Archive for March 14th, 2008

DARPA hard at work on nanomechanical chips

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets These chips won't be blazing through Crysis any time soon, but there's certainly room in the world for mechanical nanocomputers, and thanks to DARPA we might seem them in the real world sooner rather than later. The chips harken back Babbage's 13 ton difference engine, but with ...

Inteset’s Vana VA6420-Si media extender system gets Blu-ray

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment, Media PCs Back when the format war was still a-brewin', Inteset saw fit to offer up Blu-ray / HD DVD combo drives on its media PCs. Now that said war is behind us, the firm is plugging Blu-ray drives into its Vana VA6420-Si media extender system. ...

SanDisk’s Sansa Fuze reviewed

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video Those of you hoping to have your mind blown can go ahead and leave quietly out the back, but for anyone else hoping for a dirt-cheap and fairly lovable DAP, the Sansa Fuze from SanDisk might just fit the bill. PC Magazine and CNET put ...

Vanguard I satellite marks 50 years in orbit

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets It may not have been the first, but Vanguard I does have the distinction of being the oldest satellite still in orbit, and it's now set to mark its 50th anniversary on March 17th. It can lay claim to being the the very first solar-powered satellite, however, ...

USB bomb brings new meaning to “plug-and-play”

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Filed under: Storage Looking for that perfect weapon of mass destruction to pair with The Button? This USB Bomb designed by Joel Escalona should fit the bill nicely. Unfortunately, it's just a concept at the moment, but we're sure with a little bit of Styrofoam and a whole bunch of black ...

Meridian announces MF10 1080p D-ILA projector at EHX

Friday, March 14th, 2008

Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment Every so often, a projector hits the market that's just so delectable, it's hard to stop fantasizing about what pieces of your kids' rooms could be auctioned off in order to procure it. Enter the $14,995 Meridian MF10, which is most certainly one those units. ...