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Come on people, only a day until deadline and we are still lacking enough entries for our Laptop Confidential contest. Here is another teaser to show you lazy dumplings what other readers are putting together. This was done by Pauppage, one of our dear readers. Now, let me clarify this for you. You can win…
This year’s Super Bowl in Detroit is set to be the largest HD test so far, with ABC showing it in high definition using all kinds of new equipment. ABC sprang for an RF HD camera, which will bless us with wireless high definition video feeds of events in and out of the stadium where…
The new Gillette Fusion razor is now available in stores and it seems users are just excited as hell to pay for a product they probably have absolutely no need for. Here’s Greg from Texas, a live one, explaining how he went out and bought that baby right when it hit the shelves. I got…
Reporters from Reuters noticed a crack in the armor when they talked with Michael Dell about the possibility of his giant computer company using AMD processors. The Round Rock, Texas company has been using Intel chips exclusively for years, and although Mr. Dell didn’t say he had current plans to use AMD chips, he did…
“Make it the size of an iPod, but let me record high-quality audio.” It’s a simple request, but so far the closest we’ve gotten is the $500 MicroTrack from M-Audio. Edirol’s new R-09, shown last week at California’s NAMM music show, improves on the portable recording formula a bit: it’s got the silvery “Remington electric…
Listen up, knuckleheads. We’re giving away an amazing Lenovo laptop valued at $1,499 and all of you have to do is express a little creative genius with a one-minute long film. Check out Alex D’s submission above that gives a lot of props to Gizmodo and the Gawker family. Get all of the full details…
What with it being Mozart s 250th birthday today and all, it s time for a musically-oriented story. Perfect for listening to “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” (A Little Night Music), here’s a pair of ultra high-end loudspeakers that look like a cross between a chrome-plated bullet microphone, a diving bell and a Teutonic helmet from Hell.…
In the seemingly endless parade of iPod knockoffs, here comes just one more, this one a nano rip that can also play video. The Thanko Corporation from Japan announced its TPod neo 1G, a DAP with a 1.5-inch display which supports video playback if you don’t mind squinting at that postage-stamp-sized screen. It doesn’t look…
Yes, it’s winter, and Gateway is confirming the season with five new eMachine-branded desktop and notebook computers. The four desktop PCs come with the NVIDIA GeForce 6100 graphic cards and a PCI Express slot and range from $349 to $549. The models include the T6420 Media Center PC with AMD Athlon 64 3400+ processor, 2GB…
This is an odd piece of news, but Fujitec America has announced a new elevator system that it says can ease the bottlenecks of people waiting in lobbies and other “high-traffic areas.” Called the Destination Floor Guidance System, it’s actually working right now in the Metropolitan Park West Tower in downtown Seattle, and is meant…
What time is it? “Two hairs past a freckle, Eastern Elbow Time,” says the Talus AboutTime, the watch that doesn’t really care what time it is. Well, it’s a little more exact than that. It notifies you of the time of day with breezy, insouciant phrases such as, it’s coming up on a quarter past…
Mini-box announced what it calls the world’s smallest power supply on Thursday, the picoPSU-120. There are no fans and it runs completely silent. Roughly the size of two AA batteries, it actually plugs directly into the motherboard’s ATX power connector. It can power the ATX motherboard connection, peripherals and hard drive. It is said that…
Here is a renegade method to making a device that can destroy passive RFID tags permanently. Best of all, it is cheap as hell. It mostly consists of parts from a disposable film camera. The premise behind this creation is for protection. According to the site, RFID is the next big thing that will be…
It seems that sexperts at this year’s Black Hat Conference see rootkits infecting BIOSii this year, a very real and present danger in this era of locked-down warez. While Windows is currently rock solid, these rootkits can change the way a PC boots and handles hardware, allowing nefarious Linux users to take control of your…
Not a huge surprise that Viacom has decided to give Apple a chance, and announced that 14 TV shows will soon be available on the iTunes Music Store from MTV, MTV2, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and The N. Look for faves like Ashton Kutcher wearing his hat sideways on Punk’d, as well as others such as…
Oops. Looks like Australia and New Zealand are going to have to wait a little longer for their Xbox 360s. The launch date in those countries has officially been delayed and is now March 23 of this year. Microsoft is claiming that this is due to their problems with manufacturing, but could it be that…
Here’s an interesting, yet half-assed idea. These waterproof AS-PS55 speakers from Pioneer are small, colorful, made of plastic and come with a hook to hang anywhere in the bathroom. The only problem I see is that you still have to connect it to an audio player, which isn’t so waterproof—unless you get yourself a waterproof…
Perfect for the traveling man in all of us, this Kensington Acco is a pretty boring USB Calculator, but comes alive when it doubles as a numeric keyboard that can work nicely with your crappy laptop keyboard. It’s got a LCD display, has a 19-key layout and looks sleek to boot. Also lets you do…
Man, this is getting silly. HA>
Every so often we get an email containing some exciting hyperbole about some kind of laser keyboard computer pen with a smiling Asian man winking at us mysteriously. This product does exist in a very nascent form and does not work. It is a promising technology, not ready for prime time, and I foresee foldable…