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The D-roll, or "digital roll," is what designer Hao Hua considers to be a "next generation laptop design," as it does away with the book-like form factor in favor of one mimicking an artist's scroll. Whether or not something like...
POSTED Monday, April 6, 2009
The gargantuan workstation arms race continues, now with Dell tossing its Nehalem hat into the ring with the Precision T7500 Workstation. Dell's answer to HP's Z800 workstation we favorably reviewed earlier this week, this flagship of Dell's line of three...
POSTED Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Channel your inner John Madden by turning your regular PC into a tablet PC telestrator with Hantech's Tablo. An IR/ultrasonic sensor gets jacked into your PC via USB and gets clipped to the top of your screen. Using the...
POSTED Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Some mega-corporations talk big about going green, but their actions speak louder than their words and marketing. So say green fanatics Greenpeace in Version 11 of the Green Gadget Guide, smacking down HP, Dell, and Lenovo while beautifying Samsung, and...
POSTED Tuesday, March 31, 2009
The mighty HP Z800 workstation is surprisingly easy to disassemble. To prove it, we set out to take the thing apart in less than a minute, set to Chopin's charming "Minute Waltz." Will we make it? Is this possible?...
POSTED Monday, March 30, 2009
HP rolled out its flagship workstation today, the Z800, and it brings swank styling by BMW DesignWorksUSA inside and out, along with fire-breathing components throughout. Packing two of the latest Intel Xeon 5500 series quad-core processors, otherwise known as...
POSTED Monday, March 30, 2009
Moneual is joining the ranks of recession-defying companies by releasing what is perhaps the most expensive computer in Korea called the 701 Jewelry. Retailing at roughly $30,000, the device is covered in 3,554 Swarovski jewels, and housed in gold and...
POSTED Monday, March 30, 2009
What would Microsoft's multitouch Surface table look like if a bunch of artists designed it? Well, if the Struktable is any indication, it'd have a lot less of the functionality — you know, being able to surf the web and...
POSTED Thursday, March 19, 2009
When Finnish software developer Jerry Jalava lost his ring finger in a motorcycle accident (bike versus Bambi), his doctor replaced it with a thumb — a USB thumb drive, that is. Concealed under the prosthetic fingernail is a 2GB USB...
POSTED Thursday, March 19, 2009
Now that the 3.0 software updates for the iPhone have been confirmed, Apple fan boys are now panting about a larger tablet version of the device, or even a netbook that might employ some next-gen Apple software. While the jury...
POSTED Thursday, March 19, 2009
Microsoft is playing it straight with the next generation of its Surface table. Called SecondLight, it will be just that — an upgraded Surface table with a second projector. The added projector will allow the Surface to layer one screen...
POSTED Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Dell's been teasing us with its beautiful Adamo laptop for the past two months, and finally the thin and stylish laptop is revealed in all its glory. This 13-inch notebook rolls out in the U.S. and 24 other countries on...
POSTED Tuesday, March 17, 2009
I'm rather partial to cases that do away with your average big box form factor — take a look at the Antec Skeleton, for instance — and the Level 10 by BMW DesignworksUSA does so with an alluring panache. We...
POSTED Monday, March 16, 2009
As smartphones are getting more and more like laptops, laptops are getting smaller and smaller, like phones. Where will they meet? Maybe somewhere near the new Lenovo Pocket Yoga netbook, one of the tiniest little laptops I've ever seen. There's...
POSTED Monday, March 16, 2009
Who says solid-state drives (SSD) aren't fast? Even though this is a marketing stunt by Samsung, we're still impressed nonetheless. These geeks hooked together 24 solid-state drives into a RAID array that totaled 6 terabytes, but the impressive part...
POSTED Monday, March 9, 2009
You might think you're looking at the PC of the future, but this prototype by BMW, DesignworksUSA, and computer case and fanmaker Thermaltake exists now. "Level 10" is on display at CeBIT, the world's largest computer expo going on...
POSTED Friday, March 6, 2009
The debut of the Kindle 2 and the subsequent release of the Kindle software for the iPhone proves that the world is finally ready for the mainstreaming of eBook readers. Nevertheless, most book fans in Asia still don't have the...
POSTED Thursday, March 5, 2009
It looks like '09 is going to be an innovative year for Asus. The company, which heralded the age of the netbook in the US with its original Eee PC, is turning that keyboard-in-a-PC concept we showed you into a...
POSTED Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Even though Steve Jobs-less and without much fanfare, Apple carried on today and announced new iMacs and Mac mini boxes in addition to those revved-up Mac Pros. The 24-inch iMac will go for $1,499 for the new 2.66GHz Intel Core...
POSTED Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Apple just revved up its Mac Pro line, and at the top of the feature list is the latest quad-core Intel Xeon "Nehalem" processors. Apple says the new Mac Pro with two quad-core Intel 2.66GHz processors is twice as fast...
POSTED Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Asus and Intel run a site called WePC.com, which the companies pitch as a place where you can dump all of your awesome computer-related ideas for the duo's engineers to capitalize on. Pretty handy, if you're not married to your...
POSTED Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Dell flaunts its design chops with this Studio XPS 435 Desktop Computer, officially rolled out this morning. It's packing the latest tech, with new Intel Core i7 processors, room for 24GB of faster DDR3 tri-channel memory, and enough bays for...
POSTED Thursday, February 26, 2009
Windows 7 has suspiciously low minimum hardware requirements — a 1GHz processor and 1GB of RAM. Would such a lowly PC would be usable? To find out if Microsoft is quoting a realistic minimum for a Windows 7 machine, we...
POSTED Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Asus, the folks who helped define what we think of as a netbook with its Eee PC line, is now looking at Google's Android OS — which, as we recently reported, will be busting its way off of cellphones very...
POSTED Monday, February 23, 2009
While you're working on your DVICE Steampunk Cylon contest entry, store your designs on this rusty, yet functioning USB drive. Handmade with laser cut designs, this 2GB drive can be yours for $40 from Etsy. If nothing else, the design...
POSTED Saturday, February 21, 2009
Microsoft is officially wading into competitive retail with its own slew of storefronts, and the company just hired David Porter, the new VP of Retail Stores, to lead the charge when he starts on February 16th. "Defining the time frame,...
POSTED Friday, February 13, 2009
Intel is moving beyond the 45nm chip into denser territory. The company gave a first-ever demo of a 32nm Westmere chip — though no performance benchmarks are available at this time — and rumor has it that the packed processors...
POSTED Tuesday, February 10, 2009
The growing trend towards netbooks has invaded the realm of Japanese children with the introduction of Bandai's new Gachapin & Mukku Netbooks. Gachapin and Mukku are cutesy characters on Japanese television, but the hardware sporting their iconic faces is hardly...
POSTED Monday, February 9, 2009
Netbooks are going to be hot this year, with both Dell and Sony — among others — trying to get in on the Asus Eee PC and its success as a cheap, functional laptop for light computer use. So how...
POSTED Friday, February 6, 2009
You might think that a computer housed in corrugated cardboard is something for hobos to do their taxes on, but that's not the case. Cardboard is actually better at dissipating heat than plastic, and it acts as a sustainable and...
POSTED Friday, February 6, 2009
If the iPhone made you think that maybe you really did only need one gadget in your life, Google's Android may one day have you wanting hundreds. Mark Hamblin, CEO of Touch Revolution and one of the driving minds behind...
POSTED Friday, February 6, 2009
2008 was a good year for gadgets, and we're hoping that '09 will be just as impressive. We're only a month in so far, but Palm, Dell, Sony and even Amazon have all dropped hints about what the companies have...
POSTED Wednesday, February 4, 2009
We had just about dismissed the idea of carrying around a tiny netbook until we read about photographer Rob Galbraith's experience with his Dell Inspiron Mini 9 netbook. Notice the $300 tinyBook wedged into Galbraith's camera bag on the...
POSTED Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Japanese photographer Isamu Sanada has put out quite a few mock-ups of Apple products, and now he's taking a crack at what an Apple netbook might look like. His design? Something long and thin like we saw with the Vaio...
POSTED Tuesday, January 27, 2009
My standards for a good computer usually revolve around the components inside. You know, what processor it has, its storage capacity, its memory and things of that nature. But hey, a fancy case is nice too, I suppose. The Lian-Li...
POSTED Friday, January 23, 2009
Aw, are we going to have to wait even longer for that gorgeous, super-thin Dell Adamo laptop? According to DigiTimes, yes — the luxo-lappies are slated to go into mass production in the "second half of 2009." But that's...
POSTED Wednesday, January 21, 2009
If you think about it, solid state drives are still living under the shadow of their antiquated hard disk cousins. SSDs are manufactured to take on the same shape as an HDD, fit into the same slots and generally pretend...
POSTED Monday, January 19, 2009
We're intrigued by the way British design student Thomas Thomassen blends retro styling with modern technology in this brilliant case mod. His Mini Media Centre looks like its mother was a avocado-colored vintage mixer and its dad was a...
POSTED Monday, January 19, 2009
The Eee PC Keyboard is, from what we can tell, just a concept that the company was or is throwing around. It's billed as a full computer inside a keyboard, and even has a 5-inch touchscreen off to the side...
POSTED Friday, January 16, 2009
2009 looks like it's going to be a hot year for functional and affordable netbooks. Sony, as the company is wont to do, is at least aiming for functional with its Vaio Pocket. Though it's coming out in February, Sony...
POSTED Wednesday, January 14, 2009
I'm a bit out of my element here, so bear with me. But it seems the New York Yankees, who I believe are a collection of some sort of athletes, have announced that they've made an exclusive deal with Sony...
POSTED Wednesday, January 14, 2009
The NovelQuest Emperor made quite the splash a few months ago when a picture of it circulated 'round the net, and we're happy to report it holds up just as well in the flesh. Looking a lot like a prop...
POSTED Sunday, January 11, 2009
"Greening" the company line is standard practice in the electronics industry, and we've been getting plenty of it here at CES 2009. After all, if washing machine A uses half as much energy as machine B, it must be...
POSTED Saturday, January 10, 2009
Intel's Classmate PC got a major face-lift with a convertible, dual-orientation tablet interface that switches automatically from portrait to landscape mode with a built-in accelerometer. As before, Intel is supplying local manufacturers with a reference design integrating their Atom...
POSTED Friday, January 9, 2009
One look at Sony's P Series "lifestyle PC" and you'll want to slip it in your jacket pocket and take it home. The 1.41 lb. Vista-running bauble connects with the world anywhere you can access a Verizon 3G cell...
POSTED Wednesday, January 7, 2009
At Apple's first Steve Jobs-less Macworld keynote in more than a decade (and the last Macworld for Apple), Apple marketing chief Philip Schiller introduced a 17-inch Macbook Pro, a new version of iWork software, and new capabilities in the...
POSTED Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Here's a tiny 2.6-pounder that's almost small enough to be called a netbook. The HP Mini 2140 Notebook PC's 10.1-inch screen is LED backlit, and with its optional 80-gig solid-state drive and small, low-power Intel Atom processor, it's packing...
POSTED Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Look out Apple, Dell, Sony, and Gateway — there's a newer, prettier all-in-one PC about to hit the streets. Laptop ace Lenovo's busting out its IdeaCentre A600 at CES 2009, crowing about how it's the thinnest all-in-one PC. Its...
POSTED Monday, January 5, 2009
HP just showed off a pretty crazy new laptop concept, dubbed the HP Firefly with Voodoo DNA. It's a monster of a computer, featuring a 17-inch screen and weighing in at a whopping 13 pounds. But with that size it...
POSTED Friday, January 2, 2009
If you haven't heard of Eazo, a Chinese purveyor of luxury computers, then you probably enjoy keeping your money where it is. That's because a custom, top-of-the-line PC from the company can cost $10,000, and supposedly upwards of $50,000....
POSTED Tuesday, December 30, 2008
You may remember that tease Sony was playing earlier this week about its non-netbook netbook, showing us a mere shape of the upcoming tinybook? Now the company accidentally leaked a couple of pics and a few specs on its...
POSTED Friday, December 26, 2008
It's Christmas Eve, the perfect time for teasing you about things to come, and PC makers are getting into the act. We have three tantalizing examples. First up is HP with leaked pics of this HP Firebird 803 tower...
POSTED Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Encasing the wiring and circuitry of a gadget in a transparent shell is pretty popular, but a lot of the concepts we see — such as Nokia's morphing cell phone, pictured above — take it all one step further...
POSTED Tuesday, December 23, 2008
The upcoming Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds is not messing around. Not only does this monster of a laptop have a 17 inch screen, Intel Core 2 Quad processors, and the option to have up to 980GB of storage, but it has...
POSTED Monday, December 22, 2008
Boston Power has created a new line of Lithium-Ion batteries dubbed the Sonatas, batteries that deliver an average of four hours of laptop use per charge. In addition to that, they also don't show a degradation of charges after a...
