Archive for the ‘Gadgets’ Category

Posted on October 31, 2008 - by admin

Finally it’s here!

I ordered this monitor from Dell over a week ago and it’s finally here! I managed to snag it for a little under $300 before shipping and I said what the heck! I have to tell you, for the price the S2409W is worth it! Anyone still using CRTs have to upgrade and this sucker is schweettt!

Posted on April 15, 2008 - by admin

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote

This is going to change everything. Click here to see it on YouTube.

Posted on February 14, 2008 - by admin

Super-Slim ThinkPad Sneak Peek

 

Only a month or so after Apple announced its MacBook Air laptop, which it calls the world’s thinnest laptop, Lenovo is about to spring its own super-skinny machine: the ThinkPad X300. Here’s a sneak peek. My full review will appear after I have fully tested this unusual new laptop, which I expect to be of great interest to road warriors.

Like the MacBook Air, this is a rare small laptop that is built around a full 13-inch-wide screen display and a full keyboard, rather than the little screens and cramped keyboards common in subnotebooks. And, like the Air, it offers a fast, rugged solid-state drive instead of a hard disk.

But, unlike the Apple, Lenovo’s new skinny ThinkPad comes with a hefty complement of ports and features, some of the very things critics complained Apple left out. It has a built-in DVD drive, removable battery, three USB ports, and a wired Ethernet networking jack. Inside, in addition to Wi-Fi, it can be ordered with a built-in cellphone modem and even GPS. It comes with either Windows Vista or Windows XP.

Sporting the traditional ThinkPad black slab design, the X300 isn’t as skinny or sexy as the Apple, but it’s still very slender and attractive, at under an inch thick. Also, unlike the Apple, most of the ThinkPad’s configurations are a bit heavier than the 3-pound weight that traditionally denotes a subnotebook. But it still feels very light to carry around, at 3.12 pounds with the standard battery and DVD drive.

The biggest downsides to the new ThinkPad X300 are price and limited storage capacity. Unlike the Apple, which can be ordered with a higher-capacity, lower-priced hard disk, the new ThinkPad will only be available with the expensive, limited capacity solid-state drive. So it will start at between $2,500 and $2,800–up to $1,000 more than the Apple’s base price–and will be limited to a paltry 64 gigabytes of storage.

 

Posted on February 4, 2008 - by admin

High-Tech Weaponry at Las Vegas Gun Show

By Tiffany Brown

02.04.08 | 2:00 PM

 The Super Bowl wasn’t the only testosterone fest this Sunday as one of the largest gun shows in the country, SHOT, visited Las Vegas. Check out automatic rifles, fiber-optic sights, designer pepper spray and more as we transport you to survivalist paradise.

Above: Aimpoint’s concealed engagement system allows a shooter to look around corners without being exposed. Model Angela Jennings was on hand to answer questions while looking a bit exposed herself.

Posted on January 16, 2008 - by admin

Toshiba’s Qosmio G40 now with world’s first HD DVD-RW drive

Notice anything special about that laptop up there? No besides it’s monstrous footprint. Right, a world’s first HD DVD-RW drive in a laptop. Otherwise, it’s the same 17-inch WUXGA (1920 x 1200) Qosmio G40 we know and love now topping out with a 2.2GHz T7500 Core 2 Duo, up to 400GB of disk and 4GB of memory, and a pair of terrestrial HDTV tuners with HDMI-out in a 10.6-pound slab of media action. Priced at about ¥400,000 ($3,530) nicely equipped.