iRex to release color e-reader in 2011?
Remember when iRex single-handedly revolutionized the e-reader industry last fall? Remember “Seeing Is Believing?” We didn’t either, until the company reminded us of its continued existence with the announcement that it’s developing a new color e-book reader that uses subtractive color mixing to display text and images three times the brightness of existing displays. While [...]
AMD’s $69 2.8GHz Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition CPU
AMD already showed us yesterday what kind of graphical prowess could be crammed into a sub-$100 GPU, and today it’s attempting to pull the same kind of stunt on the CPU front. The Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition — a 2.8GHz chip with 2MB of L3 cache and loads of overclocking potential — has just [...]
Recession antidote: win a 500GB Toshiba USB 2.0 portable HDD!
This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn’t want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back — so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We’ll be handing out a new gadget [...]
Fujitsu’s secure USB device keeps your data safe and secure.
With corporate espionage on the rise, you just cannot be too careful, right? We’ve all heard the horror stories: Someone takes a spreadsheet home to do a little number crunching on his personal PC and, next thing you know, some ne’er-do-wells in Tehran have the specs for the President’s personal helicopter. Well, the brain trust [...]
Recession antidote: win a 1.5 TB Drobo!
This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn’t want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back — so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We’ll be handing out a new gadget [...]
3D Vision equipped desktops from IBuyPower
IBuyPower’s been on a pretty good roll of late with these new gaming desktops, and it’s keeping things interesting with its latest two. Rather than just shoving the latest processors from AMD and Intel into the Gamer Fire 640 and Gamer Paladin F830 and calling it a day, it has thrown in a 22-inch Samsung [...]
Recession antidote: win a Kensington SlimBlade Trackball!
This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn’t want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back — so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We’ll be handing out a new gadget [...]
24 Solid State Drives in one PC! Awesome!
Samsung techies linked 24 of the company’s 256GB SSD drives together in a RAID with the hopes of making the fast SSD drives even faster. The system actually reaches transfer speeds of 2GBps. What’s that much speed mean to you? • All of Microsoft Office opens in .5 seconds. •53 programs from the test rig’s [...]
ASUS reveals Wireless LCD Prototype
ASUS news from CeBIT? Say it ain’t so! Just hours after the company introduced two new “Green” LCDs, we stopped by to see what all the fuss was about. What we found were two rather vanilla looking LCDs (they’re in the gallery below, we promise) sitting beside something entirely more interesting: a Wireless LCD prototype. [...]
Onkyo’s out with the Sotec-branded E702A9 Media PC
Looking for something a bit more all-in-one than Onkyo’s HDC-1L nettop / HTPC? Then you may want to consider the company’s new Sotec-branded E702A9 media PC, which keeps things relatively inconspicuous while packing some decent specs all around. That includes a 1080p 21.5-inch display, a Core 2 Duo E7400 processor, 2GB of RAM, a 500GB [...]
