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Intel announced today their plans for a third Extreme processor, geared towards the enthusiast-user. The Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800 is Intel’s fastest enthusiast featured processor yet, running with a clock speed of 2.93 GHz. According to the press release by Intel, the QX6800 is focused specifically for gamers, digital designers, and those who strive for maximum computing power. Critics ...

Nothing is ever concrete until you see it in this world of Photoshop renderings. Now that we can see the recently announced Xbox 360 QWERTY Controller in the wild, we can offer a full confirmation on Microsoft’s announcement. This is the first public viewing of the QWERTY text input device for Xbox. The announcement coincides with Microsoft’s announcement that MSN ...

Who cares what time it is? We don’t. Hell the minutes can float around all they want. See if we care. Pshhht. See? This is us not caring. Do we care that this Whatever Clock is $24.99? Nope. What time is it you say? I can’t tell since my numbers are currently sliding off my clock. Not that we’d care ...

Sometimes, the days of holding a good old CD case in our hands as we listen to an album makes us yearn for simpler times when MP3 players only held a few gigs of data. This concept by David Friedman mixes the modern technology of digital displays, high powered PMP systems, and the days of old jewel CD case, to ...

Having your grill be solar powered might not be much help as the smoke from your charred burgers fills the air, but its one of the coolest damn grills we’ve ever seen. The Solar Powered Grill might not play MP3s, but it can sure heat up some steak. Using the same technology you used when you were 7 and burning ...

Speaking of R2-D2, this M.A.R.S. Floating Wind Generator looks a lot like a flying R2 droid on its side. This helium-filled, horizontal-rotating M.A.R.S. (Magenn Power Air Rotor System) will go into production with its 4.0 kw unit this year with 7 more models planned for release in the next 4 years. The 2010 and 2011 planned models will be able ...

OK, well no company is not quite there in being all green, but some are definitely better than others. Green Peace released their third Guide to Greener Electronics. Apple is by far the worst offender of non-green electronics, with Panasonic and LG tied at second worst. Lenovo leads the pack as the most green of the bunch. No company is ...

USB drives are definitely cool to have around. Though, a lot of the time, we would would never trust them with important data files, just because they break too damn easy. If you have one in your pocket and you sit the wrong way, forget about it. It’s history. Luckily for us, this happened one to many times to modder ...

  Reading is a hobby that most intellectuals take very seriously. Where they are reading is almost as important as what they are reading. A quiet area serves as a sanctuary for readers worldwide. We’ve seen some cool bookshelves, but this Cave bookcase offers both an ample space to store your books and an interesting spot to read them in. ...

Here’s a really cool looking concept car made by a pure amateur found on Coroflot portfolios. The car doesn’t have a name or any specs, but the design was eye-catching enough to encourage us to reveal him to the public. Matus Prochaczka has a passion for automobile design and this concept car shows the passion to be one he works ...