Back in the Pentium days, Intel was boasting about hitting the 10GHz ceiling, but that crazily fond dream was killed by the NetBurst. Now that they have the Gulftown and better steppings, smaller process, Intel’s half way there breaking the party. What’re we talking about? We’re referring to the upcoming Core i7 990X that’s hitting shelves in few weeks! Gosh, yet another extreme processor from Intel that’s gonna hit the retail $999 price, or more. Read more…
It has been a decade bad habit that fatty gamers lean back on their couch while trying out their drifting skills in Gran Turismo. But now, you can rock on your chair while you do it, and fall down while you’re at it too, all thanks to the new X-Dream Gyroxus Gaming Chair. It can move, swing and is somewhat portable. With custom controllers, it’ll happily tag along when you’re gaming on your PS3 or Xbox 360. Sadly there’s no room for a wheel, pedals, and a cup holder to drift in Takumi-style. But for a heavy £399.95, it sounds more like a scam, as the Americans have been rocking and farting in this chair for over two years now, with a much lesser price of $250. Hopefully the following video can convince you enough of how fun this motion controlled chair is.
I guess you can consider a massage chair to be high tech when it’s able to link itself to an Apple iPhone or iPad. What claimed by the company to be the world’s first such massaging chair capable to link to iOS devices, this AcuTouch 9500 by Human Touch will let you control the intensity of your massage session via a free HT-Connect app on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. Just to give you more bang for the buck, there are also downloadable massage programs that are individually customized by doctors and sport stars – most of which you’ve probably never heard of, just to compensate you for buying this ridiculous gimmick. But they haven’t thought of how much they wish to scam you with this, yet so there’s no mention of the price. Stay tuned!
The U.S. Top Gear has been under quite some scrutiny, getting dropped, changing hosts, and many more. But now the first glory trailer for North American’s version of the wacky ‘lol-able’ automobile show is out! With the trailer out, it seemed that this time they’re getting it quite right, and that Tanner Foust, Rutledge Wood and Adam Ferrara will be winning viewers’ heart and making it big for the show too. Let’s just hope they won’t end up with too many complains for wrecking up sponsors’ cars like how the Australian Top Gear end up initially. The long-awaited U.S. version of Top Gear will be aired on The History Channel, with the similarly successful formula of cool tests and bizarre challenges, yet not forgetting those amazing super car reviews as usual.
When Lotus teased their Exos Type 125 track-day car, they mentioned “Ultimate Driving Experience”. But nobody actually think that Lotus would go this far as to providing a track-day car in the form of a near-F1 style track car. What’s more, the Exos is so wickedly name to resemble the 1Malaysia Lotus F1 racing team. The 125 was revealed to a few of Lotus’ friends at the Monterey Motorsports Pre-Reunion, and it’s about as close as many of its buyers will get to a Formula 1 car. Read more…
The Xperia 10 was rumoured back as far as November, and can you imagine it only emerge right about now? What gruesome tests were running in the certification process for the carriers? The Android-powered X10 will be ready for consumers’ purchase on 15th August.
Western Digital’s new Element Play is ready to let you store 2TB worth of Full-HD movies and blast it in your living room with its crystal clear DTS 2.0 digital audio. The HDMI port built-in will allow you to hook this box up to any Full-HD TV. If the built-in 2TB storage is not enough for your crazy collection, you can plunge in a portable drive through the USB interface. The integrated USB port also allows for your cameras and camcorders to be linked up to it. Supported formats are rather standard actually, as we have RMVB, H264, and MKV. The only feature missing here is video streaming, which is quite a let-down really. But the good thing is that you don’t need an external HDD anymore, which saves up lots of space actually.
Remember when the Frash gave iPad the possibility to view Flash objects? Now it’s here for the iPhone 4, courtesy of Comex. They have successfully compiled Adobe’s latest Flash 10.1 for Frash, and you can easily get `em to run on your iPhone 4. It’s very simple, jailbreak, download the .deb, upload it to Cydia\AutoInstall on your phone via SSH, restart and you’re done. [*Remember that Jailbreaking might brick your iPhone and warranty, so do it on your own risk]
Sony has put up a countdown on their Sony Style website, which hints on a new release sometime tomorrow. What we (and many others) are guessing is the Sony Xperia with Android. Apparently the four-inch Android smartphone is finally ready for its debut, though whether it’s “smarter” or no will perhaps hinge on which version of the OS it ships with.
Zachery Shivers and Anne Flinchbaugh has created a Kinect-like motion controlled robot, by using some accelerometer-equipped watch and plenty of circuit boards built onto the Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots. The key device here is Texas Instrument’s accelerometer-equipped Chronos watch, which lets you translate your actual punches into rock ‘em sock ‘em punches. This design is actually part of Texas Instruments’ Co-op Design Challenge. That’s how they do it, and that’s how the robots gonna kick yo! Check out the video below to see how the robots kick ass (barely…).
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