September 9, 2006 by Brad.

NVIDIA is announcing two GPUs at popular price points today continuing their current GeForce 7 family. The GeForce 7900 GS is today’s hard-launch and we
â??ve got a full retail package XFX brand GeForce 7900 GS that we evaluate in seven games. Real games…not a canned benchmark fest leaving you with what you don’t need to know.

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September 9, 2006 by Brad.

The truth is that those expensive (and sometimes exploding) batteries are little more than repackaged NiMH AA cells. Replacement batteries run over $100. The cost of 6 AAs? Under $20.

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September 9, 2006 by Brad.

” The Underground Fortress is an 8th wonder of the world! …The Fortress goes a total of 45 feet under the house! That is below sea level! The fortress has over 1600 sq. ft. of living area, plus hundreds of more square feet of passages and secrets rooms.” Reminds me of the bunkers in ‘Lost.’ Many photos.

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September 9, 2006 by Brad.

Strategically located in the mountains of Southwest Colorado, this patented steel-reinforced concrete earth home was built to withstand almost any natural or man-made disaster you can name. Yet still has a level of comfort that one might not expect to find in an underground home. Also has OFFGRID solar power backup and natural gas heating.

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September 9, 2006 by Brad.

BMW was not kidding when it said it would offer a 7-Series with a hydrogen combustion engine within two years. The company is now testing actual production prototypes. The cars can run on both gasoline and hydrogen. No electric motors are involved. When running on hydrogen, there are no emissions.

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September 9, 2006 by Brad.

A cool computer 3D digital display and interface ala Minority Report.

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September 9, 2006 by Brad.

Trolltech announced the Greenphone, which is thought to be the first fully reprogrammable Linux phone. CEO Haavard Nord says, “It’s kind of mind-boggling for developers, everybody usually wants to protect the software in their phone, but we want to let the developers experiment and innovate.”

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September 9, 2006 by Brad.

New website that lets you see all the pics in the For Sale and Housing Craigslist sections all on 1 page. Similar to iPhoto you can see and scroll through many pics at once, plus iPhoto-like pic resizing. No need to click in/out of all listings to see the pics. Has all cities, search, prices and locations, quick listing preview. Find things better.

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September 9, 2006 by Brad.

A little competition for Conroe? AMD is supposedly preparing to ship the 65nm versions of their processors next month.

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September 9, 2006 by Brad.

Governments seeking inexpensive technology to warn of tsunamis may be interested in a free application that monitors vibrations in the hard disks of computers in an effort to detect undersea earthquakes that cause tsunamis. The Tsunami Harddisk Detector captures vibration data and shares it with computers connected via a P2P network.

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