Check out this cool laptop concept from designer Hao Hua.
The D-roll Laptop is designed like an artists tube, which contains a roll up OLED screen and a cool slide out keyboard, it also has a mouse and a web camera which are used as the end caps for the case.
This is a really cool design, it would be great to have a laptop that worked and looked like this, but I think this is probably a few years away yet.
Source : Geeky-Gadgets
D-Roll Laptop Concept
GameRigs Ego Custom Gaming System Review
Walking through the convention hall at Quakecon last year, a display with several custom cases caught my eye. At first I thought that the cases were painted; maybe another company was outsourcing Smooth Creations to give their cases a unique flair. Upon further inspection I learned that was not the case at all.
GameRigs is a based in Ontario, Canada. I had the chance to interview company representatives one afternoon and this statement summarizes GameRigs; “We care about what is inside of the case, from the CPU to the way the door works. How do we enhance the gaming experience and above all, customer service.” In the same interview I learned that GameRigs works with a large amount of partners, both from the wware and gaming industry. “When ordering from GameRigs you are not just working with us but our partners and their knowledge base as well. Our strength comes from the collection.”
- Introduction
- Specifications, Pricing and Availability
- Packaging
- The GameRigs Ego - Exterior
- The GameRigs Ego - Internals
- Accessories and Software Configuration
- Benchmark List and Testing Configuration
- Benchmarks - System Tests
- Benchmarks - Processor and Memory Capabilities
- Benchmarks - Disk Performance
- Benchmarks - Gaming
- Benchmarks – Gaming Cont.
- Benchmarks - Compression, Encoding and Audio
- Final Thoughts
ATi And Havok, One Standard For All
ATi’s demo of Havok Physics on an ATi GPU was not the most impressive ever seen. The demos were not staggeringly fast, they were pretty much stock stuff.
What was impressive was the speed with which the code was written to be usable with OpenCL. The turnaround on this was pretty impressive coming in at a matter of a few weeks.
AMD has also brought the fight to nVidia’s PhsyX in a different manner. Instead of going head to head with an ATi proprietary implementation, AMD has banked on a standards based open implementation.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ Tweak Town
Solidata X2-128 MLC 2.5-Inch Solid State Disk Review
When Jason at DVNation contacted me about reviewing their new Solidata RAIDPak Internal Storage Solution that houses four 2.5 inch Solidata X2 Series solid state drives, I took a brief look at the specs and asked him to ship it over. Later that evening I had a flash go through my mind, kind of like when someone mentions a name and a few hours later the face flashes across your internal screen and you blurt out, “yeah… I know that person”. This wasn’t a flash of a face; it was a statement printed on DVNation’s website for the individual offering of the Solidata X2 Series; faster than the Intel X25-M MLC SSD.
At Storage Visions, the pre-CES show for everything regarding data retention, I spoke with many SSD manufacturers and asked them when they would have a product on the market that could compete with Intel’s X-25M. Just as quickly as the question came out, their expressions looked like the people you see flying out of Vegas as you are flying in. For most the answer was a year or so down the line when they would be ready to compete with the X Series Intel products. A few others chimed in with the old “If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them”. These manufacturers will just be taking the Intel products and re-badging them to have their company name somewhere on the drive.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FT1 Waterproof Compact Camera Hands-On Review
It’s a fairly well-established rule that electronics and water Do Not Mix. Or, rather, it used to be. Panasonic has made a habit of bucking that trend recently, with such notebooks as the ToughBook CF-Y5 - which was happy even after being buried in the snow! - and camcorders like the SW20 and its successor, the SW21.
Panasonic has instilled similar water- and shock-proof credentials on its Lumix DMC-FT1 compact camera and deemed to invite me out to go sailing with Skandia Team GBR in Palma to put the claims to the test. That’s not quite as strange an invite as it sounds. For a start, Panasonic is not only a sponsor of the British Olympic sailing team, but also a major sponsor of the 2012 games.
The Olympic team’s coaches use Panasonic’s waterproof cameras and camcorders as part of their training programmes, enabling sailors to review their performance on-the-water back on the shore. As such, jumping on board a selection of coaches’ RIBs and taking a quick cruise in a Laser Bahia sounds like a perfect test of the FT1’s performance. And as a sailor myself, getting to meet the likes of Nick Dempsey was rather awesome, to say the least.
