Tag Archives : System

Whatever you do with 32GB of system memory in a workstation notebook is strictly your business—but man, am I curious. Still, impressive of Dell to make the M6500 the undisputed champ of laptop memory. That much of an upgrade won’t come cheap; the 32GB configuration will set you back $9,300 when it hits later this afternoon. [Dell]

No operating system, be it a desktop one or for a handheld device, can be complete without a good web browser. Recently, the Beta version of the browser SkyFire 2.2 was released Google’s Android operating system. The version number to be exact is 2.2.0.18794; the new version brings several improvements to its predecessor SkyFire 2.1. SkyFire 2.2 supports GeoLocation, therefore enabling pages like Google Maps, which use the GeoLocation feature will be fully working with SkyFire 2.2. The search system for SkyDrive is also enhanced with results from multiple engines like Google, Twitter, [...]

If you are among the ones who like to seeing gadgets blow up then watch out the following video where some guys first bought iPhone 4 and iPad from Apple Store then shooting iPhone 4 and iPad with a rifle and after that trying to return them to the Apple for a refund by claiming that devices got these damages because of attaching to system. iPhone 4 and iPad Shot Video

The popularity of 3-D cinema is skyrocketing and 3-D-capable TV sets are heading for our living rooms, but almost every 3-D ready technology still requires that you don a set of special glasses. Microsoft has developed lens which could help change all that. With the ability to keep track of the position of viewers and send separate images directly to each eye, the new prototype display eliminates the need for 3-D glasses. Many tech companies are surfing the 3-D trend and researching better ways to deliver stereoscopic imagery without the need for users to wear glasses. Sharp, for instance, [...]

Dell’s Alienware M11x already offered up some potent graphics, especially for a laptop of its size. Now—just a few months after release—the M11x is getting a Core i7 CPU upgrade that makes it a powerhouse in every sense. While we’d heard before about the Core-i bump, the M11x will also get Nvidia Optimus, a system that makes switching between integrated and discrete graphics totally seamless and automatic. Those two moves take care of our primary M11x concerns, and make it an incredibly potent machine in a (relatively) very little chassis. Other specs: you can get up to [...]

Over the years, we’ve written about loads of different ways to hide and encrypt your private data from others, but if you’re really serious about protecting your data, you can actually hide your entire operating system. Here’s exactly how to do it. To accomplish this task, we’ll be using TrueCrypt, our favorite free and open-source disk encryption software that runs on all platforms, supports hidden volumes, and can even encrypt your entire hard drive. Once we’ve completed the setup, you’ll have two Windows installations and two passwords. One password [...]

The much-talked-about Dell Streak is finally scheduled for release, albeit exclusively to the UK’s O2 network for the time being. The 5-inch touchscreen device is billed as slotting in “between traditional smartphones and larger-screen tablets” and features a 1GHz processor, 2GB of internal memory and runs on Google’s Android operating system. Dell reckons that the Streak’s “5-inch screen is large enough to present Web pages in their natural form, create a comfortable viewing experience, and make turn-by-turn navigation simple and safe.” Given [...]

Never mind going to the moon, Mars or asteroids — let’s send a probe out of the Solar System, to an Earth-like planet orbiting another star. That’s the idea behind Project Icarus, dreamed up by the British Interplanetary Society and the Tau Zero Foundation. They’d like to send a probe traveling at 12% lightspeed, reaching another solar system such as Bernard’s Star, six light years away, in about 50 years. How the heck would that work? As the story goes, the spacecraft would first mine fuel from gas giant planets nearby such as Jupiter and Saturn. Then, the spacecraft’s [...]

Putting some LEDs on bikes is nothing new, but Japan’s Suns & Moon Laboratory is taking the idea a step further with its Anipov LED system. With the wheel spinning, the setup will be able to display damn near any image you want, and it’s easier than you might think. So easy, in fact, that the system accepts bitmap files and other digital image formats, and then the Anipov software figures out how to translate the corresponding colors to the spoke-mounted LEDs and, in turn, make your bike look crazy. The one big downside is that the whole thing relies on batteries, so it’s [...]

The “SixthSense for Search and Rescue” system by designer Dieter Amick is like a front-mounted laptop that would give rescue personnel access to maps and pertinent information with just a glance downward. Sounds awesome, but why’d he have to go and make it so fanny pack-ish? The idea behind SixthSense is that the better a rescue team’s communication and the more information they have, the more lives they can save. To that end, wearing a computer strapped to your torso makes sense (and, hey, it’s even got storage space for stuff like water and candy bars), letting [...]