Intel’s Cooling System To Cool Laptop Exterior
Intel developed a cooling system designed to cool the exterior of ultra-thin laptops. Up until now, all the cooling technology focused on cooling the interior of the laptop. But Intel, realizing the need to cool the exterior of extra toasty, ultra thin lapburntops, created a solution based on laminar air flow. To put it simply, the hot air underneath the laptop is carried away, resulting in comfortable and happy laps.
[Cnet]
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Logitech Gives Guitar Hero Fans A Premium Wireless Guitar Controller
My largest complaint about Guitar Hero is the child sized plastic guitar included with the game. After a few songs my hands are cramped and my wrist surges with pain. Logitech, the purveyor of most things wireless, has officially unveiled their Premium Wireless Guitar Controller. It sports many of the same features found in a real guitar, including a metal fret board, real wood, and a rosewood finger board, amongst a slew of other features. They’ve also gone the extra mile and built a click free strum bar, which could prove off setting for those who depend on its metronome like quality. The Premium Wireless Guitar works with the PS3 and PS2 and comes packed with a USB receiver, which should provide up to 30 feet of range.
It’ll ship this December for $250
Official product page here
Press release and more pics after the ‘leap’
LOGITECH ANNOUNCES PREMIERE EDITION OF WIRELESS GUITAR CONTROLLER FOR GUITAR HERO
Logitech Wireless Guitar, Premiere Edition Features Wood Neck, Rosewood Fingerboard, Metal Frets, Gig BagFREMONT, Calif. – Oct. 23, 2008 – Logitech (SIX: LOGN) (NASDAQ: LOGI) today announced the Logitech® Wireless Guitar Controller, Premiere Edition for the PLAYSTATION®3 and PlayStation®2 computer entertainment systems – enabling gamers to play like a rock star. The premiere edition of the Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller is the first in Logitech’s planned line of premium peripherals for the world’s best-selling music-based video game franchise. The guitar is licensed by Activision Publishing, Inc. for all Guitar Hero® games, including the highly anticipated Guitar Hero® World Tour. Featuring authentic materials – including a wood neck, a rosewood fingerboard and metal frets – the Wireless Guitar Controller is for gamers who truly want to flex their Star Power.
“There’s no better feeling than being the guy with the best instrument when you walk into your friend’s house to jam on Guitar Hero,” said Ruben Mookerjee, Logitech’s director of product marketing for gaming. “We designed this guitar for that experience. From the humbucker to the metal frets, the whammy bar to the metal tuners, the Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller gives you the credibility you rightfully deserve.”
To provide even more realism for those who love to jam on Guitar Hero, the premiere edition of the Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller uses the authentic materials you’d expect to see on a real rock guitar. In addition to the metal frets and metal tuning peg handles, the rosewood fingerboard and wood neck, Logitech’s design offers the one-piece contoured shape preferred by many of the world’s leading rock guitarists. To match the wood neck, the Wireless Guitar Controller features a crimson body.
“As the leading producer of peripheral devices, Logitech is delivering on its promise to provide high-quality, premium guitars for our number one franchise,” said Charles Huang, vice president business development for RedOctane. “With this new controller, Logitech is giving Guitar Hero fans the opportunity to unleash their inner rock stars in a new, authentic way.”
To minimize button noise, Logitech uses rubber dome technology on the fret board controls, the same material used in its award-winning keyboards. The guitar controller also incorporates a New Touch-Sensitive Neck Slider, located so strumming is not always necessary to rack up the points. Additionally, the Neck Slider can be used in Guitar Hero World Tour’s new Music Studio to create an even wider away of sounds.
So you’ll be free to go where the music moves you, the Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller uses 2.4 GHz wireless technology to provide a range of up to 30 feet from the console. Just plug the USB receiver into the console and you’re ready to rock. In addition, a gig bag protects your guitar when you’re on the road and provides pocket space for your game discs and wireless receivers. Offering hundreds of hours of battery life, the Wireless Guitar Controller gives you enough juice to perform a festival’s worth of hits, encores included. The Wireless Guitar Controller requires two AA batteries to operate.
Pricing and Availability
The Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller, Premiere Edition is expected to be available in the U.S. in December for a suggested retail price of $249.99 (U.S.)
