The Water-Cooled Beast with four QuadCore Opterons

Yes, sounds like a lot doesn’t it?

Folks from Tom’s Hardware along with other folks from Puget Systems  have recently finished putting together a monster computer with total costs of $16k !!  The main goal was to create a quiet performance machine, with four quad-core Opteron CPUs, 32GB of memory and eight hard-drives in various levels of RAID.

The quiet cooling was done with the help of a watercooling system Read more

Drawdio analog synth pencil: make music when you draw !

Designed by Adafruit (in collaboration with Jay Silver), Drawdio is an analog tool synthesizer circuit that can be strapped onto any soft-leaded pencil, and lets you create out electronic sounds while you draw. You draw a cow, it goes moooooo ! Actually no, I was joking.

The pen is relying on Read more

OTAS’ e-blue PEQUENO 2.4GHz the smallest wireless mouse around

Probably the world’s smallest wireless mouse available on the market, code name: e-blue PEQUENO, was just launched today by the Japanese computer hardware maker OTAS. It measures just 38×68×28mm, and it is light as a feather, well almost: 35 grams. Read more

Hitachi: the new 500GB laptop hard drive

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) unveiled the Travelstar 5K500.B just 2.5-inch, 9.5-mm thick, 3.0Gbps SATA interface, 250GB per platter for a 500GB total capacity and 5,400 RPM spin.

“The Travelstar 5K500.B features optional Bulk Data Encryption (BDE) for hard-drive-level data security. The drive is also expected to be the first in the industry Read more

New Mp3 logo?

Probably the most popular music format since quite a few years it’s the mp3. It seems that some music download sites are bored with the old mp3 logo and now they are promoting a new one. Actually its the “MP3 compatible” logo which should help help consumers identify legal sites.

The Entertainment Retailers Association devised the logo, which emphasizes the fact that MP3 files Read more

Plextor reveals Two Qflix-enabled DVD burners

For those that don’t know Qflix is a new technology that lets you download movies from the CinemaNow movie service and also burn them onto blank DVDs, just like those you would buy from a real store.
In order to do that you need special hardware such as this two DVD burners from Plextor: Read more

iPhone 3G unlock soon

Rejoice Apple iPhone fanboys !!

iPhone Dev Team are getting closer and closer to a 3G break-in as recently they have been able to break in the baseband processor. This is the news many of you were waiting for because they now have access to the core of the system, which gives Read more

WoW Wrath of the Lich King: Mac and Windows specs revealed

As you probably know, Wow: Wrath of the Lich King is the next expansion offered by Blizzard to the oh-so-popular World of Warcraft. Wrath of the Lich King moves the story in Northrend, home of Arthas, the Lich King.

Today, a blue post on the WoW US forums, announced the Mac and Windows specification for this new World of Warcraft expansion. Read more

The video games industry slows down a little

NPD Group, market researcher, has released some data regarding this month’s industry sales and its peaks. it seems like the video game software and hardware recorded its smallest monthly increase in more than 2 years. The sales in August 2008 rose up to $1.08 billion, up with almost 9 percent. Read more

AMD presents the ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series

AMD announced today the mainstream graphics ATI RadeonTM HD 4600, cards set to deliver exceptional gaming and HD multimedia performance with less power consumption than a standard light bulb.
They offer full support for the latest DirectX® 10.1 games, superior HD multimedia capabilities and industry Read more

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