NVIDIA's Ion Platform

Take Intel's Atom processor and pair it with NVIDIA's GeForce 9400M chipset and you've got the Ion platform. The latest bold move from NVIDIA offers an alternative to the anemic 945G chipset in current Atom based PC designs, with a faster, more capable chipset that can fully accelerate HD video decode among other things... [Read more...]

MP5 + Wii Remote = WeeP5

Modding a Wii remote is nothing new but modding one into a semi-realistic looking MP5 9mm submachine gun is pretty damn cool. [Read more...]

Video Games Feed Male Urge To Conquer

Scientists at the Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research at Stanford University claim that video games feed the male urge to conquer. On the other hand, women in the study didn’t exhibit the same behavior. I’ll bet the results would be the opposite if they studied “shopping” instead of video games.

"I think it's fair to say that males tend to be more intrinsically territorial. It doesn't take a genius to figure out who historically are the conquerors and tyrants of our species – they're the males. "Most of the computer games that are really popular with males are territory and aggression-type games."

Corsair TX850W Power Supply

Corsair reaches out to grab the part of the power supply market that could easily be thought of as the enthusiast "sweet spot." 600 watts too little...1000 watts too much....ah, 850 watts, just right. [Read more...]

Lenovo to Release Dual-Head Laptop

The ThinkPad W700ds appears to be the first laptop ever to sport two LCD screens -- a 17-in. primary and a 10.6-in. secondary screen. The souped-up "mobile workstation," as Lenovo calls it, also comes with customers' choice of quad-core Intel Core 2 processors and Nvidia Quadro mobile graphics CPU with as many as 128 cores. It also comes with as much as 8GB of DDR3 memory and a pair of hard drive/solid-state drive bays for up to 960GB of storage. [Read more...]

Apple’s New Multi-touch Mighty Mouse // Aluminum??

Let’s face it, the Mighty Mouse is flawed. Luckily, Apple has filed for numerous patents directly hinting at a multi-touch Mighty Mouse, which could prove to bring us an unexpected treat sometime in the near future. [Read more...]

Intel Core i7 920 and 965 review

Intel launches these Nehalem based puppies on the new name Core i7 as in their 7th architectural generation. [Read more...]

Myst Online Goes Fully Open Source

Massively reports that developer Cyan Worlds has turned their MMOG Myst Online: URU Live into an experiment by releasing all of the game’s assets to the public as open source. They hope that a development community will grow around the project. I’m sure someone will introduce porn into the game world and someone else will create a scam around it.

Amazingly, they aren't simply releasing it into the wild and leaving it alone; Cyan has decided to hold one Myst Online server shard open for players to have a centralized world, despite the fact that others can now freely put up their own Myst Online servers.

Self-Balancing Robot Table Demo’ed

A Japanese engineer has built a self-balancing robot table that can even deliver food and play some irritating beep music. Check out the video to see this thing in action. Funky. [See video...]

PhysX by nVidia

Effects physics, as you may recall, is the physical simulation of things that don't impact gameplay but simply enhance the visual impact of a game. [Read more...]