Category: Hardware News

Feb 13

Charge, protect and light your Amazon Kindle with this “Solar Leather Lighted Cover for Kindle 4″

Every once in a while you find a gadget accessory that you simply must have. And well, while I am not really sure what this one will say about myself I will go on record as saying I need to pick up one of these Solar Leather Lighted Cover for Kindle 4 cases. Just as the name would imply, this is a cover for the latest-generation Kindle and it has a light and is powered by the sun. It looks like this has been kicking around Amazon for about a month or so, however that being said it was new (and interesting) to me and I thought it may also be new (and interesting) for you.

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Feb 05

Will Samsung Be Launching A Voice And Gesture Controlled Tablet?

Recently, Laptop Magazine interviewed Ryan Bidan, Samsungs Product Marketing Manager, to provide hints on what tablet and mobile innovations we can expect to see from the tech company in the coming months. Bidan reveals that Samsung is experimenting with voice and motion control to be rolled out on its devices, explaining that:

We’re going to see a lot of work happen around things like the S Pen, voice, and the evolution of touch around 3D gestures, so free space type gestures, as well as facial recognition. W

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Jan 20

Alienware X51 is What it Takes to Be Small and Terrible

The year is just starting and Alienware is already out for conquest. Its latest weapon is the new Alienware X51 ITX gaming desktop that’s aimed to the more space conscious yet hardcore gamers. Don’t let the small size fool you though, true to its Alienware ancestry, underneath miniature form factor lies blood curling hardware that would put any ITX systems or even full desktop systems to shame. This small gaming desktop is powered by none other than latest Intel’s Core series processors with the Core i3 outfitted for base configuration. The n

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Jan 17

Filmmakers Use Technology to Create Classic-Style Films

Professor Wilmarth explores the Mi-Go cave, in a scene from the film “The Whisperer in Darkness.”
Long before Cthulhu became a Web meme about the ultimate doom of the world we know, the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society was well at work bringing life to the works of the master of strange horror. After five years of work, the HPLHS just released the film “The Whisperer in Darkness”. The film recounts the tale by H.P. Lovecraft, following professor Albert Wilmarth as he investigates legends of terrifying creatures in the remote hills of Vermont. The f Full Post…

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Jan 09

1TB USB Drive unveiled

CES 2012 is finally under way, and one of the biggest surprises of the event thus far comes courtesy of Victorinox, the guys behind the Swiss Army Knife. The company unveiled a pair of Swiss Army Knife-styled storage drives, one of which holds a capacity of 1TB.

What was unveiled

The company unveiled the Victorinox Slim 3.0 drive, a USB 3.0 drive which reads and writes faster than the now universal USB 2.0 drives.

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