Archive for the 'General' Category

Raidon Announces HyBrid Disk SSD / Hard Drive Combo

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Not interested in piecing together your own hybrid SSD hard drive with something like SilverStone’s HDDBOOST kit? Then you might want to consider waiting for Raidon’s upcoming HyBrid Disk drive, which promises all the same benefits with none of the hassle (apart from actually installing it in your computer, that is). Complete details on this [...]

It’s The End Of February, Where’s Your JooJoo?

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Call us optimistic, but we pictured February 25th rolling around with us laying on a couch and watching some Olympic ice dancing clips on the JooJoo’s 12-inch screen. Ah, but here we are about to cross off the last few days of the month and the only thing we’ve got in our hands are some [...]

Adafruit Is In The Square Payment Pilot, Awesomeness Will Likely Ensue

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Our good friends at Adafruit Industries are now taking mobile payments with the best of ‘em thanks to a prerelease Square dongle they’ve managed to score, ostensibly as a part of the public trial announced earlier this month. They’ve posted a quick video showing the process of taking someone’s cash via plastic, and it looks [...]

Samsung To Unveil Broadband HDTVs With Embedded Skype Capability

Friday, February 26th, 2010

LUXEMBOURG, 25 February 2010 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd and Skype today announced that the new Samsung LED 7000 and 8000 series models of 2010 high-definition televisions will feature embedded Skype™ software allowing Skype users to make video and voice calls through the TVs. Samsung, the global market leader in televisions, will begin shipping TVs [...]

Energy Efficient Hardware Investigated

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Over the last year, we’ve been inundated with tech products branded as ECO-this and Green-that. While we’ve always been interested in energy consumption as an indicator of aspects of technical design and performance, we’re far from convinced that you can actually save significant cash by buying a-n-other company’s ‘power saving’ product.

MSI brings Cideko’s Motion-Sensing Air Keyboard to a Wider Audience

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Cideko managed to get our attention with its wireless, motion-sensing Air Keyboard last year, but it’s been a bit hard to come by for anyone that’s not actively seeking it out. MSI now looks set to bring it to an even wider audience, however, as it’s now announced it’s own rebadged version of the keyboard. [...]

Gateway’s FX Series Desktops Revamped, SX / DX Series Find Solace in Core i3 and i5

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

In the market for new desktop machinery? Gateway’s gone ahead and given its gaming-centric FX series a facelift for the new year — nothing Alienware-esque crazy, but we do like the accessible ports up top, right next to the control dial for LED-infused lighting effects. Enough about the superficial, let’s go inside: a 2.8GHz Intel [...]

Apple Rumor Roundup: ‘The Day Before’ Edition

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

We’ll just come right out and say it: we couldn’t possibly be happier to see that January 27, 2010 is tomorrow. Shortly after 10AM on the left coast, Stevie J himself will finally put a hush to the rumors that have been swirling constantly over the past fortnight or so (and we’ll be there live [...]

Not So Fast: Testing Finds World’s First LTE Network Isn’t Very 4G-ish

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

In a rather disappointing example of “your mileage may vary,” market research firm Northstream has put TeliaSonera’s shiny new LTE network — the world’s first to go commercial — to the test, coming away with some disappointing conclusions. The bottom line is that they never managed to go above about 12Mbps downstream, a pretty wild [...]

Origin’s Genesis Gaming Desktop Gets Reviewed: Blisteringly Fast, But Oh-So-Pricey

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

The latest high-fashion gaming outfit (known as Origin ’round these parts) has just started shipping its beastly Genesis out, and if you’ve ever wondered what five large could get you in the land of desktops, wonder no more. The crew over at Hot Hardware managed to procure a darn-near-loaded machine, complete with a Core i7-920 [...]