Archive for October 22nd, 2008

Hardcore Computer bringing oil submersion cooling to the masses

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Filed under: Desktops Dousing your gaming rig in oil is a technique we've seen from custom shops before, but not quite like the offerings from Minnesota-based start-up Hardcore Computer. Its Reactor line of submerged gaming rigs, shipping to real, live customers in about a month, use custom enclosures to dunk everything ...

PlantBot takes your flora in search of sun (and fun!)

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Filed under: Household, Robots You try and you try to keep your plants well-watered and situated in the brightest spot you can find, but that darned sun has an annoying tendency to move and leave your urban foliage wilting. You could try leaving them in the window, or switching to creepy ...

Toshiba gets serious with $4k Qosmio X305-Q708 gaming laptop

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Filed under: Laptops Look out, Alienware / Voodoo -- a formidable opponent just rolled in, and it appears that some prankster stuck a Toshiba logo on whatever machine is hiding underneath. All jesting aside, Tosh is revamping its -- shall we say, vivid -- Qosmio X305 by introducing the Qosmio X305-Q708, ...

Google opens the floodgates, open-sources Android

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds Making good on a promise it made at the very beginning, Google has today announced that the source code underpinning its Android platform for mobile devices is available for free to anyone who wants a crack at it. The code is being provided through the newly-announced Android ...