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One year ago, some Popular Mechanics editors set out with the broad goal of building the most ridiculously extravagant PC mod they could. This is what they came up with. PopMech’s quad-core beast is loaded with just the kind of pricey hardware you’d expect from such a flamboyant mod—4 GB of Kingston HyperX DDR3 RAM,…
For all its impressive engineering and hyper-stylized design, the ultrathin laptop category isn’t very enticing, mainly because every entrant is laughably expensive. But now, Intel’s trumpeting an entirely new approach to thin laptops: compromise! According to the the company (via the NYT), the new laptops will be most closely comparable to the Dell Adamo, MacBook…
Google PowerMeter, an online widget that monitors your home’s power usage in real time, is one of those ideas that really should’ve caught on by now. Well, it’s starting to! Google has announced its first partners for the project, who either do or will provide their customers with the “smart meters” necessary for Google widget…
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Pandora’s old pay service was nothing to write home about; or more accurately, it was nothing to pay for. Pandora One, their new, $36/y premium option, at least tries to give you your money’s worth. With Pandora One, which is available from today (sorry, still only in the US), you’re mostly paying for one thing:…
For Windows Vista users, more than 12,000 movie titles and television episodes are now available to be streamed onto your PC, and watched instantly via Netflix through Windows Media Center. Microsoft has added Netflix accessibility directly in the Windows Media Center application, providing a Netflix section under the TV+Movies tab. This means that users are…
Last month, Yogesh Singh was getting coffee from a machine in a stall while taking a break from helping his father run a tent shop. He was tired and needed a pick-me-up. He pressed the buttons and inserted his cup, waiting for his beverage to brew. But instead of dispensing coffee, the machine rumbled and…
I know you can’t have a car in NYC, but what about this motorized, remote-controlled reproduction of a Tachikoma-esque machine from Ghost in the Shell that’s big enough to fit a human pilot? [HobbyMedia]
We first heard about ionic winds cooling down computers by 250% in 2007. Two years later, Tessera—a chip-packing company—has modified the technology so that it would fit into a working laptop. https://gizmodo.com/ionic-wind-may-help-cool-computers-250-better-than-reg-289419 How ionic winds differ from typical cooling system is that by ionizing the air and passing it over a processor chip, the ionized…
Here’s the stuff that we didn’t post today. (Until now, obviously.) • Sprint’s having a launch party for its Premiere customers. Are you a Premiere customer? Probably not! [Boy Genius Report] • Sprint’s about to release the HTC Touch Pro2 in July, if this rumor is correct. Seems to me this is not the phone…
One of three new peripherals from Microsoft, the Wireless Mobile Mouse 6000 is the first to use Microsoft’s nano transceiver: A 0.3-inch wide dongle that is barely visible when plugged into a USB port. The three newest additions to the BlueTrack family—Microsoft’s line of peripherals specifically designed to work on any surface—run on 2.4GHz wireless…
Fresh off of JVC’s 8K projectors announcement, Evans & Sutherland’s newest laser projector, the ESLP 8K, not only displays a resolution of 8K in 2D, but also projects visuals in 3D as well. https://gizmodo.com/jvcs-first-8k-projector-and-4k-live-camera-are-under-2-5251466 Different from other lamp-drive projectors, the ESLP 8K laser projector displays quality that is apparently sixteen times 1080p HD resolution, with…
Forget about electronic ink. This month Opium Magazine’s cover is showing a story that is not there now, but will reveal itself over a thousand years, word for word, thanks to a specially-formulated ink. https://gizmodo.com/esquire-e-ink-cover-hacked-to-death-with-knives-and-f-5054022 His creator, American conceptual artist Jonathon Keats wrote the story and came up with the idea. Nobody knows what the…
Oh ho ho. Microsoft just got a patent for crippling your computer until you pay them dammit. Specifically it’s for “making selected portions and functionality of the operating system unavailable to the user or by limiting the user’s ability to add software applications or device drivers to the computer” until an “agreed upon sum of…
This concept, a joint effort by NVIDIA and icon icar, packs a ton of data into one screen. In addition to a standard speedometer and fuel gauge, it houses radio and navigation information. [KickingTires]
The botnet just added 25,000 users in the last few weeks. Nice job, geniuses. Couldn’t you have downloaded it from Microsoft directly? [MSDN]
This designer-friendly shower kit is for people who really like squares. The simple, elegant 5×5 modules can be arranged freely and serve several functions, including thermostat, speaker, volume and diverter controls, showerhead, lighting and shelving. No word on whether each block can be removed from and reapplied to the wall for even more bath time…
@TheWerewolf: wait, so you mean that its their strategy to enter a market with a shite product, and then slowly shift their sodden arse up the quality ladder, presuming that the customer will be there waiting for them? mmm. that is some classic strategy.
We’ve already seen Amazon make the Kindle larger, but this video takes that idea to the extreme. [LandlineTV]
The May 26 to May 28 conference will allow Microsoft to show off a search engine that’s supposedly more competitive to Google than its current solution. (“What current solution,” you may ask, if you’re trying to be a jerk.) [All Things D]