Zalman VF950 Review
To keep up with the latest hotter and faster graphics cards, Zalman have needed to update their VF900 – which we reviewed back in May 2007 – with the VF-950. They haven’t just changed the cooler to support more recent graphic cards though; the new model is entirely different. We hope so too, as we weren’t very impressed with the VF-900. Anyway let’s not dwell on the past, introducing the Zalman VF-950…
The Zalman VF-950 LED GPU Cooler arrives in a colourful cardboard box with a clear window which happily shows off the cooler in all its glory. Dotted about the box are logos which each represent a particular feature of the product. Moving to the rear of the box, you’ll find eight features which are each numbered, some macro shots of the cooler and a table of specifications. For any potential buyer, all this is very informative – given that they can read English!
Intel Says Late 2009/Early 2010 For Octa-Core Xeon
According to an interview with one of Intel’s executive, Intel’s Nehalem EX processors may not make launch this year.
Shannon Pouline, Xeon platform director of Intel’s Serve Products Group, said in an interview that “What you’ll get at the beginning of next year — late this year or the beginning of next year — will be the push into the four-socket, eight-socket, and above space.” Judging by the way that Pouline had to reword his statement it would be very easy to assume that Intel is planning more for a 2010 launch.
The upcomming Nehelam EX processors, codenamed Beckton, are expected to have up to eight cores on top of an on-chip memory controller and support for Intel’s QuickPath Interconnect technology. While no specifics have been officially released, some sources are suggesting that Beckton might have up to 24MB cache.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ Tweak Town
Intel Core i7 920 D0 Stepping - Preview
We received our first Core i7 920 D0 stepping from ASRock a few days ago and have been testing it thoroughly on their X58 SuperComputer Motherboard outfitted with four GTX 260-216 video cards. This new stepping certainly show promised as initial clocking, voltage levels, and memory speeds were improved for the most part over our best C0 stepping. However, the differences were not exciting enough for us to immediately whip out the credit card and go hunt down a D0 stepping processor. In the middle of our testing, ASRock provided an updated BIOS tuned with the D0 stepping in mind and the results changed enough for us to seek a retail processor. Our ES sample was good, not as good as some hand picked samples we noticed at various forums back in March, but we wanted a retail processor.
We called up our good friends at TankGuys and they were able to hook us up (after our credit card cleared) with two D0 stepping 920 processors. Ben was able to overnight the first unit in time for us to test over the weekend and our initial results have just been terrific to date. Unfortunately, our ASRock X58 board (yes, this board makes for a very good multi-GPU platform) was tied up in testing for an upcoming Workstation review. So looking around the lab, we grabbed our trusty DFI LanParty UT X58-T3eH8 and updated it with the latest magical mystical BIOS from Oskar, Jarry, & Company. This particular BIOS is very D0 stepping friendly along with incorporating a few changeable settings like Round Trip Latency (RTL) that allows us to clock our Corsair Dominator GT memory kit a little higher than the other X58 motherboards.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ AnandTech
HTC Touch Diamond2 Mobile Phone Review
HTC’s Diamond handset was a favourite here at Pocket-lint with the phone offering plenty at the time it launched. A year later though and the handset was starting to look dated. So can the newly announced HTC Touch Diamond2 not only replace it, but also challenge others on the market? We find out whether this can live up to the claims.
It’s normally at this point in a “second generation” product review that we find ourselves saying “not much has changed”, but surprisingly HTC has made a number of significant changes both in hardware and software areas.
The HTC Touch Diamond2 is a Windows 6.1 powered mobile phone with a 3.2-inch glass 480 x 800 resolution WVGA touchscreen display. It’s larger than the previous model and the extra screen real estate is welcomed although still on the thin side. The screen is smaller compared to most touchscreens on the market: iPhone, Storm, Samsung Omnia and the G1, but that smaller screen does give you the benefit of a smaller design to fit into your pocket. And fit it will, with a weight of 175 grams it is solid (metal cased front, plastic back), but still light.
Click Here To Read The Full Article @ PocketLint
OCZ Intel Extreme Series PC3-12800 6GB Memory Kit Review
Since 2000, OCZ Technology has been a leader in the enthusiast market by providing the latest components at mainstream prices. They were one of the first manufacturers to provide affordable dual channel DDR3 dual channel kits when the technology was relatively new. Predictably, here they are again with a tri-channel kit that combines the qualities that budget conscious consumers are looking for. OCZ’s Intel Extreme Series PC3-12800 memory runs at 1600 MHz, 8-8-8-24 timings, two XMP profiles, and is one of the most competitively priced kits on the market. Read on to find out if this RAM has what it takes to make its way into your next build.
Value. Performance. Compatibility. Generally speaking, these are characteristics that you look for when shopping for parts. As enthusiasts, we upgrade our systems more often than most people so extra consideration is placed on value when the upgrade bug bites. Sure, we might drool over unlocked multipliers or multiple graphics cards in SLI but when the time comes to place the order, we want parts that will give us the highest performance at the lowest cost.
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