptop or something,…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jun 27

Is the New Macbook Air Actually Slower Than the Last One?

Sluggishness was a consistent gripe with two prior versions of the MacBook Air, especially compared to the rest of the MacBook line. The latest version has speedier processor options, but according to recent benchmarks, might have gotten slower. Huh? https://gizmodo.com/macbook-air-2nd-gen-review-5111658 In their review of June’s upclocked, marked-down MacBook Air, MacWorld noticed some odd benchmark results.…

Tech News John Herrman Jun 26

I Don’t Want Any Service That Transforms My Laptop Into a Jet

I’m not sure why anyone would buy into this crazy French online snail mail service (especially if they are stealing laptops by turning them into jets…tricky bastards), but their viral ad is interesting at least. [Laposte / Thanks Ravi!]

Tech News Sean Fallon Jun 24

Panasonic Toughbook Survives Tiger Attacks, Elephant Stomps, and Gunshots

Most of us have no need for Panasonic’s Toughbook-30: Its specs are unremarkable and the 13.3-inch laptop weighs over 8 pounds. But then, our mortal laptops could never survive the ridiculous, almost cartoony beating Forbes gave it. Forbes’s intrepid testers used the Toughbook to crush soda cans, used the screen as a dartboard, ran over…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jun 24

HP Mini 5101: When Did Netbooks Get This Nice?

It’s safe to say we’ve hit the third generation of netbooks. They’re nice now. The HP Mini 5105 strikes at Asus Eee Seashell‘s fancily contoured plastic with aluminum and magnesium. Oh yeah, and 95-percent chiclet keyboard that feels fantastic. https://gizmodo.com/the-asus-eee-seashell-review-the-netbook-is-back-5267391 The weird, chewy line between netbook and notebook gets blurrier with a standard 7200RPM hard…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 24

Lenovo Considering Thinkpads with Multitouch and OLED

If Apple won’t do it, maybe it’s time for us to celebrate the potential of another company’s multitouch laptops. Because Lenovo’s worldwide product marketing manager Franciso Carias revealed that the company is considering building multitouch screens into their Thinkpads and creating a 15-inch OLED version of the T500 “if demand is there.” Well Lenovo, we…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 23

Gateway LT3100 Netbook Runs an AMD Athlon Processor, LED Backlit 11-inch screen and Multitouch

What’s up, Gateway? You think you’re too good for the Atom? All the other netbooks are using it. Doesn’t this really make your new LT3100 more of a tiny-screened, $400 laptop? Yes, plus LED backlight and multitouch. Well, we might think so, but that enticing price and surprisingly good looks are enough to keep us…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Jun 23

Watching Movies While You Drive Just Got Easier

Just Don’t Drop It in the Toilet

This Laptop Thief Has Balls Of Steel

Eee Lights Up Like Christmas Whenever a Message Comes In

Microsoft’s Latest Laptop Hunters Find That PCs Are Perfect For Families On a Budget

Toshiba Portege R600 Review: 512GB SSDs Are the Bee’s Knees

Sony’s Got an Honest-to-Goodness Vaio Netbook

10 Ways to Make Your Keyboard Slightly Less Disgusting

Ben Heck’s Latest Xbox 360 Laptop

Cooler Master Offers the Smallest 95W Laptop Adapter You Can Get

So Long Desktop PC, You Suck

Select Asus Eees to Get Free Windows 7 Upgrades…Technically

Acer Quietly Poised To Surpass Dell As Second-Largest PC Maker

Sony Finally Achieves the Unholy Grail: A $2,000 Netbook

Is the New Macbook Air Actually Slower Than the Last One?

I Don’t Want Any Service That Transforms My Laptop Into a Jet

Panasonic Toughbook Survives Tiger Attacks, Elephant Stomps, and Gunshots

HP Mini 5101: When Did Netbooks Get This Nice?

Lenovo Considering Thinkpads with Multitouch and OLED

Gateway LT3100 Netbook Runs an AMD Athlon Processor, LED Backlit 11-inch screen and Multitouch

FCC Exempts Netgear from Foreign-Made Router Ban for Some Reason

Jamie Dornan Is Your New Aragorn in ‘The Hunt for Gollum’

Trump’s Fed Pick Is Knee Deep in Tech and Crypto Investments

The First Trailer for ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Takes Terror Stateside

The Trump Phone Still Looks Like Total Trash

‘Masters of the Universe’ Really, Really Wants to Be the Next ‘Barbie’

Samsung’s Micro RGB TVs Provide So Much Color It May Be Too Much

The Crypto Bros Want to Get Their Hands on Anthropic’s ‘Super Dangerous’ Model

Sony Inzone H6 Air Review: A Perfect Case for Open-Back Gaming Headsets

Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

The Soundboks Mix Is Going to Make You the Most Popular Guy at the Park

Asus Zenbook A16 Review: Start Considering Snapdragon on PC, for Real

Aqara Thermostat Hub W200 Review: Almost Better than My Ecobee

HP Omen Max 45L Review: 4K60 Gaming Has Never Been So Easy

Ecovacs Winbot W3 Omni Review: Window Cleaning Robots Have a Long Way to Go

AirPods Max 2 vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones (2nd Gen): Which ANC Headphones Win?

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