POSTED Wednesday, December 10, 2008
As someone who uses multiple screens when I'm working (or playing games) the idea of having a laptop with some extra screen space as portable as the unit itself is really exciting. Sure, that extra space would come in...
POSTED Wednesday, December 10, 2008
If you like the idea of cloud computing, you'll love this Pano Zero Client. It's minimalist, to say the least. It has no CPU, no memory, no local software, no nothing. Well, there's a network connection, and the idea...
POSTED Friday, December 5, 2008
Getting your laptop stolen sucks, obviously. You have it loaded up with your personal information and data, and beyond losing a valuable piece of property, there's security and identity theft to worry about as well. With the new Lenovo ThinkPads...
POSTED Tuesday, November 25, 2008
The Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas has just set up the world's highest resolution toiled display, linking together a whopping 75 30-inch Dell monitors to make one insane display setup. I mean, sure, it might be...
POSTED Monday, November 24, 2008
You had to know that it was coming and now it's finally here: The Hello Kitty Laptop! Just in time for the holidays to chase the economic blues away, the Hello Kitty C1 is equipped with Windows XP Home Edition...
POSTED Friday, November 21, 2008
One look at the HP TouchSmart tx2 notebook, and you'll want to get your hands on one, literally. Its 12.1" widescreen display swivels into a tablet, and lets you use two fingers to expand and pinch graphics, rotate and...
POSTED Wednesday, November 19, 2008
We compare a lot of things to Minority Report around here — since it's so damn cool and all — but most of the technology we come across simply approximates the almost ridiculous amount of gesture controls presented by...
POSTED Monday, November 17, 2008
You think your expensive, custom-built gaming PC is powerful? You think you've got the hottest computer on the block because you can run Crysis at full specs? I'm not impressed. You want to see an impressive computer? Say hello...
POSTED Wednesday, November 12, 2008
It looks like the e-voting machines used in battleground states such as Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Virginia and Florida have run into some snags. (Oh, Florida.) Both voters and watchdog groups have reported temperamental direct-recording electronic machines (or DREs)...
POSTED Tuesday, November 4, 2008
The EEE PC was the first of many small, cheap, no-frills laptops to hit the market, sparking a huge rush in the newly-formed netbooks category of computers. Able to do basic tasks such as surf the web and check email...
POSTED Monday, November 3, 2008
We all went nuts over that hardcore computer submerged in mineral oil last week, but recoiled at its $11K price tag. Now you can get your own favorite components together and submerge them in an attractive aquarium-like enclosure from...
POSTED Tuesday, October 28, 2008
We took a look at the Quake Catcher Network back in its infancy and now it's making a real impact. QCN takes advantage of the accelerometers most modern laptops have built-in for protection, and puts them to use measuring...
POSTED Monday, October 27, 2008
Sure your iPhone can wow friends and family with its variety of programs and futuristic touchscreen technology, but it still fails when it comes to one basic function—writing long documents. The new Pomera DM10 excels at this function, and only...
POSTED Friday, October 24, 2008
For it's latest trick, Microsoft's engineers have given the multi-touch Surface PC table a bartender's sixth sense. If you set your drink down on top of it, the Surface will be able to detect just how full it is....
POSTED Wednesday, October 22, 2008
This Halloween you'll probably carve up a pumpkin with a goofy face. So did Alan Penner from Goleta, California, but his is geeky enough to join us here at the DVICE Tower with its instant-messenger-style smiley charm. Penner's other...
POSTED Tuesday, October 21, 2008
We're still in awe of that fantastic Battlestar Galactica PC we showed you last week, but take a look at this: Unlike that custom-built Battlestar, this one's a commercially-available PC. It looks like it has glowing nuclear fuel rods...
POSTED Monday, October 20, 2008
So you're in a room at 2:30 AM with 15 computers. What do you do? Well, these guys developed a screensaver that could be synchronized across every monitor and simulate a Formula 1 race car riding around the ring...
POSTED Friday, October 17, 2008
The iPhone, when you think about it, is really more of a handheld computer than a phone. Sure, it can make phone calls, but any phone can do that. What makes the iPhone unique is its web-surfing abilities and...
POSTED Monday, October 13, 2008
Here's a PC case mod that's worthy of the name Battlestar Galactica. This liquid-cooled work of art has a numerous video screens, a side window hidden by a servo-controlled door, and a slot-loading DVD drive that lets you see...
POSTED Monday, October 13, 2008
Antec is taking the idea of a bare-bones PC to a whole 'nother level with its upcoming Antec Skeleton open-air PC case. It won't wall in your parts like a normal PC tower, which can improve airflow (or, at...
POSTED Monday, October 6, 2008
When Dell commissioned a design contest for green computers, Mexican industrial designer Luis Luna took the term "green" literally. He created O Project, a design concept featuring a couple of round PCs that take Dell's bamboo-clad Studio Hybrid idea...
POSTED Thursday, October 2, 2008
If you want to record music, the four track is out. Now, you need to record on your computer, digitally. But to do that, you need a way to plug your guitar into your computer. There are a bunch of...
POSTED Monday, September 29, 2008
The first thing I did when I saw this setup was look at my own wall and see where I could fit one, too. Then I grabbed a napkin to clean up all the drool. Up above is exactly...
POSTED Friday, September 26, 2008
Soon after we finished gushing about Samsung's gorgeous new Mac Air-beating laptop, Sony comes along with one that's even more impressive. While the just-announced Sony TT laptop isn't as slim as that Samsung number, the 2.87 pounder is sure...
POSTED Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Yesterday, Valleywag wrote that Microsoft was canning its $300 million ad campaign featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld after only two commercials. Today, it turns out the ads won't be pulled, just reformulated. Microsoft's campaign drew a mix of...
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
Here's something you don't see every day: a desktop PC with a built-in touchscreen. Usually, desktop PCs are designed to sit tucked under your desk and away from view, allowing an external monitor to display what it's got to show....
POSTED Thursday, September 18, 2008
It's easier to curse the darkness than light a candle. Actually, I might have butchered the saying, but that's the appropriate way to put it when it comes to the copy protection issues with Spore, Electronic Arts' amoeba-to-universe sim...
POSTED Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Recent history has shown us that high fashion designers teaming with hardware companies won't necessarily yield you a home run with consumers, but the trend continues nevertheless. With echoes of New York Fashion Week still reverberating, Hewlett Packard has unveiled...
POSTED Monday, September 15, 2008
"Why are we doing this again?" Asks Bill Gates to his comedic companion, who rests upon a pink-blanketed bed in a room with purple walls. Jerry Seinfeld replies: "Why, Bill? Because, as we discussed, you and I are a...
POSTED Friday, September 12, 2008
Everybody has MacBooks these days, it seems. If you go to your local coffee shop, the chances are good that you'll see a bunch of people typing away on the exact same computers. You're much more unique than all those...
POSTED Friday, September 12, 2008
Hitachi (best known for manufacturing computer parts and electronic products — not, uh, web software) unveiled a new search engine called GazoPa, which finds images based on the shapes and colors they present, rather than tags and text related...
POSTED Thursday, September 11, 2008
When you buy a new computer, it always comes wrapped up in a box full of Styrofoam and all sorts of other packing materials, all of which you promptly toss in the garbage. What a waste. In a brilliant move,...
POSTED Thursday, September 4, 2008
Dell aims its attractive Studio Hybrid to students and PC newbies, but we had a better idea for the minuscule PC — let’s take it into our home theater and see what it could do. It has the makings...
POSTED Wednesday, September 3, 2008
If you’ve fallen in love with the MacBook Air but just can’t stand the thought of muddling through OS X, becoming a snooty Mac user, or suffering through Apple’s skin-deep quality and often-shoddy workmanship, Samsung is aiming its .66-inch-thin...
POSTED Friday, August 29, 2008
Gaming machines can get pretty loud with how much cooling they require, and the powerful components they are often packed with. Custom case builder NZXT kept sound in mind with its upcoming Whisper case, which is insulated with 10...
POSTED Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Hungry for toast? Too lazy to get up and walk into the kitchen to use your toaster? A common issue, I'm sure. What you need is a way to toast bread from the comfort of your desk chair. What's near...
POSTED Thursday, August 14, 2008
Now this is a serious laptop. The new Lenovo Thinkpad W700 is not only gigantic, featuring a 17-inch screen and a full numerical pad next to the keyboard, but it also has a Wacom tablet built in. Yes, one of...
POSTED Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Really serious PCs are known for getting really, really hot. In fact, a whole cottage industry has sprouted up aimed at helping the super-nerdy keeping their monster PCs nice and cool. This custom PC takes the opposite approach, being proud...
POSTED Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Want to touch off a firestorm? Start talking about how Macs cost twice as much as PCs. But now there’s data to back that up from NPD Group. The study shows the average price of a Windows laptop dropped...
POSTED Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Hey guys, here's a computer that's inside of a toaster. Why? You got me, but I'm pretty sure your computer isn't inside a vintage-looking 4-slice toaster, is it? The toaster/computer no longer has the ability to turn regular slices of...
POSTED Monday, August 4, 2008
The V1 CPU Cooler by Taiwanese computer parts manufacturer Thermaltake Technologies is so gosh darn beautiful it won an award for being just that. Just look at those sweeping ridges and graceful tubing. It's like Thermaltake designed a metal...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008
Who says a PC has to be rectangular, or even square? Designer Apostol Tnokovski thinks the PC world is round, and conceived this 6-inch orb-shaped number as his proof. Not only is E-Ball oddball shaped, it’s called “the smallest...
POSTED Wednesday, July 23, 2008
The wellspring of spectacular tech ideas that is Art.Lebedev Studio has just come up with another dance along the lunatic fringe, and this one’s a smaller keyboard called Optimus Pultius. Positioned between the not-yet now-shipping Optimus Maximus keyboard ($1877)...
POSTED Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Tired of waiting for an affordable and simple touch screen tablet to surf the web, Michael Arrington, the Silicon Valley maven of influential blog TechCrunch, decided to take matters into his own hands. He wants to create a $200...
POSTED Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Just look at this beautiful Dell E laptop. On a news day with a sea of press releases about me-too lappies from Sony, Lenovo, Acer, Samsung, Toshiba, HP and Fujitsu packing Intel’s Centrino 2 mobile platform, this tiny 8.9-inch...
POSTED Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The interactive table race is on, and here comes Interactive Scape, a 58-inch touch surface that’s a whole lot like the Microsoft Surface table that’s being shown all over the world but sold nowhere. Yet. Well, there is the...
POSTED Monday, June 30, 2008
Ah, summer time. Lounging in the pool, relaxing in the sun and soaking up the rays. It's great, except for one thing: you're away from your computer. Oh, what are you to do?! Fortunately for computer addicts such as yourself,...
POSTED Saturday, June 21, 2008
As laptops get cheaper and faster with each passing month, manufacturers are branching out the feature sets on their notebooks. Case in point: the Toshiba Qosimo F55, a Windows machine that, in addition to being a sleek little notebook...
POSTED Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Move over, Macbook Air: there's a new king in town, and its even thinner than you. It's the new Voodoo Envy 133, and it's the thinnest notebook around. It's a mere 0.7-inches thin, which is downright ridiculous. It also features...
POSTED Tuesday, June 10, 2008
So let's say that the $1,000,000 Luvaglio laptop you bought last year is starting to show its age with its clunky old single core processor. It's upgrade time! But how do you upgrade from a million dollar laptop? Well,...
POSTED Sunday, June 8, 2008
There are plenty of wacky casemods out there, but few of them are as funny or as well executed as this microwave PC. Yes, it's a microwave that has the guts of a computer crammed inside. It's got an LCD...
POSTED Tuesday, June 3, 2008
What else can you do with a guitar and amplifier, besides playing "The Star Spangled Banner" in honor of Memorial Day? Hey, let’s make a PC out of that git-box, and flank it with a tiny replica of an...
POSTED Monday, May 26, 2008
Here's something you don't see every day: a Xentex dual 13.3-inch screen laptop. Yes, dual screens. They're side by side and can be rotated or folded down independently for some crazy reason. And now it can be yours on eBay!...
POSTED Friday, May 23, 2008
This elegant desk hides a fully-functioning computer inside, saving space and allowing you to keep the space on or under it free and clear. It also has a monitor built in and attached at the back, meaning the only space...
POSTED Friday, May 23, 2008
The One Laptop Per Child program — the program that aims to put cheap but functional notebook computers in the hands of children in impoverished countries — has been shipping the distinctively green XO laptop since the end of...
POSTED Wednesday, May 21, 2008
We’ve abandoned cable TV, dumped Netflix and its associated "discs," and turned to other sources for our entertainment. Now in our fourth episode of Video Rebel, I’ll show you the easiest way to enjoy a huge variety of video...
POSTED Tuesday, May 20, 2008
You've seen (and probably drooled over) Microsoft's Surface touchscreen tabletop. Well, some intern over at Microsoft Research accidentally knocked it on its side and — voilà! — the Microsoft TouchWall was born. The new TouchWall features the same multi-touch...
