Archive for January 3rd, 2008

Belkin’s RockStar channels jams to five others

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio Sure, we've seen star-shaped hubs before, and headphone splitters are a dime a dozen, but Belkin is out to make sure your entire posse can get a listen to your favorite tune whenever they please. The six-port RockStar audio hub touts a single input-only socket alongside ...

Powramid E-900H from Kreative Power: why didn’t you think of this?

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Filed under: CES, Peripherals We've seen plenty of concepts aimed at squeezing all those pesky power bricks into the same "power strip" -- and redefined the term in the process -- but the Powramid E-900H might be the closest approximation of practical among the group. There's really not much to this ...

Microsoft announces Windows Rally network device framework, shows off first product

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras, NetworkingIt's strange that we haven't heard a peep about this earlier, but apparently Microsoft's been working on a suite of bundled network discovery and configuration tools called Windows Rally, designed to ease ODM development of network devices and make them as easy to use as USB ...

CoolIT debuting new line of liquid cooling solutions at CES

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Filed under: CES, Desktops, Peripherals If you've been toying with the idea of overclocking your rig, you may want to prevent it from experiencing any catastrophic meltdowns. Looking out for you (and your hardware) is CoolIT, which is readying a new lineup of liquid cooling innovations for release at CES. Among ...

Boston-Power scores $45 million in funding, expands production capacity

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Filed under: Laptops It's been a little while since we last heard from the folks at Boston-Power, who've been touting their better, safer laptop batteries for over a year now, but it looks like they've been doing anything but resting on their laurels, and they now seem set to step up ...

Joby introduces Zivio Bluetooth headset with boom mic

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones Generally speaking, boom microphones run counter to the logic that a Bluetooth headset should be as small and discreet as possible, but Joby may have stumbled upon a solution that brings the audio benefits without making the sides of our faces look too ridiculous. The Zivio Bluetooth 2.0 ...

Zealot leaps onto subway tracks to retrieve iPhone

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Filed under: CellphonesAt first listen, one may assume that leaping onto subway tracks for an iPhone is completely and utterly insane, and while we'd tend to agree, it's not like we haven't seen folks do similarly zany things in the heat of the moment. Reportedly, a vacationer in New York ...

Skinit brings skins to D-Link routers, world sighs

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Filed under: CES, Networking Yeah, Skinit has been providing skins of all sorts to a myriad devices for some time now, but apparently, it has just gotten around to teaming up with D-Link. Granted, we've no idea what type of cruel, tactless individual would actually go so far as to spend ...