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Death Match: Vertu Signature VS Tag Meridiist review
Sir, I demand satisfaction!
A mobile phone speaks volumes about a gentleman’s quality and, with that in mind, we ask: what does yours say about you?
If you happen to have either a Vertu Signature or a Tag Meridiist lurking in your finely-stitched, bespoke-tailored pockets, it says that you’re doing rather well for yourself. Either that or you’ve just mugged a dentist.
The Vertu Signature is a bejewelled beauty from Nokia’s luxury arm, crafted from precious white gold and tastefully scattered with rubies. The Merridiist, meanwhile, is the debut phone from master watchmakers Tag Heuer. It’s been five years in development, and they appear to have been five years well spent.
Assembled by hand, and lovingly honed by their respective manufacturers, these stylish mobiles are all about outer beauty.
Features
Vertu Signature £21,000
With Bluetooth 2.0, push email, 3G and Wi-Fi, this quad-band phone is very well equipped. There’s a generous four gigs of storage, but no camera.
Tag Meridiist £2,650
Hardly crammed with features, the Meridiist contains A2DP Bluetooth, a respectable 2GB of memory and a not-so-respectable, two-meg camera.
Winner: Vertu Signature
Looks
Vertu Signature
From the illuminated, ruby-studded keyboard, to the understated elegance of the hidden “on” button, the Signature oozes overstated glamour.
Tag Meridiist
Next to the bling-encrusted Vertu, the Meridiist is more understated, but no less stylish. Personalise it with plush alligator-skin or leather covers.
Winner: Draw
Ease of use
Vertu Signature
Key switches on the patented keyboard make typing a breeze and the crystal display is sharp. You’ll also feel right at home with the Nokia interface.
Tag Meridiist
Menus lack the design flare of the Vertu, and it can be fiddly to navigate, but it’s only a minor annoyance. The solid keyboard is a typist’s dream.
Winner: Vertu Signature
Materials
Vertu Signature
Attired in white gold and black ceramic, the Vertu is the only electronic product with a Swiss Assay Office hallmark, normally reserved for jewellery.
Tag Meridiist
With a corrosion-resistant steel body and 60.5 carat sapphire glass screens, the Tag feels reassuringly expensive. Granted it’s not white gold, but we like it.
Winner: Draw
Extras
Vertu Signature
Ring tones composed by Dario Marianelli and recorded by the LSO, and a concierge service that can get you a lobster at two in the morning. Now that’s classy.
Tag Meridiist
An extra screen in the top of the phone displays the time and caller info. While the special Tag Heuer switch sends out polite call reject messages.
Winner: Vertu Signature
Cost
Vertu Signature
At £21,000, the Signature costs the same as a car. At £7,400 the stainless steel version is still more than most people will spend on phones in a lifetime.
Tag Meridiist
The £2,650 price is piffling compared to the Vertu -that’s not going to impress anyone. Perhaps spank a bit more green by smothering it in diamonds.
Winner: Vertu Signature
Who’s the king of bling?
The Meridiist effortlessly exudes style and quality, but doesn’t require a billionaire’s cheque book. Where’s the fun in penny-pinching, though? The Meridiist lacks that Vertu drool factor. The Vertu has more refinement than most of the royal family, but it’s hard not to enjoy a phone that costs the GNP of Gambia and weighs the same as a gun. Russian oligarchs will love it.
Winner: Vertu Signature
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Blu-ray disc of the week: The Nightmare Before Christmas
Nothing has ever looked better in Hi-Def
Plot
Bored of his yearly Halloween conquests, scare-master Jack Skellington branches out by kidnapping Santa Claus and adding a frightful flavour to the Christmas festivities.
The Review
If High Definition video ever needed a character witness in court, then we’d call to the stand that misguided old festive thief, Mr Jack Skellington.
Quite simply, the Pumpkin King and his town of Halloween offer the finest exponent of the Blu-ray format to date. Tim Burton’s classic stop-motion musical has always been visually stunning, but this re-mastering could take the breath away from a corpse.