POSTED Thursday, May 15, 2008
Don Grice is a confident man. The chief engineer on IBM's Roadrunner project told Computer World: "We will break the petascale barrier. The only unknown for me will be what day it is." Right now, the petaflop is to...
POSTED Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Want to put your laptop intro service for the good of environmental observation? The Quake Catcher Network in California is an effort by researchers to use the accelerometers built into most modern laptops to help keep track of seismic...
POSTED Thursday, April 24, 2008
It’s hump day! And so begins the third day of my off-grid blogging in observance of Earth Week here at DVICE. Translation: no wall sockets or municipal juice for me until Saturday. Due to rain yesterday, I had to...
POSTED Wednesday, April 23, 2008
With this being Earth Week and all, Dell decided to get in on all the eco-fun with its smallest PC yet. This one’s wrapped up in a renewable bamboo case that looks stylish, rounded, and smooth. Its innards are...
POSTED Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Welcome to my first dispatch! Earth Week is off and running here at DVICE, and just like I promised, I'm going off the grid for five days. Yep, all week long I'll be getting my power from green sources...
POSTED Monday, April 21, 2008
Tired of paying $3,000 for a portable upper leg warmer/sun tanner commonly known as a laptop? So are we. But since the new MacBook Pro’s are allegedly right around the corner our laptop fetish isn't likely to end anytime soon,...
POSTED Friday, April 11, 2008
The Siafu (curiously named after terrifying army ants) is a concept laptop by designer Jonathan Lucas of Long Beach, California that would give people with impaired vision the tactile input they need to fully use a computer — from writing...
POSTED Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Here’s a design concept that old-school artists who wear berets and paint with palettes will like. The gorgeous Palette-Digital Artist is an entry into the Microsoft NextGen PC Design Competition for 2008. It's a handheld touchscreen PC, and looky...
POSTED Thursday, March 27, 2008
Looking to record your favorite HD shows to a digital video recorder (HD DVR)? You’re not alone. As of December, 2007, 20% of U.S. households had a DVR, up from 12% at the beginning of the year. Your choices...
POSTED Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Sure, we're all about the futuristic designs around these parts, but the Cup PC concept take futuristic design to a completely new level. This idea takes the average PC and tries to make it as simple as drinking a...
POSTED Tuesday, March 25, 2008
This ZPC all-in-one computer is basically a laptop without a screen. It's a keyboard with all of the guts of the computer inside of it, including a 3.4GHz Pentium 4, 2GB of RAM, a 75GB HDD and a DVD drive....
POSTED Monday, March 24, 2008
What looks like an old school Univac computer but fits in the palm of your hand like a Sony PSP? It's the coolest new UMPC (Ultra-Mobile PC) to hit the market called the Wibrain. Sporting a 1024 x 600 resolution...
POSTED Friday, March 21, 2008
The Macbook Air, with its optional SSD drive, has brought flash hard drives into the mainstream, with the energy-efficient and fast HDD replacements looking more and more attractive as prices come down. That's not to say they're down all that...
POSTED Tuesday, March 18, 2008
The Toughbook has been around for a while wooing many corporate and military users but failing to make a significant blip on the radar for most mainstream consumers. But the latest iteration of the Toughbook, the Panasonic Toughbook UMPC, could...
POSTED Thursday, March 13, 2008
Our jaws dropped at LucidTouch, a great see-through touchscreen idea Microsoft showed us last October. Now the company’s photoshopped up a really pretty simulated tablet PC using the technology that lets you see your hands on the other side...
POSTED Wednesday, March 12, 2008
The DNA personal computer is one of those concepts that, like the almighty Voltron, becomes more powerful the more pieces of it you connect together. It starts out as a bare-bones computer-in-a-cube, with a low-powered processor and graphics card for...
POSTED Wednesday, March 12, 2008
How do you distract a bunch of reporters at a tech-heavy media event? Give them a big interactive display to play with. Reminiscent of the interface from the movie Minority Report, this media wall at CeBIT 2008 works a lot...
POSTED Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Real computer nerds who want to put together a monster of a gaming PC build their own computers. They know that doing it themselves saves all sorts of money and lets them get exactly what they want. Lazier, richer people...
POSTED Monday, March 10, 2008
The GeCube Genie PC is a relatively unremarkable UMPC for the most part, with a tiny 7-inch screen, 2Gb of flash memory storage, and a Linux-based operating system, but it does have one little trick up its sleeve that differentiates...
POSTED Thursday, March 6, 2008
Dressed in a casual (and surprisingly male) fashion, world-class stand-up comedian Eddie Izzard has been crackin' wise at the Union Square Theater in New York City about everything from the origins of mankind to hunting bees with flamethrowers. And, of...
POSTED Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The Backpacker's Diary is meant to allow travelers an easy way to log and share their experiences, and takes the idea of a notebook-inspired personal computer to the next level. Portable just like a laptop, the Diary's functions change depending...
POSTED Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Why is it gaming PCs always have to be the craziest-looking machines to ever be sold at Best Buy? Who decided that people who enjoyed PC games also wanted a gigantic computer that looks like it was stolen off...
POSTED Tuesday, March 4, 2008
There’s a quiet revolution happening right under your fingertips. Breaking free of the bonds of wires and short-range wireless Wi-Fi networks are EV-DO (Evolution Data Only) modems, letting you use your laptop virtually anywhere there’s cell phone service. The...
POSTED Monday, March 3, 2008
Lenovo had been developing its new tiny but powerful ThinkPad, the X300, for a year and a half when Steve Jobs announced that its MacBook air could fit into an inter-office envelope. What a letdown! Though Lenovo's ultra-portable with...
POSTED Sunday, March 2, 2008
Someday, when curved organic LEDs (OLED) are cheap enough, an arc-shaped iMac will actually be possible (to give you an idea, a 11-inch non-curved OLED screen costs $2500 today). Until then, we’ll have to settle for iView, a design...
POSTED Friday, February 29, 2008
Apple unveiled updates to its line of high-end Macbook Pro laptops this morning, upgrading the chipset to Intel's new Penryn line as well as adding the multitouch trackpad that was first unveiled with the Macbook Air. In addition, there were...
POSTED Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Take one part MacBook Air, one part Microsoft Surface and some 3D "z-axis" interaction and you have the Zen PC concept. The Zen PC is being labeled a sandbox PC. The unique nature of the tablet-like PC allows for...
POSTED Friday, February 22, 2008
When Apple rolled out the MacBook Air with its solid-state disk (SSD) inside, it felt like a new era in laptop computing had begun. Are solid-state state drives poised to replace those spinning hard disks we've become accustomed to...
POSTED Thursday, February 14, 2008
The Macbook Air might be the most buzzed about slim laptop around, but that's not to say it's the only one out there or even the best. Sure, it's the thinnest, but at the expense of an optical drive and...
POSTED Wednesday, February 13, 2008
While I can certainly appreciate the out-of-the-box thinking that went into designing this coffee mug/computer hybrid, I think a bit more practical thinking would have helped it. I mean, come on, could you imagine this thing ever getting made? First...
POSTED Saturday, February 9, 2008
What would it take to get you to sacrifice your car stereo? How about a full computer that fits snugly into the vacant indash spot left by your stereo? The Navisurfer is just that, and it has an attractive 7-inch...
POSTED Friday, February 8, 2008
We've gotten some intimate one-on-one time with Dell's top-of-the-line XPS series of towers before, which is why we get a little excited seeing a spy shot of the next in the line of gaming PCs. Say hello, my friends, to...
POSTED Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Master craftsman and PC case builder Jeffrey Stephenson just rolled out his latest design called Pico Bayard, a combination mini PC and digital photo frame that mimics the art deco design of classic French Bayard clocks. The gorgeous design...
POSTED Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Many of our day-to-day necessities rely on processing chips: cell phones, MP3 players, computers, calculators and so on, and many of these devices use already efficient chips that require one volt of energy. Texas Instruments just isn't satisfied, it...
POSTED Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Technology is pretty hard on our hands, and only getting more so: typing on a keyboard, twisting your fingers around a video game controller, thumbing your cell phone. With all that strain on your digits, you may be wondering...
POSTED Wednesday, February 6, 2008
You've gotta love it when people take standard-issue products, call them "luxury," and jack up the price by a factor of three. That's exactly what happened with the Eazo Luxury PC, a powerful computer that would be great if it...
POSTED Tuesday, February 5, 2008
This touchless human/machine user interface by Norway's Elliptic Labs is a surefire way to avoid grubby touchscreens as it allows the user to manipulate objects on the screen by simply waving their hands like a wizard. The technology uses...
POSTED Monday, February 4, 2008
You've seen the MacBook Air — are you ready for the MacBook Earth, Water and Fire? We weren't either, but then we got our hands on these images of a new generation of notebooks. Ever wanted your computer to...
POSTED Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Sony teamed up with the Nichia Corportation, a Japanese manufacturer and supplier, and the happy result is a smaller Blu-Ray laser. Measuring in at 3 millimeters, the new laser is cheaper for Sony to manufacture, and anything from laptops using...
POSTED Monday, January 28, 2008
The MacBook Air may be one of the thinnest laptops ever made, but Apple had to make some sacrifices to shed all that poundage. Did the company go too far? Some reviewers on the Web think so. Of course,...
POSTED Thursday, January 24, 2008
Put that credit card down for a second before dropping those big bucks on a super thin and very gimpy MacBook Air. Even after getting our thoughts on it and seeing some reasons you should buy one, it's time...
POSTED Friday, January 18, 2008
The hype is over, the news has broken, and the backlash is in full swing. We're talking about the MacBook Air of course — the big gust of wind coming out of Cupertino this week. It's one of the...
POSTED Thursday, January 17, 2008
People grow up dreaming about becoming musicians, but chip musicians? Gareth Morris sure did, adapting some 1980s Atari hardware (an 1040ST keyboard) to make "chiptunes," music created using just the raw sounds of the original equipment. Vanessa recently rocked out with from Morris and his modded PC to see what it was like to be an Atari DJ. Groovy.
POSTED Thursday, January 17, 2008
Gotta love Apple: Only the reclusive Cupertino company could command such a massive amount of attention for such underwhelming announcements. Oooo, HD movies on iTunes, only two months after Vudu started doing it. Then there's Apple TV Part 2,...
POSTED Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Sir Steve of Cupertino just dropped some bombs at Macworld, the biggest of which being the announcement of a new MacBook Air ultraportable laptop. The thinnest laptop in the world, it measures a mere 0.16 inches thick at the...
POSTED Tuesday, January 15, 2008
I often look at my lamp with a frown on my face wishing it did just a little more. Sure, it brings me light when the sun's gone, but that's it. If only it also had the functionality of...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
Asus has just announced a new laptop that comes with, amongst other things, a whopping 1TB of storage. Yes, TB. That stands for Terabytes, otherwise known as 1,000 Gigabytes. It's huge. It's enough space to hold as many full movies,...
POSTED Thursday, January 3, 2008
The rumor mills are churning at full speed in anticipation of MacWorld, which is coming up in just a couple of weeks. So what should we expect? Well, according to some "experts" who have dug around talking to Apple's suppliers,...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
Two years ago laser-etched laptops were all over the Internet, mainly because of the famous tarsier and Magritte Powerbooks. But since then people have been busily etching all kinds of things into their laptop lids, from the Mona Lisa to...
POSTED Friday, December 28, 2007
Are you tired of waiting for Apple to release a MacBook tablet for you to fawn over? Sure, there have been rumors about them for months now, but there's nothing coming out of Cupertino currently that looks anything like the...
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
This wallet has a lot more going on than your wallet, no matter how many credit cards, receipts, and pictures of your family you have stuffed inside. The Emtrace PS100 is a 5mm-thick digital photo frame that can fit in...
POSTED Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Like Charlie Brown, I am one heck of a old grinch around the holidays. Eggnog, yule tides, and all of those traditions are nothing but a bunch of hoo-ha to me. The one shining moment is the holidays is...
POSTED Monday, December 24, 2007
Here's a computer mod that's not exactly built for the long haul: an entire PC stuffed inside a pizza box. Delicious! Placed lovingly inside the box where a large pizza used to sit (from Little Ceasers? Really? Gross.) are all...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program has been around for a few years now, but it is only in the last couple of months that real, live OLPC laptops have been shipping, not just to third world...
POSTED Sunday, December 16, 2007
The Portable PC Theater probably won't replace your PC, even if you do use it as a media center. It will come in handy, though, if you want a computer that you can tote around and take to show...
POSTED Friday, December 14, 2007
Lets face it, some hand motions are just more natural than others, and operating a standard mouse isn't one of them. With the SafeType mouse you can hold your hand in a natural position, a grip with the thumb...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
Next time you fly, you may have more options than just reading a book or passing out. American Airlines, joining others such as Virgin and JetBlue, are teaming up with carrier Aircell to offer passengers free Wi-Fi on Boeing...
