Carlos Owens wanted a giant metal robot that would mimic his movements while he sat inside it. And since no one was about to build him one, he built it himself. More »
This is the HD World, an amazing ultra-high definition military F-16 simulator that runs on 120 Intel Dual Core PCs with $US400 graphic cards inside a special industrial casing. Looking at the video, I want one in my living room. More »
The conversation about Snow Leopard’s compatibility with older hardware has been dominated by complaints that it won’t support PowerPC—something we’ve all known for months. But Snow Leopard will have some curious implications for more recent hardware, too. More »
Digitimes has it from one of their annoying anonymous, sometimes accurate “industry insiders” that Intel’s next-gen Pine Trail Atom processors, which boast built-in GPUs and memory controllers for slightly improved graphics performance and massively improved battery life, will ship in Q4, in October at the earliest. [Digitimes]
Within hours of a leaked WebOS root image spilling onto the internet, would-be developers have coaxed a respectable number of hacks and tweaks out of their Pres—including the phone’s first homebrew app. More »
Engineers at Nokia have hatched a plan to for a system that’ll charge phones using nothing more than ambient electromagnetic radiation. Or, as you and I might put it, mobile phones that suck electricity from thin air. More »
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen Director Michael Bay loves IMAX so much, he’s cut a special version of the film for IMAX viewers with extra robot fight scenes. Awesome! More »
The new ExpressCard 2.0 standard launched at Computex, and promised transfer speeds of up to 5 GB/s. The new spec will support adapters for PCIe, eSATA and USB 3.0, among other things. More »
