Archive for January 17th, 2008

XtremeMac’s Luna X2 is ready to rule

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Video When it comes to iPod docking alarm clocks, few can face-off with XtremeMac's Luna. Now there's the Luna X2. Normally we'd shred the puffery found in phrases like "world class iPod audio system," "crystal clear display," and a design meant to "complement any room's decor." ...

Buffalo adds new 1TB and 2TB storage options to its lineup

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Filed under: Storage Your good pals at Buffalo are injecting some new storage options into your life, so you might want to pay attention (especially if you're a Japanese citizen). The company is introducing a new line of RAID 0, four-drive models called the QSIBSU2 HD / R, featuring eSATA, USB, ...

Scientists create darkest material ever

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Researchers at a US laboratory claim to have created the darkest material ever; a carbon nanotube which is one atom thick and rolled into a cylinder. For an object to be completely black, it must absorb all the colors of light over every angle and wavelength while ...

Dell overtakes HP in US sales, HP plans elaborate retaliation

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops Dell must be doing something right, because according to recent sales figures, the PC maker has topped HP as the number one computer supplier in the States. The Texas-based computer-maker saw sales hit 5.35-million units in the fourth quarter of 2007 (a jump of 15.2-percent over the ...

Survey finds Apple users have sense of superiority — no wait, hear us out

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Wait up, hang on here -- you're telling us a personality profiling conducted on 7,500 people at Apple's biggest tub-thumping event of the year, Macworld, yielded results that would suggest Apple users "are more liberal, less modest, and more assured of their own superiority than the population ...

Infection alert: Insignia 10.4-inch photo frame kindly bundled with trojan

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Filed under: Household We haven't exactly gotten a torrent of email complaints from angry Best Buy customers, but for anyone wondering why the $230 Insignia 10.4-inch photo frame got pulled from shelves last week, here's your answer: they were manufactured, like devices sometimes are, with a supposedly "old and easily removed" ...

Sharp hooks up Syntax-Brillian with LCD panels aplenty

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Filed under: Displays, HDTVIt looks like Syntax-Brillian (makers of Olevia LCD TVs) won't be scrounging around for LCD panels anytime in the near future, as the company has just announced that it's signed a deal with Sharp that'll see the company deliver a minimum of 700,000 LCD panels to 'em ...