A new UltraThin Business grade laptop from Dell. It has TWO solid-state HDs! But, lacks internal optical drive.
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The other is an add-on to its Rosie (inspired by the Jetson's robotic maid) system, which adds what the company calls TrueImage Control with GestureTouch Navigation. TrueImage uses a touchscreen panel (pictured) that displays pictures of your varying rooms. You touch a lighting fixture on the picture, and that light turns on or off. Hold your finger on the fixture image and the light dims up or down. And the fixture on-screen shows you what the light is doing as its doing it. You move from room-to-room on the touchscreen by swiping through room images, iPhone-style. [Read more...]
If using two monitors at once is good, it follows naturally that using six monitors at once is downright awesome. And now you can, in theory, by using AMD's Eyefinity graphics card, which is able to power six 30-inch monitors at once.
What's cool about this is that instead of splitting the monitors up like you see with most multiple monitor setups, it actually treats the six screens as one big screen. So your gaming sessions will be six times as epic, or, if you're less fun than that, your spreadsheets will be effing enormous. Either way, that's impressive. [Read more...]
Carbon fiber is an amazing material that we see more and more in applications where incredible strength combined light weight really matter. The fact that it also has a super cool high-tech look doesn't hurt much either.
Most of us don't schlep our desk around the office on a regular basis, so I suspect that it's this visual aspect rather than its light weight that prompted Turkish designer Can Yalman to use carbon fiber for his Hexa Desk from Nurus. With both its base and desk surface fashioned from the woven composite, it looks like just the thing for a Formula One team owner's office.
No word on the price, but I'm guessing it's not cheap.




Dynaudio makes some of the coolest high-end speakers around, and they like to point out that unlike most ultra fancy boutique speaker companies, they build all of their own drivers in house. The new Consequence Ultimate Edition looks like a good way to hammer that point home, hosting no fewer than five of the Danish manufacturer's best drivers in a neat inverted stack.
The price tag for all of this driver envy? A cool $70,000, but you do get a choice of real wood veneers. They will be available starting this fall.
IDC is projecting Linux revenue to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 16.9 percent from 2008 to 2013, topping $1.2 billion in 2013.
As IDC notes, this growth will comprise just 4 percent of total software market revenue by 2013, up from 2.2 percent in 2008. However, for the second time, IDC has also examined nonpaid deployments of Linux, revealing some troubling data. [Read more...]
At this moment the only phone I would trade for my prized iPhone is the amazingly cool concept Window Phone from designer Seunghan Song. The phone would essentially be translucent, displaying information and images on a window-like surface in a form factor relatively similar to the iPhone's.
The killer feature of this concept phone is its ability to change the look of the display glass to match the current weather conditions of your location (i.e. sunny day equals clear screen, rainy day equals virtual droplets on your screen). The weather screen functions would also be interactive, allowing you to draw a message during a snowy and have it instantly transformed into an SMS message. Of course there are some impractical aspects of such a design, but with the newfound success of smartphones it's clear that some iteration of this kind of concept phone will likely see reality in the relatively near future.
The internal design architecture of the new PS3 system, from the main semiconductors and power supply unit to the cooling mechanism, has been completely redesigned, achieving a much slimmer and lighter body. Compared to the very first PS3 model with 60GB HDD, the internal volume as well as its thickness and weight are trimmed down to approximately two-thirds. Furthermore, power consumption is also cut to two-thirds, helping to reduce fan noise. While inheriting the sleek curved body design of the original model, the form factor of the new PS3 system features a new meticulous design with textured surface finish, giving an all new impression and a casual look.A "casual" look? I wonder why they used that word. The charcoal finish will save you a fortune in Windex, which was an unlisted ancillary cost of owning the original glossy black PS3.
Netgear on Monday announced the availability of its ProSafe 8-Port VPN Firewall (model FVS318G). It's priced at $139.
The device is intended for small businesses that need remote access and Internet access for employees with secure connections. It provides Virtual Private Networking (VPN) access using the Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) standard, and sports eight Gigabit Ethernet ports, one Gigabit Wide Area Network (WAN) port and up to 25 megabit per second broadband throughput. [Read more...]
International Business Machines Corp is looking to the building blocks of our bodies -- DNA -- to be the structure of next-generation microchips.
As chipmakers compete to develop ever-smaller chips at cheaper prices, designers are struggling to cut costs. [Read more...]

