It’s Tuesday and it looks like the rumors are going to be true with new versions of the MacBook being available (APPLE MACB MB402LL/A and MB403LL/A) for prices ranging in the $1,150 and $1,350 range.
Let’s see what goodies we get in return of waiting for the Apple Store to come back.
After the airport firewall problem we’ve told you about last year, and the $500,000 prize to improve airport security we have something else for you. It’s TSA Gangstaz` funny video on airport security. With ingenious and clever lyrics that’s what I call awesome. Just make sure your boss won’t hear it as it’s not really “safe for work”.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7AWw7t5zj0[/youtube]
“Belt buckle money clip coins keys wallet purse/put some cheese on it run it through.”
You like it?
Not sure about you but I remember the “gadgets” of my childhood and I miss seeing them again. I would be really happy to use them just one more time. It would be really fun, though many of them may not work with the technology we have nowadays.
So here is what I miss the most.
I really had one when I was a kid. The first time I learned how to use the rotary I was very happy and for 3 hours I called all my buddies just to use it. I’m also sure it would still be fun to use one, but I think it’s only a Pulse version.
photo by BlazerMan
The first one I had was a GE T1151-B AM radio. I’m not that old as the radio but I got it from my grandfather and it was in a perfect condition. It’s now stacked up in the country, but I can bet my money if I were to put it on, it would work really well.
picture by captainsticky
This is the device I used at my first big birth-day party where it played all evening. My uncle had one and I had to watch him using it for at least one year before he allowed me to use it. You were supposed to be very careful with the tape.
At the time I was interested in cartoons there were no color TVs and if they were later introduced to the market, but the price was incredible high so my family couldn’t afford one. We had a diamant TV set, with manually tuning and from 7.30 to 8.30 pm this was my best friend. Tom & Jerry ruled.
I really wonder how a HD movie would look on something like that if I would be able to connect it. (photo by hilla)
photo by Idle Type
The soviets were top manufacturers back then for cameras and my parents had a Zorki while my uncle had a Smena. I remember that the pictures came out almost perfect with great colors and no blur. Just great. There was one small drawback. When you had to take the film out you were supposed to do it in the dark or the pictures would have been lost.
I’d sure like to use one again.
I remember I had one of these. It was cheap gadget but a great time killer. I used to take it with me when I was going on a bus-trip. I was competing against my father for the highest score.
Though, these days we have tetris on the iPhone or on the iPod I would sure like to power the old baby one more time and break the record. (photo by yelinna)
Did you have one of these?
So fun. It is a digital pet that we were supposed to feed, play games with or clean up. In a simple egg-shaped computer with a few buttons all of these were possible.
The company that invented the Tamagochi game is Bandai and because of the success the game had from 1996 when launched it was improved every year (until today).
Why I would power it one more time is obvious. To see if I can manage it as I did while I was a kid.
You probably had a Commodore computer or a ZX-Spectrum, but the one I had was dubbed CIP-03 was produced by a Romanian company and was running on Basic-s. This was my first encounter with computer games. My favorite games were Renegade (1 and 2), Chuckie Egg (1 and 2) and Saboteur (1 and 2) but I had limited access to them, only after finishing my homeworks.
Playing these games again on my old computer would be awesome.
photo by circa70
This would make a great addition to my living room so I’m not sure if I would power it just once. If I were to have a rusty retro/old fridge I would invest a few bucks to make it work and look shinny again. Then I’d fill it with beer. A piece of furniture filled with beer, sounds right don’t you think?
Pegas? I hear you asking. It’s a retro-bicycle launched in the `80s that was very popular when I was young. The kid that had one of these was the one because everyone was asking for a quick ride. It had no speeds, the breaks were not great but we still loved it.
It would be fun to use my Pegas bicycle in the park, on a weekend. I wonder what would those with high-tech bikes would say. (photo by oohp)
These are my top 10 picks but I’m sure you guys have more to add. Put it in comments below.
When it comes to RAM it’s never enough. If you have 512MB you need at least 1GB and when you have it, then the next step is 2GB. It’s like money. The more the merrier. Here is where MetaRAM comes into the picture. Apparently they’ve developed a new technology that can double or quadruple the performances of your DIMM RAM module.
