Archive for October, 2008
Dell goes industrial with new OptiPlex desktops
Filed under: Desktops
Dell didn’t precisely have a high design bar to hurdle in order to top its existing OptiPlex desktops, but it’s done a pretty admirable job with its new OptiPlex 960 model, which is available in the usual mini tower, slimline desktop (pictured above), and small anatomy factor v…
Windows 7 details galore: interface tweaks, netbook builds, Media Center enhancements
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Microsoft’s Windows 7 announcement earlier today was followed up by an extensive demo of the new features during the PDC keynote, and since next even more info about the new OS has flooded out, so we thought we’d try to wrap up some of the more fundamental bits here fo…
Open source “Game Boy” has five awesome parts, zero games
Filed under: Gaming
The Arduino-based, DIY GamePack is sort of like the Mignon Game Kit we saw in 2005, but it definitely looks much, much radder. For a mere $249.93, all the essential parts — CPU, “Inputshield” customizable, vibrating controller / button component (say, for right or left-handed co…
E Ink’s AM300 developer’s kit gets shown off on video
Filed under: Displays
E Ink’s AM300 developer’s kit (made with the help of Epson) certainly seemed impressive ample when it was first announced, but there’s nothing quite like a video to bring our newspapers of the future to life, and one courtesy of E Ink itself has now thankfully turned up on YouT…
Mitsubishi’s $6,999 65-inch LaserVue HDTV now hitting retailers
Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment
Just in date for your holiday wish list, Mitsubishi has announced that its stunning 65-inch LaserVue HDTV is now on sale at choose specialty retailers nationwide. From what we’ve personally seen and from what we’ve gathered from those lucky abundant to…
Microsoft details pre-beta release of Windows 7
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
We knew good and well Microsoft was gearing up to drop a pre-beta release of Windows 7 in developers’ laps at its Professional Developers Conference, but now we’re being treated to a host of details from Redmond itself. For starters, it’s showing off (for the first dat…
T-Mobile G1 coming to Walmart for $148.88
Filed under: Cellphones
Well, now isn’t that something? Best Buy has its fancy little iPhone 3G, but it’ll be Wally World offering up the G1 outside of official T-Mobile outlets. As we’d heard yesterday, 550 Walmart stores across the country will start selling the Android-powered handset beginning t…
Greatest projector / iPhone clone combo handset in the world now up for sale
Filed under: Cellphones
Look, here’s what you need to do: reach into the appropriate pocket on your personage, take out your phone, and throw it into the nearest wall. It sucks. The N70 from Lanye (or ChinaKing, or… somebody from China), which we’ve drooled by previously, is a candybar phone with …















