Monday, December 17, 2007
Hands-on with BetaBlue, JetBlue's WiFi-equipped Airbus
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Posted by Augustine at 10:42 AM
NVIDIA reveals GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB
[Via HotHardware]
Posted by Augustine at 10:41 AM
DisplayLink, Alereon intro wireless USB video card reference design
Posted by Augustine at 10:39 AM
Toshiba's 15-nm process hints at 100Gbit NAND chips: 6x current densities
Posted by Augustine at 10:32 AM
7-year old Gordy Moore travels through time, invents Penryn
Posted Dec 13th 2007 7:19AM by Thomas Ricker
Posted by Augustine at 10:30 AM
Pentagon prepping non-lethal "light and sound" weapon
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Posted by Augustine at 10:25 AM
Battleship Mtron: the absurdly fast SSD RAID array
[Thanks, David]
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Posted by Augustine at 10:23 AM
Intel develops integrated WiFi / WiMAX / DVB-H chip
Intel, clearly not wanting to be left in the dust by the slew of new wireless technologies that are starting to converge, nasty-like, inside our shiny new devices, has begun testing on a chip which can effortlessly swap between WiFi, WiMAX, and DVB-H. The idea is that the chip's radio would talk to your WiFi at home, hand over the data to WiMAX if you hit the road, and also allow you to pull down digital television while staying mobile -- without having to use an array of separate radios or silicon. This should open up a whole new vista of possibilities for time-wasting activities, so whenever manufacturers want to get this into our phones / laptops, just say the word. We're ready.
[Via Slashdot]
Posted by Augustine at 10:22 AM
Motorola's A1600 MING 2 surfaces
from Engadget by Darren Murph
What's that, you say? Reportedly, that picture you see above is the Motorola A1600, which could be the long-awaited successor to the A1200 MING. Granted, we've no proof to go along with it, but the design sure fits the mold. According to Chinese-based eNet, this bugger will sport quad-band GSM connectivity, a 3.2-megapixel camera (with autofocus), WiFi, assisted-GPS, a couple of built-in games, a "talking dictionary" and a Linux-based OS. Interestingly enough, that last tidbit certainly conflicts with other reports we've heard, but we suppose time will tell (look for a February launch) what system really ends up running the MING 2 show. [Via UnwiredView]Posted by Augustine at 10:20 AM
iPhone gets video recording capabilities
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Posted by Augustine at 10:17 AM
ATI demonstrates hybrid-chip CrossFire graphics tech
from Engadget by Nilay Patel
We've already seen laptops like Sony's Vaio SZ include integrated graphics alongside much more powerful (and power-hungry) dedicated chips, but AMD's looking to make such setups all the more commonplace with new chips capable of hybrid CrossFire. AMD recently demoed the tech to PC Perspective, showing off a 2.2GHz Phenom machine with both unreleased RS780 integrated graphics and a RV620-based card labeled HD Radeon 3450. Running games like Call of Duty 4 and Unreal Tournament 3, frame rates jumped from 30-35fps to around 55fps when hybrid mode was enabled. That's pretty respectable, although the system is limited to speedups of the slowest chip times two, so bigger gains are probably not in the offing. However, there can still be benefits to using chips of drastically different horsepower: the integrated chips can power down the heavy hitter to save power when not needed, and totally switch over when required. That's a pretty solid compromise, we think -- and with AMD aiming for the initial batch of hybrid CrossFire-capable cards to be priced around $50, it looks like we'll be seeing these setups a lot when AMD starts shipping these early next year.
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Posted by Augustine at 10:15 AM
Homer's iViewer: the wireless TV transmitter
[Via ChipChick]
Posted by Augustine at 10:12 AM
ITRI showcases a 10.4-inch flexible color LCD
Hot on the heels of that flexible color e-ink display we saw a couple days back, here comes a flexible 10.4-inch LCD display that's less then 10mm thick. The display is being developed by Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), and features two plastic substrate elements instead of a traditional glass one. ITRI says the display can reproduce 57 percent of the NTSC color gamut, but there's no word on when we might ever see these in production.
[Via TG Daily]
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Posted by Augustine at 10:09 AM
NVIDIA 3-Way SLI review roundup
from Engadget by Paul Miller
Posted by Augustine at 10:08 AM