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This is turning out to be a banner year for chips, and the next two years will be even better. Analysts in the know are saying that Intel is fighting its way off the ropes with its Core architecture, and analyst Jim McGregor says that Intel may be planning… “a significantly different microarchitecture in the…
Monopoly Money by Brian L. Clark In the event it hasn’t come to a TV near you, readers should know there’s a turf war shaping up between Telcos rolling out IPTV and cable companies protecting their God-given right to maintain a local monopoly. The bottom line: cable operators around the country want telephone companies to…
The ROKR E2 that we saw iTunesless at CES back in January might actually include iTunes after all. The loveable Apple music player is actually mentioned once in the user manual. https://gizmodo.com/rokr-e2-will-it-suck-less-146266 airplane mode …You can use the phone’s iTunes music player and other non-calling features in airplane mode Weird thing is, this is the…
If when you come across a tape gun that uses heat to shear the tape apart instead of cutting blades, your first thought is that smart criminals are going to start using this thing to make it harder for forensic technicians to connect the dots, you might be watching too much CSI. We’re just saying.…
We don’t normally ogle cars much around here, but our brothers-in-arms at Jalopnik tempted us enough to put us over the edge with the T1 from Caparo Vehicle Technologies. This 1,100-pound street-legal road rocket was designed by ex-McLaren engineers, and can reportedly go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds with a maximum speed of…
This guy started out with an old 500MHz AMD processor on a motherboard, a handful of RAM sticks, a disk drive and other assorted parts, stuffed it all into a conventional-looking piece of furniture from Target, and ended up with this wife-friendly case mod that looks right at home in his living room. We especially…
If the posters over on the Mobile-Review.com forums are correct, the blurry photo to the left is one of the first few leaked images of the upcoming Nokia N73 smartphone. It should run Symbian v9.1 and Series 60 3rd Edition like the rest of the new N series. QVGA Screen 2.4″ true color screen, Bluetooth…
You saw the computer case mod a guy did of his wife’s torso, and now here’s another take on the loveliest of female forms by Japanese ace PC modder Katsuya Matsumura. Nicely done. See how he did it after the jump, but it’s in Japanese, so if you don’t read that language you’ll have to…
The About Time clock looks like a plate supported by a cone underneath, and it tells you the time by slowly rolling clockwise. The edge of that plate-like part that’s touching the tabletop is where you read the time. Wondering what time it is? Glance at the About Time clock, and you can plainly see,…
Here’s another one of those patent drawings, this one by LG Electronics which has claimed the idea of a “drawer-type” handset. You push a button and tiny gears slide the cover up to reveal the keypad, while extending the antenna at the same time. With this design, LG hopes to eliminate that problem of candybar…
Leave it to Sharp to release what it calls the world’s first true VGA mobile phone, displaying 480×640 pixels in its 904SH clamshell manufactured for Vodafone. That leapfrogs the previously biggest cellphone screens which were just quarter VGA. Word is that Japanese subscribers will pay $210 for the privilege of gazing at such a screen.…
Anyone who graduated high school should know that potatoes can be used to generate electricity. One person, however, took that idea to the next level by stringing together 500 pounds of potatoes together, generating five volts in the process. The potato battery then powered a small audio system, which neighbors got a chance to listen…
The boys and girls over at Pconline.com.cn have posted what appear to be the first pictures of the as of yet unannounced Sony Ericsson SE123. Now, these photos could just be concepts not fit for public consumption or outright fakes, but needless to say we’ll keep our eyes peeled for any concrete information. In the…
Looks like LG is getting into the slim cellphone act with its LG CU500, a global 3G clamshell it will be providing for Cingular. It’s a quad-band GSM/EDGE and tri-band WCDMA phone with a swiveling 1.3-megapixel camera. And look at those dedicated keys for music on the front cover, too. It was approved by the…
Don’t feel so bad that your iPod contains illegally-obtained music, because US President George Bush has also been stealing music. Check out this video, where he talks about his Beatles songs on his iPod, and of course, Beatles music is not yet available online. That means he must have ripped them from a CD. Last…
While us hairy Americans are stuck in the stone age with plain old thermoses to keep our drinks warm or cold, the Japanese have found their black monolith and released a USB device that does the same thing. From what I can make out from the Google translation, the device operates in either “hot” or…
Good news for residents of Pennsylvania who like to get into car accidents. Until now, only nine counties, or roughly one-third of the state, had technology capable of precisely locating 911 cell phone callers. This left the rest to guess where exactly they were on a long stretch of highway. Not exactly an easy feat…
Is the Xbox 360 at risk? Lucent’s suit against Microsoft, filed last month, accuses the software and hardware giant of violating a patent relating to the MPEG-2 codec. This could potentially mean game over for MS since DVD movies and some in-game cut scenes are encoded with in MPEG-2 format. According to a partner with…
Bacterial Glue i hate super glue. i was gluing something back together in the kitchen and i dripped some superglue on the floor and didnt know it and i stepped in it witlessly and superglued my foot to the floor. it took all of 10 minutes for me to work it loose after being laughed…
Oh boy, those artsy designers sure have a sense of humor. This Woofer was designed by Buro Vormkrijgers, a Dutch design studio. This Woofer is available in a single unit or a pair of Woofers. And yes, they do plan on releasing Tweeters, a desktop speaker system designed like birds. Design Page [Via Cool Hunting]