Archive for the 'Hardware' Category

Monster’s TRON Light Disc Audio Dock Goes On Sale, Illuminates to Your Music

Monster’s TRON Light Disc Audio Dock is the perfect gift for geeks and sci-fi movie buffs alike this holiday season, and best of all, it’s on sale for just $159.95 shipped (normally $349.95). With “its soothing, luminous glow, the dual-pipe lighting rings on the Tron Light Disc Sound Dock come alive to the rhythm of [...]

SHOWWX is the World’s First Laser Pico Projector, Fits in Your Pocket

The SHOWWX could quite possibly be the coolest pocket projector yet. It “brings you a BIG picture from a small, quiet, and portable device. A single cable connection plugs directly into your iPod, as well as other mobile phones and devices with TV-Out or VGA functionality.” Product page. Video preview after the break.
Amplify yourself with [...]

Acer, Lenovo looking to release Tegra 3-equipped tablets in early 2012

For now ASUS’ Transformer Prime is the lonely king of the quad-core tablet hill, but as we’d heard a few weeks back, it looks like it’ll have company soon enough. Insider sources have reported to DigiTimes that you’ll be able to snag a nifty Android tablet with a quad-core GPU for between $459 and $599 [...]

Flexbook: The Foldable Origami-Inspired Laptop

Called the Flexbook, this computer by “Taiwan-based designer hao-chun huang, offers portable, multi-use computing within a single device. the concept was shortlisted from over 1000 designs in our recent designboom competition ‘a life with future computing’.” No word yet on pricing or availability.
with a waterproof keypad and 21:9 screen, ‘flexbook’ is designed for portability and [...]

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 [...]