Not to be left out in the SFF battle royale, LG appears to be releasing their own super small ION-based system. The design is pretty uninspiring but designed to mount behind your display so shouldn’t have to be seen. SlashGear Something we’ll seldom argue with is a super-compact desktop PC with the bonus of NVIDIA’s Ion GPU, and so […]
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After some great buzz and some initial delays in production it appears that the Popcorn Hour has finally finished production on their elusive C200 extender device. Geektonic and MediaSmartServer.net appear to be the first on the scene and got their hands on one. Still just some initial reviews, but look for something super technical from Brent in a bit. […]
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Not at all sure what to make of this, but seems pretty cool. Of course, no pricing but you can expect anything 100 inches to cost a small fortune. SlashGear The lasers are installed in a custom module, which combines 1W red, green and blue units, and paired with LCoS panels from Microdisplay; together, they’re good enough for 300 […]
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It’s still unclear the precise future of the portable device, but so far reviews are pretty glowing for the new ZuneHD. It looks slick, the interface is good, but I thought the screen was a bit tougher to use than the iPhone given the smaller screen real estate, but it’s so very thin and very drool-worthy. Gizmodo The gorgeous 3.3-inch […]
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This is just too cool. Normally I wouldn’t include such a mod, but I figure you could toss this in your theater somewhere and it would be an eyepiece while not being an eyesore. Pretty crazy talent to create. SlashGear Both the motorized side-sections and lighting are operated by remote-control, while the core guts of the PC itself are […]
Read moreI’m posting this moreso because of the significance in such a large paper as USA Today covering these types of video devices. I think it helps solidify them, and still makes me wonder why TV Manufacturers are trying so hard to compete with a sub-$100 device. USA Today The Roku digital video player "costs us a lot less than $99 […]
Read moreThis bad boy from Vidabox is nowhere near the size of the Logitech Dinovo Mini which I absolutely love, but it’s probably easier to type with. That being said, for what it is and the lower cost of the mini, Brent sure likes it. Head over for the full review. GeekTonic The trackball, located at the top-right of the keyboard […]
Read moreFollowing up on the announcement of the new HP’s yesterday, Alex rom MediaSmartServer.net goes really into the nooks and crannies of the hardware to see how it’s evolved. Looks like they’ve made some nice changes as we already suspected. MediaSmartServer.net The motherboard uses the same Intel G33 Express Chipset that was used in the EX485x series servers. An important addition […]
Read moreSeems AMD is set to make a little affordable quad-core coup with their new Athlon II X4’s How does AMD respond to Lynnfield? Is it by drastically cutting prices on Phenom II? Nope. By introducing the world’s first quad-core processor to debut at $99. Now that’s cool. AMD effectively knocked 40% off the value of Intel’s low end quad-core […]
Read moreAnand got a bit more information and discusses the known and speculated requirements for building a CableCARD ready system. See the comments for more highlights from the blog post. To be frank, we’re not sure what Microsoft has done to get CableLabs to loosen their grip on matters. Certainly there is a DRM component in the use Microsoft’s fairly […]
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