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Not so long ago, we ran an “All Giz Wants” about a real universal remote—one that wouldn’t just change your channels but change your life. (Marketers, feel free to use that). This concept holds a kinship to our humble dream of turning on our oven with the touch of a button…errr…remotely. Make no mistake, it’s just an artist’s rendering with ergonomics that are questionable at best. But it’s something to keep us trudging through life (hopefully from our couches). [coroflot via DVICE]

The iPhone is “currently unavailable” at the AppleStore US, following the dry-out in the UK. Does this mean they are waiting for the shipment of the next version? If so, this is a brilliant and rare move for Apple.

We won’t know for sure until next month, but knowing Apple’s tight command of their stock levels, it looks like this may be the reason. But considering we’re almost exactly 30 days from the WWDC keynote, it could mean the 3G iphone is coming sooner than we think. Let’s assume this is what is happening. If so, this move is brilliantly kind and uncharacteristic of Apple. What they’re doing is trading off secrecy to protect people from buying the first-gen iPhone in its last days before its successor is unveiled. I mean, if you’d bought an iPhone and it was upgraded to v.2 days after your purchase, wouldn’t you be pissed? Maybe they’d rather short the sales for a month and not have to deal with thousands of pissed off customers. [Apple Store—thanks, Erik]

AMD’s overclocking utility finally made available on their own website… sorta For a lot of people, the biggest selling point of AMD’s recently launched Spider platform was not the Phenom processor, Radeon HD 3870 video card, or 790 series motherboard; it was the overclocking utility, called “OverDrive”, that could so seamlessly

Eee PC is huge in Europe and will soon have a few new family members to share its success with. ASUS has recently announced that it will expand the Eee product line to various other market segments. This likely stems from the desire to capitalize on the massive success the Eee

Today, the Cairo Development Team announced they’ve reached their first milestone in the development process of their Windows shell alternative. Ever since I laid my eyes on a computer I’ve been interested in human-computer interaction since it has the most profound effect on the users perception on how

A source from NVIDIA confirms the acquisition of AGEIA. In other news, Kyle Bennett is wrong. NVIDIA adheres to the old adage that if you can’t beat’em, join’em. After spending some serious cash and effort attempting to combine the PPU functionality into their GPUs, NVIDIA decides to shell out the dough

Performance numbers with a super early CrossFireX evaluation driver. Not to be considered representative of final performance! A couple of weeks ago we reviewed AMD’s new Radeon HD 3870 X2. Our conclusion, in pretty much perfect agreement with the rest of the review sites that published a week later, was that

Quad-core “Bloomfield” debuts Q4 2008, octo-core to come in 2009. Fudo is reporting today that according to Intel’s latest roadmap, the octo-core versions of Nehalem will not debut until 2009. Intel’s Nehalem architecture is the next tick in Intel’s “tick-tock” processor launch strategy. Outlined near the launch of ICM, better known

Northbridge running hot? Want to save on power? MSI may have the answer. MSI is set to introduce a new northbridge cooler featuring powerless operation. The fan functions with a piston which rises from the northbridges heat causing the fan to turn, and then the piston falls

Having made headway into almost every peripheral category, logical progression for SteelSeries would point towards mice. Presenting the Ikari. After nearly two years in development from conception to production, the SteelSeries Ikari was announced in the Summer of 2007. Unfortunately, the only gaming hardware review site has not been able

ASUS, abit, Corsair and DFI headline new product launches this week while big name manufacturers like Dell, Toshiba and Apple unveil new gaming systems and product refreshes. Systems Shuttle Introduces Cube Size $199 Linux PC Dell Launches XPS 630 Desktop Apple Introducing new MacBook and MacBook Pro models Acer preps 16in and 18.4in Blu-ray notebooks Motherboards abit

