February 27, 2007 by Brad.

Adtron recently announced a large enough flash based hard drive that we’d actually be able to replace our old platter based ones! At least in our laptops

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February 27, 2007 by Brad.

Written by a blogger with 20+ years in the auto industry, this clever, descriptive post looks at the issues holding back sweet cars like the Tesla Roadster from being within everyone’s budget, and why it will still take many years for electric cars (like the Chevy Volt) to be a legitimate option for major auto manufacturers. Edumacate yourself.

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February 27, 2007 by Brad.

Running out of diskspace? Want more permanent storage? How about some bacteria? “Japanese scientists found a way to literally put a message into genes. A research team said this week it had developed a technology for storing digital data in the DNA of bacteria, which unlike most living organisms can survive for millennia in the right conditions.

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February 23, 2007 by Brad.

The first wave of Athlon 64 X2 6000+ reviews focused on performance in Windows XP with 32-bit apps, but what happens when AMD’s latest faces multi-threaded 64-bit apps in Vista x64? The Tech Report has the answer, complete with a unique take on power consumption testing that actually measures the energy used to complete a task.

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February 23, 2007 by Brad.

Alright. You just ran over your laptop and you are ready to replace that cracked LSD
’d LCD display. This is a general guide on how to replace an LCD on a laptop. Replacing an LCD is second to the most costly repair next to replacing the motherboard. This will help you in repairing an LCD that has been damaged or destroyed.

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February 23, 2007 by Brad.

Kirk Skaugen, general manager of Intel’s Server Platform Group says “Today I’m happy to announce for the first time that our server 45nm Xeon products based on the Penryn core will be available into production for the second half of 2007.” Penryn-based Xeon processors will utilize the same server platform as Xeon 5000, 5100 and 5300.

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February 23, 2007 by Brad.

After some rough times a few months back in Art Lebedev land, all seems to be as it should be of late: they feed us hype, we eat it up, everybody wins! We’re particularly partial (read: brainwashed) by this latest development on the Optimus 103 keyboard front.

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February 17, 2007 by Brad.

Quote: “OCZ has come out with what I consider one of the most innovative products to hit the market in a long time. The FlexXLC (Xtreme Liquid Convention) copper / aluminum heatsink has the “flex”ability to function as a passive air cooler or as a liquid cooled solution. The ability to watercool the memory right out of the box will allow you to…”

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February 17, 2007 by Brad.

A Canadian company with substantial venture capital backing claims to have built a “quantum computer” that will ultimately solve problems beyond the power of conventional systems - and will demonstrate it over a live link next week.

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February 17, 2007 by Brad.

New info on this Intel project shows actual CPU design including floating point units, networking logic and even clock speeds and power consumption data.

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