Archive for August 12th, 2008

NVIDIA releases new Quadro Plex D CUDA desktop rigs

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, PeripheralsNVIDIA's really pushing the GPU-as-CPU angle at SIGGRAPH this year -- we've already seen the PhysX and CUDA-powered GeForce Power Pack for consumers, and the company is also updating the Quadro Plex series of visual co-processors for workstation customers. The new Quadro Plex 2200 D2, designed for ...

Japanese researchers craft “e-skin” to let robots feel

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Filed under: RobotsThe folks at the University of Tokyo have been trying to create more touchy, feely robots for what seems like ages, and they now look to have made some real progress with their so-called "e-skin," which promises to give robots a more human-like sense of touch. To do ...

Dell announces new Latitude E series

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Filed under: Laptops Dell's dropping a ton of new laptops on us today, and first up are the new Latitudes. Just like we'd heard, the E series is replacing the Ds, with seven new models total. As you no doubt remember from our Week o' Dell Scoops, the E6500, E6400, E5500, ...

Dell lets slip new, sexy Precision M6400, M4400 and M2400 mobile workstations

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Filed under: LaptopsDell seems to at last put those eye-sore days behind it with its new round of Precision laptops, the M6400, M4400 and the M2400, featuring all-new designs and colored lids, and following up on the 17-inch M6300, 15.4-inch M4300 and the 14-inch M2400, respectively. In the M6300 17-inch ...

New “nanoantenna” material sucks heat from any source to cool devices, generate electricity

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets We're always up for another way to harvest energy from the sun, but this new nanoantenna material developed by the DoE's Idaho National Laboratory makes solar panels seem a little passe. The material, composed of tiny gold antennas set in polyethylene plastic is tuned to gather 80 ...