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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Paranoid Geeks will love LaCie’s new casing.
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Build with security in mind, this rugged casing comes with biometric authentication. Up to ten users if you might ask. All you need to do is register your thumbprint on the 1st installation, and you can access this military-style drive at any Mac or PC, with no software installation needed.
The drive is bus-powered, and is build to provide shock-proof rugged design (90 x 28 x 145 mm). The biometric security is made of 128-bit AES encryption. This is the same standard used by the U.S. government and organizations worldwide to protect critical documents. Standard ports are USB2.0 and Firewire 800/400. Sad thing is that it does not come with USB3.0.
Two versions are available, the 500GB which cost USD$190, or the 1TB version which cost USD$300.
[via Lacie]
Skype 2.0 ready for iPhone, but calling isn’t free.
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Skype finally announced that their 2.0 is ready for iPhone, which comes with support for 3G calls. But there’s a catch. Apparently Skype-to-Skype calls will be free, until end of August 2010. After that, there will be a ‘small monthly fee’ for Skype-to-Skype calls, alongside the operator data charges.
Sad case indeed, but never mind that, we should start blasting our iPhones
with it now, since the summer’s here.
“Upgrades / improvements include:
- Call using your 3G connection. Skype-to-Skype calls on 3G are free until at least end of August 2010, after which there will be a small monthly fee (operator charges for data will still apply).
- Near CD-quality sound for Skype-to-Skype calls using wideband audio (SILK codec) on iPhone 3GS and 2nd generation iPod touch.
- Enhanced call quality indicator.
- Improved start-up time.
- Fast access to the dial pad from iPhone home screen.”
False alarm from Nvidia turns happy geeks into sad chucks.
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Earlier on this week, the Nvidia Forceware 257.15 beta driver was released, and many had rejoiced, and celebrated, as the GPU/PPU-accelerated PhysX can now finally work on non-Nvidia GPUs. Many though that Nvidia has finally let the issue go and market their lower end cards as PhysX cards too.
However, when the wind got wild, Nvidia quickly announce that this was not a feature in the new released beta driver, but a bug instead. That restriction rule was not implemented in that particular driver, and the WHQL version of the driver will have that rule enforced into it. New downloads from Nvidia’s site will also have that rule re-enforced.
“Yes, this is a bug in the latest build of PhysX that was packaged with the driver. We’ll be fixing this issue ASAP – the WHQL driver launching in early June won’t have this issue. –NVIDIA”
For those who are lost here, here’s a quick brief of what’s going on. Starting with the Forceware 186 series NVIDIA blocked GPU/PPU-accelerated PhysX from working on NVIDIA GPUs and AGEIA PPUs whenever a non-NVIDIA GPU was detected as being in the system. It’s been a polarizing matter for the GPU community for nearly a year now, with a tug-of-war going on between projects editing the drivers to remove the block, and NVIDIA adding further checks in to their drivers to stop those efforts. In any case, there has been no sign that NVIDIA would be changing their position any time soon.
[via Anandtech]
Google Chrome, live on Linux and Mac.
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Mac and Penguin users rejoice, as the day Chrome goes stable on these platform is finally here. With this promotion from beta to stable channel, the Chrome is nicely polished and touched-up, with better performance and stability. It will even looked very “Mac” on your Mac.
“Just like its Windows and Linux siblings, the stable version of Chrome for Mac comes with all the goodness of one of our biggest speed improvements to date. We’ve worked to make Chrome for Mac fast, fully-featured and extensible – with access to more than 4,500 extensions in the gallery. Some of Chrome for Mac’s most-requested features are now available, including full-screen mode (just hit Command + Shift + F!), easy and powerful bookmark management, as well as the ability to synchronize not only bookmarks, but also browser preferences across computers. – Google Mac Blog”
[via Google]
R/C cars go green, thanks to Horizon.
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Toys
Shown above is a Tamiya TRF-416 R/C car, but it is not your typical toy car. This R/C car is fitted with a hydrogen fuel cell powered by Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies. The package comes with everything you’ll ever need to mount the kit onto your tiny R/C toy boat, little flying plane, or car kit. It can even power the cars at 45mph for a full hour of fun, though the cost for the ‘fun’ was not announced yet. Time to boast to your friends about your new toy and green commitment. And a cheap alternative way if you can’t afford the real full-size hydrogen-powered car.
High-Tech fridge now teaches you how to cook!
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Amazing News
Now you wonder what is a fridge getting a post in our blog eh? This is a futuristic fridge by Ashley Legg from Yanko Design, a concept that is supposed to give you ideas, recipes, and instructions, on a healthy meal , depending on what you have in the fridge. High-tech enough?
The idea is that, the fridge is intelligent enough to update itself with new recipes, and is able to compute out healthy meals base on your stocks that you keyed in, and instruct you with vocal instructions through integrated speakers. The fridge displays menus and ingredients through the means of touch-sensitive opaque glass display on the outer plate of the door.
Now, the door is the coolest part in the fridge, besides whatever technology that they use to cool the things in the fridge. The door is made of “electro-chromic” glass. Well apparently such technology exist, in construction industry, whereby a touch of a button can turn the whole door into nearly opaque. Interactive User-Interface will be shown on the door once the door is closed, but u can push a button and view everything inside of the fridge. I guess this would be a good place to use the Samsung’s transparent AMOLED technology.
[via Yanko Design]
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