Archive for the 'Hardware' Category

HP CEO Resigns

HP CEO Mark Hurd has resigned, effective immediately, “over previously undisclosed allegations of sexual harassment and financial shenanigans involving a relationship with a former HP contractor.” This news sent company stock shooting down before the market closed today.
HP said that Hurd was forced out after the company discovered that he had a secret relationship with [...]

HP Gabble is a private, family-friendly video message service

When it comes to video chatting options, you’ve got the app for the tech-savvy (Skype) and the web app for talking to strangers (Charoulette). But what if you need your privacy, and also don’t want to install any desktop software? Gabble is a new web service from HP that tries to fill the void between [...]

Tron NES System Glows, Has Integrated LEDs

This incredible Tron-themed NES system doesn’t require a separate power supply or even batteries to light-up, just a dark room and some black lights. Plus, its creator “added some cool blue LEDs behind the power switches; the mod also has a pair of 1/4″ audio jacks so you can hook the console up to a [...]

HP cutting 9,000 jobs during billion dollar enterprise services restructuring

HP isn’t being shy about spending cash and taking big steps to reinvent itself lately: it just spent $1.2b on Palm in order to strengthen its consumer device portfolio, and now it’s announcing another billion-dollar outlay designed to streamline its enterprise services business and fully consolidate its $12.5b acquisition of EDS. Part of the process [...]

Sony’s Wearable Wrist Computer

With technologies like flexible OLED touchpanels, a real wearable wrist computer will most certainly be coming sooner than later. This Sony concept shows what it may look like. Featuring a slide-out keypad, flexible display, and hopefully, a user-friendly interface.
Sure, it’s a design concept, but just look at the gorgeous pictures,keeping in mind that all of [...]

Axial fan

With reduced shaft power requirement, there is a commensurate reduction in energy consumption. The design is also very stylish, with a discreet, unobtrusive, clip on, wipe clean cover that blends harmoniously with existing decor in your home/office. While the refrigerator motor is a most important part of the refrigerator, we should choose a good [...]

Nikon Coolpix S8000 Review

Nikon Coolpix S8000 Overview After having just tested the Nikon Coolpix L110, the 14-megapixel Nikon Coolpix S8000 was a cool breeze of relief. Both cameras shared a lot in common in terms of controls and shooting features, but the Coolpix S8000 offered a stellar color station that allowed us to add significant life to our [...]

Mobile API and apps for Android and iPad

If you don’t have Dropbox yet, where have you been? We’ve raved about this awesome cloud-based storage service before, and now Dropbox’s mobile offerings are expanding in a big way. The Dropbox Mobile API was just released, along with apps for Android and iPad. This new push is called Dropbox Anywhere, and it’s great news [...]

Game Gripper Makes DROID Gaming Easy

Playing emulated NES, SNES, Genesis, etc. games on the DROID just became a lot easier, with the Game Gripper. Priced at $14.99, this accessory basically “slides on over the keypad [and] it’s been more or less hand made.” Video after the break.
The feel isn’t perfect, but we’re satisfied, and after a few days with one [...]

Dell Streak Tablet Pictures Leaked

Dell’s 7-inch / 10-inch tablets have been leaked and it will feature a “5-inch WVGA (800 x 480) touchscreen, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and flash, capacitive touch front buttons, front-facing VGA camera.” No word yet on pricing or availability.
Better still, it looks as if it’ll launch with an Amazon content partnership, which will bring [...]