Archive for the 'Hardware' Category

Mod Your NES for Stereo Sound, Arcade Games, and a Remote Reset Button

Over at Raphnet.net the personal site of a Linux and electronics enthusiast, Raph has put together a guide to moding your NES in all sorts of ways. His collection of guides covers everything from the simple—replacing the red LED with a blue one—to the complex like building your own reporgrammable NES cartridge to load [...]

HP Pavilion DV6Z Artist Edition

Sleek and stylish, the HP Pavilion DV6Z Artist Edition combines elegance with functionality. Boasting HP’s infinity glass to give your laptop "an edge-to-edge frameless look", in addition to an eye-popping case design. Available now, priced at $949. Video after the break.

$179.99 Creative Labs Vado HD 4GB Pocket Camcorder for $89.99 Shipped

Amazon has the Creative Labs Vado HD for only $89.99 shipped, originally priced at $179.99. Compact enough to slide in your pocket, “the Vado is the first pocket video camcorder that you can directly connect to an HDTV to share your videos instantly.”

Lenovo Thinkpad X200 Laptop CaseCrown Double Memory Foam Thin Pouch Case with Front Pocket

The CaseCrown Premium Thin Pouch Case With A Front Pocket with Double Memory Foam provides perfect protection for your Laptop. This pouch is made out of premium quality shock absorbing double foam and it provides extra protection even though case is very light and Thin. It has a front pocket to accommodate your laptop [...]

Windows XP-Powered MacBook Air Weighs Just 2.9-Pounds

For a Windows XP-powered MacBook Air knockoff, you’ll have to visit China. This clone features an Intel Atom N280 CPU, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, 160GB HDD, 802.11a/b/g Wi-Fi, two USB ports, Ethernet port, HDMI, and weighs just 2.99-pounds. Video after the break.

Unreleased Dell Adamo XPS Prototypes

Before a company approves of a production model, there are several prototypes created for testing purposes, and here’s a rare glimpse at some of the Dell Adamo XPS models. To start, we have the touchscreen trackpad prototype above, "which was apparently rejected because Dell couldn’t justify the cost of the panel based how much people [...]

Lego USB Hubs

These LEGO USB hubs ($12) offer 3 extra USB ports, and are easily stackable if you need more than that. Pluy, you can snap on one of these Batman characters to top things off.

PlayStation iPhone Case

Rabbitrampage has designed a PlayStation Console iPhone case ($20) with matching controller key chain ($7)! Details include Sony and Playstation logos, and even a flap in the shape of the disc door.

Seagate 2TB Barracuda XT: world’s first SATA 6Gbps hard drive

Seagate just announced the world’s first 2TB disk with full support for the third generation SATA interface pushing data at 6Gbps — double the rate of previous controllers. The 3.5-inch SATA 6Gbps Barracuda XT drive spins 4x 500GB platters at 7200RPM with a big 64MB cache to prevent bottlenecks. It promises a sustained transfer [...]

Acer Aspire One 751h: NetbookSize++

Finding ways to differentiate your product in the notebook market can be difficult. Most companies are currently going with the Intel Atom N270/N280 CPU combined with the 945GSE chipset. The result is that performance is nearly identical between similarly equipped netbooks, although as we saw with the ASUS 1005HA and the GIGABYTE M1022, there are [...]