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The reviews and benchmarks on the new Intel 32nm flagship chips are here. The usual suspects have put Arrandale—Core i5 Mobile and Core i3 Mobile for notebooks—and Clarkdale—Core i5 661 for desktops—under the microscope. How fast are they? Really fast, obviously, and apparently totally worth the upgrade. Clarkdale is fastest that anything dual core out…
Apple iSlate should be this simple. With an aluminum or white polycarbonate body, perhaps even rubberized, and no bezel whatsoever, with a very thin black frame. It really doesn’t need anything else. Ogle its simple beauty in the gallery. I like it. I would like the screen to reach the very edge of the device,…
Would Apple put the logo in landscape… …or portrait mode?
The military have their own version of the old green laser pointer prank, one that can blind people 2.5 miles away (even if, at that distance, the blinding is temporary). They use it to hail-and-warn enemies trying to advance. The weapon—which is technically a “long-range visual deterrent laser device for hail-and-warning applications”—is called the Glare…
The DECE, or Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, is made up of movie studios and tech companies, and is trying to create a way to effectively charge for digital movies. They revealed some future plans today, and they’re, um, interesting. The idea is that when you buy a movie, your rights are digitally stored in a…
Take Syabas’ Popcorn Hour C-200, the much-loved streamer of choice for AV nerds. Now make it smaller, add Netflix support and a far superior interface, and cut the price from $300 to $130. That’s the Popbox. The Popbox isn’t a replacement of the Popcorn Hour, which remains on as a giant hackable tank of a…
Freescsale, supplier of the chip that powers the Kindle as well as about 70% of the ebook market, has just developed a 7-inch tablet reference design that will basically be the genesis of many tablets starting 2010. And it’s $199. Now, to be fair, those two figures are a bit preliminary. The $199 figure is…
The compact Samsung NX10 is official this evening, with many if not all of the features we saw leaked in December making the final cut in time for some hands-on time at CES. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-nx-10-hybrid-camera-cause-the-world-needed-ano-5431519 If you missed the fanfare in December, here’s a recap: Samsung’s goal with the NX series was to introduce a DSLR-sized…
Even if you drop your phone down a hole, or trap it in a locked briefcase, ZOMM promises to be there to connect incoming calls. It’s kind of like a leash for those of us prone to abusing our phones. Powered by Bluetooth, this hockey puck works as both a wireless speakerphone for inaccessible phones,…
With the Lenovo laptop/netbook CES leak still fresh in our minds, let us consider Toshiba and Gateway this afternoon, and the netbooks we now know they’ll be bringing to the show as well: https://gizmodo.com/bevy-of-leaked-lenovo-thinkpad-laptops-hit-street-befor-5439060/ The netbooks in question here are all based on Intel’s N450 “Pine Trail” chip, reports CNET, and were first spotted at…
With the new year you might have expected an end to the retaliatory Luke Wilson AT&T versus Verizon coverage map ads. You expect wrong. Here’s a new one, now with revised numbers and a new blazer! You see, while it is indeed a completely new commercial, the data advertised within experiences a subtle change. One…
We know the Europeans have been tooling around with Droid and mutlitouch since December, but today, courtesy a hack of sorts, we Yanks can have it too, albeit for a browser only in this particular case. https://gizmodo.com/how-to-give-your-moto-droid-the-multitouch-it-always-wa-5430275 All you have to do is follow about five steps over at AllDroid and it’s yours. You’ll need…
Apple’s sexy, touchy feely Magic Mouse could be an energy-sucking vampire, according to a number of reports on the Apple Discussion Boards. The present hypothesis is that the Magic Mouse is preventing the Bluetooth keyboard from entering sleep mode, resulting in weekly battery changes. One user purportedly contacted Apple Tech Support and was told the…
Mind control is one way to control tomorrow’s gadgets. Here’s another equally cool, equally complex way: Controllers that involve nothing but the electrical impulses taking place everyday in our muscle tissue. The system, developed as part of a patent filed by Microsoft, uses a series of connectors attached to an armband. The armband leverages Electromyography…
Sorry to burst your warp bubble, bucko, but that text message you received the other day from a cellphone user in the year 2016 was just some stupid bug. According to non-official sources (MS has yet to comment), some mobile users are receiving text messages sent after 1/1/2010 dated as though they were sent from…
Nothing remarkable to see here (for audiophiles anyway), but the design is undeniably sleek, sexy and slick. Called the SB1 Sportsband, these Bluetooth headphones are literally a simple band that wraps your head with about eight hours of wireless audio. And a bonus, for those of you who get a bit, well, heated while listening…
Did your Motorola Droid battery cover slip off into the night on New Year’s Eve, never to be seen again? Did several of your memories from that evening do the same? Well, sorta good news, bad news: I can kind of help with the former. You see, Verizon Wireless was offering free (free!) battery cover…
The juxtaposition presented here with these dinosaur chopsticks is a bit baffling, but there’s no arguing kids will probably love them and their one-piece design. But really, chopsticks are ancient, but not this ancient. [4Physics via Geekologie]
Oops! Someone at Lenovo may have hit Publish a tad too soon, and now we have a quick peek at a number of their upcoming laptops, including the ThinkPad Edge, T410s, W510, and more. CES what now? [Lenovo via Engadget] The leak contains a section called “new product showcase” and was live as of 12…
An air purifier for pets! What an ingenious idea! It takes that filthy air around Fido’s head, sucks it up, and replaces it with clean, refreshing and pet-friendly snake oil! But wait! That’s not all! While the purifier saves your pet from allergens, dander and smoke—possibly from the bong that lead to its eventual purchase—it…
