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Cooling Data Centers Could Prevent Massive Electrical Waste

It is estimated that the data storage sector consumed about 61 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2006 (1.5 percent of the U.S. total, or more than the electricity consumed by the nation’s color televisions and similar to the amount of electricity consumed by approximately 5.8 million average U.S. households. These numbers are only expected to grow.

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Building a Refrigerator For Your Laptop

Researchers from Purdue University claim they are getting closer to develop a much more efficient cooling system that the traditional heatsink-fan design used in many computers today. Suresh Garimella and Eckhard Groll say they can miniaturize traditional refrigerator designs to become small enough to fit in desktop computers or even notebooks.

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$500 for 5 feet of Ethernet cable?

Parts of the blogosphere have been buzzing over the discovery of a 1.5-meter Ethernet cable that is being sold for the insane price of $499. The cable would cost you $4 elsewhere. The manufacturer is Denon, and the target customer is the "audio enthusiast." Apparently "audio enthusiast" is Denonese for "sucker."

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Getting the Best Buy on a Computer Power Supply

Best Buy has certainly stepped up its game in the last few years when it comes to better servicing the DIY computer builder or upgrader. But is Best Buy doing you a service a disservice by selling you its own computer power supply? Are you overpaying for over-rated power supplies that burn up under load?

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NBC-Vista copy-protection snafu reminds us why DRM stinks

A number of Windows Vista Media Center users noticed this week that a copy-protection flag from NBC was preventing them from recording a couple of shows shows. Although the incident appears to be an isolated accident, it serves as a reminder that content owners want to use DRM to control every aspect of our media consumption.

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This is What 128 Gigabyes of RAM Looks Like (Pics)

There are 8 dual-core Opterons in there somewhere, running at 2.8GHz each (as I recall) ... but they're hard to see as they are tucked away under 128 Gigabytes of RAM.

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1GB 20 years ago and 1GB now!!! [PIC]

It's amazing how quickly technology advances these days...

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Girl's boyfriend *accidentally* cooks her laptop in the oven...

Just read the story. The end is the best.

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Comprehensive list of low-cost ultraportables

Over the past six months or so, Asus, Everex, and HP have managed to bring low-cost ultraportable notebooks to market. But dozens of other computer makers have promised to bring out their own mini-notebooks. Some will run Linux, while others will be preloaded with Windows XP or Vista. Some will have flash memory, while others will have hard dri....

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People Can't Tell Diff b/t Blu-Ray and DVD, Sales Plummeting

Hot on the heels of last week’s report from ABI Research noting that many consumers may not see the picture quality difference between Blu-ray and standard DVDs comes the latest Blu-ray sales figures from NPD Group. According to NPD, sales of Blu-ray standalone players plummeted 40 percent from January to February, then rose a scant 2 percent....

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NVIDIA's New GeForce 9600 GT is a WINNER for Many

The new GeForce 9600 GT is poised to deliver high performance for under $200. We take the new BFGTech GeForce 9600 GT OC for a spin in Crysis, COD 4, and UT3 to test its mettle. Is your hard earned cash better spent on a Radeon HD 3850, Radeon HD 3870, or GeForce 8800 GT. Just how far under $200 will this card go is the key to its success!

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GeForce 8 cards to gain PhysX support via software dowload

Nvidia completed its acquisition of Ageia yesterday, and it has revealed that it will soon introduce PhysX physics processing support into all of its GeForce 8-series graphics cards through a simple software download. PhysX support will allow the cards to accelerate physics effects in games.

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Cheapest HDMI Cable We've Seen is $2

Amazon is flogging HDMI super high-resolution cable from DVI Gear for a measly $2. Yep, you heard. Two. Bucks. Our tipster Jon put it thus: "Holy Crap 2 dollar 6 foot HDMI cables," adding that the cheapest he'd ever seen was around seven times that amount.