Hubless wheels work by fixing the rotating parts (brake ring, bearings, hubless rim) onto the outer side of a non-rotating inner ring that attaches to the motorcycle’s swingarm or forks. [Read more...]
It is a dash of Hulu and a sprinkle of YouTube, features a crystal clear picture, can rewind or fast-forward at lightning speed, and doesn't require a download of any special software.
But epixHD.com, the soon-to-launch video website, will have its success dictated more by the movies, concerts and original programs it offers than the technology behind it, said the executive charged with creating and running the site. [Read more...]
Paul 'PJ' James, an Australia-based personal trainer and former runway model made a rather interesting New Year's resolution - gain weight then take it off, basically to show his clients, the process of losing weight is not difficult. [Read more...]General Motors Co and eBay Inc are launching a test program in California that will allow consumers to negotiate with dealers and buy vehicles online, the companies said on Monday.
The car shopping website -- gm.ebay.com -- marks a departure from the way new vehicles have traditionally been sold in the United States and is aimed at helping GM recapture lost market share a month after it emerged from bankruptcy. [Read more...]
Howard Berger is a little nonchalant about the stack of limbless bodies all around him.
"This is our order of bodies for Quentin Tarantino," Berger says about the bloodied stack of decapitated carnage around him. "He wants it real." Berger's creative team was making bodies for Inglourious Basterds, starring Brad Pitt, which comes out Aug. 21. [Read more...]
In the past few weeks a new market has emerged for ultra-cheap laptops priced under US$300 that boast some of the features found in more expensive, mainstream laptops.
Laptop prices don't generally dip that low, but some sub-$300 laptops from Wal-Mart and Best Buy this week have included large screens, reasonable graphics and DVD drives. Considering the price the laptops are a step up from low-cost netbooks, which have smaller screens and often cramped keyboards. [Read more...]

Got a house sitter or an alarm system? Good for you. If not, there are a handful of ways to turn a computer into a tool that will alert you if someone's there who shouldn't be.
For the sake of this guide we're keeping things simple and limiting our list to free apps that work on PCs, Macs, or both. A few simply use your browser. Later on we also have a section on specialty hardware that can take you beyond what most Web cams are capable of. [Read more...]
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Apple has told the U.S. Copyright Office that modifying the iPhone's operating system could crash a mobile phone network's transmission towers or allow people to avoid paying for phone calls.
The claims are Apple's contribution to the Copyright Office's regular review of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a law that forbids the circumvention of copy control mechanisms. [Read more...]

Favreau’s strategy: Bring in more top-shelf actors to play a handful of new characters, and bring kick-ass footage to show at Comic-Con International in an attempt to wow the world’s biggest fans for a second time. [Read more...]
This illustration imagines what an Apple tablet device might look like.
But what's still unclear is how this gadget will set itself apart from Apple's multimedia-savvy product line, including the iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as the scores of failed tablet PCs that have come and gone. [Read more...]
When archaeologists dig up the current layer of civilization a million years from now, they'll stumble upon anvil-heavy discs of silver and gold, delicate Lucite sculptures, strange materials juxtaposed with delicate arm-like tendrils — all sporting a wheel-like centerpiece. Were these intricately crafted edifices part of a temple honoring the invention of the wheel? No, dear archaeologist: they were turntables, altars to those deities with the most golden of ears, platforms upon which huge piles of currency were burned.
This was done all in the name of worshiping not the glorious music these contraptions were capable of reproducing, but the precision and regularity with which these wheels could spin, and the accuracy of the sound that can be picked up by their precious tonearms dragged across disks of vinyl. As a preview, today we dug up the seven most outlandish examples, discovering for ourselves the lengths to which audiophiles will go in pursuit of The Perfect Sound. [Read more...]
Most people have MP3s on their computer, compressed audio files that don't sound as good as records or CDs, but don't take up much space. But audiophiles, if they use their computer for music, are more likely to have uncompressed files such as FLACs that don't leave any audio quality out. For them, there's the Neuhaus T-2 Amplifier.
This $800 amp takes the music playing from your computer, converts the sound to analog and then amplifies it using vacuum tubes, making the sound warmer and richer. Think of it as a way to make your music sound like it's being played from a record player when it's really being played from your laptop. Just don't waste its power on MP3s.
If you're reading this then you're the resistance. Well, you will be, anyway. That's because every Terminator you'll see in Terminator Salvation already exists in some form. It's just a matter of time before a high-tech company called Cyberdyne emerges and turns them into weapons for our destruction.
Oh wait, Cyberdyne exists, and they make exoskeletons. The moment that prefix turns into "endo-" we're screwed. [Read more...]



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