POSTED Friday, December 7, 2007
MacWorld is coming up in about a month — you know, the place where they announced the iPhone last year — so you know the rumor mills are about to start churning at full force. This year's rumor? Ultraportable Apple...
POSTED Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Once you get seriously into playing World of Warcraft, it seems like that's all you use your computer for. Sure, you can surf the web and check email on it, but if you're a real WoW addict, you barely have...
POSTED Tuesday, December 4, 2007
The story began last year with you, some Star Wars flash drives, and a universe. Now the Star Wars flash-drive saga continues with Series 2, made by mimobot. The new members of the mimobot family are Luke Skywalker, Princess...
POSTED Monday, December 3, 2007
Yesterday TiVo announced that a software company called Nero will create a platform to "bring TiVo features to the personal computer." TiVo realizes that a lot of people out there have tuners for their computers. and is hoping to...
POSTED Thursday, November 29, 2007
Small, cheap laptops are all the rage these days, as it seems everyone wants a wee computer that's low on power but high on value to take with them on trips. Now there's another one with a super-low pricetag. The...
POSTED Thursday, November 29, 2007
This Aleutia E1 computer is "the ultimate off grid computer." What's that mean? Well, it means you can use it away from the infrastructure you're used to relying on, what with most computers needing things like power outlets to function...
POSTED Wednesday, November 28, 2007
What's the quickest way to ruin a beautiful 1904 Chickering Upright Grand Piano? That's an easy one, demolish stick a computer in it. That's what Ebay user compianos did. This 1904 Chickering includes a ridiculously powerful (and debatably real)...
POSTED Monday, November 26, 2007
What happens when you combine visualizations such as the ones you can get while your music plays on iTunes or through your Xbox 360 and a guitar? You get a guitar that stoned college students will stare at for...
POSTED Monday, November 26, 2007
This Black Hawk XR5 notebook isn't messing around. It's Quad-Core, meaning it's as high-powered as any desktop computer out there, and it sports a large, 17-inch screen. It also has two 512MB GeForce Go 8800GTX graphics cards, making this...
POSTED Monday, November 19, 2007
Dust and smudges seem to be attracted to laptop screens. Just touch your laptop screen once, and there'll be a fingerprint on it until you can get your lazy self down to the store to buy some fancy LCD...
POSTED Friday, November 16, 2007
Alienware, known for its high-end video game-centric machines, is offering up a teaser of two of its yet-to-be-seen laptop designs: the Area-51 m15x and the Area-51 m17x. Reportedly 15- and 17-inch systems, the two new machines will sport entirely...
POSTED Friday, November 16, 2007
Your computer is boring. It's just a plain old grey box, it's got no personality. You have a personality, don't you? Well then, why not use a computer that reflects or, dare I say, enhances your already-present uniqueness? This...
POSTED Wednesday, November 14, 2007
With the ASUS Ecobook, the computer manufacturer is trying for a laptop that is as friendly to the environment as it looks — ASUS is shooting for the sum of the Ecobook's parts to be 50% recyclable. To reflect...
POSTED Monday, November 12, 2007
There is no need to spend thousands on a high tech treadmill when you can simply attach your laptop to your already existing (and outdated) treadmill. The Netrunner is a docking system that allows for laptops of all types and...
POSTED Saturday, November 10, 2007
The Sony VAIO FZ "Graphic Splash Eco Edition" laptops come with nature-themed outer shells, but that environmental motif isn't just case-deep. Sony is teaming up with the 1% For The Planet fund, so 1% of the net Eco Edition...
POSTED Friday, November 9, 2007
According to Taiwanese computer maker ASUS, Apple is in the process of designing a new tablet computer and they've hired ASUS to do the manufacturing. Apple hasn't confirmed the story, obviously, but ASUS has been hired by them to...
POSTED Tuesday, November 6, 2007
The NVX3000PC — or the "Anyware" mobile PC, as parent company Audiovox is calling it — is a portable computer launching under the Jensen brand that isn't quite a handheld GPS, nor a full laptop. Instead, the Anyware incorporates...
POSTED Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Having trouble finding room for all those unwieldy AC adapters that seem to proliferate like amorous bunnies? While you might like the excellent Power Squid ($11.95), a more-conventional yet precise approach is this Tributaries T10 Power Strip. It aims...
POSTED Friday, October 26, 2007
NEC has a new supercomputer it's touting as the world's fastest. The SX-9 is capable of processing a peak 839 teraFLOPS, and a peak vector performance of 102.4 gigaFLOPS per individual core. Well hey, that's a lot of FLOPS....
POSTED Friday, October 26, 2007
Information Dell posted on the Federal Communications Commission website has opened the curtains to reveal the Dell XPS One A2010, the company's upcoming computer-in-a-monitor. Details are liable to change, but from the looks of it the XPS One A2010...
POSTED Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Well, almost. Hitachi is developing hard drives that combine an older technology called Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR), with new more densely packed data regions, which they say will allow for a 4 TB (4000 GB) drive within the next three...
POSTED Friday, October 19, 2007
A federal jury delivered a landmark verdict in a copyright-infringement case between the RIAA and defendant Jammie Thomas, a 30-year-old mother of two from Minnesota. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is the trade group that represents the...
POSTED Thursday, October 18, 2007
Fish gotta swim. Birds gotta fly. Hard-disk drives gotta crash. Even executives of companies who make hard-disk drives admit they have a life of between three and five years. They're mechanical. They wear out. Any hard drive still chugging...
POSTED Thursday, October 11, 2007
PC hard disks have gotten more and more capacity over the years, but they still involve storing and accessing data on rapidly spinning disks, so there's a limit to how fast they can actually work. Flash memory has no...
POSTED Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Suissa, a computer company that makes specialty computers that don't look like your average grey tower, has just unveiled its gorgeous Enlighten PC. This sexy woodcentric sculpture dedicated to computing won't run cheap — $16,000, to be exact —...
POSTED Thursday, October 4, 2007
Like to play PC games? Like to play PC games when you're on the road? Like to play PC games on the road on a glossy, brightly colored laptop that screams, "Steal me"? Then you're the exact customer HP...
POSTED Thursday, September 27, 2007
This morning Gateway went after the iMac crowd by unveiling an all-in-one PC called… er, the One. OK, the name isn't that slick, but machine itself might be. After all, the screen is a decent size (19 inches), and...
POSTED Thursday, September 27, 2007
Announcements about an upgrade to a line of laptops usually consists of minor performance tweaks: a faster processor, larger hard drive, and/or a thinner and lighter body. Sony's VAIO G-Series is no exception, with options for faster Core 2...
POSTED Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Sony's looking to get their hands on the thrifty laptop market, unleashing a new line of cheaper Vaio NRs that deliver some respectable specs without breaking the bank. The $750 laptops sport 15.4-inch screens, Core 2 Duos (on "select...
POSTED Tuesday, September 25, 2007
The ambitious "$100 laptop" One Laptop Per Child program is finally coming to fruition after nearly 2 years of talk, with a boosted price ($188) and a completed product. While most of these little computers are being sold to...
POSTED Monday, September 24, 2007
If you've ever used a laptop as its name suggests, you know that the heat produced can be uncomfortable for your… uh, lower extremities. Embraco, with the help of Intel is trying to solve that heating problem with the...
POSTED Saturday, September 22, 2007
Forget the pulse-pounding feeling you get from steampunk computers — here's one of the most alluring laptop concepts we've seen in a long time. If designer Eno Setiawan had his way, the Sony Vaio notebook would look sleek and...
POSTED Wednesday, September 19, 2007
PC security is always a cause for concern, but sometimes — check that — pretty much all the time juggling a slew of different software suites can be a pain. This is where the Yoggie Pico Personal steps in....
POSTED Thursday, September 13, 2007
Gaming PCs are some of the most stylish computers around. Since gamers tend to be a group that's willing to pay a premium for their hardware, manufacturers know that it's what's both inside and outside that counts. This lovely...
POSTED Thursday, September 6, 2007
Fulfilling your James Bond fetish just got a little easier courtesy the IOCELL mDrive waterproof USB device. Sporting a sexy black aluminum exterior accented by a hint of crimson, the mDrive is super thin at just 1.6 x 0.6...
POSTED Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Here's a bachelor pad's dream: a coffee table that doubles as a gaming rig. The high-gloss top of the Surface Tension table adds a taste of arcade chic to a living room, housing a monitor beneath the glass tabletop...
POSTED Friday, August 31, 2007
Sure, Apple's new iMacs are slick and all, but they aren't the only, or best, game in town when it comes to all-in-one computers. Sony's new Vaio LT19U does almost everything the iMac does, as well as a few...
POSTED Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Some golfers want to go green with solar-powered golf carts, but this Golf Launchpad lets you hit the greens without even leaving your house. The $450 input device works with either the PC or Sony's PlayStation 2 and has...
POSTED Monday, August 20, 2007
These days, laptops come in three flavors: ultra-thin, average all around, and ultra-powerful. Hitting either extreme, whether you're looking for maximum portability or performance, will typically hit your wallet pretty hard as well. Electronics purveyor Asus is looking to...
POSTED Friday, August 17, 2007
Gaming PCs are notoriously expensive, sacrificing reasonable prices for the most top-of-the-line components available. Laptops have never really been good as gaming PCs due to their lack of expandability and the high price of their components to begin with....
POSTED Friday, August 17, 2007
Having a powerful computer is all nice and dandy, but if you want your PC to last, you have to keep that sucker cooled. Using fans to pump up airflow inside a computer case is the standard method, though water...
POSTED Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Fujitsu's new LifeBook T2010 is a lightweight notebook that wants to be more than just a notebook. Just look at that contortionist screen! It can flip itself around and fold back on the keyboard, turning the light notebook into...
POSTED Tuesday, August 14, 2007
The days of recharging your laptop may be numbered if Samsung's fuel-cell notebook catches on. The Direct Methanol Fuel Cell laptop supposedly carries enough fuel in that chamber beneath the monitor to keep it running for a month. If...
POSTED Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Apple just announced new versions of its all-in-one iMac computer. Featuring a new design with brushed aluminum and glass, it's certainly a slicker upgrade to the older models. Like the MacBooks, the new iMacs have an iSight camera built...
POSTED Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Now you'll have no excuse for shirking your work, even if you're out in the middle of nowhere. This Earthtech Solar Laptop Charger's 150-watt portable power system keeps you going whether you like it or not, harnessing the sun's...
POSTED Monday, July 30, 2007
Toshiba has just unveiled a new set of ultra-portable laptops that they claim are the lightest and thinnest in the world. And at a scarily-light 1.73 pounds on the R500-S5003, I think they might just be right. Slimming things down...
POSTED Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Laptops are becoming more and more popular, what with them becoming just as powerful as desktop models while staying in a portable and space-saving form factor. The main problem that people switching from desktops to laptops face at this...
POSTED Tuesday, July 24, 2007
What makes a laptop a laptop? Is it the portability? Or is it just the foldable form factor? If you answered the form factor, then the new Samsung Desknote G25 is a laptop. If not, well, then it's just a...
POSTED Wednesday, July 18, 2007
You pay a monthly fee for your cell phone, cable, and for Internet access, but what about for your computer? Zonbu has created a neat little Linux-running desktop computer that it claims is so energy efficient that it'll save...
POSTED Monday, July 16, 2007
I'm a Windows user who loves skinny laptops. My Lenovo-IBM ThinkPad X60 is the Apple of my eye and only willpower keeps me from adding the teeniest Vaio and maybe one of those cheap Asuteks just for the hell...
POSTED Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Casting against type, Dell just added a slim laptop to its XPS line of PCs, generally known for its power and heft. The anorexically thin XPS M1330 has some serious cutting-edge equipment onboard, including a 120-GB hard disk, connectivity...
POSTED Tuesday, June 26, 2007
You think your ultraportable laptop is small? It's gigantic compared to the new Linux PC created in France. It's crammed into a USB key, measuring a mere 1.40-inches by 3.3-inches. At that size, it's not going to be loading up...
POSTED Monday, June 25, 2007
When it comes to high-end gaming PCs, the sky's the limit to how crazy manufacturers will go to create the ultimate fragging machine. A new entry in the field is looking to establish a secure stop at the top...
POSTED Saturday, June 23, 2007
The Compenion is a sleek concept laptop designed by Felix Schmidberger. It certainly looks like the kind of portable PC we might be carrying around in 2015, made more futuristic by its OLED touchscreen, which serves as both monitor...
POSTED Thursday, June 14, 2007
This slick tablet design by Intel is dubbed Montevallo, and what makes it unique is how it turns from a mere tablet into both a laptop and TV with just a couple of innovative docks. Stick it on top...
POSTED Tuesday, June 12, 2007
If you're in the market for a new ultraportable laptop, Sony's new Vaio TZ11 might be just what you're looking for. The wee lappie features an 11.1-inch screen and weighs a mere 2.6 pounds. Inside, however, it doesn't skimp,...
