Published on Saturday, May 22, 2010 by admin The long rumored Google TV that partners the internet company with Sony, Intel and Logitech has been debuted at the Google I/O Conference today. We have been hearing rumors of Google’s TV ambitions for awhile now, but we finally have some solid facts to go on. Today the curtain has been pulled back, and we have our first official glimpse at the Google TV, the fir...

Published on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 by admin Web based Internet connected TV is a new trend with media contents directly streamed from service provider through broadband service. And in order to equip such capability into next generation digital TV, it may also means that the future digital TV could be preloaded with selected Operating System to make it more feature-rich with easy scalability. Just recently, A...

Published on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 by admin Researchers at Cambridge University believe metal fibres, known as dendrites, are one of the main reasons why lithium batteries in phones, laptops and other devices overheat and catch fire. There have been several high-profile stories in recent years of iPods, laptop computers and phones spontaneously combusting, sometimes when they're in the owner's pocket or ha...

Published on Sunday, May 16, 2010 by admin Fujitsu is very proud of their newest Teddy Bears, and these are certainly not like any Teddy Bears I know. Man, even Teddy Ruxpin would kill himself if he were still alive today. Teddy Ruxpin was this bear that was able to talk when you put cassette tapes in his back, for those who don’t remember the eighties. The Fujitsu Teddy Bear Robot has much more than th...

Published on Saturday, May 15, 2010 by admin It’s been a while since anyone treated Mac OS X as a first-tier gaming platform, so when Valve announced that they would be bringing their Steam service and the Source engine to the Mac, it was big news. After a roughly 2 month beta period for the Mac versions of Steam and the Source engine, yesterday Valve finally released the first wave of their Mac gaming efforts...

Published on Friday, May 14, 2010 by admin Corsair is always testing the latest and greatest in computer hardware to ensure compatibility and performance. While testing AMD’s recently launched Phenom™ II X6 processors, we noticed we were able to reach higher frequencies than previously possible on an AMD platform. The previous Phenom II X4 processors (codenamed Deneb) would reach memory frequencies just ...

Published on Friday, May 14, 2010 by admin Apple proclaims that the iPad is magical. Steve Jobs himself said that it would be one of the most important works of his life. But is there a story to the iPad that the public doesn't know? We take you 38 years into the past, when the iPad was invented. Did Steve Jobs Steal the iPad? The industry tends to get too consumed by excitement for Apple’s latest pr...

Published on Friday, May 14, 2010 by admin It could be a new addition to the Wretched Excess department. Conde Naste Traveller has already awarded it one of their 2010 Innovation & Design Awards for Sustainable Design. It's a green super yacht called Soliloquy, which uses a combination of solar, wind and hybrid marine power to move through water. It's just a concept at this point but clients from Mona...

Published on Friday, May 14, 2010 by admin London to Timbuktu- In Sky Car British adventurer and pilot Neil Laughton poses in his Parajet Skycar in London on Tuesday. Laughton and his Parajet Skycar Expedition team on Wednesday are kicking off a 3,600-mile journey from London to Timbuktu in the vehicle, which is essentially a dune buggy with a fan motor and paragliding wing attached. Creators call it the "w...

Published on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by admin Do you have a growing family at home slowly eating away at your bandwidth? Maybe you're a web surfing fanatic looking for a little more speed? If you answered yes to either, a caching proxy is for you. This simple addition to your home network can provide you with additional bandwidth by reducing common internet bandwidth usage. Normally these types of proxies are fou...

Published on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by admin If you wonder how tiny a PowerPC SoC (System on chip) could be, AppliedMicro has recently announced a new Power Architecture based processor that is claimed to be the world’s smallest form factor in the industry. Named as APM801xx, it consists of multiple SKUs clocking from 400MHz, 600MHz and 800MHz suitable for different applications ranging from WiFi access point,...

Published on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by admin Sources close to Seagate roadmaps have leaked the potential of a 3TB SAS drive being released this year. The quest for storage is almost a never ending saga.  Dubbed the Constellation-ES, the replacement for the Seagate Barracuda-ES, the drive is expected to arrive later this year with a 7200 RPM rotation speed, and a 6Gbit/s SAS interface.  A 1TB version of the ...

Published on Wednesday, May 12, 2010 by admin AMD today have launched five new processors, to replace current products, ranging from the budget Athlon II X2 260 to the Athlon II X4 610. New Processor Speed / Mhz Cores TDP Price Processor Replaced Athlon II X4 640 3000 4 95W $122 Athlon II X4 635 Athlon II X4 610e 2400 4 45W $143 Athlon II X4 605e Athlon II X3 445 3100 3 ...

Published on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by admin Atom was designed to be a low-cost, low-power solution, but its value in the desktop space is debatable if you consider performance. We pit the cheapest Core i3 against Intel's Atom on a performance-per-dollar and a per-watt basis to see which is better. This is no apples to apples comparison here. The two products we're pitting against each other belong in differe...

Published on Tuesday, May 11, 2010 by admin The newest product to be thrusted into Intel's server arsenal will be called Westmere-EX, and is set to directly compete with AMD's Mangy-Cours server chip which features 12 cores, and AMD's future Bulldozer architecture. In a webcast speech, Stephen Smith, vice president/director of PC client operations and enabling at Intel, announced the upcoming Nehalem-EX refr...

Published on Saturday, May 8, 2010 by admin So far we’ve looked at three different mini-ITX motherboards here at Anandtech over the past 6 months. While each of the products we’ve reviewed have ticked a certain number of boxes, when you look at the feature sets of similarly priced m-ATX boards one of the irksome common denominators (among other things) with the mini-ITX offerings is that you essentiall...

Published on Saturday, May 8, 2010 by admin We’ve already looked at a number of systems with Intel’s CULV platform, but interestingly, all of them have been of the dual-core variety. We frequently champion the CULV platform as offering massive battery life and decent performance at a very reasonable price, and usually present the lower end, single-core CULV machines as an alternative to netbooks. So it�...

Published on Saturday, May 8, 2010 by admin The first generation of HP ENVY notebooks were unfortunately let down by comparisons to the superior Apple MacBook Pro laptops which they shared a large amount of styling with and unfortunately shared the rather steep pricing. This coupled to some glaring omissions, like the lack of an internal optical drive and feeble connectivity of the 13” model, led to an uni...

Published on Friday, May 7, 2010 by admin Good news for consumers who waiting so long to buy a cool, innovative ASUS EeeKeyboard PC that first introduced at CES 2009. ASUS has officially launched its long-awaited ASUS EeeKeyboard PC, the portable keyboard which conceals a smart, fully-functional PC inside, working with virtually all HDTV, monitor or projector to transform itself into a full-fledged personal c...

Published on Thursday, January 14, 2010 by admin In what's sure to be viewed as a wrong-way direction in social change, "Roxxxy" the robot lifesized girlfriend was introduced at AEE 2010, the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas. Roxxxy robot lifesized girlfriend is a anatomically correct facsimile of a woman dressed for sex, and with "servos" and other electronics to make it seem, well, real. It's maker calls it t...

Published on Thursday, January 7, 2010 by admin Intel on Thursday officially released its next-generation chips, which should improve the system performance and battery life of laptops. For the past year, the chip maker has talked about the chips as a giant upgrade over existing Core chips that go into laptops and desktops. The chips provide close to double the processing and graphics performance than their comp...