Archive for March 25th, 2008

Western Digital rolls out colorful new My Passport Elite USB hard drives

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Filed under: Storage Western Digital has never been one to skimp on color choices for its portable hard drives, and it now busted out the crayons yet again for its new batch of My Passport Elite USB drives. Available in bronze, titanium, westminster blue and cherry red, the drives each boast ...

ASUS EAH3850 Trinity crams three Radeon GPUs onto one card

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming Forget FPS and polygon crunching, we want one of these ASUS EAH3850 just for its sheer logic-defying properties. ASUS really took AMD's CrossFireX multi-GPU capabilities and ran with them, stuffing a ludicrous trio of GPUs onto a single "concept" card. Three RV670 cores power the setup, and ...

Indian Blackberry network given 15 days to allow government snooping or shut down

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Filed under: CellphonesThe last we'd heard, the Indian government had ruled out the threat of a Blackberry ban if RIM didn't allow it to snoop on messages, but it looks like some overzealous bureaucrat is getting his way after all: the Department of Telecom has issued a 15-day deadline for ...

Robot babysitter keeps kids occupied in Japanese store

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Filed under: Robots Inhuman babysitters aren't all that uncommon around the world, but a new creature recently placed in a Japanese department store is a godsend for shopaholics with rugrats in tow. Developed by Tmsuk, the 1.4-meter tall bot is employed at a Fukuoka retailer in order to keep watch over ...

NVIDIA’s 9800 GX2-based Quad SLI solution gets mixed reviews

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming NVIDIA's high-end GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card has been pretty well received on its own, but it looks to be decidedly more of a mixed bag when it comes to a Quad SLI configuration, at least according to a pair of early reviews. Least impressed with ...

NASA won’t dampen exploratory spirit of Mars rovers

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Filed under: Robots Back in November, we knew things weren't looking up for the twin Mars rovers, but it seems that both Spirit and Opportunity will still be doing their respective thangs after a letter foreshadowing their doom was rescinded. Reportedly, the entity was tasked to slash $4 million from the ...