POSTED Thursday, June 7, 2007
Forget about all those whacked-out computers covered in diamonds, flames, and car manufacturer logos that tell the world how much money you have to spend. Instead, impress the design-school girl sitting next to you by whipping out a wooden...
POSTED Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Apple's MacBook Pros got an upgrade today, getting a bump to Intel's Santa Rosa chipset. The faster Core 2 Duo processors are coupled with LED-backlit LCD screens, more memory, 802.11n Wi-Fi cards, and better Nvidia 8600M GT graphics. They...
POSTED Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Now this — this is a sexy laptop. A mere 0.7 inches thick, it's nearly as thin as a Motorola RAZR phone yet still manages to pack in an impressive set of features. Inside the 2.25-pound body are all...
POSTED Monday, May 28, 2007
On Thursday, Dell announced that it will begin selling two of its low-end PCs at Wal-Mart beginning June 10. Some greeted this development as an important one because Dell doesn't traditionally sell its computers through retail outlets, and this...
POSTED Sunday, May 27, 2007
When Microsoft asks for innovative design, coolness like this flying saucer-looking Windows home server comes out of the woodwork. This one is a prototype commissioned by Microsoft, and as you can see by the inset in the picture above,...
POSTED Friday, May 25, 2007
Going on a trip often presents a dilemma for the road warrior. Do I need to lug my 6-pound laptop, or can I get by with my BlackBerry? While wireless handheld devices have become ever more powerful, they still...
POSTED Friday, May 25, 2007
Fujitsu claims that this is the world's smallest and lightest laptop, and I, for one, am not going to argue with them. Featuring a wee 5.6-inch screen, it's more like a giant PDA than a laptop. The screen swivels...
POSTED Thursday, May 17, 2007
If you bought an Apple MacBook this month, as I did, then you probably won't be happy to hear that as of this morning, Apple upgraded its entire MacBook line. The two white MacBooks and one black MacBook on...
POSTED Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Smartphone not enough for you? Laptop too bulky? Has Samsung got the gadget for you: The Q1 Ultra is the company's second-generation Ultra-Mobile PC — those pint-size Windows machines that look like big portable media players. The Q1 Ultra...
POSTED Tuesday, May 8, 2007
HP is joining up with LG and Samsung on the neutral ground of dual-format players. While many companies still seem to think that consumers are dumb enough to pick sides at this point in the asinine format war, the...
POSTED Monday, May 7, 2007
How big does a laptop have to be before it's just a computer that can fold up? After all, if it's too heavy and bulky to carry around and, well, use on your lap, then it's just a desktop...
POSTED Monday, May 7, 2007
Looking a lot like a workstation from the starship Enterprise, the Poetic Technologies Aura is what I'd consider a truly überdesktop environment. The Aura has quite a list of features: seven-way adjustable chair, space for up to four monitors, programmed...
POSTED Thursday, May 3, 2007
Headphones that simulate 5.1-channel sound have been around for a while, but I haven't seen too many that are said to render 7.1-channel sound, but that's just what Tritton's AXPC cans claim to do. It appears to have the...
POSTED Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Hey tough guy. You aren't impressing the ladies with your muscle shirt and Steven Segal poster. Today's women like a sensitive, refined man, not some oafish brute who spends too much time at the gym and wears musk scented...
POSTED Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Think you have a way-cool PC gaming rig with which to fully experience the blood and glory of a first-person shooter? Your opinion may change after you lay your eyes on Smooth Creations' Diablo PC. Don't expect this bad...
POSTED Thursday, April 19, 2007
Intel has unveiled a new concept portable PC called the Metro Notebook that could kick the UMPC to the curb. Ideally designed for the ladies (but I think the fellas are going to like it too), this notebook computer...
POSTED Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Samsung recently showed off three completely crazy concept PC designs, computers that have about a zero percent chance of ever hitting store shelves but show off the fact that Samsung has some creative designers on their payroll. First off...
POSTED Monday, April 16, 2007
Sometimes, a product comes along that just blows your mind, leaving you completely speechless. A product that really is so ridiculous, so over-the-top, and so mildly upsetting that words cannot do it justice. The Compubeaver is one such product....
POSTED Friday, April 13, 2007
Back in junior high, my school forced the kids to gather every textbook for all five morning classes before the day started, so you'd have to lug something like 500 pounds of books from class to class, leading to...
POSTED Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Okay, the first thing I have to do in talking about the Qosimo G40 laptop is give props to Toshiba in picking what is perhaps the best possible screenshot for showing off the new silver color scheme of the...
POSTED Friday, April 6, 2007
Just because I'm a PC fan doesn't mean I have to be stuck with an ugly beige box. No, Apple fans, you aren't the only people out there who have the option of getting a cool-looking computer. Just take...
POSTED Thursday, April 5, 2007
It's been a long time coming, but Apple has finally released its 8-core MacPro workstation. At the heart of this super system are two 3.0-GHz quad-core Intel Xeon processors that should run circles around other systems out there. The...
POSTED Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Attention, morons! Do you have an extra $1,000,000 kicking around? Would you like to spend it on something that is clearly not worth anywhere near $1,000,000? Well then, I have the perfect product for you. It's the first million-dollar...
POSTED Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Could this be the first Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) that gets the balance of portability and power right? While past UMPCs have been far from impressive, the HTC Advantage looks like a pretty sweet little device. It's got a generous,...
POSTED Monday, March 26, 2007
As PCs get faster and faster, it means their insides have to run hotter and hotter. Liquid-based cooling is a great idea for desktops, but what about that gaming notebook that you've customized to overclock? To prevent it from...
POSTED Thursday, March 22, 2007
If you really just can't deal with conforming with society's expectations, need to always think outside the box, and are always proving to everyone what an individual you are, you need a computer that represents you. And I'm not...
POSTED Friday, March 16, 2007
If this keyboard looks pretty bulky to you, your eyes aren't deceiving you. It's huge. But there's a perfectly good explanation for that, and it isn't some half-baked design concept. No, this keyboard happens to hold within its guts an...
POSTED Friday, March 16, 2007
While the rest of us were lusting after bigger and more powerful (and unfortunately, noisier) PCs, right under our noses is the less resource-hungry and open source Linux operating system, able to run on the tiniest, quietest and most...
POSTED Tuesday, March 13, 2007
For a long time, the notion of a "gaming laptop" was a contradiction in terms. After all, everyone knew that notebooks had to compromise on features and performance to achieve maximum portability, right? And even with advances in chips...
POSTED Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Most computers suck up a lot of electricity without putting it to good use. Do you really need all the bells and whistles that your gaming rig has to offer to check your e-mail? I don't think so. And...
POSTED Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Microsoft's Next PC Design competition is in full swing, bringing us all sorts of wacky, out-of-the-box PC concepts. One of the strangest and our favorites is the Pussy Cat PC concept. Yeah, it looks like a cat. It also...
POSTED Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Those black MacBooks are pretty sexy, but not everybody wants to spend that kind of money for an Apple computer. Generally speaking, PC laptops are cheaper but somehow less desirable than their Mac counterparts, what with PC laptops generally...
POSTED Thursday, February 22, 2007
Sometimes you have to take it with you, and that's when the Sahara i400 by TabletKiosk makes its move. Unlike a laptop or even a standard PC, a tablet PC isn't meant for traditional PC applications like Web surfing,...
POSTED Saturday, February 10, 2007
Oh, but how computers can get overheated so easily. What is an overclock jockey to do? One solution might exist in the ChillTec Thermo Electric Cooler (TEC). This CPU-chilling unit from Ultra has a look quite like no other...
POSTED Thursday, February 8, 2007
Does the idea of having a full-blown PC in your car — letting you watch ripped movies as you zoom down the freeway — excite you? Short of sticking a PC tower in your trunk, options are somewhat limited....
POSTED Wednesday, January 31, 2007
HP has a new touchscreen computer in the works called the TouchSmart IQ770. Designed to sit in your kitchen or another common space and act as kind of a central hub for your family, it's a unique type of PC...
POSTED Saturday, January 27, 2007
Windows Vista's SideShow is starting to gain lots of traction, and buzz is building about its ability to drive an extra display of various sizes. Heck, we even saw one little SideShow screen nestled inside a handbag the other...
POSTED Thursday, January 25, 2007
While everyone's been waiting for Apple to get around to adding Blu-ray players to their computers, MCE Technologies went ahead and did it themselves. Now you can add a Blu-ray burner to your already-expensive Mac Pro for another $700. Oh...
POSTED Thursday, January 25, 2007
Remember those Ultra-Mobile PCs that had the gadget world all abuzz a while back? Anyone? Okay, they were those reasonably sexy handheld PCs that were sort of in between a portable media player and a laptop. The most notable...
POSTED Wednesday, January 10, 2007
What this computer doesn't have is part of the news! The new Malata PC-68001 Personal Computer lacks a hard-disk drive, nor does it have a CD-ROM. What it will have is an affordable price: around $300 when it arrives...
POSTED Monday, January 8, 2007
We've seen terabyte hard drives before, but they've typically been restricted to posh high-end music servers that your rich uncle Darrell has in his second living room. Hitachi's 1-TB drive, announced yesterday and sure to be touted mightily at...
POSTED Friday, January 5, 2007
This slick little computer might look like a mix between the Mac Cube and the Mac Mini, but it's actually, believe it or not, a PC. Yep, and not only is there a tiny, sleek PC out there, but...
POSTED Wednesday, January 3, 2007
The more we surround ourselves with technology, the more we want our surroundings to look tech-free. At least some of us. When it comes to the art of disguising technology as something more rustic, the PC is one of...
POSTED Thursday, December 21, 2006
If you either take your computer out into the field to do your work or are an enormous klutz, the Toughbook line of Panasonic lappies is right up your alley. The most badass of this notably badass line just...
POSTED Thursday, December 21, 2006
LG, probably best known these days for popularizing chocolate as a gadget category, is extending some of those design chops to laptops. This slick concept notebook, called the "E-Book," uses an OLED screen for the monitor, so on top...
POSTED Monday, December 11, 2006
The best thing about following gadgets and technology as closely as I do is getting surprised by simple innovations. There are so many products out there, so many "upgrades" and "breakthroughs" that are anything but, that it's refreshing to...
POSTED Thursday, December 7, 2006
You know what's lame about those sexy all-white Apple-influenced keyboards? They sure do get dirty really easy, especially when you're constantly wolfing down Doritos in front of them. I'm talking to you, Reinhold. Yeah, you can always wipe clean...
POSTED Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Dell recently set the bar a little bit higher for top-of-the-line machines — the rigs for people who don't care how much their computer costs as long as it's better than everyone else's. Loaded up with Intel Core 2...
POSTED Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Even the most tech unsavvy know about Apple and can recognize their laptops, but what makes this year's MacBooks stand out above past laptops from the computer maker? First and foremost, it's the chips. Apple put Intel chips in...
POSTED Thursday, November 23, 2006
Night minutes. Weekend minutes. Data minutes. Mobile-to-mobile minutes. Roaming charges. Rounding off to the next minute. Service charges, usage charges, government fees, taxes. C'mon Verizcingusprintmobile — aren't there more ways to squeeze blood money out of my cell-phone usage?...
POSTED Tuesday, November 14, 2006
We know you're pressed for time, so we'll make this quick: Lite-On's LH-20A1P is the fastest DVD writer in the world. Feed it a 16X write-once DVD-R or DVD+R and the drive will burn all 4.7 GB of data...
POSTED Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Have a lot of trouble fitting your meaty mitts over the dinky mouse that came with your computer? Me either. But hey, I'm sure some people have that problem, and for them is this "JUST ONE" mouse from Kokuyo...
POSTED Tuesday, November 14, 2006
What happens when you spend enough on a computer to make a down payment on an SUV? Dell sends you a gigantic 70-pound box full of game-playing goodness, that's what. Today Dell starts selling their new, top-of-the-line Intel Quad...
POSTED Tuesday, November 14, 2006
It's no secret that we love HDTV around here, but we get all sad and lonely when we're on the road since our hotel rooms' standard-def tube sets could never give us the kind of HD love we get...
POSTED Friday, November 10, 2006
In case you missed it, Yahoo's been offering a Skype-like service — making phone calls over the Net for just pennies — for a little while now, called Yahoo Messenger. So it was pretty much inevitable that companies were...
POSTED Thursday, November 9, 2006
NEC and Takara have unveiled the TYPE-N01 notebook, a computer designed to look like it came from some underground military base or something. How edgy! It comes with scary-looking additions like a self-destruct button and fingerprint scanner and has...
POSTED Thursday, November 9, 2006
Apple has finally gotten around to slapping Intel Core 2 Duos into all of its laptops, rounding out the line with Core 2 Duo MacBooks. The Cupertino co. loaded the high-end chips into its MacBook Pros a couple weeks...
