Filed under: Features, Gaming
There’s only a choose few titles that are really worth obsessing by for nearly half a year, but apparently, Rock Band is indeed a member of that upper echelon. After months of drooling by images of the game’s accompanying hardware assortment, the star-studded title has …

Filed under: Digital Cameras
It looks like those looking to put together a quick and easy surveillance system for spying on their employees could soon find their solution courtesy of NEC, which is set to debut a new shield cam that draws all its potential from a standard fluorescent light. But that’…

Filed under: LaptopsIt’s not like ThinkPads have been immune to the notorious overheating battery issue, but a fiery incident in Ohio may not be IBM’s fault. In a somewhat weird tale, it’s reported that an Ohioan purchased a replacement battery from Shentech for his ThinkPad, only to later have it o…

Filed under: GamingDetails are unsurprisingly light on that one, but DigiTimes has it that NVIDIA is gearing up to launch its next-generation GPU just after the Lunar New Year in February 2008. Reportedly, “sources at graphics card makers” have revealed that the GeForce 9 series will include the D9E…

Filed under: Transportation
This one’s been making the rounds lately, but we’d be remiss whether we didn’t take a moment to acknowledge any invention that boasts to be the “Segway of the sky,” which is just what upstart Air Buoyant claims its so-called “Vertipod” could one day be. According to Dange…

Building by the success of USB and USB 2.0, a new set of detailed specifications for a “USB 3.0” will be available in January. Here are the highlights:

It will be called Super-USB
It should be as fast as 4.8Gbps (10x USB 2.0)
It is backwards-compatible
Power consumption will be smarte…

Filed under: Handhelds
What is it with that sick delight we derive from watching beloved devices torn to pieces by ruthless uber-nerds? Who knows, but it certainly isn’t getting old just yet. Amazon’s Kindle got just such treatment at the hands of RapidRepair, and whether you’re one of those doubter…