We brushed off the festering cobwebs off our old VHS copy and it’s easy to see how blessed we are by this technology. Paired with a HDTV boasting decent motion flow, the spider-like staccato movements of characters like Sally and Sandy Claws are accentuated spellbindingly
The film itself spawned (and continues to spawn) a legion of macabre teenage obsessives, mostly sporting decapitated Jack heads on tatty black hoodies. Its appeal as a witty, dark and beautifully idealistic, romantic movie remains absolutely timeless. Who could grow out of watching this?
The original score from Danny Elfman cemented a relationship with Burton that followed them through Batman, Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands and 15 years later Nightmare’s amimation is still a flag bearer for stop-motion.
All together now: “Kidnap the Sandy Claws, beat him with a stick, lock him up for ninety years, see what makes him tick.”
A Blu-ray buy?
The most compelling argument for upgrading your movie collection yet. Buy it.
Extras
An excellent selection here, including two fledgling films from Burton and an extensive making of documentary, which shows the painstaking precision needed to create Halloween Town. There’s also a spooky reading of the poem from Christopher Lee.
The Nightmare Before Christmas is available on Blu-ray now from Play.com
Also available in standard def in this aweseome Jack bust set
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Apple MacBook review (plus video)
Does this silky silver lappie stand up to the T3 test? Read on…
Before the launch last week, the MacBook and MacBook Pro lines were separated by a couple of whopping features - namely, the aluminium body and faster processing power. Now however, with the entry-level MacBook range looking and feeling exactly the same as the Pros, there’s very little reason you’d have to plump for the more expensive range.
The MacBook we tested far out-performs the top of the range black MacBook, with the hardware getting a complete overhaul. The aluminium body provides a more luxurious user experience, and there’s now no chance of the corners cracking like the plastic cases are prone to doing.
See our photo gallery of the MacBook here
The black keyboard and matching glossy screen bezel, whilst controversial, at least ensures the dirt from your hands won’t be visible like on the white keyboards of the plastic beasts. And the illuminated keys? Possibly the best trick stolen from the MacBook Air.
One of the disadvantages with an aluminium body - and what a pretty body it is, cut from a single piece of metal - is that it interferes slightly with Wi-Fi signals. When testing it, there were little problems with our three home Wi-Fi signals (yes, a little over the top perhaps, but essential for when BT drops out), however it could no longer connect to the pub’s Wi-Fi next door, whereas our four month old black MacBook has no problem. Not a huge disadvantage to be honest, as we shouldn’t be trying to steal the pub’s internet anyway, but it may prove more troublesome for others.
Moving on - the screen. There’s no denying the LED screen is more eco-friendly than the previous TFT one, and that it conserves the battery, yada yada yada. However, it’s ever so reflective, and sometimes a real pain to use under strip lighting. Guess we’ve got to give a little in order to save the environment, eh Apple?
Still, watching movies are a treat on the 1280 x 800 pixel screen of our 13-incher, although occasionally the reflections do get in the way. It’s far better than the previous MacBook’s visual experience anyway, and undoubtedly the new GeForce 9400M graphics cards play a huge part here, as it’s 5x faster than and noticeable it is - phwroar!
Further adding to the mixed bag of emotions with the new MacBook, the trackpad has received a lot of attention due to its, err, lack of buttons. Finally Steve Jobs can wreak his revenge on those who dared criticise the Mighty Mouse’s one-button format! Admittedly it takes a good full day to get the hang of not having a button to press, but after a while, you don’t even notice the button is missing, as clicking the bottom half of the glass trackpad feels as responsive as the previous MacBook’s button.
Multi-touch functionality has been thrown into the glass trackpad mix as well, and what a treat it is. Using four fingers, you can slide down to enable the exposé screen, and sliding those four fingers from left to right brings up the various programs you’ve got open currently. Forget balancing your pint glass on your lower back - this is the best party trick ever, guaranteed.
Battery life is never quite what any notebook manufacturer promises, and here Apple claims the MacBook will deliver five hours of wireless productivity - in theory, it was almost four hours. Considering the new LED-backlit screen is meant to enhance the battery life, it’s not much better than the previous incarnation.
Still, it’s ever so fast. Have we mentioned the speed of the new processor yet? Because that’s truly the best thing about these new MacBooks. It’s made our four month old black MacBook hulk in embarrassment, and made us ever so productive when whizzing from the browser to iTunes, and over to the photo editing suite.
