Better than iPhone? Nokia’s N97 Might Be!
Nokia's N97 just might have the features and advancement to beat the Apple iPhone. which the New York press peeked at last night. The 3G phone has a full-body touchscreen that slides up when in landscape mode, just like the Sony Xperia, to expose a full QWERTY keyboard and also has virtual keypads and keyboards on the touchscreen. The phone’s distinctive feature is a customizable home screen. Just like the Apple OSX or Windows Vista, for example, the N97 supports “widgets”, which are small programs or links to programs that provide snippets of information, such as the latest Facebook updates or ...
First gaming system with Intel Core i7
Asus launches their first system desktop with processor Intel Core i7, for Gamers. Taiwanese manufacturers have changed the Ares CG6150 with new processors from Intel, Core i7, by taking out the Core 2 Extreme processor and the result was the model ROG CG6190. The carcass remained the same from the previous model, being preserved reader prints in the front. Configuration has a motherboard with the X58 chipset being created for the fastest processors from Intel. This has 6 slots for DDR3 memory type, which can support 12 GB of RAM. Part graphics are the most advanced video boards, consisting of ...
Mercedes-Benz Splitview LCD Screen
Imagine this: You're driving down the highway, following the route guidance on the navigation screen, when the person sitting in the passenger seat decides he wants to watch Dark Knight on DVD. Mercedes-Benz and Bosch together devised a gizmo that can satisfy both viewing requests. It's a dual-view LCD monitor system called Splitview. Splitview is a LCD screen that is mounted on the dashboard that allows the driver and passenger to view two different images at the same time. How does it work you ask? The eight inch active matrix, backlit color monitor nests a second image feed on adjacent pixels ...
Corsair Nova And Reactor Solid State Drives
March 30, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment
Corsair has announced a new pair of 2.5 inch solid state drives, the Corsair Nova and Corsair Reactor. The Corsair Nova will be available in two capacities 64GB and 128GB, and they feature read speeds of up to 270MB/s and write speeds of up to 190MB/s. The Corsair Reactor SSD will be available in 60GB [...]
Recycled Magnetic Tape Reel Clock
March 30, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment
Here is another fun geeky clock made from some recycled gadgets, the Recycled Magnetic Tape Reel Clock. This fun geeky clock is made from a 10 inch aluminum Scotch magnetic tape reel and a computer hard drive. This fun geeky clock would look great in any geeks apartment, and it measures 10 inches in diameter, [...]
The Sidewinder Watch Phone
March 30, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment
Watch phones are a pretty new technology and the ones we have seen so far from companies like LG have pretty basic functions, maybe sometime in the not so distant future we will all be wearing watch phones that look as cool as this design concept from designer Susan Choo, the Sidewinder Watch Phone. As [...]
Robotic Surgical Simulator’s polygons
March 30, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment
These days you wouldn’t jump behind the controls of a real plane without logging a few hours on the simulator, and so we’re glad to hear that doctors no longer have to grab the controls of a da Vinci surgical robot without performing some virtual surgeries first. The Center for Robotic Surgery at Roswell Park [...]
Tesla invented Roadster lease program for wannabe eco-ballers
March 30, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment
Ain’t got a hundred large to dump on a new Tesla Roadster? Fret not, as the outfit famous for producing the world’s first commercially viable electric supercar now has another option for you to ponder: leasing. For those unfamiliar, it’s somewhere in between buying one outright and swiping one while the salesperson’s not looking, and [...]
Shuttle’s XS35 nettop is 3.3cm thin
March 29, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment
Nettops keep getting better, and thinner too if Shuttle’s latest is anything to go by. It’s the XS35, a 3.3cm thin affair packing a a dual-core Intel Atom D510 at 1.6GHz and Ion 2 graphics with HDMI output for easy connectivity to your high definition display of choice. Somehow the company has also found room [...]
Haleron’s 7-inch iLet Mini HAL costs $199
March 29, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment
Want a tablet computer sans all the brand loyalty drama and eye-opening prices? Haleron’s got just the thing for you with its iLet Mini HAL. Its humble spec brings only a 600MHz VIA CPU and 128MB of DDR2 RAM to the table, but it runs Android 1.6 and if all you want is a tablet [...]
Microsoft’s SideWinder X4
March 29, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment
Microsoft’s anti-ghosting claims were recently put to the test by the good folks over at Tom’s Guide, and if you’ve been holding off on pulling the trigger to make sure it really lives up to the hype, you can finally cut loose and part ways with your hard-earned Greenbacks — maybe, anyway. For those unaware, [...]
Motorola CLIQs falling victim to latest firmware?
March 29, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment
Haven’t willfully submitted to the CLIQ’s new update yet? Well, you might want to hold off, because it looks like the new code is causing more heartache than good. A variety of reports on T-Mobile’s official support forums echo the same overarching complaint, which is that messaging is a disaster zone ever since version 1.3.18 [...]
Qisda QD060B00 e-reader hits the FCC
March 29, 2010 by Max · Leave a Comment
We’ve already seen MIDs, high-res phones, and a few other odd devices from Qisda since it spun off from / encompassed BenQ, and it looks like it’s now trying its hand at another e-reader as well. Still no official word about this one, but the device does look like it’ll hold its own with a [...]
