WD Scorpio: 250GB 2.5-inch HD for Notebooks Now Shipping
Western Digital has just announced their new WD Scorpio 250GB, a Serial ATA 2.5-inch hard drive for notebooks which, at 3.94 x 2.75 x 0.354 inches, is the largest smallest shipping hard drive in the world. The 5400rpm 12ms read seek time WD Scorpio uses Perpendicular Magnetic Recording, and you will find all its features…
Highest Cell Phone Call Ever Made From Everest
A British man has made two phone calls from the summit of Mount Everest in the Himalayas. At 8,848 metres, Rod Baber’s two conversations have gone into the record books as the highest phone calls ever made (let me tell you, I’ve made some when I’ve been minging off my mong cheeks and they’re not…
Negroponte to Intel: You Suck!
Nicholas Negroponte has started a bitch-fight against Intel because, according to him, they are trying to drive him out of business by underpricing their OLPC rival, the Classmate. He says that Intel “should be ashamed of itself” arguing that by bringing a low-cost laptop to developing countries, they hurt “his mission enormously.” His mission. Intel’s…
AVL-900 GPS Vehicle Tracker, Screwing Over Young Drivers Everywhere
When the AVL-900 is properly installed in a car, it contains enough gadgetry to successfully ruin every high-school student’s Friday night. Not only does it send out the GPS coordinates of the car’s current location or alert the owner/parent the second their car has been moved, but it can spy on the driver as well.…