Dell has raised the performance bar yet again with the launch of the XPSTM 730 H2C edition, a premier gaming desktop that is one of the most advanced gaming platforms on the planet. With support for optional quad-core processors, quad GPU graphics solutions and up to four hard drives, the Dell XPS 730 is more than ready to deliver an immersive experience and ensure gamer’s pwn their opponents in the most demanding PC games available today. The air-cooled Dell...

We featured the Brionvega Alpha TV last year, well it has broken away from the concept stage and is now for sale. Adopting an Italian design the Brionvega Alpha LCD / DVD combo features a 19 inch display with 1,280 x 1,024, 4:3 display ratio, 1,200:1 contrast ratio, 350 nits of brightness, 5ms response time and a 180 degree viewing angle. The DVD players plays the normal DVD and VCD along with MP3 discs. The unit has a pair...

To keep athletes cool at the world's biggest sporting event Nike has unveiled the PreCool Vest. Developed specially for the Bejing Olympics the vest has multiple triangular cavities of various sizes and inside there is frozen water. To be used within one hour prior to competition it lowers the body temperature of the athlete and they last 21% longer. The vest is made with two different materials, the first acts as a thermos, preventing the cold from escaping and...

Well at least when it comes to its passenger safety because it's not really interested in making the car of the future talk. Volvo wants to make such a secure car that when it comes to an emergency it will be able to steer, brake and find out about the road ahead from within a vast electronic bumper. And if all goes according to plan, its driver and passengers will escape even the most serious crash unhurt. Volvo is...

If you ever had snake trouble you'd obviously pet a mongoose, but did you know that this little rodent can sniff out landmines? The mongoose is found to be a rodent with extremely sensitive olfactory capabilities, dexterous navigation capabilities in a cluttered environment, and small enough to burrow through rubble. Researchers from the University of Moratuwa have developed a lightweight legged robot (4kg) that can move in a minefield without detonating landmines, carry a metal detector, and interact with...

Remember those spider like small retinal scanner robots from the movie Minority report? BAE Systems is getting $38 million from the US Army Research Lab to fund the Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) consortium; a team of scientists and researchers hell-bent on developing an "autonomous, multifunctional collection of miniature intelligence-gathering robots that can operate in places too inaccessible or dangerous for humans."...

Nintendo luminary Shigeru Miyamoto tops the list of Time Magazine's Most Influential People of 2008, 55 year-old Miyamoto, who's never been on a Time cover, comes out on top in his very first outing on the list with 1,949,634 votes, an achievement that foretells a future populated with towering statues in his likeness. Determined by reader vote, soundly demonstrating that he is more important to Time, than Al Gore, Heidi Klum, Stephen Colbert and a Korean pop star named...

Simply having a big screen for yourself isn't such a great idea now is it? That's why Big Moving Pictures' fleet of rolling mobile LED screen displays constitutes a new advertising medium. The company is mounting massive (40 x 22 ft) HDTV LED displays on trucks so it can engage the audience at major outdoor events (such as air shows and auto racing) in a new way. Big Moving Pictures Inc. (BMP), and Strongbase have announced the signing of...

Sony Japan has announced the sleek and sexy PSPJ-15012 headphones for the PSP. The unit comes with a microphone to be used with Skype and Talkman which work with the PSP-2000 along with other games and software with support for voice chat etc. With the remote control you can play, pause, stop, rew, ff, adjust volume and activate the hold function. The silver and black PSPJ-15012 earphones go on sale in Japan from June 19th for 3800 Yen ($...

Goldmund’s Media Room has been decked up with Epilogue speakers by the same manufacturer. The price is sky rocketing but let’s forget it for now. The speakers seem to be packed with adrenaline boosters and seem to be built to give your Media Room a lot more happening and loud. They look pretty geometric and have a cool coat of polished black that gives them a touch of elegance and peps up to your main unit by making it...

Sony prototyped an Ultra small Hybrid Fuel Cell small enough to fit in one hand. This is the first time that Sony revealed the prototype of a practical fuel-cell system including, for example, a secondary battery and control circuit. The new fuel-cell system is direct methanol type and uses methanol as fuel. Also, it is an active fuel-cell system, which controls fuel supply with a pump. The system is hybrid type with the output supplemented by a Li-polymer secondary...

Weighing a mere 78g, the new BenQ C36’s spacious 2” LCD display is perfect for viewing photos and videos. The upgraded 1.3-megapixel camera supports AVI video recording and playback, and can also do double-duty as a webcam when connected to a PC. The BenQ C36’s powerful multimedia functions includes a built-in FM radio with recording and schedule recording functions and a MP3 player supports MP3, WAV, MIDI and AMR formats....

Mouse computers Japan has announced the masterpiece a high end liquid cooled PC for the local market. Two models will be available V730XV5-LS and V730X5-LS which will come loaded with Vista and XP respectively. Underneath the stylish case is an Core 2 Extreme QX9650 (3GHz) CPU, 3 Gigs of RAM, NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI chip set, 650GB HDD and GeForce 9800 GTX (512MB) with SLI. The Masterpiece from Mouse is highly anticipated in Japan and goes in sale by...

Finally something to automate the boring task of writing on the whiteboard. Hacked by Sprites Mods the Automated White Board takes text input from the Internet and plots it on the whiteboard. The idea is that if I want the pen to be off the whiteboard, the electromagnet gets released and the spring will push a perspex rod on the whiteboard, thereby pushing the whole carriage, including the tip of the pen, away from the surface. If the pen...

It was believed that a boomerang returns to the throwing spot in zero gravity, this is what Japanese Astronaut decided to find out at the International Space Station. The above video shows how it went through. Now, thanks to JAXA's obsession with cameras we have proof on video. The usual skeptics who think that Elvis is really the only human that ever went to the moon—and still lives there—will be happy. Source...