Archive for March 5th, 2008

DARPA sets sights on aircraft capable of five-year flight

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Filed under: Transportation DARPA's certainly not lacking for ambitious projects these days, but it looks like it's about to get another big one underway nonetheless, with it reportedly now close to awarding contracts for its Vulture program, which aims to build an unmanned aircraft capable of a non-stop five-year flight. As ...

Video: Nabaztag reads bedtime stories better than daddy

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Robots, Wireless The Nabaztag WiFi rabbit learned a new trick at CeBIT: reading RFID tagged children's books. Violet already loosed a book in France at Christmas and now plans to launch its first English language book in the UK within the month. Right, that's one less parental ...

HDD Stage Rack gets even better: now with 300% more FireWire

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Filed under: Storage Just like fine wine, the HDD Stage Rack keeps getting better with age. On its third iteration now, the latest version of the external HDD cradle not only includes the obligatory USB and eSATA ports, but it also boasts a 6-pin FireWire 400 connector and two FireWire 800 ...

Dreamcom 10 series laptop is totally adjustable, ergonomic

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Filed under: Laptops CeBIT never fails to produce some fairly zany kit, and just like last year, we've got yet another incredibly weird laptop hitting the scene that promises to be your neck's best friend. The Dreamcom 10 series machine features a vertically adjustable LCD along with a docking station to ...

Another Xbox 360 price cut around the corner?

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Filed under: GamingFrom the sound of things Microsoft is busy hunkering down in anticipation of a strong PS3 resurgence, what with the victory of Blu-ray, introduction of DualShock3, and release of MGS4 -- and not just to accommodate Canada. Rumor has it that the Xbox will see another healthy price ...

Logitech’s ClearChat PC wireless stereo headset does VoIP, too

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets What's the use in having a wireless set of cans to rock with and a separate contraption to make / receive Skype calls on? Exactly, thus the Logitech ClearChat PC was born. Of course, it's certainly not the first cordless set of stereo headphones to sport a ...

Fujitsu’s LifeBook P8010 gets reviewed

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Filed under: Laptops Believe it or not, it wasn't even two months ago that we laid hands on the up and coming Fujitsu LifeBook P8010 at CES, and shortly after becoming available to the masses, PC Magazine has rounded one up for review. Right out of the box, the unit was ...

Think tank pins Apple’s iPod as possible culprit for increase in violent crime

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video We know what you're thinking, and trust us, we're right there with you. Nevertheless, The Urban Institute, a Washington-based think tank, has reportedly come to the conclusion that the reason US violent crime rose in 2005 and 2006 after declining every year since 1991 is ...