Take a good look at this GPS.  That’s right, that is a GPS, not a remote control or an mp3 player.  Introducing the Kapsys Kapten, a GPS that has a display of 0 x 0 resolution.  Apparently, any and all instruction given to this Kapsys Kapten is done via vocal commands.  This means that you had better speak clearly when you’re telling the address you want directions to, and hopefully you will hear the computer clearly when it tells you where to go. The company has designed this device for the walkers and not the drivers.  I always hoped the GPS market would be targeted more for the pedestrians rather than the drivers.  The Kapsys Kapten has some nice specs with a SiRFStar III GPS chipset , 4GB of internal memory, and weights about 50 grams. (Read the full post about ‘Kapsys Kapten uses nothing but the voice’…)

by Paul Miller, posted Aug 16th 2008 at 1:54PM The dam has been breached, and now there seems to be no stopping the internet at large as every little nook and cranny of the Treo Pro is exposed and explored. TreoCentral member scottymomo has fleshed out a few more details on the device, and dug up that Comm Manager shot up above. Details include: HTC task manager. Comm Manager’s Airplane Mode and other assorted easily switched options. MicroSD (up to 32GB supported) isn’t under the battery, but you do have to take off the battery cover to access. 1500mh battery. Other stuff. It’s all very exciting, we assure you, but you can explore the shots for yourself if you’re really feeling hard up for Treo Pro infos. (Read the full post about ‘More Treo Pro details emerge’…)

by Darren Murph, posted Aug 16th 2008 at 6:05PMThis one isn’t quite as dodgy as they come, but the very notable limitations really keep this from being the whiz-bang hack that it appears to be on the surface. Hacker StreetskaterFU had no trouble getting confirmation from others that his method of running Blu-ray games from the playstation 3’s hard drive was indeed legitimate, but it is only confirmed to work with select “older titles” including Warhawk, MotorStorm and Call of Duty 3. To make matters worse, instructions are sketchy at best, but at least there’s a video of the process working after the break. Let us know how things go should you give this a whirl.Read PermalinkEmail this24 CommentsFiled under: GamingTa (Read the full post about ‘Hacked PlayStation 3 reportedly runs Blu-ray games from HDD’…)

Rumor has it that Seagate is dropping the brown/orange colorway on its FreeAgent external hard drives and refining it to a more futuristic look (as pictured above).  The bigger drive is most likely the FreeAgent Desktop, the standard desktop drive.  To its right is probably the FreeAgent Go, or another iteration of Seagate’s portable drive line.  From the picture, it is evident that there is the inclusion of a new docking station, which will help show off the eye candy element of the drive.  Not only will the drives shed their brown exterior, they’ll be available in grey, black, silver and others, including red, green, gold, and pink.  For Mac users, it is especially exciting to hear that at least one of the drives will be formatted for instant use in OS X, so lowly Windows users will have to format the drive in order to use it. 

Look for a formal announcement for these external hard drives sometime next month.

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by Paul Miller, posted Aug 16th 2008 at 12:46PM If you hadn’t heard, TSA’s new laptop bag rule went into effect today, so we’re wondering: what sort of experience are you getting at the checkpoint? (Read the full post about ‘Flying today? Say hello to the TSA for us’…)

by Darren Murph, posted Aug 16th 2008 at 11:13AM Not a lot here that you can’t already make out for yourself, but we’ll give ya the down low, anyway. The Crystal USB Desktop Speakers are powered via USB 2.0 and only pack 1-watt per channel, yet somehow, they’re touted as “audiophile” grade. (Read the full post about ‘Crystal USB Desktop Speakers look good, probably sound bad’…)

by Darren Murph, posted Aug 16th 2008 at 4:08PM Oh sure, you’re pretty 1337 if you can say you’ve got an SSD within your laptop, but if you’ve a need to store more than, say, 8GB of files, a bit more room may be desired. tnkgrl’s Aspire One mods began earlier this week with the addition of Bluetooth and extra RAM, and today she’s showing the world how to swap the built-in SSD with a 1.8-inch 60GB PATA drive. As expected, this one’s remarkably easy to complete once you’ve torn the thing open, but she also explains how to best put it all back together once you’re done. (Read the full post about ‘Aspire One modding continues: swapping SSD for capacious HDD’…)

by Darren Murph, posted Aug 16th 2008 at 9:31AM We recently learned that Intel would be (officially) calling Nehalem Core i7 and Centrino Atom, um, Atom. Now, however, we’ve got a few more related details for you to digest thanks to a stack of leaked presentation slides. The Tick Tock Development Model explains that both Westmere and Sandy Bridge (codenames, of course) will be fabricated with 32-nanometer technology in 2009 - 2010. Moving even further into the unknown, geeks can expect Ivy Bridge and Haswell (both doing the whole 22-nanometer thing) to surface between 2011 and 2012. The Sandy Bridge architecture will reportedly “double the number of cores per die to eight,” while a new instruction set coined Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) will likely get most of the attention. (Read the full post about ‘Leaked Intel slides reveal 8-core CPUs, AVX instruction set’…)

Every once in a while, some new idea comes around that revolutionizes technology as we know it.  Think about the USB, the touchscreen, and other advancements that are now standard features. 

Perhaps the next big thing are laptops that split their keyboards open.  Why you anyone want to do that?  Maybe if you keep a secondary screen down there, perhaps.  Maybe even a touch sensitive screen?  The keyboard can function normally when split in two, and who knows, you might even get used to it. 

Right now, this project is still in the building stage, and it currently has the name of the Ergonomic Dual Screen Split Keyboard Notebook Portable Personal Computer Executives. 

This split-keyboard laptop with the extremely long name is available for OEMs sometime this year.

(Read the full post about ‘What would you do for a split-keyboard laptop?’…)

by Darren Murph, posted Aug 16th 2008 at 7:39AM
Wesco Limited is offering up a TIE Fighter webcam, which — truth be told — would look completely ridiculous sitting atop your LCD. That being said, those of you already chatting it up with your fellow nerds on an R2-D2 webcam won’t mind one bit. You’ll also be interested to know that there’s a complete dearth of specifications, though we do know that a pair of LEDs just below the camera lights up to brighten your cheery face. (Read the full post about ‘TIE Fighter webcam solidifies your obsession with Star Wars’…)