Entries Tagged as 'New Technologies'

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

The Mod God has done it again! - the XBOX 360 Elite Laptop!

Benjamin Heckendorn (aka benheck also aka mod god!) has once again created something cool… and XBOX 360 Laptop!.. I so want one of these!…

here is Ben at his best:
and also checkout his wii Laptop!

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

Nvidia develops PhysX engine for new range of Notebook GPU’s

Nvidia have released five new GPU’s - The GeForce 9800M GTX, GeForce 9800M GTS, GeForce 9800 GT, GeForce 9700M GTS and GeForce 9700M GT The last two being the mid range consumer cards most likely to appear in new notebooks
The 9800M GTX and 9800M GTS both have 112 processing units, which is equivalent to the [...]

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

100 microprocessor cores at your disposal!

I was just reading a Guardian UK newspaper article about the new possibilities opened up to software developers with GPU (Graphic Processor Unit) assisted computing. Basically what this is is that if you have a major brand graphics card in your PC or Mac (Nivdia or ATI), it is now possible to open up the [...]

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Samsung intros 256GB SSD that may reach MacBook Air

Samsung has introduced a 256GB solid-state drive that promises to kickstart the industry with twice the storage and twice the speed of earlier disks while also costing less to manufacture than past models — and having a chance of landing in future Apple notebooks.
Simply called the 256GB FlashSSD, the Serial ATA drive reads in-order data [...]

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Samsung shows off LCDs with Double HDTV resolution, 240 Hz

At a major display technology symposium this week, Samsung showed off a future HDTV with four times the resolution of a current 1080p screen, plus the first of its “Blue Phase” high-refresh displays.
During the Society for Information Display 2008 International Symposium currently taking place in Los Angeles, Samsung introduced several new products aimed more at [...]

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Brains connect with games of future

AN Australian company has plans to deliver the next-generation in computer gaming, where players will use their thoughts rather than handheld controllers.

Nam Do with the EPOC headset designed to detect brain patterns that will help control computer games

Emotiv Systems has developed the EPOC headset that uses 16 sensors and non-invasive EEG technology to “listen” to [...]

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Iomega new 500GB Home Theatre Drive..

On its way to becoming an EMC division, Iomega today announced its new 500 GB ScreenPlay HD Multimedia Drive, designed to let users watch entertainment content on their TVs and home theater systems without the need of a PC.
The ScreenPlay HD Multimedia Drive measures 7.7″ x 2.3″ x 5″ and weights two pounds, which is [...]

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

New release of Linux kernel presents major changes

Linux expert Linus Torvalds announced in his blog on Wednesday that Linux kernel version 2.6.25 has been publicly released, with changes to WiFi support, file system management, and virtualization.
“It’s been long promised, but there it is now,” Torvalds wrote in the official Linux kernel release.

After ten weeks in development, a couple of weeks longer than [...]

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Intel’s $500M Taiwan investment is for WiMAX ‘entity’

A $500 million investment by Intel, announced in Taiwan today, is geared mainly to gaining greater interoperability between other equipment and Intel’s own mobile WiMAX chips, which are slated to ship later this year to OEMs for use in Centrino PC notebooks, said a US-based Intel spokesperson.
In a new memo of understanding (MOU) with [...]

Monday, April 14th, 2008

IBM creates ‘racetrack memory’ for faster and cheaper storage

Will there ever come a day when a single hand held MP3 player can store 3,500 movies? IBM researchers think that a new technology called “racetrack” memory will make this possible within the next ten years.
Aside from performance, better reliability and lower prices could be on the way, too. Unlike magnetic disk drives, racetrack memory [...]