Whilst there are a couple of flaws with this slinky silver sliver of a notebook, when are there not at least two disagreeables in a product? The fact of the matter is, with the new MacBook you’re gaining quite a few added bonuses, but are relinquishing the non-reflective screen and slightly better battery life of the previous plastic cases. A fair trade off, we think.
Link: Apple MacBook
SWINXS console review (plus video)
Kids these days…
Replace scraped knees, scuffed shoes, muddy trousers and ripped t-shirts with an electronic armband and you’ve got the SWINXS. It’s a children’s games console that’s scooped childhood classics like hide and seek, tag and snap and tossed them into the digital fray. Think Bop it! but as a multiplayer game console.
The console itself looks like an unlucky clover (the ones with three arms) fresh from the dales of Emerald City. Roughly the same size as two Nintendo Wiis stuck together it’s slightly on the chunky side, but it’s pretty light.
Switch the contraption on and the voice of Captain Patronising will greet you. “Hello, I’m SWINXS and I’m going to bully you to play with me for the next few hours” or something along those lines. Enter the game by “tagging” your wristband on the console. Up to four people can play, and each one can opt to tag in or out of each game. Flipping from one game to another is a breeze but turning the darn thing off is a bugger. We kept hearing it tempting us to another round of snap.
To be honest we were bored of the SWINXS within 20 minutes, there are only so many places you can hide in a “grown up” office before starting to arouse suspicion, especially as you sprint back to the SWINXS screeching and screaming “I’m going to get my access point there first”. It is for kids though, so we’re sure they’d get away with it.
A game console it may be, but a serious competitor for the Nintendo Wiiit is not and at a £130 it’s pretty steep for a glorified game of hide and seek.
Check out the video of our big kid Chris Smith having a go on the SWINXS.
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IXOS releases tiny XMM238 speakers for Christmas shoppers
£12.99 speakers designed for those lonely nights in hotel rooms…
Just in time for Christmas, IXOS has unveiled its newly improved XMM238 Cube Travel Speaker.
Measuring just 7cm in each direction and a mere 130g in weight, the XMM238 Cube can be connected to your laptop, iPod, generic MP3 player or any other audio source that houses a 3.5mm port.
The two sideways firing drivers, either powered by four AA batteries or by connecting to a USB port, provide 2 watts of speaker power and are claimed to “deliver a surprisingly spacious sound”.
If that wasn’t good enough value for the £12.99 price tag, the good folks at IXOS have decided to throw in a 3.5mm to 3.5mm jack so you can connect up the tiny cube to your audio source and a USB power cable to ensure that your listening pleasure doesn’t need to be interrupted by drained batteries.
Although no replacement for your home iPod dock or stereo setup, due to the XMM238 Cube’s tiny size and ease of portability, it would prove a useful gadget for music fans who find themselves staying in different hotels night after night. Despite its low cost, the Cube Travel Speaker, available in white, black and pink, is a good looking piece of kit with all colours being finished with a metallic top plate. All for £12.99, what a steal.
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Nokia’s “Comes With Music” arrives on 3 Mobile network
3 is the musical number
Clearly very much in tune with Nokia’s “Comes With Music” service, the phone network provider have duly jumped onto the mobile musical bandwagon to give access to Nokia’s online music store.
3 Mobile will give its customers with a compatibleNokia N95 and computer, free reign to devour the very innards of Nokia’s 4 million track superstore whenever you get that audio bug.
Boasting a range of tuneage covering the radio playlist dominated chart busters, to the lesser known independent musical outings, 3 look like they are bagging a potential number one in the music download domain.
Owning your downloads until you kick the proverbial bucket, or at least until your ears cannot sustain the drum and bass carnage any more, will also be sweet music to the ears of 3 Mobile customers and Nokia fans.
“Comes With Music” is up for grabs on the 3 Network from November 3rd.
Nokia Comes With Music N95 8GB is available on an 18 month contract with 300 mins/texts and 1 GB of inclusive internet access for £35.
Spoon Scale
When I cook I’m trying to complete my meal in the quickest time possible. Sometimes weighing and measuring the ingredients can be the largest hindrance to an expeditious meal. Enter the Spoon Scale. Shaped just like an everyday spoon, it features a built-in scale that can switch between ounces and grams and can measure from .0005 to 10.5oz.
Available here for $35.
