Filed under: Desktops

Scientists have successfully developed a computer out of E. coli bacteria (again), which has managed to solve the Burnt Pancake Problem — at least in a limited form. The problem involves creating a golden-side-up stack of pancakes out of all different size pancakes, each of which is burned one one side, with the […]

Filed under: Home Entertainment
Fans of high-def audio rejoice: The first Blu-ray recording has been released. Fans of anything other than Divertimento, hold your horses: The first release is from Thondheimsolistene, an orchestra from Norway. “Divertimenti”, as it is called, will be released by the 2L label in full HD audio glory along with a SACD […]

Filed under: Digital Cameras
Stellar photography seems like a wonderous thing: you and a loved one on a starry night taking beautiful images of the heavens — before making out. Unfortunately, anyone who has tried it knows it’s more often a frustrating exercise of fiddling with exposure and aperture settings on your SLR while it hangs […]

Filed under: Robots

We’ve seen a couple robotic efforts to explore the Arctic and the Antarctic, but they’ve all been remotely-operated — unlike the SnoMote, a new bot being developed at the Georgia Tech that can navigate itself around ice and snow. Packs of the mini-snowmobile-based SnoMotes can negotiate with each other and “bid” on locations […]

NEC will be rolling out its new 3G cell phone known as the N706ie in Japan, with the main talking point (no pun intended) being a total talking time of four hours, which should be long enough for you to share all your sordid stories with your best friend without missing a beat. Specifications consist […]

Most Macs I’ve seen so far are things of beauty, making this DIY Corkboard Mac look rather out of place with the rest of its brethren no thanks to the way it was constructed. Most of the innards consist of an older PowerBook, all held together by a series of colorful push-pins. Well, this is […]

Take a peek at the upcoming Asus Eee Box, a desktop version of the wildly successful Asus Eee PC. This white mini PC will definitely be a firm favorite with folks who are competing with four other family member every morning for the bathroom since everyone shares a cramped apartment. Being diminutive in stature, the […]

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

Microsoft may have only offered a glimpse of its promised multi-touch support in Windows 7 at D6 earlier this week, but the company apparently already has some of its longer term plans lined up, with it reportedly on track to release its multi-touch SDK at its Professional Developers’ Conference in October of […]

VIA has rolled out its new Nano processor family which gets inspiration from the VIA Isaiah architecture. This processor holds the distinction of being the first 64-bit, superscalar, speculative out-of-order processors from VIA’s x86 platform portfolio, and is tipped to offer an attractive alternative to both desktop and notebook markets. Word has it that the […]

Filed under: Laptops
It’s only just barely made it out into the wild, but DigiTimes is now reporting that ASUS has already stopped taking orders from resellers for its 8.9-inch Eee PC 900 in anticipation of the now imminent launch of the Atom-based Eee PC 901. That word apparently comes from some unspecified “industry sources,” who […]