The latest movie inspired motorized vehicle to come into the real world (and Ebay) is the new Tron Legacy Lightcycle. The movie isn’t out until December, although I suppose the makers of the Batpod wanted a head start. These Lightcycles are made to be street legal, and are made with 22 inch hubless wheels, custom [...]
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T-Mobile’s WebConnect Rocket USB modem will be released on March 14th. At the moment, you have to be in Philadelphia to experience HSPA+ speeds. On March 14th, the WebConnect Rocket USB modem will be $99 on a two year contract which comes in several flavors. $50 equates to 5GB of data, $20 gets you 200MB [...]
Google Apps has been around for some time, and now Google is giving a hand to developers who want to develop business apps for the Google Marketplace. With cloud-based services, Google Apps Marketplace will sell third party web apps which integrate with Google’s app suite. Apps are sold through Google and can be sold as [...]
Western Digital has released their My Passport AV, a cousin of the My DVR Expander, all being external hard drives. Anyway, this My Passport AV is a 320GB HDD is your standard external hard drive, although being marketed to work fast and flawless with Sony’s Direct Copy feature, surely nothing Western Digital’s SSDs can do, [...]
Samsung’s Super AMOLED is now explained in a video. From everyone criticizing Super AMOLED technology, not quite seeing an improvement or difference, Samsung has explained that. Touch sensors in Super AMOLED displays remove the need for a separate piece of hardware, giving more vivid colors. Traditional AMOLED and TFT LCD displays (if touch sensitive) have sensors below the [...]
The ASUS Eee Box, model EBXB202-BLK-E0037, is now being sold at NewEgg. The surprising fact about this is that it comes pre-installed with Red Flag Linux, the Chinese Linux distro. This is quite remarkable because having this Eee Box pre-installed with that operating system brings the price down to $189.99 after rebate. That $189.99 will [...]
The Dell Inspiron One 19 is an all-in-one desktop that was initially announced for a Japan only release. Still not on Dell’s U.S. website, the Inspiron One 19 is is seen at Wal-Mart by a sneaky on-looker. This means that Dell seems to be shipping the all-in-one within the United States, maybe for a release. [...]
Low energy Bluetooth technology has appeared recently, although Bluetooth 4.0 devices are yet to be seen. According to Bluetooth SIG, we will see Bluetooth 4.0 equipped devices by the fourth quarter of 2010. Dramatic changes in battery life are not expected, although devices such as laptops and phones will experience a small amount of battery [...]
InFocus has unveiled three new thin and large, displays aimed at schools and businesses alike. The three new displays are available in 42, 55, and 65 inch flavors, and are all quite slim with professional displays, packing full 1080p resolution with quite a lot of inputs such as HDMI, VGA, and RS323. There is also [...]
Western Digital has released their SiliconEdge Blue and SiliconDrive N1x SSDs. The SiliconEdge Blue SSD is a 2.5 inch SATA 3.0Gbps drive with read speeds up to 250MB/second and write speeds at 150MB/second. It comes in a rather varied array of flavors, from 64GB, to 128GB, and to 256GB. The SiliconDrive N1x SSD has rather [...]
In early 2009, Ideum released their MT2 multitouch table which was rather extraordinary, the Microsoft Surface being the only other “mainstream” multitouch table at the time. Ideum then went on to release their MT-50 model of the multitouch table, and today, they are unveiling much improvements of their MT-50. The multitouch table is still a [...]
Today, Corsair has released four new SSDs which are available now. The Reactor series comes in 60GB and 120GB models, using the Micron JMF612 controller with 128MB of DDR2 memory. The Nova series comes in 64GB and 128GB models, using the Indilinx Barefoot controller with 64MB of cache memory. The two drives are closely related [...]
The U.K. government is said to outlaw “open Wi-Fi”. It is said that they will allow universities, libraries, and small businesses to provide open Wi-Fi from its Digital Economy Bill according to official advice unveiled earlier this week. If this bill were to pass, it would leave many organizations vulnerable to the penalties for copyright [...]
