Tag Archives: hardware

Damn, where did I put that remote? Sounds familiar right? Add a few more explicit words in there and you have an average day in my living room. It would be nice not to have to fumble around for the remote anymore, sorry Mr. Adler, may you rest in peace. Toshiba has been developing a laptop-based camera gadget called “SpursEngine”, ...

As a long time guitar player, I will be the first to attest my annoyance for guitar tuning. Especially when you just put a fresh set of strings on the instrument. Gibson announces a new line of guitars that will use high-tech tuning features to allow the guitar to tune itself. The Powertune system took years to develop and starts ...

Most laptop batteries these days will give you between 3-6 hours of time before the power runs dry. The US AirForce Research Laboratory has been fooling around with betavoltaic power cells, which harness the power of nuclear decay to transmit power. As radioactive material decays it lets off beta particles that can then be transformed into electric power. And it ...

Chances are you probably have one or two old connectors lying around the house or in an unused computer – and with a little bit of time and some basic tools you can turn that spare connector into a functional SD card reader that can be used in MMC mode. All you need to do is follow the painfully detailed ...

It is for fact that companies can source modules from different suppliers for the same product, the best example would be the screens of Sony PSP (Sharp and Samsung). In the hard disk world, Toshiba is one of the loudest and proudest players, they’re making such a big fuss about their deal with the fruit company. Samsung comparably seems to ...

< Amongst the many notebooks Sony Japan announced this morning, what really caught our attention was the new VAIO type G notebook. It has nothing to do with its sleek size or seemingly doubled computing power on paper (Core Solo U1400 1.2Ghz to Core Duo U7600 1.2Ghz), but the fact that the keyboard has special protection for liquid. That’s right, ...

If you look at this image, you might think you’re looking at some cool PC mod or something. You’d be dead wrong. The item on the left is an old 1GB IBM hard drive. Pictured on the right side of the image is of course a modern 1GB flash drive card. Oh, how the times are a-changin’. — Andrew Dobrow ...

When it comes to laptop overclocking, there aren’t many choices beyond useless fan-type solutions. Finally, Intel and Embraco have teamed up to develop a cooling system that actually brings refrigeration to laptops. Apparently, the device works thanks to what is being touted as the World’s smallest miniature compressor. Air is cooled before it flows to the bottom of the laptop ...

If you are wondering, F.R.E.D is short for Forensic Recovery of Evidence Device – and he can strip you of your privacy faster than you can say “the RIAA sucks balls.” Basically, F.R.E.D takes hard drives, disks, flash drives, etc. from computers of suspected criminals and it sucks the data off – storing the evidence on a whopping 2.0 TB ...

Over the last few months Hard drive clocks have been all the rage on sites selling handmade goods, but most of them have featured clock mechanisms inserted into a HD shell. Unlike those devices, the clock featured here actually uses the drive mechanism and heads to tell the time (the arms indicate minutes and the platter position used to indicate ...