AMD held a press event yesterday to demonstrate its next-generation processing technology. Included in the line-up were upcoming products including AMD K10 Phenom processors, RD790 chipsets and ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics cards.
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AMD Demos Dual Quad Core PC
Creating Fire With the Sun
If you think about this for a second it makes perfect sense: what better resource is there to start a fire with than a 1.988 435×10E30 kg ball of nuclear fueled combustion? Why worry about matches that can get wet or lighters that run out of fuel when you can harness an energy source that will be around several billion years.
At $20 this gadget can be a great help around the campfire or kitchen and also comes with a bottle opener in the base, though, I'm not sure opening beer's and lighting fires is the best combination.
Solar Powered Lighter [via uberreview]
TV-Fridges: Latest Home Appliance Trend?
I frequent the refrigerator several times a day and I find that I'm really only there for a quick moment, just long enough to get what I need and I'm on my way. Apparently the rest of the world has a craving watch television while "fridging?" fridging - v. To stand near a refrigerator and long for something to do.
This latest product from LG, a TV-fridge "convergence appliance" comes complete with a 15-inch LCD including HDTV capabilities. For $4,000 though, one would expect at least DVD playback capabilities.
One potential flaw in the design is the TV is right next to the ice dispenser; not only is this a poor height for anyone over 4 feet in height, but should you ever be watching a channel about an ice dispenser someone could mistakenly put a glass through the screen.
The latest convergence trend: fridge TVs [via cnet]
OWC’s 2TB RAID Array
It seems like only yesterday when we were laughing at 32 bit storage and "gigabytes", "who would ever use that much space?" we asked ourselves? Now we have new forms of digital media such as Blu-ray and HD-DVD with up to 50GB of storage capacity; this demands larger hard drive space to create and backup media to this storage formats.
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Creative’s New Notebook Soundcard Available Late May
Quality 7.1 surround sound audio is a feature sadly missing from most notebooks on the market. The upcoming Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio Notebook from Creative hopes to change that.
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XBox 360 Dashboard Update Released
XBox360's bi-annual dashboard update has finally been released bring a number of changes to XBox users, most noteably the integration of the Windows Live Messenger into the XBOX 360 Dashboard.
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Water-Cooled Laptops From HP/Voodoo This Fall
HP seems to be making the news in the laptop department quite a bit lately with the recent break of the HDX laptop news, the latest development indicates HP will be releasing water-cooled laptops this fall.
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New HP Pavilion HDX Images
Images have been leaked of the Hewlett-Packard Pavilion HDX, a gaming laptop based on Intel's new Santa Rosa platform. From a 20" widescreen display to the integrated media remote control this machine has all the features a mobile gamer could want.
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No BlackJack Update Until Q3?
While not set in stone, rumor on the street is the BlackJack won't be getting a Windows Mobile 6 update until 3rd quarter. An industry source states the BlackJack won't see an update until sometime "after June."
T-Mobile's Dash received their update last week though no information on an update for AT&T users has been released yet.
What can AT&T users do in the meantime to get their ROM updating fix on? There's a minor update available directly from Samsung that will improve roaming capabilities.
Samung BlackJack Getting Windows Mobile 6 Update After June? [via gizmodo]
Samsung YP-U3 MP3 Player, Specs Leaked
Specs for the new Samsung YP-U3 have leaked recently. This iPod Shuffle rival will be available in 1, 2 and 4GB models and sport a 1-inch OLED display.
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More Internet Explorer 8 Details
It has not yet been a year since Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 to the world and already details are coming through regarding Internet Explorer 8. Chris Wilson, Platform Architect of the Internet Explorer Platform, disclosed information on the new version of IE on Microsoft blogs, but this information has since been removed.
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Hotmail Gets Face Lift on Monday
This Monday, after over a year in development, Microsoft will update Hotmail.com to Windows Live Hotmail, a service that provides more storage capacity and communication features.
Beyond a 2GB storage capacity upgrade, Hotmail users can expect an updated user interface that draws heavily from Microsoft's Outlook mail application. Featuring the latest in ajax wizardry the new user interface promises to be responsive and intuitive, though users will be able to disable these effects.
Other features include e-mail conversation grouping and enhanced connectivity to Messenger. Users of Hotmail will not be required to do anything to receive these enhancements, all accounts will be upgraded automatically on Monday.
New version of Hotmail to launch next week [via tgdaily]
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