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VAIO TZ gets a 64GB SDD + 250GB HDD configuration

One of the hottest overlooked features of the VAIO TZ is the SSD + HDD configuration, which allows you to speed up booting and other system tasks that rely on quick random reads by running Windows off the SSD while still being able to lug all your data around on the traditional hard drive.

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How to track a PC anywhere it connects to the Net

Anonymous Internet access is now a thing of the past. A doctoral student at the University of California has conclusively fingerprinted computer hardware remotely, allowing it to be tracked wherever it is on the Internet.

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The Google Linux Cluster (webcast)

Great webcast I found a while back in which Urs Hölzle will describe the software and hardware infrastructure that makes this performance possible, as well as provide an overview of the main problems facing a web search, software architecture, servers and compact rack hardware designs.

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New Blu-ray 2.0 spec makes PS3 the most future-proof player

With the sudden and unexpected announcement from Warner that the studio would be abandoning HD DVD titles in favor of Blu-ray, it seemed to many observers that the high-def format war was all over, bar the shouting.

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Is MacBook Air Worth the Money? Five Slim Laptops Face Off

We can all agree that the MacBook Air is a slick-looking little laptop. It's so thin! You can't argue with that! But if you're in the market for a small, high-performance laptop, is it the best option? I pored over specs for four similarly positioned and more-or-less similarly priced laptops to see if you'll get your $1,800 worth out of the Air.

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Top 10 Things to do with your new Panasonic 150" Plasma TV

Panasonic showcased their 150 inch plasma at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, trumping their puny 103 inch model from last year. Currently they use this sucker for stadiums as a jumbo tron, but pretty soon you can buy one for your living room. Check out the top ten things to do after you buy one of these.

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33 megapixel Super Hi-Vision (Ultra HDTV) for 2015

1080p and QuadHD / 4K can take a step back, the Japanese government has announced plans to bring Super Hi-Vision (a.k.a. Ultra High Definition) to life as a broadcast standard by 2015. Damn those Japanese!

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The 3-D printer that can print a 3-D printer.

The RepRap is an open source 3-D printer - a self-replicating machine that will one day be able to print out all of its own parts.

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eSATA to shed the power plug

eSATA is an external version of the Serial ATA technology used to hook up internal PCs, but today external eSATA drives need their own power supply. But recently, the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) announced it's working on a version that will let external drives draw power over the cable that connects the drive to a computer.

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Pioneer's concept Kuro kicks currents Kuro's ass!

Yes, Pioneer's current Kuro—the "best flat-panel ever"—was shedding light like a sumbitch next to Pioneer's concept Kuro, whose black literally emits no light.

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New Line confirms it'll follow in Warner's Blu footsteps

While everyone's eyes have been (understandably) fixated on Warner's sudden -- but not completely unexpected -- leap to the Blu-ray wagon, we've been wondering what would happen to New Line. As if anyone expected anything different, New Line confirmed with Variety Magazine that it'll follow Warner to the Blu-ray promise land.

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Intel Quits One Laptop Per Child Program

That didn't last long! Citing disagreements with the organization, Intel Corp. said Thursday it has abandoned the One Laptop Per Child program, dealing a big blow to the ambitious project seeking to bring millions of low-cost laptops to children in developing countries.

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HD-DVD - Runs and hides from CES

"....HD DVD group is canceling its CES press conference; tail severely between legs over today's explosive news that Warner -- the last "undecided" studio -- was going to the other side and doing Blu-ray discs exclusively."

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The perfect computer memory: quantum dots?

Flash storage is the component that makes low power electronics so flexible. Unlike RAM, flash memory will stay written for about 10 years without power. However, we pay for that convenience in access times, which are much slower than those for RAM.

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The Top Ten Technology Nostalgia

When you compare the technology of yesterday with that of today it's amazing how far we've come. Technology gets smaller, faster, cheaper, and generally just better all-around. I guess that's a given, but going back in time you'd never be able to fathom just how far we've come. It makes you wonder - where will be in 10 or 20 years from now?

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