In this week’s Gadget Lab podcast, the crew toys around with phones, knives and robots.
Senior editor Dylan Tweney gives us shares his experience visiting SRI, where he saw an awesome wall-climbing robot. Watch out,
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Samsung Electronics has added a new model to its RF series of notebook that comes with 3D capability. It is the Sens RF712 Notebook PC that comes with a 17.3-inch full HD Super Bright Plus display, there are also standard specifications such as 400 nits of brightness and is also considered as the brightest 3D laptop on the market. It is powered by Intel’s Sandy Bridge Platform which includes a Core i7 Quad-Core Processor, an AMD HD6650M video card with 2GB of VRAM, up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM and up to 750GB of on-board storage. T Read more…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks about the future of Windows at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2011. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com
Microsoft has announced a partnership with Research In Motion. No, it’s not the end of the world (yet).
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage at RIM’s BlackBerry World on Tuesday to deliver the news: Microsoft’s Bing will be the new default tool for web search and map navigation on future BlackBerry devices.
“We’re going to invest uniquely into the BlackBerry platform,” Ballmer said at the conference. “I’ve never
The write-once SD card could tempt film-loving beardoes over to digital
Thanks to Toshiba, using an SD memory card can be as annoying as burning a CD. The new Write Once Memory Card allows you to write data once and never again, just like burning a non-rewritable CD. The storage size isn’t far off, either, at 1GB against a CD’s 700MB.
Why bother? The card is aimed at governments, police and other entities that need to record tamper-free data. Evidence photos, for example, could be stored on this card and couldn’t subsequently be changed. It co
Lenovo has announced that three of their notebooks are now available from Best Buy in the US. This is the first time Lenovo’s consumer laptops has ever been offered at Best Buy Stores. The Lenovo B560 laptop, IdeaPad Z565 and Lenovo V560 joins the Best Buy Selection at more than 1,000 Best Buy retail stores, all stores will carry the Lenovo B560 laptop as well as the IdeaPad Z565 laptop but only selected stores will carry the V560.
The Lenovo B560 is a 15.6-inch Notebook that features a LED HD display and delivers multimedia content in clarity along with quality sound. I