Archive for April 1st, 2008

Driverless vehicles to race at Robotic Grand Prix

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Filed under: Transportation Your favorite driverless vehicles from the DARPA Urban Challenge are getting set to tackle yet another task -- speed racing. Yep, Junior, Boss (pictured) and Ben will all be greasing their gears in an attempt to outrun the others around one lap of the 1.97-mile, 11-turn circuit, all ...

NVIDIA’s GeForce 9800 GTX officially launched, officially fast

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming If you checked into those NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX benchmarks and felt they met with your high standards, now you can actually get one (or a bunch) into your rig. According to reports, the brain-laser of a graphics card can now be had (in various iterations) for ...

Toshiba redesigns four Satellite families, intros Sleep-and-Charge USB ports

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Filed under: Laptops, Peripherals Just in case a completely ho hum 17-incher wasn't enough to keep your attention this morning, Toshiba is trumpeting its "design prowess" by introducing four "re-imagined" Satellites. As of today, the 13.3-inch U400, 14.1-inch M300, 15.4-inch A300 (pictured) and 17-inch P300 have all been ever-so-slightly refreshed with ...

3D VisWall makes scientists drool, your flat-panel weep

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Filed under: Displays, HDTV Rest assured, we've witnessed quite a few astounding scientific displays set deep within university research labs, but it'd be mighty hard to cover up the $350,000 monolith residing at the Tufts University School of Engineering. The VisWall, unsurprisingly a product of Visbox, combines twin backscreen projectors ...

Samsung lets loose Blue Wave 3 firmware update for P2, T10 PMPs

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video Samsung's first two "Blue Wave" firmware updates for its P2 and T10 PMPs came in relatively quick succession, but it's taken a bit longer for the third one to make its way out the door. Those in Korea can now give their players another boost, ...

Microsoft announces Windows Mobile 6.1, device upgrades

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds Though it's been circulating through the user community (and a Sony Ericsson lab or two) for a little while now, Windows Mobile 6.1 had never gotten officially official in its own right -- until now. Microsoft has taken the wraps off the latest rendition of its mobile ...