Archive for July 14th, 2008

PowerColor PCS HD4850 graphics card packs 2GB of memory

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Filed under: Gaming, PeripheralsRemember how we all swooned over Diamond's ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT in June of last year? At the time, that was pretty much your only shot at seeing 1GB of memory on a single graphics card. Fast forward to now, and we've got what's widely believe ...

Keruve GPS locator promises to keep watch on Alzheimer’s patients

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Filed under: GPS There's plenty of people-tracking GPS devices out there to choose from, but if you're in need of something a bit more specialized, you may want to consider this latest device from Keruve, which is apparently intended specifically for Alzheimer's patients. To that end, the system employs a GPS ...

Crab Fu’s Flapper fish bot creeps us the hell out

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Filed under: Robots Remember that one time when you went fishing with your dad, and you got a bite and lugged the fish onto the dock, only to watch it thrash around on the dock for a little bit like the most pitiful thing alive, so then you felt bad and ...

ASUS points finger at Intel over lack of Eee PC 901s in the UK

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Filed under: LaptopsAs if we needed any further developments to muddy the Eee PC waters, it seems that there's a curious lack of Linux-based Eee PC 901s available at stores in the UK at the moment, and ASUS is apparently laying the blame squarely at Intel, not Microsoft. As Register ...

Nintendo’s Wii MotionPlus add-on makes the Wii Remote a true 1:1 motion controller

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals While we saw it hinted at in patents, Nintendo is springing quite the doozy on us at E3 in the form of its new Wii MotionPlus add-on. Perhaps in a preemptive strike against supposed Wiimote competition from the likes of Microsoft and Sony, Nintendo is beefing up ...