POSTED Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Playing music on a PC is like using a Swiss army knife to carve a steak. Nonetheless, millions do it, so the need for decent multimedia speakers is as real as that pain in your wrist. Logitech steps up...
POSTED Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Think your cute little MacBook is a small computer? Please. That thing is a regular behemoth compared to Samsung's new SPH-P9000, a super-slim foldable laptop that looks like a fancy PDA. Featuring Windows XP, a 1GHz processor, 30GB of...
POSTED Tuesday, November 7, 2006
"Bling," as I understand it, is a slang term for flashy jewelry with diamonds and other such valuables on it. I don't know for sure, as I'm not "from the streets" or "down" with the "kids." Perhaps if I...
POSTED Friday, November 3, 2006
If you work on a laptop, generally your posture ain't all that good. After all, a laptop sitting on a desk has a screen that you need to look down into, which makes hunching over easy to fall into....
POSTED Thursday, November 2, 2006
You know that feeling of trying to hold something like a fork or a pencil and suddenly getting stricken with a horrible, sharp pain in your wrists? That's because you keep your hand tensed up on a mouse all...
POSTED Thursday, November 2, 2006
It's a stark dilemma — you want an iMac, but don't want to switch to an Apple. There are PCs that are just as hot, of course, but often you'll be paying as much if not more for your trouble....
POSTED Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Music Studio's Stripy Speakers certainly meet the basic requirement of being a gadget in 2006: looking modern and stylish. No matter what their sound quality is (and if the site hawking them is to be believed, the 9 watts...
POSTED Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Known for its killer gaming PCs, Alienware is taking its line of Media Center machines to the next level. As is the norm with Media Center PCs, the DHS A Series model is made to look just like a...
POSTED Wednesday, October 25, 2006
It seems like someone with ADD designed this mouse, as it's got a random set of features that seems like it could only be dreamed up by someone who can't stay focused on one thing for too long. Firstly,...
POSTED Wednesday, October 25, 2006
It took them long enough, but Apple has finally gotten around to putting Intel Core 2 Duo processors in their MacBook Pros. Upgrading both the 15-inch and 17-inch models, you can now get what you've been able to get...
POSTED Tuesday, October 24, 2006
We're long past the deadline for building the HAL 9000 computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1992 in the movie, '97 if you prefer the book), and a computer that can actually have a conversation with you is still a...
POSTED Monday, October 23, 2006
The Upravlator, shown here with an optional stand, is a neat-o (if somewhat over-the-top) "keyboard" for graphic designers, video producers, photo editors, and the like. The 10.8-inch, 800 x 600-pixel LCD screen, is divided evenly into 12 clear buttons....
POSTED Monday, October 23, 2006
If you've always dreamt of being a rock 'n' roll drummer and want to finally fulfill your dreams in the most half-assed and lame way possible, pick up this drum set mousepad. Yes, drum set mousepad. When you aren't...
POSTED Monday, October 23, 2006
Whoever you are, whatever kind of computer you use, someday your hard drive is going to fail. Yep, all your photos, videos, music — all of it — will be toast in a blink of an eye. You already know...
POSTED Thursday, October 19, 2006
It seems D-Link got tired of waiting for IEEE to get its act together and finalize the new Wi-Fi standard, 802.11n, and has released a slew of products based on the not-yet-final draft version. The N standard, of course,...
POSTED Thursday, October 19, 2006
This here is no fancy iPod rip-off, nor is it a portable HAL 9000 computer. No, this is a mouse. New from Samsung, that ring around the middle button is actually a new horizontal scroll wheel. Designed for laptops...
POSTED Wednesday, October 18, 2006
You know what they say about guys who drive Ferraris: they're clearly trying to compensate for something. So what would they say about Acer's Ferrari line of laptops? Maybe that the user has a speedy and powerful PC housed...
POSTED Tuesday, October 17, 2006
This might look like a sculpture or a prop out of a David Cronenberg movie, but it's actually a fully functioning steampunk laptop with all the fixings. Lovingly crafted by someone with a lot of time on their hands...
POSTED Friday, October 13, 2006
Attention nerds! Do you like Star Wars? Do you like electronic gadgets? Do you like electronic gadgets in the shape of popular Star Wars characters? You're so predictable. Mimoco plans to get rich off your little obsession, releasing a limited...
POSTED Thursday, October 12, 2006
You've gotta love it when an electronics manufacturer has the gall to charge an arm and a leg for a version of a product that actually has less features than what generally comes standard. Take this keyboard for instance....
POSTED Thursday, October 12, 2006
Big ol' LCD monitors are a beautiful addition to your computer setup, and there's nothing sweeter than replacing some giant clunker of a CRT monitor with something that takes up a fraction of the space. Unfortunately, big LCDs tend...
POSTED Thursday, October 12, 2006
You gotta love thumb drives, those diminutive devices that let us carry significant amounts of data around without needing to deal with burning CDs or any other type of write-once media. They have pretty decent capacities too, with sizes...
POSTED Wednesday, October 11, 2006
This here USB hub rotates to let you plug your gadget of choice into it from any angle. It takes the brilliant Hungarian engineering that brought us the Rubik's Cube and combines it with the American love of freedom...
POSTED Monday, October 9, 2006
If you like computer gear that not only looks really nerdy, but has a really nerdy name as well, check out this Heäd$h0t mouse. Designed for the most 1337 n00b killin' illiterates around, the Heäd$h0t has a LED arch...
POSTED Friday, October 6, 2006
Everybody knows that compressed music like MP3 doesn't sound as good as a CD, and everybody seems totally fine with making that sacrifice if it means they can carry 80 zillion songs with them in a gadget the size of...
POSTED Tuesday, October 3, 2006
With the state of air travel the way it is today, leaving the laptop behind almost seems like a good idea. If you do, a new air mouse can still make sure your most important PowerPoint tool still makes the...
POSTED Monday, October 2, 2006
All together now — that's pretty much the philosophy behind this phone/mouse hybrid from Sysgration. When it's not helping you rifle through Excel spreadsheets, the peripheral unfolds into a Skype handset, letting you chat all you want to other Skype...
POSTED Monday, October 2, 2006
Laptop batteries are the new cigarettes, it seems, as they're in the news as being a public health risk more than anything else these days. Toshiba has joined the pigpile on Sony, recalling 830,000 of the beleaguered electronic giant's...
POSTED Saturday, September 30, 2006
First Dell bought boutique gaming PC maker Alienware, and now HP has gone and snapped up gaming rig builder Voodoo. It looks like both of the giant PC companies see a big market in the super-expensive gaming PC market,...
POSTED Friday, September 29, 2006
Tablets are a good way to draw on a computer screen, but getting used to writing using a plastic pen on a plastic surface takes some time. This uPlus Pen digitizes your handwriting while actually writing on paper, making...
POSTED Friday, September 29, 2006
The secondary screen on the outside of may cell phones is really handy, allowing you to see who's calling, take pictures, or see the time without opening up your phone. Laptops are getting into the game as well, with...
POSTED Thursday, September 28, 2006
Wi-Fi is cool (and comes in mighty handy whenever we want to liveblog), but it can't do much for you when there aren't any hotspots around. With Sony's Vaio VGN-TXN10, all you'd have to do is switch over to...
POSTED Tuesday, September 26, 2006
If germs and the fear of germs are your excuse to why you never leave the darkened cave of your parents' basement, this mouse may not get you out into the sun, but it may make your darkened days a...
POSTED Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Got some extra cash sitting around? Need a new keyboard? You're in luck. This stainless steel keyboard comes with an integrated trackball and will lower the balance in your checking account by a solid $1,200. If you're wondering what...
POSTED Friday, September 22, 2006
One thing that a lot of people seem to forget about HDTV is that it comes in pretty damn well over the airwaves. You don't necessarily need cable to get a nice HD signal — at least for the...
POSTED Wednesday, September 20, 2006
If you like the look of Apple's iMacs, but don't really like Apple, Sony has a surprise for you. The new Vaio LA-Series Media Center looks suspiciously like the iMac, with the all-in-one design and built-in webcam, but is...
POSTED Monday, September 18, 2006
Each week Adam Frucci takes a closer look at the latest gadget buzz in his column, Shift. Image by Matt Krueger This week I invited Peter Pachal, my esteemed editor, to join me in a healthy debate on this whole...
POSTED Thursday, September 14, 2006
It's long been established that liquids and PCs don't play well together, but the newest exception to that rule is controlled cooling. At this week's CEDIA Expo in Denver, CoolIT Systems, maker of the USB beverage chiller, unveiled its...
POSTED Thursday, September 14, 2006
Just call it the Apple effect: As if in tribute to the Cupertino giant, Sony today released new Vaio notebook computers with colors that look suspiciously MacBook-y. Models in the Vaio N Series come in white, back, and brown...
POSTED Wednesday, September 13, 2006
The drive to sick an iPod dock in every device ever continues, this time with a ViewSonic monitor. At first glance this looks to make a lot of sense, as you should be able to watch your precious iTunes-bought...
POSTED Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Apple has juiced up both their iMacs and Mac Minis today, adding a 24-inch model and Intel Core 2 Duos to the former and Intel Core Duos to the latter. The iMacs, Apple's all-in-one computer and monitor setup, have...
POSTED Wednesday, September 6, 2006
The iPod has made sharing music with friends a much easier (and safer) experience, allowing you to bring your little music player over to a friend's place and bum tunes off of them without the risk of an RIAA...
POSTED Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Toshiba is stepping up the storage capacity of USB thumb drives, announcing a gigantic 16GB model set to drop this December. Yes, 16GB in a thumb drive. With a USB drive that large you can practically back up your entire...
POSTED Thursday, August 31, 2006
As much as you love your iPod nano, it's going to run out of power during that flight to Australia. So will your BlackBerry. And your Dell notebook. If you want to keep using them — all of them...
POSTED Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Ever wondered where those James Bond villains — with their lairs full of high-tech gizmos and monolithic screens — get their computer gear? After seeing this the Radius 320 monitor, I have to think one of their suppliers is...
POSTED Monday, August 28, 2006
The mouse is a tough computer peripheral to improve upon in a useful way (check out some bizarre experiments in mouse eugenics here and here), but Logitech thinks it's got a winner in the Revolution. First upgrade: "Hyper-fast" scrolling...
POSTED Thursday, August 24, 2006
Dell isn't the only laptop manufacturer in town worried about their laptops lighting your genitals on fire, as Apple has just issued a recall for 1.8 million of their laptop batteries. Hot on the heels of Dell's recall of...
POSTED Thursday, August 24, 2006
Bose has just announced a new set of computer speakers for gamers and movie enthusiasts who don't feel like dealing with the hassle of a full surround sound setup for their computer. While most surround sound setups for a...
POSTED Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Microsoft's gaming hardware goes beyond just their gigantic Xboxes, you know. They also make mice for PC gamers, such as this new blue-glowin' Habu gaming mouse. Delivering super-sensitivity to your sweaty palm, the Habu has 2,000 dots of resolution per...
POSTED Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Desk clutter can be a problem. I know my desk is a total disaster, covered with Post-It notes, opened and unopened mail, loose change, pens, USB thumb drives, business cards, CDs, and any number of other random ephemera that...
POSTED Wednesday, August 16, 2006
If the recent spate of Dell laptop explosions has made you wary of picking up a new Inspiron notebook for fear your collection of wicker sculptures will be consumed by fire, you can rest a little easier. A team...
POSTED Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Looking kind of like an Apple Airport that's lost its head, ArtDio's SS-100 VoIP speaker let's you go hands-free for all your calling via Skype or whatever VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service you use. When a call comes...
POSTED Monday, August 14, 2006
I'm all for cleaning up desktop clutter, which is why I'm a fan of this forthcoming Razer Pro|Type keyboard. Available in both iPod and Zune flavors, it's a keyboard with a built-in dock for your music player of choice....
POSTED Monday, August 14, 2006
Got a phone? Got a PC? Then if you get VIVOphone's VoiceKey, you've got free phone calls to anyone who uses Skype or VIVOphone's own VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) service. The VoiceKey makes VoIP about as easy as it...
POSTED Friday, August 11, 2006
When is a router more than a router? When it can hold 160 GB of files, act as an iTunes server, download files via FTP and BitTorrent, and act as an FTP server, all with your computer off. Yeah, we...
POSTED Friday, August 11, 2006
One of the downsides of a digital music library is that you typically have to fire up your PC to manage your playlists or access your music, which is a total drag if you want to listen to your...
POSTED Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Steve Jobs just announced the latest and greatest entry to Apple's Intel chip line of computers: the Mac Pro. The replacement to the G5 tower, the Mac Pro features the new Intel Dual-Core Xeon processors, which you can double...
POSTED Monday, August 7, 2006
"Hi, I'm a Mac." "And I'm a PC." "I appeal to a small but ferociously loyal chunk of the personal-computer market, and I'm typically used by folks in publishing and graphic design." "I, on the other hand, am used...
