Monthly Archives: January 2008

Alienware’s Hangar18:HD media server now available

January 31st, 2008 | Posted in Technology

Alienware’s Hangar 18:HD 1080p media server — the rackmountable high end edition of the already impressive Hangar 18 — has officially launched. The silver beast promises up to 4TB of hard drive space, Blu-ray read/write, 1080p output, CableCard support and Dolby Digital 7.1 sounds. We suggest you don’t ask how much it costs, it just [...]

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700MHz C-block hits reserve price — open access is here

January 31st, 2008 | Posted in Technology

There was a brief, tense pause in the bidding this morning, but some anonymous giant telecom company (Google, perhaps?) has just pushed the price of the 700MHz C-block over the FCC’s reserve price of $4.6B — and the rest of us straight into the promised land of open access. Yep, January 31, 2008, Round 17 [...]

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The 50th Anniversary of the LEGO Brick

January 28th, 2008 | Posted in Offbeat News, Technology

The LEGO brick turned 50 today. Google is celebrating this historic date with a LEGO logo tribute on their home page.

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Graffiti artist creates real-time, 3D paintings

January 28th, 2008 | Posted in Art, Technology

Regular graffiti not doing it for you? Looking for something a little more up-to-date than spraycans and brick walls? Perhaps you should direct your attention to the artist known as DAIM and his recent project creating real-time graffiti in 3D. By utilizing a multi-camera scheme, DAIM is able to smear virtual paint across an empty [...]

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Tesla Roadster gets wrecked by the feds… in the name of safety, of course

January 26th, 2008 | Posted in Technology

It’s shots like these of the Tesla Roadster getting pwned passing those federal safety tests that make vast government bureaucracy worth it, don’t you think? A full gallery over at AutoBlog.

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HP bumps SSD to business class with new enterprise desktops

January 24th, 2008 | Posted in Technology

We wouldn’t normally get excited about two more random HP enterprise desktops, but you know how we love all things SSD, and if the HP Compaq dc7800 Ultra-Slim Desktop with SSD lights a fire in corporate IT departments, sales volumes may actually drive the price of SSD units down. So, uh, wow, check out this [...]

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