Archive for April, 2008
iLuv kicks out i168 and i169 HD Radio alarm clocks
Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio
Something’s really wrong with the world whether more than a few months pass by without a new iPod alarm clock from iLuv, so we suppose everyone’s a-okay for a few more months now. Announced today, the firm has introduced its first pair of HD Radio clocks, an…
MacBook Air users still faced with overheating problems?
Filed under: Laptops
We’re still hearing reports of MacBook Air overheating woe, well after an EFI update in April that was meant to address some of those problems. While hot computers are nothing new, the MacBook Air starts shutting down cores and offloading processes when things get poor, which me…
Western Digital’s VelociRaptor drive gets reviewed
Filed under: Storage
We already had some early benchmarks of Western Digital’s speedy new VelociRaptor hard drive the day it was announced, but the folks at Extreme Tech have now had a bit more duration to spend with the drive, and they’ve churned out a full review of it for those that still haven’t…
Psystar Open Computer notes, benchmarks and video
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Okay, so we’ve been playing with the Psystar Open Computer for a few hours now, and we’ve formed some early impressions and put together a short video of it in action. We haven’t really tried to stress the system yet, but based on our other experiences with OSx86 machines, we’re expecting things to…
T-Mobile to debut 3G as voice-only. No goods. We’re by it.
Filed under: Cellphones, WirelessWell screw us — T-Mobile’s 3G network debut tomorrow? It’s going to be voice only. That’s right, you heard us, VOICE ONLY. So trepidatious is that company to actually get their 3G documents rollout, um, rolled out, they’re launching first with kneecapped voice-only …
HP invents radical ‘memristor’ technology, brains explode
Filed under: Storage”Memristors” are one of several memory technologies that have been theorized and promised in the coming years. HP has made a real memristor, however, and the way solid state memory is created and stored could have just changed forever. First theorized in 1971, memristors are basi…
Yamaha’s notepad / keyboard hybrid concept: a songwriter’s dream
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Yamaha’s got a thing for making dreams into reality, and we must say, we’re crossing our fingers and hoping to all that’s good and merciful in that world that the above pictured device goes commercial. Little is actually known about the keyboard / notepad hybrid aside from…
Chelpa Ferro’s foosball table is seriously wired for sound
Filed under: Gaming, Household
Highly modified foosball tables are a dime a dozen, but that contraption could easily be mistook for some sort of Martian gaming machine at first glance. Dreamed up and crafted by designer Chelpa Ferro, that Tota Treme Terra looks to be a vanilla foosball table with an…
