How does MetaRAM work?
It uses a 3D chip stacking technology to put extra SDRAM chips onto a DIMM that will actually make it 2 or 4 times “bigger”. However these additions wouldn’t work without the secret recipe : some sort of custom chips that obviously work only on those custom designed circuits.
“We had to make our chip look like a DRAM to the memory controller, and like a memory controller to the DRAMs,” said Suresh Rajan, the MetaRAM co-founder.
MetaRAM also uses WakeOnUse technology that keeps all the SDRAM chips asleep until they are needed. This should help read and write times and of course will reduce power consumption to around 2.5 watts.
One of the company’s channel partners will soon announce a server that will be packed with 256GB (should allow up to 500GB) of main memory and the price is going to be under $50,000.
256GB is enough, right guys ?
Here is the more detailed story : ArsTechnica
Sony just announced their newest addition to their digital camera portfolio, Cyber-Shot DSC-H50.It’s a new super-zoom with a 9.1 megapixel sensor, that upgrades the Cyber-Shot DSC H9, and works with Carl Zeiss 15x optical zoom lens. It also features a 3-inch tilted LCD display, up to ISO 3,200 and an improved flash that works up to 55-feet.
Another great feature is the “advanced sports” shooting mode that can provide uber-fast shutter speeds of up to 1/4000 seconds. We’re expecting the camera to go on sale in May and the retail price is going to be around $400. I think I may have a reason to change my compact camera now and review it for you guys.
We don’t have a category tagged precision but this is where this little electronic insect should be put. It’s a solar-powered dragonfly that was designed by James Watt and thanks to those solar cells it can flap its wings thanks to a pager motor. I don’t know how that guy managed to make it look so real or if it can fly to your neighbor’s front porch and annoy the old guy but I love it.
If it’s privacy that you want and you don’t like that surveillance camera to see you there is a solution. You have to use an array of bright infrared LED devices that would “blind” the CCDs in security cameras while the face is monitored by a light ball over. Until the German guy showcased his new URA / FILOART device (yes, weird name) I didn’t knew that the IR LEDs could be used for something better than improving night vision.
This is good news but I just don’t want thieves to use these “inventions” to help them out.
via HackedGadgets
Samsung is going to push hard to bring the 250GB SSD by the end of 2008, said flash memory marketing chief Michael Yang. They are already producing the 128GB version that should start shipping in the third quarter of the year while the 64GB SSD is already packed ultra-thin notebooks such as Lenovo ThinkPad X300 or Apple’s MacBook Air.
The new drive is going to use MLC technology (multi level cell) which is slower than the SLC (simple level cell) drive but reduces cost because it stacks more data on the same cell. However, there is no official word on using Parallel ATA like we have in the MacBook Air or they will upgrade to Serial ATA connectors.
Yang also mentioned the fact that they may start working on new dimensions (smaller of course) to make even thinner laptops. So far companies developed on the 1.8 or 2.5-inch platforms.
via CNET
For those geeks out there with no wife yet (me included) this is what we should aim for.
We have Brian, a happy husband. 5 years ago his wife made a giant Mario quilt that is roughly 6-feet wide and 8-feet tall and hangs nicely on the wall in the basement gameroom. She used 16 different fabrics which makes it a 4-bit color quilt and it has 36 columns over 44 rows.
via BoingBoing
The latest buzz in new laptop being announced is to use Intel’s newest 45nm processors, Penryn. Toshiba wouldn’t want to miss anything so they released two new models.
The first one is Toshiba Satellite A300 which apparently upgrades the older A200 and includes a 15.4-inch display, up to 2GB of RAM, 160GB hard drive, two processor models Core 2 Duo T5500 (A300-124) or T8100 (A300-11I) and a 1.3 megapixel camera. Other goodies include a built-in fingerprint reader and Harman Kardon speakers. The price is $1,500 or something very similar to it.
On the other hand, the new Toshiba Satellite P300 that features a 17-inch display was a little scarce on details. It will probably come up with something similar as the A300 but there’s no price available so far.
via Engadget
