Archive for October 20, 2006

A REAL-LIFE Cloaking Device!

It sounds like something out of a comic book, or Lord of the Rings, I know. But there’s a chance that invisibility – real-life, honest-to-God invisibility – may actually be possible, some day.
The technology doesn’t come from some dubious unknown inventor, but from Professor Sir John Pendry, the legendary theoretical physicist.

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More NVIDIA nForce 600 Series Details Revealed

NVIDIA is set to release its upcoming nForce 600 series of chipsets in the first half of November. DailyTech has come across more details of the upcoming chipsets including the nForce 680i SLI, 650i SLI and 650i Ultra
—all for Intel’s land-grid-array 775 socket. At the top of the nForce 600 chain is the nForce 680i SLI MCP.

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Review: ATI Radeon X1950 Pro

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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Toshiba’s Head Mounted Display

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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How To Get Free Stuff At Trade Shows

How To Get Free Stuff At Trade Shows. I’m no talking just a T-shirt or a pen. I’m talking some score some serious hardware, like 1GB flash drives and 700 watt power supplies. Come find out how to do it.

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AMD Quad-Father 4X4 Update - Configurations Come Into Focus

Recently we spent some time in private conference with AMD down in the lovely city of New York and learned of a few more details with respect to their upcoming “4X4″ platform offering and a two-chip, dual-core CPU bundle affectionately dubbed the “Quad Father”.

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