POSTED Friday, August 4, 2006
It looks like the recent spate of Dell notebook explosions has emboldened some people to finally come forward and tell their stories of brushes with Dell destruction. While on a fishing trip in Nevada on July 13 this year, Thomas...
POSTED Thursday, August 3, 2006
Are you raising the next Bill Gates? If you think you might have a genius programmer in your progeny, why not get them used to the world of PCs early with Elecom's Reed Kana Mouse, designed for kids? With...
POSTED Thursday, August 3, 2006
The Internet is great for providing us with up-to-date information and instant communication, but it's just so cold. Why can't the Internet be cuter, that's what I'm always asking. The Nabaztag rabbit looks like just the solution to my...
POSTED Wednesday, August 2, 2006
At least twice a month some low-tech bonehead insists on sending me a fax instead of an e-mail. And I usually say, "Well, Mom, since it's you, I guess I'll dust off the old machine." For those times you...
POSTED Tuesday, August 1, 2006
If you can't sleep at night without knowing that those vacation photos you have stored on your thumb drive are absolutely, positively secure, this 007 USB Flash Drive is for you. Combining the digital security of encryption with the...
POSTED Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Yo, Dell, enough with the exploding laptops already! It's a tired plot device, not to mention so predictable. It's getting to the point that whenever I get within 10 feet of one of your notebooks I hold my hands...
POSTED Monday, July 31, 2006
What do you get when one of the top gaming-PC manufacturers crosses the latest top-of-the-line chip from Intel with the hottest hardware from either nVidia or ATI, the granddaddies of graphics-card manufacturers? One expensive gamer wet dream, that's what....
POSTED Monday, July 31, 2006
Okay, Dell stockholders, time to get nervous again: Another Dell laptop has gone kablooie, this one in Vernon Hills, Illinois. An automation engineer named Henrik had his digital camera at the ready when his colleague's notebook exploded, and he...
POSTED Friday, July 28, 2006
Ticking "useless mouse enhancement" off our lists for this week is the LogiNoki, a computer mouse modified to sport an LCD screen. Working tirelessly to modify a Logitech G5 mouse, Jani Pönkkö was so inspired by gaming keyboards with...
POSTED Friday, July 28, 2006
No one likes the sound of that underpowered computer fan choking its way through the piles of dust bunnies under your desk, or your ancient hard drive loudly searching through your many gigs of illegally acquired MP3s as it...
POSTED Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Getting all of your peripheral devices un-wired from your computer tends to be a pain, usually involving an extra peripheral device wired up to your computer in order to get the deed done. Now Mustek is introducing a plug-and-play device...
POSTED Friday, July 21, 2006
Those holding onto their bulky old CRT monitors might finally have a reason to make the switch to an LCD model with the Samsung SyncMaster CX930B. While it might not include a gimmicky feature like a swiveling neck, it...
POSTED Thursday, July 20, 2006
If you're a serious PC gamer, the standard keyboard doesn't really cut it for intense frag sessions where every second counts and every slam of a sweaty, Cheeto-dusted finger into a key is important. Taking your eyes off the...
POSTED Thursday, July 20, 2006
Trying to one-up movie downloading service Vongo, rival CinemaNow has just given customers the ability to burn downloaded movies to DVD. Offering over 100 films for your burning pleasure, each download will give users all the menus and features...
POSTED Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Using sharpies to label that mix CD you made to woo the pretty girl down the block makes you look like you don't really care, and that early onset of Parkinson's makes applying label stickers a frustrating ordeal. What's...
POSTED Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Whenever my commando squad is on a night mission and it's time to report back to CENTCOM, my CO often complains that the video quality coming from my MacBook Pro's iSight cam is just too grainy. Promising to keep...
POSTED Tuesday, July 18, 2006
If you'd like to add an air of high-tech danger to your desk without actually being that high-tech or dangerous, this Self Destruct Button USB hub will bestow the illusion of risk-taking quite nicely. It has all the keys,...
POSTED Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Now this is exactly what we had in mind when we first heard about Dell absorbing gaming-rig maker Alienware: some seriously house-rocking new designs for desktop PCs. This baby, called the XCS, comes from Matthew Ritter, and resembles… ah,...
POSTED Friday, July 14, 2006
The trend in digital music creation over the past few years has been to use software-based systems that work with you PC, but the downside is that you typically needed to bring your computer along anytime you were working...
POSTED Friday, July 14, 2006
We love technology that makes things more convenient (that's the point of it, really), but the price of such convenience can often be reduced security. I mean, who's ever heard of cloning a landline? Used your neighbor's Wi-Fi lately?...
POSTED Friday, July 14, 2006
If you fondly recall riding the rails in your youth, debating the merits of Teddy Roosevelt and his cockamamie Panama Canal plan, you are probably very, very old. Because you grew up in a simpler time, computers and the...
POSTED Tuesday, July 11, 2006
This just might be the first sign that the trend of making all gadgets smaller and sexier has gone too far: the finger mouse. Made by LG, this mini mouse — which is apparently just called "Finger" — works...
POSTED Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Repetitive stress injuries are no joke, and if you spend all day typing away without taking a break to give your fingers a stretch, you're at risk. But what if you're so busy, so important, that you can't take...
POSTED Monday, July 10, 2006
It's not often that a printer can claim to have a new and unexpected twist, but the Lexmark P450 can. Featuring a built-in CD burner, it has the ability to create photo CDs directly from your camera, memory cards,...
POSTED Friday, July 7, 2006
It takes a little bit of creativity to make us sit up and notice a new flat-panel monitor, and Samsung's new SyncMaster CX913P is certainly creative. Practical, well, that's another story. The 19-inch LCD screen offers a 6-millisecond pixel-response...
POSTED Thursday, June 29, 2006
Headlining Toshiba's new line of Satellite laptops is an impressive gaming notebook, the P105-S9321, an upgrade based on the S921. Specs of the new model are respectable: a 2-GHz Intel Core Duo processor (up from 1.83 GHz), 2 GB...
POSTED Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Um, Dell? Could you explain exactly what's going on inside your laptops that could cause them to suddenly blow up, just like the one that exploded earlier today at a conference in Japan? I've always assumed the tiny magic...
POSTED Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Are you like me? Do you lock up your house every morning with a hint of nervous trepidation that today could be the day some thief decides to break in? You can allay some of those fears by setting...
POSTED Monday, June 19, 2006
Passwords, no matter how clever, can be found out and used to get through to your most precious data. One thing people can't steal, however, is your face, which makes this "Snappy Face Recognizer" a more secure option for keeping...
POSTED Monday, June 12, 2006
All-in-one monitor and PC units are convenient because of the space they save, but if either the monitor burns out or your computer dies, you end up tossing out a perfectly good component with the busted one. Japan's Quixun...
POSTED Monday, June 12, 2006
Media Center PCs are all well and good for acting like a beefed-up TiVo, but as a gaming rig they're generally underpowered. They're built to sit under your cable box and store videos, maybe go online, and not much else....
POSTED Friday, June 9, 2006
Getting all of those (legally downloaded) movies, shows, and albums from your PC to the home-entertainment system in your living room can be a pain, especially if your computer sits far away enough from your TV to make wiring...
POSTED Thursday, June 8, 2006
Typical Internet and office functions are more than ably handled by relatively cheap computers these days, but a personal supercomputer would still come in handy for scientific applications that need to crunch serious numbers in a reasonable amount of...
POSTED Wednesday, June 7, 2006
With all the Skype talk floating around the news lately, it's good to keep in mind that they aren't the only free Internet phone service on the block. In fact, a little startup from the Pacific Northwest called Microsoft...
POSTED Monday, June 5, 2006
U.K. firm Jade Integration has unveiled a computer so small, it fits into a wall socket and is powered via Ethernet. The Jack PC, a rival to the smallest PC in the world, can hook up to a standard...
POSTED Thursday, June 1, 2006
Dell has introduced their new XPS M2010 gaming PC, which redefines the concept of a "portable" PC somewhat. Featuring a 20.1-inch LCD screen that folds into the slim machine, it includes a handle for being toted around. However, the...
POSTED Wednesday, May 31, 2006
All of the fun of touchscreens, such as those outfitted on ATM machines, can soon come to your home computer via a rather ingenious USB accessory from Logitech. You attach either the LTP-15UBK and LTP-17UBK panel (15- and 17-inch,...
POSTED Thursday, May 25, 2006
If you want a taste of Microsoft's new operating system, the oft-delayed Windows Vista, you can download a not-ready-for-prime-time beta version of the software. Don't be too quick to try to install it on your home computer, however, as the...
POSTED Wednesday, May 24, 2006
As much as technology can be fun and sexy, we should always remember that it's really just a means to an end. That's why we like the magnetic USB hub — by keeping your USB connectors out of sight,...
POSTED Wednesday, May 24, 2006
This notebook from Samsung debuts in Korea next month, but it's groundbreaking enough to warrant Pricelining yourself a plane ticket and getting over there just to pick one up. Called the Q30, it has a hard disk based on...
POSTED Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Believe it or not, this is a PC. Not exactly a PC you'll be able to pick up at Best Buy, but a PC nonetheless. This is a custom case meant to look like a nuclear bomb put together...
POSTED Monday, May 22, 2006
If you've got $30,000 burning a hole in your pocket and are looking for a new entertainment system, the Vivadi Saturn HD50 should be right up your alley. A 50-inch HD plasma TV comes loaded with a juiced-up Media...
POSTED Monday, May 22, 2006
SmartDisk's new FireLite XPress portable hard drive will never keep any secrets from you: an LCD screen on the front displays the drive's contents and vital stats without using any power. It sounds similar to E Ink, but SmartDisk...
POSTED Friday, May 19, 2006
It's the main thing on your mind when you walk into an electronics store: Don't get ripped off. Whether you're shopping for a digital camera, computer, or HDTV, you want to know what's a fair price, and what's a...
POSTED Thursday, May 18, 2006
Samsung is developing hybrid hard drives for laptops, combining traditional spinning disk drives with flash memory, which has no moving parts, to reduce access time and battery use. The drives contain either 128 or 256 MB of flash memory in...
POSTED Thursday, May 18, 2006
Fresh from chipmaker ATI: the Radeon Xpress 1100 chipset, designed for use in notebook computers with AMD's new mobile dual-core Turion 64 X2 processor. What do all those model numbers really mean? Laptops with non-Intel processors will soon be able...
POSTED Thursday, May 18, 2006
I usually have two cups of liquid at my desk during the workday: a cup of water and a cup of hot chocolate (caffeine is for the weak). My desk also tends to be somewhat cluttered with papers and...
POSTED Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Owners of Nokia's 770 Internet tablet are probably feeling a little more chatty today than usual. The company unveiled a software upgrade for the handheld that includes an onscreen QWERTY keyboard and Google Talk software for instant messaging. Going...
POSTED Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Despite yesterday's leak of Sony's slick Ultra-Mobile PC, which was officially announced today, the company managed to save a surprise for today's headlines: the first notebook with a Blu-ray Disc drive, the Vaio AR Premium. Not only will the...
POSTED Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Replacing its popular iBook laptops, Apple announced today the new MacBooks: 13-inch Core Duo laptops available in either black or white, which follow the high-end MacBook Pros that were released earlier this year. Losing the Pro from your MacBook...
POSTED Tuesday, May 16, 2006
MTV has entered the online music store fray, joining Microsoft today in launching Urge, their new service. Integrated into all new versions of Windows Media Player, Urge gets a leg up on its competition by becoming standard software with every...
POSTED Monday, May 15, 2006
Looks like Sony is getting in on the Ultra-Mobile PC game — Microsoft's bid to out-iPod the iPod, in case you missed the emergence of UMPCs (a.k.a. the Origami project) a couple of months ago. We remain skeptical of...
POSTED Monday, May 15, 2006
AMEX has announced the first Media Center PC with a built-in Blu-ray recorder, the MPC-505BD. Equipped with a gargantuan 1 TB of hard disk space (that's a terabyte, or 1,000 gigabytes, to the uninitiated), it can record 120 hours...
POSTED Monday, May 15, 2006
Dell has recently been trying some new computer designs — probably a side effect of the company's snuggling up with tricked-out-PC maker Alienware — moving away from the standard black rectangles and towards something with a little more style....
POSTED Friday, May 12, 2006
The battle for slimmest cell phone has been going on for some time now, but the war on thickness has now spread to the laptop market with this, the "thinnest ever" 0.8-inch-thick LG XNote T1 laptop. Featuring a 14.1-inch...
POSTED Thursday, May 11, 2006
There's nothing quite like your office rewarding you for working late by turning off the AC. When it's a hot summer night and you are stuck in an office without the luxury of conditioned air, your hands (among other...
POSTED Thursday, May 4, 2006
Japanese company Sauvage's CK-104LW-PSU is a standard keyboard, but it has a small on/off switch in the upper right-hand corner that turns on a series of LED lights under the keys. Voilà, your face is now lit with an...