New technology will enable process nodes of 22nm and smaller within the next 10 years. A partnership between AMD and IBM has produced the first (partially) functioning chip created using Extreme Ultra-Violet Lithography. Lithography is the method by which the design of a microchip is transferred from its original

Next generation Windows to be augmented for gaming, take up very little disk space. The operating system we all know and love, Windows Vista, is already looking to be replaced by the engineers at Microsoft. A little something called “Windows 7”, formerly codenamed “Blackcomb” and “Vienna”, looks to be the next

We got our hands on the second revision of AMD’s first CrossFireX enabling drivers, and its time to revisit our scaling results- Now with 100% more Crysis. As lowly hardware reviewers, we really don’t know too much about what goes into revising video card drivers. One time a very smart

Intel’s 6-core Dunnington enterprise processor to pave the way for Nehalem, coming 2H’08 Apparently Intel gave a presentation to Sun Microsystems last month in Austria about their upcoming products, including the previously elusive Dunnington architecture and the much-hyped Nehalem family. We have reported on Nehalem in the past and Dunnington

Ever considered stopping by your local Circuit City or Best Buy when your computer goes awry? An eye-opening (for some) investigative report by the 10TV news crew out of central Ohio shines some light on the serious inadequacies of self-proclaimed tech support services of major retail computer stores.

Unofficial NVIDIA 9 series roadmap includes upcoming parts from the GeForce 9800GX2 down to the 9500GS. Nordic Hardware published a fairly complete roadmap for NVIDIA’s upcoming GeForce 9 series. The roadmap details cards from the ultra high-end GeForce 9800GX2, all the way down to the mainstream GeForce 9500GS.

My Samsung 17″ LCD I’ve been running for years has recently started experiencing random backlight flickering issues. Besides the fact that running 1280 x 1024 with an eVGA 8800GTX made no sense, I was tasked with finding a suitable 24″ LCD that was first person shooter friendly.

Logitech’s long-standing flagship wireless gaming mouse is tested to see if wireless can keep up with the demands of serious gamers. {multithumb} Introduction Logitech is at the forefront of gaming mouse technology. Whenever you’re looking for a new mouse to game with, it’s usually Razer, Microsoft and Logitech you look for.

By combining an onboard GPU with an add-in graphics card, Hybrid CrossFire offers 1.5x performance of the add-in graphics card for some AMD customers. Hybrid dual-graphics solutions –those that use an onboard graphics chip in conjunction with discrete add-in boards- are beginning to look like viable options for gamers on

AMD’s monthly driver updates fixes major bugs and touts significant performance increases, among other things. Last week was a relatively quiet one for the AMD camp, but they released a beautiful piece of software that on paper would seem to please everyone running around with an AMD/ATI video card.

According to news out of Japan, the broadcaster NHK is stating that Toshiba is planning to drop their HD format HD DVD. Reuters: I have avoided the Toshiba rumors most of the week though we now have something firm coming out of Toshiba. Japanese broadcasting company NHK is stating that Toshiba

NVIDIA is planning to port the PhysX engine to the 8xxx series of video cards via CUDA. The Tech Report has details on NVIDIA/PhysX that came out today in a conference call. We broke the story of NVIDIA making the purchase a little over a week ago and this

Intel is readying 80 and 160GB SSD drives in the coming months for laptops.– Intel isn’t sitting on their hands while this solid-state drive market begins to take off. They will be launching 1.5 and 2.5 inch drives with 80GB and 160GB capacities in quarter 2 for the laptop and notebook segment.

With the great success of the Eee PC it should almost come as no surprise, ASUS is moving all in on the PC front.– Not ones to sit on their hands after the success that has been the Eee PC; ASUS is readying even more computer systems and branching out from

AMD looks to take some ground from Intel’s popular Centrino platform in the mobile market.– AMD is once again picking a fight with their rivals. With Intel announcing their Atom and revised Centrino platforms, AMD looks to get back into the mix with their mobile “PUMA” platform. This platform takes nearly

Alive and kicking. A new alternative to the everyday Media Center blah blah blah.– While AMD was fighting off a TLB bug, the ever-growing Intel, and an ambitious NVIDIA, something else was brewing in the AMD stew: a media entertainment site, AMD LIVE!, which is geared towards the Media Center platforms.

