October 19, 2006 by Brad.

General Dynamics has just released a new video demonstrating its Trophy Active Defense System, which is basically an invisible force field for military vehicles that disables incoming RPG rounds. Direct youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62jzAupr044

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October 19, 2006 by Brad.

Unlike the R580 variants used on the other members of the X1900 family which are built on TSMC’s 90nm line, the RV570 is built on the company’s 80nm node. The RV570 also has a different pixel shader / vertex shader configuration, and in perhaps the biggest departure from the from the R580, the RV570 has native CrossFire support.

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October 19, 2006 by Brad.

At the Society for Information Display conference during early June, Toshiba presented a novel hyper-reality display called Head Dome Projector. The projector consisted of a compact dome-shaped screen with a radius of 40cm, a mobile projector with ultra-wide projection lens, and LED light sources.

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October 19, 2006 by Brad.

The $179 OnAir GT by start-up AutumnWave is an ashtray-size high-definition tuner that plugs into your laptop, turning it into an HDTV set.

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October 19, 2006 by Brad.

Four in-wheel motors would give this car a top speed of 286 mph, 1091 horsepower, and 0-62 in 3 seconds.

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October 19, 2006 by Brad.

At the Intel developer forum this past spring, Intel announced that the company would include 1GB of flash memory integrated into its upcoming mobile chipsets. The technology, dubbed Robson, is part of the Santa Rosa Centrino platform, expected to launch in the second quarter of 2007.

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