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2005 November

Robot or Human? Here’s ACTROID

“No mom, she’s not a piece of hardware for my PC. She’s my date for the Prom!” From the looks of this ‘Actroid’ below, this might very well become a real conversation in the near future…

The Cyberhand

To someone who has sustained an injury to a limb, this sort of cyber technology could very well be a life changing experience.

Blu-Ray Plans To Be Revealed At CES

For the folks working with Blu-ray, it sounds like things are on track for Spring. That, and the showing of their stuff at CES.

Would You Believe… A Chip-Controlled Butter Dish?

Wow, this might very well be the proof that we need to show that we’ve all lost our minds here. Butter dishes with brains…now I have seen everything.

New Orleans launches free wireless Internet

OK, I am not too sure that out of all the needs the Big Easy is requiring that free wireless Internet is going to be all that well received. Then again, free Internet is nothing to frown at I suppose…

ATI Multi Video Processing Vs. NVIDIA Scalable Link Interface

So who is really the master of the video card universe. Well, NVIDIA powers BattleField 2, and then we have ATI powering the Xbox. To be honest, I think I am going to have to leave this one to the article below.

Potatoes! Get Off Your Couches with Zurotech’s TV Card

Ah yes. Just what the TV nuts need, a battle cry in the form of a notebook TV tuner card!

Review of Nokia’s Linux-Based 770 Internet Tablet

Perhaps it is just the picture being used in this review. But at first glance the appearance of the Nokia 770 is not all that impressive to me.

Preinstalled trojans

Hard drives with Trojans built in? This can’t possibly true, could it? Take a wild guess…

Rock Xtreme CT notebook

I will agree that for the price, the Rock Extreme CT notebook is worth a second look if you are in the market.

First UK review of Xbox 360

A week before the UK launch of the XBox 360 and we have one UK reviewer that is all ready to give his thoughts on the console. Helps to be ‘in the know’ I suppose…

Debating final upgrades for my aging 12-inch PowerBook

Personally, I have no idea how anyone can be productive with a computer (Mac or not) that is not even 1Ghz in CPU speed. If I was this person, I’d go for the new PowerBook.

Transformers costumes that turn into cars and jets

Perhaps this is not to be considered hardware in the purist sense. However, I am willing to bet that it is quite ‘hard-to-wear’!

PC Interfaces 101

It’s that time again. Yes, time to get back to basics and re-learn your basic interfaces from the beginning.

Don’t Throw Out Your ATI Radeon X800 Yet

As vid cards become more and more tied to specific games rather than their graphical needs, I am just not too sure I agree with the value of the ATI Radeon X800.

PCI Express Battles PCI-X

Actually, this is not something that I have given a lot of thought about until recently. As it turns out, there are some differences that you may want to educate yourself about…

Antec P150: Quiet, Compact, Environmentally Friendly

Let’s face it. Sometimes all anyone wants in life is a basic, no flashing lights sort of PC case. If this describes you, then maybe you ought to read on…

Apricorn MicroKey

This might be described as a nice little stocking stuffer. Pretty cheap, yet offering 6GB of rotating storage! Now who can argue with a value like that?

Can dial-up power a wireless notebook?

This is becoming a common question these days. To be honest, the answer to this question is about what you might expect.

LG Launches Microsoft-Powered DVR

While LG is coming to the table with the MS enhanced DVR, the models that Comcast uses for their customers have been doing this for sometime now.

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