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Triple Directional Monitor from Sharp

Thursday, September 28th, 2006 | Monitor Reviews, News | View Comments

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

Taking a closer look at AM2

Thursday, September 28th, 2006 | CPU Processor Reviews, News | View Comments

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.

Verballs Skype Call Notifier

Thursday, September 28th, 2006 | News, USB Removable Drives | View Comments

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 and Sprint offer first intergrated EV-DO notebook

Thursday, September 28th, 2006 | Laptop and Notebook Computer Reviews, News | View Comments

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

FiringSquad’s Gigabyte Factory Tour

Thursday, September 28th, 2006 | News, Videos | View Comments

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.