Sharp have added to their list of great goodies a 3 way directional LCD monitor. Simply put, you can see three different images from 3 different angles.

From straight-on, to the left an to the right you can have 3 different images displayed, allowing the driver to see a map, the passenger to see pictures of their destination and the person in the back to watch a movie.

It does seem like you will need quite a video card to pump out 3 different images at the same time, unless there is some more elegent solution to getting the 3 images.

Sharp already have a dual directional monitor on the market.

Press release at the Sharp website

AM2 was supposed to be the things of the future delivering the ultimate performance where socket 939 left off. With more memory bandwidth and a whole host of other features the new socket has not lived up to it’s much hyped beginnings.

XYZcomputing takes a look at the AMD AM2 to see just how it performs. Or more specifically, just what makes this computer processor that little bit unexciting.

AMD has a hard time keeping up with massive Intel, who have built such a strong market position that even a series of messups have managed to put much of a damper on their market sector. And although AMD were able to make the best of those blunders by Intel, Intel has now come back in force to once again compete with AMD.

XYZcomputing takes you through the overview to see what’s going on.

This is a strange little gadget, but I’m getting used to seeing these kinds of USB things amongst the ever increasing array of computer components.

This particular model is a little monster whose horns light up and mouth move when you get a call over Skype. It connects to your computer using a USB connection.

This is definitely a piece of computer equipment for those who have everything, or really like little gimmicky stuff.

It is kinda cute though.

Report from Everything USB

Sony will soon be offereing the first ultra-portable notebook which has integrated broadband included as standard. Wide area network connectivity for ultra-fast internet access. Sony notebook pc are already great to use and this is just another special extra for those who need it.
Connecting to the Sprint Power Vision Network will allow users to take advantage of broadband speeds for internet access. It is quite possible that other notebook computer manufacturers will follow suite as well.
This kind of wide area network gives huge potential to mobile computing by offering super high speeds without the cables needed for traditional boradband setups.

Press report from Sony website

Fantastic, I love to watch videos online and this one is right up my alley.

FiringSquad had a tour of the Gigabyte factory in Taiwan. They have compiled the whole experience into a video for your viewing pleasure.

Watch the Gigabyte Factory tour at their website or download it and save it for later.

Gigabyte manufacture computer components, mostly motherboards and video cards, but other computer components as well.

Bigbruin takes a look at this set of DDR2 sticks from Transcend. They are actually two seperate sticks, and do not come in a single package. That being the case, you just buy two sticks.

They are shockingly unexciting, without any heatspreaders or any little lights. Just plain old black chips on green board.

Although their looks are nothing to write home about their performance is not half bad. In overclocking efforts done by bigbruin they managed to get them to overclock by about 20% without adding heatspreaders or making drastic adjustments. Just upping the voltage to keep things stable.

For a set of very plain looking sticks, these are worth a look at, especially if you like the old school look of memory cards.

Check out the full review at bigbruin.

This Leatek video card, based on the GeForce 7900 GS chipset comes with a pretty good set of extras and a good cooling solution.

Keeping the card cool and only spinning up enough to be heard when temperatures get quite high, Leadtek have done a good job at making this budget oriented card quiet. The cooler is reminiscent of a 6800 GT cooler.

The card comes with two games, Serious Sam 2 and Spell Force 2 as well as Cyberlink PowerDVD 6 and a utility CD. Also included is a DVI-to-VGA connector, S-video combi cable and a 6 pin PCIe power adapter.

Testing at bit-tech shows that the card places itself well amongst the other cards of the same type. There is very little difference between one card based on the 7900GS and another, the main difference comes in their cooling solutions and the extras that you get with the card.

The card itself has room for about a 33% overclock using the standard overclocking software that comes with the card. A pretty good card at a reasonable price.

Check out the full review at bit-tech

Asus recently released 4 new video cards, the Radeon X1950XTX & Radeon X1950 Crossfire and the GeForce 7950GT & 7900GS.

The radeon’s come in two different flavors, one with and one without crossfire capabilities. HDR effects, adaptive anti-aliasing, shader 3.0 and up to 512MB of DDR4 memory are also part of the package. Both are based on the same VPU.

The non-crossfire version offers a little more for those who hope to use the graphics card with their hdtv and comes with whole host of adapters for connecting it up.

The GeForce cards are two different offerings. The GT is a faster variation based on the the 7950GT VPU and comes with 512MB of DDR4 memory.

The 7900GS offers much better value for your money and is the more budget oriented offering. It also offers great performance but without the massive cash layout. It is based on the Nvidia GeForce 7900GS VPU and comes with 256MB of memory.

All the cards except the 7900GS are Windows Vista ready.

Read the full articles: Radeon X1950XTX & Radeon X1950 Crossfire and the GeForce 7950GT & 7900GS via techPowerUp!

Energy savings is big business, especially in big businesses where the power bills for feeding hundreds of power hungry machines can be mind boggling.

AMD have had a great emphasis on how much power their processors can save, but this has mostly been aimed at the server market. These kinds of power saving are now available to the consumer market with the EE range of energy effiecient dual-core processors.

The biggest power savings come with the “Energy Efficient Small Form Factor” EE and SFF model which uses a pretty low 54W at idle. This is quite a saving compared to the Intel rivals, but might not be enough warrant it.

Perfect for use in home theater systems though and small form factor boxes where cooling is a very sensitive issue.

The full low-down can be found at Tom’s Hardware

If you are looking to expand the number of hard drives in your computer, and you are running out of space inside this could be one of the options to turn to.

With a size that is smaller than two 5.25″ drives, and the ability to hotswap up to 3 SATA drives it gives you a nice alternative to further clogging up your computer’s insides.

It fits into the double 5.25″ slots on your computer and is cooled by a fan at the back which wicks away heat into the computer, keeping the drives inside the enclosure that little bit safer from damage.

It also comes in 4 and 5 drive versions. It requires 2 molex connectors which are the older 4 pin power connectors found on optical drives and older hard drives. This is a little strange, but for the convenience, that’s what you’ll have to put up with.

Easy to install, and you can remove a faulty of broken hard drive without turning the computer off.

Read the full review at Big Bruin