Excellence is the sum of all parts, and with performance and design intertwined in the DKTBoard you really get the feeling that less truly is more. Introduction Everglide has been catering to gamers for more than a decade. Perhaps that’s how long you’ve had your current keyboard. You might even be weary

Foxconn, ASUS, Scythe continue to debut new products @ CeBIT while Intel launches new Atom brand and SK Gaming gets an AMD sponsorship. Systems New BenQ Joybook A53 Fuses Advanced Technology & Cool City Panasonic preps rugged Atomic UMPC Dell Adds Rugged Latitude XFR D630, Refreshed Precision M6300 ECS Guns for Eee PC 900 With

Wow people, you can’t make this stuff up. Well, following my two blog posts ranting about the inadequacies of print magazines in the hardware review realm, it would appear Ziff Davis has filed for bankruptcy. Of course, my blogs had nothing to do with this event, as the announcement was made

A continuation of my rant about problems with the hardware review industry. Please read the first part first, or you will have no idea what is going on in this one. Let me give an example. A manufacturer of expensive computer systems sends a fully-configured machine to a print magazine

To those called out in this rant: don’t take it the wrong way. I’m going after the core of the problem here, not it’s vehicles. This hardware industry thing we deal with day in and day out can get pretty tedious. It has been called boring on more than one occasion

The Razer Salmosa site www.speedofthelight.com went live today. Check out Razers new compact gaming mouse. There is a new gaming mouse on the block from Razer. The Razer Salmosa is an attempt to capture the entry level compact mouse market which really doesn’t see a whole lot of attention.

ATI users can prepare for a new Catalyst driver tomorrow, mix and match your cards in CrossFireX CrossFireX is right around the corner tomorrow. The new Catalyst driver 8.3 features support for 3-4 multi GPU configurations allowing for the mixing and matching of HD3850s, HD3870s, and HD3870×2s.

We proudly announce the winners of the February Gamer Giveaway. February’s giveaway was sponsored by SteelSeries. Well, it seems that February has ended and we have an awesome community from which to randomly select our three winners for the SteelSeries prizes. First, a quick recap: Eligibility: Every registered user

The last few months have seen the launch of several different enthusiast-branded motherboards from ASUS and Foxconn, and a couple of more will be showing up this week at CeBIT. Every time a trade show or press release rolls around, it seems like there is at least one enthusiast-branded motherboard

OCZ finally brings the Neural Impulse Actuator to mass production. Originally debuted at CeBIT 2007. This not a new piece of technology for OCZ as it has been around since early 2007. Both Thomas and I had the chance to check it out at NewEgg Lanfest 2K7 and I have to

AMD’s upcoming products are only evolutionary, but mark major shifts in modus operandi. Two different stories popped up on Fudzilla today regarding AMD. We published a story yesterday about AMD’s work with IBM on future processor lithography techniques, and today’s story only enhances what we have come to learn about AMD

When Phenom launched to limited acclaim in November 2007, many questions were raised by analysts concerned with how the processor war would pan out over the next year. When the infamous (and stupid) TLB bug was uncovered, a lot of people became really skeptical of Phenom’s legitimacy as AMD’s return

MSI, Qimonda, NZXT and AMD round out this weeks new hardware debuts while Creative Vice President Phil O’Shaughnessy goes after ASUS Xonar Sound Card supposed EAX support claims. Systems ASUS Launches U2E 11-inch- 2.7lbs. Hand-Crafted Notebook MSI Launches GX-600 Enhanced Gaming Notebook featuring Turbo-Drive One Button Overclocking Video Cards eVGA Unveils e-GeForce