Swissbit bumps their knives to 2GB - Engadget
We’ve run these Swissbit Swiss Army Knife drives by you before, along with their snazzed up “Prestige” counterparts and s.beat MP3 playing friends, but Swissbit is bumping their original version up to 2GB, and the geek factor on these units is still alive and well. They’re including [...]
AMD quad-core CPUs to become dualies to save power | Reg Hardware
AMD’s quad-core processor will become a dual-core processor if it decides the user isn’t giving it enough work to do. The chip will also beef up the on-board cache with an extra level of memory shared between the four cores.
So reveal company next-generation architecture [...]
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Dell investigating exploding laptop incident
The Dell laptop computer seen bursting into flames in photographs on the Internet was being examined as part of the company’s probe of the incident, Dell Inc. said Tuesday.
“We have captured the notebook and have begun investigating the event,” Dell spokeswoman Anne Camden said, confirming the computer was made by Dell [...]
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I still have one of the original pong in storage… and I always chuckle when I see redos… But a 24 hour clock done as the score?
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Now you don’t even need to play Pong to enjoy it, presenting the Pong clock. The score shown on the left and right sides correspond to the time [...]
EWeek got a demonstration version of the $100 Laptop.
Working Model of the $100 Laptop Arrives
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$100 Laptop Arrives
$100 Laptop Design
Wireless Mesh Capabilities
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One Laptop Per Child
$100 Laptop In a Crowd
Nicholas Negroponte
If these become available to US residents, I could see getting one. It looks like it’d be useful for my son. [...]
Review: Video goggles turn iPod into TV
When Apple Computer Inc. launched its video-capable iPod last year, some questioned whether consumers would embrace watching video on a 2.5-inch screen or endure holding the gadget to their faces for anything but the shortest of clips.
Now, with funky eyewear from MicroOptical Corp., iPod users can watch video on [...]
First video of a working “One Laptop Per Child” laptop
(Exclusive Silicon Sleuth)
Last week the One Laptop Per Child project produced its first working prototype and for the first time showed it off publicly at the Red Hat Summit today.
Red Hat engineer and Mozilla Corporation board member Christopher Blizzard is carefully guarding the unit, but he [...]
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Automated License Plate Recognition System Gains Traction
The Long Beach Police Department has a new tool on its belt that has improved the officersÂ’ abilities to determine cars with warranted license plates while they patrol the streets of Long Beach.
According to Long Beach Police Sgt. Chris Morgan, LBPD was the first department on the West Coast [...]
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Eurocom M590K Emperor Review
Hotness in the CNET Labs today in the form of the Eurocom M590K Emperor, notable for the fact that it has a gargantuan, 19-inch (diagonal) display and two Nvidia GeForce Go 7800 GTX cards in a scalable link interface configuration (read: two graphics cards running simultaneously). That’s right: the first 19-incher and [...]
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Woot : iRiver H10 20GB MP3 Player & Recorder - Remix Blue
Hey hey and welcome back! At www.woot.com on your Internet dial, we’re counting down the greatest river songs of all time. These timeless classics not only use river metaphors to teach us something about life, love, and loss - they also tell us quite [...]
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