Brimming with phat cash from oil sales, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in a joint venture with IBM, is building a supercomputer that will rank in the top ten in the world (six-ish). The new computer, named Shaheen (Falcon), is a 16-rack Blue Gene/P System,…
Folks, I can’t make this up. I know, I know… some parents reading this are thinking this is the best idea ever… and that they are going to buy them for Johnny’s skateboard. And I guess if Johnny sucks at skateboarding and lives on lombard street, this might be a…
Get your next party started right… with some cheap Chinese made disco bling. For only $29.95 you get a disco ball, a police style light, and a mirror ball. Might not be a bad deal for the kids.
The folks at wicked lasers have a super cool, super bright flashlight dubbed “the torch”. The torch flashlight is 4100 lumens and some argue is just too bright. I would disagree with the “too bright” crowd if only the battery would last longer… 15 minutes of on time just isn’t…
Chinese researches claim they have confirmed the theory behind the so-called “impossible” space drive called the Emdrive. They are building a prototype, evidently believing that Newton’s laws are for pussies… If they are right, this would be a huge boon for the space exploration and for the Chinese Space-Uberness. The…
The BoomCooler is, in my opinion, not so cool. The damn thing won’t even hold ice! Seems the modders were too interested in adding a stereo to a cooler… and forgot the original purpose of the new boom box. Also… a bit hard to justify the $899 price tag considering…
Pretec has the largest capacity CF (Compact Flash) card in the world at 100GB’s. The 100GB CF cards speed is up to 356MB per second, and has a metal casing to protect the guts. The card should be available later this year. Who needs this much CF storage anyway’s? I…
Look out iPhone – here comes the G1 Android phone.
Looks like the Androids are starting to hit the market… T-Mobile unveiled the G1 Android phone. The G1 has a 480×320 HVGA screen, 3G, 3.1 megapixel camera, and a 5 hour (talk time) battery. Annoying bits – no video capture (wake up folks… iPhone is super guilty of this as…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2f1Kz3UkwU Not really a gadget… but a super duper good time for little $. For the less than the cost of a movie… you can have a gut wrenching good time. Me and a friend had a couple of beers… had some epoxy glue in the garage and a handful…