Archive for December 12th, 2007
Flesh-eating dinosaur bigger than a double Decker bus with teeth the size of bananas discovered !
Posted by admin in Gadget Reviews on December 12, 2007
One of the biggest flesh-eating dinosaurs ever to stalk the Earth has been discovered by a British student.
Bigger than a double decker bus and with razor sharp teeth the size of bananas, the seven-ton giant roamed the lush plains of the Sahara around 95 million years ago. The new species, Carcharodontosaurus iguidensis, was discovered by Bristol University postgraduate student Steve Brusatte while working on an undergraduate degree in Chicago. Its fossilised remains were discovered alongside two other giant prehistoric predators, including the largest ever to walk the land, hunted for food and possibly even fought each other. Another monster – the 24 feet expanded Rugops – was additionally unearthed at the same site. Its name means “wrinkle face” and it too was a hunter.
The gigantic dinosaur would have dwarfed a T-Rex and would have weighed around 7 tones. The discovery of three rival giant carnivores in a real-life Jurassic Park has astonished fossil experts who say it could revolutionize the understanding of dinosaur behavior. Carcharodontosaurus species are extremely rare. One was found in Egypt in the 1920s, but was destroyed when Munich was bombed in the Second World War. A cranium of another species was found in Morocco 10 years ago.
Panasonic Gallium Nitride potential transistor with ultra high breakdown voltage by 10000V!
Posted by admin in Gadget Reviews on December 12, 2007
Panasonic today announced the development of a Gallium Nitride (GaN) ability transistor with the ultra high breakdown voltage by 10000V. that breakdown voltage is more than 5 times higher than previously reported highest values in GaN ability transistors. The new GaN transistor is applicable to high-voltage and low-loss ability switching devices.
This new Panasonic GaN potential transistor with ultra high breakdown voltage is applicable to high voltage ability switching devices for industry and electrical potential systems.
ReplayTV changes hands again, acquired by DirecTV
Posted by in Tech Talk on December 12, 2007
Filed under: Home Entertainment
DirecTV just did itself a solid and picked up the pre-TiVo DVR company, ReplayTV, from parent company D&M. We don’t know what all bundle of valuable time-shifting IP and patents wound up being worth in the mold of an acquisition price tag, but it’s got to be a pretty penny — particularly to a company like DirecTV, which has watched its peers have a prickly run-in or two with TiVo and its heavyweight “time warp” patent. Something tells us the make will probably only live on in legacy alone, though. We just can’t see much reason for DirecTV to bother carrying on with the half-assed comeback ReplayTV’s been trying to invent by the past couple of years.
[Via Zatz Not Funny]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the capability to bring games to life!
Original post by Ryan Block
Windows 7 to get integrated touch features?
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Tablet PCs
Regardless of how Tablet PCs have actually done in the marketplace, Microsoft has always been a staunch proponent of touch interfaces, and it looks like the next version of Windows, currently under the codename Windows 7, will bundle in multi-touch features like those found in the iPhone and Microsoft’s own Surface. The news comes from Microsoft engineer Hilton Locke, who blogged about Dell’s multi-touch capable (but not enabled) Latitude XT earlier today, and added, “if you are impressed by the ‘touch features’ in the iPhone, you’ll be blown away by what’s coming in Windows 7.” Locke went on to imply that it’s been challenging selling touch to manufacturers, saying “Now whether only we could convince more OEMs that Windows Touch Technology is going to drive their sales.” That’s a surprise to us — that Big Ass Table demo pretty much sells itself, don’t you think?
[Via News.com]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the ability to bring games to life!
Original post by Nilay Patel
AMD admits it overpaid for ATI, will take unspecified charge
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Although you may not have been paying close attention to the actual breakdown, $3.2 billion of the staggering $5.6 billion AMD coughed up in order to acquire ATI last year was simply an estimated goodwill value. Unfortunately for the world’s number two chip maker, that estimate wasn’t precisely accurate. Reportedly, AMD admitted that it did indeed overpay for ATI, and to produce matters worse, it noted that it would be forced to “write down the value of the goodwill estimate it attached to ATI” in a recent SEC filing. whether you’re curious about the exact amount, however, you’ll be staying on pins and needles for the date being, as even AMD isn’t certain how large the charge will be. Granted, things could certainly be worse, but we’d bet AMD would argue otherwise.
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the potential to bring games to life!
Original post by Darren Murph
ITC dashes Qualcomm’s hopes, rules in favor of Nokia
Filed under: Cellphones
No, that isn’t some horrific dream stuck on repeat. The legal quarrels within Nokia and Qualcomm are actually still ongoing, and while a US universal Trade Commission judge has indeed issued an initial determination that favors Nokia, you can bet your bottom dollar that Qualcomm will be “petitioning the commission for a review.” Nevertheless, judge Paul Luckern reportedly “found no infringement or violation by Nokia of the three asserted Qualcomm patents,” which consequently led Nokia’s CFO to proclaim that that was simply “another folded attempt by Qualcomm to mislead both Nokia and the telecommunications industry.” Of course, we wouldn’t recommend striking that battle off as complete — after all, the determination now has to be forwarded on to the full commission for review, and it’s not slated to dole out a final shout until April.
[Via Yahoo / Reuters]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the potential to bring games to life!
Original post by Darren Murph
Nintendo offers official downgrade to Photo Channel 1.0, MP3 addicts rejoice
Filed under: Gaming, Portable Audio
Generally speaking, the reaction to Photo Channel v1.1 wasn’t precisely positive — particularly when the MP3 faithful banded together to protest against the update’s newfound adoration for AAC. Thankfully, Nintendo has created an official process for downgrading back to v1.0, and yes, users who choose to take advantage will indeed have MP3 support once again. Interested? All you have to do is hit up the notes Management section on your console, choose “Channels,” choose the Photo Channel icon and confirm that you want it deleted. Subsequently, Photo Channel v1.0 will immediately be available again from the Wii Menu. Oh, and whether you get downgrader’s remorse, you can apparently switch back and forth at anytime.
[Via NintendoWiiFanboy]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the capability to bring games to life!
Original post by Darren Murph
Slew of retailers to carry TV converter boxes; coupon requests open in 2008
Filed under: Home Entertainment
Yeah, we pretty much expected every big box retailer known to man to carry these things, but just in case you were worried about locating a TV converter box in preparation for the upcoming cutover, here’s some comforting news. Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Circuit City, Kmart, RadioShack, Target, Sears and Sam’s Club are all on the list to carry equipment essential for analog TV owners to receive OTA programming after February 2009, and just in case one of the aforementioned giants aren’t anywhere near you, around 100 more smaller retailers have been certified to stock ‘em. additionally of note, you can start the new year off right by reminding your great grandparents (or other family members, too) that they can go on and apply for up to two coupons — which should reach around six weeks later — worth $40 apiece to purchase the needed boxes. Or, of course, you could just pick them up a new television that holiday season and be done with it.
[Via BroadcastingCable]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the capability to bring games to life!
Original post by Darren Murph