POSTED Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Here's a mouse that vibrates. Of course, many game controllers vibrate, as do cell phones, but they do so in a way that lets you continue using the device while it's vibrating. Not so with this mouse: when it's vibrating...
POSTED Tuesday, May 2, 2006
With a name like Space Cube, this gadget had me expecting something a little more Borgified, but by claiming to be the world's smallest PC, it still commands some attention. It measures just 2 x 2 x 2.2 inches...
POSTED Friday, April 28, 2006
There are a lot of cheap Web cams out there, and they all do pretty much the same thing: show low-resolution pictures of you sitting at your computer to anyone with enough free time to look. This one, however,...
POSTED Friday, April 28, 2006
The technology that lets you carry around USB flash drives in your pocket could soon be replacing the regular hard drives you have in your computer. Samsung has developed a 32-GB SSD, the technical name for a flash drive,...
POSTED Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Taiwanese company PQI has just announced the U510, a USB drive the size of a credit card that holds a whopping 16 GB of data. At only 3 mm thick, it can be slipped into your wallet or carried...
POSTED Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Nothing is worse than having your boss come up behind you right after you clicked a link you knew you really shouldn't be clicking at work, only for him to witness your guilty scramble to minimize the window and...
POSTED Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Chances are you've never heard of Sonic Wire Sculpting, but we're sure that once you try it, you won't be able to get enough. Created by artist-programmer Amit Pitaru, the Sonic Wire Sculptor involves drawing 3-D shapes on a...
POSTED Friday, April 21, 2006
If you want to know if your daughter really just went to the movies on her date, then this USB gadget will give you the lowdown without you having to hide in the trunk. What looks like a USB...
POSTED Friday, April 21, 2006
Here's something for you early adopters out there: Panasonic will be selling Blu-ray recordable drives in Japan starting this June, so you'll finally have a use for all those $20 blank discs you bought a couple weeks ago. The...
POSTED Friday, April 21, 2006
If you sit at a computer all day, you might acquire a certain… how should we put this… fragrance. We don't mean to be rude, but it's better you hear it from us than someone else. Perhaps you could...
POSTED Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Gamers have always been tethered to their desktops, with laptops never really having quite enough juice to go full tilt with today's popular games. As technology progresses, however, the components are getting smaller and "gaming laptops" are starting to become...
POSTED Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Don't worry PC fans, Apple isn't the only computer manufacturer out there making aesthetically interesting machines. Maingear, a specialty PC builder, just announced the pyramid-shaped Prysma. Coming in a variety of colors (although if you want something other than black...
POSTED Monday, April 17, 2006
Sharing devices such as printers and external hard drives between computers has always been a bit of a hassle because it involves setting up… ugh, a network. But that tedious task may soon become a thing of the past (at...
POSTED Monday, April 17, 2006
A Media Center PC, when placed in your living room, can become the center of your home theater. Acting as a DVD player, digital video recorder (DVR), digital jukebox, and photo album, it can take on the tasks of...
POSTED Friday, April 14, 2006
A terabyte is a lot of data, and I mean a lot. Equaling 1,000 gigabytes, it's far more space than the average PC's storage. However, as we stack up more and more high-quality media on our hard drives, that kind...
POSTED Thursday, April 13, 2006
From the wish-I'd-thought-of-that department: the Flashbag. Designed by Dima Komissarov, it's a standard USB flash drive that has a tiny pump in it that inflates when you load it with data. So if your drive is full of stuff,...
POSTED Tuesday, April 11, 2006
It's a little early for Halloween, but if you're planning a PC costume, these keyboard shoes will add some essential techno-flare. Not really sure how practical they are, but we assume hitting the Caps Lock key makes you look...
POSTED Friday, April 7, 2006
Acer has announced its plans to be the second laptop manufacturer (after Toshiba) to release a notebook with a built-in HD DVD drive. HD DVD is one of two new competing video-disc formats (the other being Blu-ray), that will store...
POSTED Friday, April 7, 2006
Making low-cost or free calls using the Skype VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) network can be a tremendous cost-saving move if you do a lot of long-distance or international dialing, but the setup can often involve wearing some kind...
POSTED Friday, March 31, 2006
For Buslink 64-GB PRO 2 owners, I'm not sure what's more impressive: you've got 64 GB of memory in your pocket or you've got a $5,000 keychain. Either way, if you need to carry around… well, a crapload of...
POSTED Thursday, March 30, 2006
At just 3 pounds and 1 inch thick, Gateway's NX100X notebook follows everyone's favorite tech trend of making gadgets as thin and lightweight as possible. But as anyone who owns a RAZR phone or a 30-gig video iPod knows,...
POSTED Thursday, March 30, 2006
One problem with those ubiquitous flash drives is that there's no easy way to figure out what's on them short of firing up your computer and plugging them in. Sure, you could always scribble some notes on the little...
POSTED Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Imation believes the best place to store a portable flash drive is somewhere on your bag (as opposed to, say, in it). Thus, the Clip USB 2.0 Flash Drive. The press release describes the actual clip as "ultra-tough caribineer,"...
POSTED Monday, March 27, 2006
Most PC gear has about as much visual appeal an air conditioner with a simulated wood finish, but LaCie's looking to brighten up your desk with its playful new Brick hard-drive designs. Styled by the world-famous designer Ora-Ïto, the...
POSTED Monday, March 27, 2006
For all you PI wannabes, Endoacustica's CP-1 mouse will boost your surveillance powers. After you plug the CP-1 into a USB port on a PC, the built-in microphone will record all noise within a reasonable distance, transmitting to a receiver...
POSTED Friday, March 24, 2006
Casually tossing your travel receipts into the trash is a good way to become a victim of identity theft, but who wants to drag all of that paperwork home for disposal after a long trip? Now the super-careful traveler —...
POSTED Thursday, March 23, 2006
Dick Tracy's watch radio had enough gee-whiz factor to set many a schoolboy's head spinning in 1946, but today's technologically jaded generation will need a far more spectacular wrist gadget to generate anything beyond than a sleepy yawn. Eurotech's...
POSTED Thursday, March 16, 2006
This is barely a prototype, but it's so wildly cool, it screams for attention. Glooo, a globe-shaped "world browser and communicator," brings you the Earth from a deity's perspective. The almost-spherical screen (looks like it doesn't cover the poles)...
POSTED Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Soon the expression "fill 'er up, Mac" will take on a whole new meaning. Taiwanese manufacturer Antig has demonstrated a production-ready version of its laptop fuel cell, which it claims will be hitting store shelves in early 2007. The high-tech...
POSTED Monday, March 13, 2006
Looking to keep your mouse arrow on target, the Wow-Pen is a hybrid of pen and mouse. You scroll and click just like always, except you hold it like a pen so motion feels more natural. Obviously, any onscreen handwriting...
POSTED Monday, March 13, 2006
The truism "money doesn't grow on trees" might have escaped the people running Dutch company White Lake, makers of a 14-carat gold 1-GB USB memory stick. The decadent dandy costs a whopping $3,000. White Lake claims they've already sold 24...
POSTED Monday, March 13, 2006
The gadget "street" has been buzzing for a while about one word: Origami. That's the code name for Microsoft's project to create a handheld device to rival all others, including Apple's iPod. At the CeBIT trade show in Germany,...
POSTED Thursday, March 9, 2006
Computer mice have seen their share of practical upgrades over the years — scroll wheels, wireless tech, and optical tracking come to mind — but are we ready for the dual-cursor mouse? It appears to work like this: you...
POSTED Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Cheap Viagra offers must have an audience, but for most, spam is the Web's Carrot Top: annoying, repetitive, and impossible to get rid of. Spam Cube can help rid your life of unwanted e-mail (but not Carrot Top, unfortunately). About...
POSTED Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Word processors are powerful tools, though most old-school writers will tell you they still prefer pen and paper. Now you can have it both ways with the new version of Logitech's io2 electronic pen, which imports your musings directly...
POSTED Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Andrew M. sent us this link to a video showing off a wicked "multi-touch" screen. Instead of responding to just one poke at a time like today's touchscreens, a multi-touch display could process several touches at once. The ability would...
POSTED Monday, March 6, 2006
It's baa-ack. Remember convergence? The idea that the PC and the TV would coexist peacefully in the family room and other "living" rooms in the house? So far it hasn't happened, with pioneer technologies like Microsoft's WebTV and Thomson's Network...
POSTED Thursday, March 2, 2006
Dell debuted two new laptops on Tuesday, both including dual-core processors. But don't be fooled by the announcement — the Inspiron e1505 (shown), aimed at home-entertainment hounds, and the Inspiron 6400, targeted at home-office and small-business users, are the same...
POSTED Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Everybody's got to tickle the QWERTY sometime, and the faster, the better. For all those looking to maximize their keyboard talents, there's Das Keyboard, an enhanced 104-key USB PC keyboard. Blank keys eliminate bad habits, requiring typers to look...
POSTED Monday, February 27, 2006
New York Times resident techie David Pogue reviews a trio of mobile routers today from Kyocera, Junxion (shown), and Top Global. Even better, he explains just what these portable hotspot makers do — and who and why anyone would want...
POSTED Thursday, February 23, 2006
It's pretty sad to see a flawless (well, nearly flawless) masterpiece of artificial intelligence reduced to a slab of flash memory. Nonetheless, you may get a kick out of pocketing the HAL 9000 "Memory Unit," a $70 1-GB stick o'...
POSTED Thursday, February 23, 2006
For all those Solitaire diehards (you know who you are) who've worn out the original, Red Mercury has an upgrade: miniSolitaire. The new version is Windows-compatible and can be reduced to the size of a credit card to fit amongst...
POSTED Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Mac users have reasons for Windows envy — PCs offer better gaming, Google Pack, and a lighter bill. But Apple acolytes could always boast that their machines were pretty much virus-free. Not anymore. A rumor this week promised the first...
POSTED Friday, February 17, 2006
If you thought $2,500 for a MacBook Pro was a bit steep, a Michaelo is probably not right for you. The company builds custom PCs that start around 10 grand. Added to a guarantee that your Michaelo design will never...
POSTED Thursday, February 16, 2006
True, it's not really the season for cooling devices, but we know our gadget love might get you a little hot and bothered on occasion. So, we thought this USB Mini Fan might be a good way to turn the...
POSTED Thursday, February 16, 2006
Fans of multiplayer action games on the PC know that a fast trigger finger and quick response will help determine the last man standing, and while everyone's been trying to build a better mouse, little has been done to...
POSTED Monday, February 13, 2006
Clearly not just an Internet company anymore, Google's struck a deal to bundle software with Dell computers and establish Google's search engine as the default homepage of any Dell computer. You can already download a package from Google.com that includes...
POSTED Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Universal Display Corp. has shown off a full-color OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screen that's extremely thin and, more importantly, flexible. The prototype's screen measures just 4 inches diagonal, but it's a miniscule 0.004 inches thick. Resolution is said to be...
POSTED Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Pay By Touch believes fingertip scanners are the key to quelling online security concerns. In their vision, future computers will include fingertip scanners so online shoppers can identify themselves and pay for an item without making themselves vulnerable to...
POSTED Tuesday, February 7, 2006
Here's an example of how electronics should work. The USB Data Transfer Device (talk about calling a spade a spade) connects two computers together with zero hassles. Just jack one USB 2.0 plug into the each PC and within seconds...
POSTED Monday, February 6, 2006
Looking for a high-tech way to say I love you? Printer technology has advanced far enough to allow printing on flowers. Here's that again: a new printer will actually put images on live plants. But printing on greenery is going...
POSTED Monday, January 30, 2006
I bought the JBL Encounter speakers on a whim a few weeks ago from Best Buy during one of their killer holiday deals. I wasn't really in the market for speakers shaped like alien heads, but they got good...
POSTED Monday, January 30, 2006
Remember the days when online bad boys were just trying to push nude celebs or sell you penis-enlarging herbs? The times, they are a-changin'. California native Jeanson James Ancheta pleaded guilty to a 14-month hacking spree with a net gain...
POSTED Thursday, January 26, 2006
Whether it's pharmaceutical companies in Africa (The Constant Gardener) or oil companies in the Middle East (Syriana), Hollywood is attacking big business on the silver screen for crimes perpetrated overseas. At least the computer industry probably won't be the...
POSTED Thursday, January 26, 2006
Small is sometimes frightening. All worthy of your trepidation: bacteria, leprechauns, chihuahuas, and children of the corn. But what about Intel's new production methods? The chip giant announced on Wednesday that they successfully engineered their first microchip using 1 billion...
POSTED Thursday, January 26, 2006
Earlier this month, Apple unveiled its 2006 line of computers with brand-new Intel chips (previous models were based on IBM PowerPC processors). The speed of the "MacIntel" models was their big selling point; with Intel Core Duo processors, the...
POSTED Wednesday, January 25, 2006
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