Archive for March 4th, 2008

ASUS does DisplayLink with VW223B 22-inch LCD

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Filed under: Displays, Features Hard to go wrong with a little bit of DisplayLink, and ASUS giving its VW223B the full USB treatment. The 1680 x 1050 display can accept a VGA plug, but the real magic happens over USB. You can plug up to six of these monitors into your ...

Nintendo launches TV Guide Channel in Japan, enables Wiimote to control TV

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Home Entertainment For Wii owners not located in Japan, get ready to weep. Why? Because users in the aforementioned nation now have access to an incredibly fascinating new channel and you, well, don't. Details on the TV Guide Channel are still a bit fuzzy (read: lost in ...

AMD demonstrates 45nm quad-core processors at CeBIT

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Filed under: Desktops In a woefully unstimulating press release, AMD has meekly trumpeted the fact that it's demonstrating its "first 45nm quad-core chips running multiple operating systems and a range of processing intensive applications" at CeBIT. Unfortunately, little is known beyond that -- aside from the fact that the processors showcased ...

Rock officially offering Blu-ray (and HD DVD, still) drives on laptops

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Filed under: HDTV, Laptops Although Rock began offering a Blu-ray option on its pricey gaming rigs soon after Toshiba threw in the HD DVD towel, prospective buyers were forced to specifically inquire in order to get one. Now, however, the company has finally bit the bullet and began offering internal ...

SanDisk Sansa Fuze leaked?

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video Accessory maker HandStands appears to have a Sansa Fuze 3-in-1 accessory kit -- but SanDisk doesn't yet have a Sansa Fuze, you feeling us? We don't know much more than that at this point, but from what we can see it's either a big mix-up, ...

Rock Band drum kit modded for pencil use

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Filed under: Gaming We've already seen a real drum kit modded for use with Rock Band, but that's unsurprisingly not the only bit of customization going on, as evidenced by this considerably scaled down kit created by David Yoon. While he hasn't provided a complete how-to, we're guessing quite a few ...