Monthly Archives: May 2007

Intel Unveils World’s Thinnest Laptop

Intel has just created a laptop that’s as pretty as a supermodel, and thinner, too. Codenamed the Intel Mobile Metro Notebook, this prototype was designed by Intel along with Ziba Design, and it’s a mere .7 inches thick and weighs just 2.25 pounds. Packed with Intel’s speediest and most efficient components, which will probably be [...]

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Low-light photography gets a boost

Photo by: Billy Shank Developers at the South Korea Electronic Technology Institute (KETI) have announced an amazing breakthrough – a new sensor that can take a bright, clear picture in just one lux of light. If you don’t remember tables of physics metrics, one lux is equal to the light output of one candle from [...]

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Artist’s Portrait Painting Is So Good It Looks Like A Photo

Nice photo isn’t it? Yeah, except that it’s a detail from a painting. The idea of this painting by artist Dru Blair was born out of a portrait workshop he taught in 2005. In that workshop, he presented his students with a photo he had taken of a local model. Their goal was to paint [...]

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The new Justin.tv

The website Justin.tv got a nice little face lift today. This is a nice update from the last layout they had. This version looks very web 2.0 and seems to run better in safari. The guys also got a new apartment to add to the mix. There new place has a lot more room, and [...]

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PC Pitstop: Laptop Battery Fire

This is what happens when your laptop battery goes bad, or malfunctions in a way you don’t want it to.

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Starcraft II

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ9wxSVFrPU] Finally, almost 10 years after the release of Starcraft, Blizzard has released the follow-up: Starcraft II. Not a very creative name but I’m not complaining! I’m sure some of you fellow Starcraft fans have seen the CGI trailer already so here are some clips of actual gameplay footage that is not yet released on [...]

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