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During its quarterly earnings call with investors, Asustek said it plans to drop the price of its already inexpensive line of Eee PCs even further next year.
The original Eee PC from Asus, launched a year ago.
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Asustek President Jerry Shen said that by 2009 …
I give you my pick for geekiest costume I’ve seen this year: a giant LED costume. Yes, I agree with you that it should have real LEDs on the inside:)
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In honor of Halloween, the laptop world was full of spooky headlines this week. Taking a page from Dr. Frankenstein, OWC started hacking apart MacBooks and turning them into tablets. Deep in a secret laboratory, Psystar was reportedly preparing a laptop Mac clone. And through some sort of black magic (…
(Credit: CNET)Rumor had it the Nintendo DSi, a new, slimmer version of the DS Lite, would ship first in Japan in early summer of next year. But in a surprise move, Nintendo has said the recently announced handheld game system is ready to ship.
According to Michelle Wyman, a …
This USB drive is made of solid gold, but its golden age is over.
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With all the buzz about solid-state drives that Intel, Super Talent Technology, and other companies have been making, I am a little surprised to learn that the NAND flash-memory market–once one of …
From the Make: Flickr Pool comes the T.W.E.R.P., a ThingamaKIT housed in a 10″ Mad*L vinyl toy.
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Now this is my kind of fun. An ultrasonic sensor (left) connects to our Make Controller board, which connects to our laptop, which connects to a video projector and a 200-watt PA speaker, which we use to scare the pants off people walking down San Francisco's Haight Street.
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It all started when a free, unsolicited copy of Cycling ’74’s Max/MSP 5 hit my desk. How, or why, the holy grail of interactive audio/video authoring software found its way to me is still a mystery, but I’m glad it did. In fact, I felt so grateful I knew I had to return the kindness by creating something ambitious with it. That’s when I e-mailed Matt.
My friend Matt Ganucheau is a guru when it comes to Max/MSP. Because this particular piece of software is so adaptable, he’s used it to program robots, create video DJ software, author plug-in effects for music applications, and give life to busty mannequins (he hates when I bring that up). With my motivation and Matt’s know-how, I was sure we could come up with something interesting.
Editor’s note: The following video gets nerdy and very loud. If DIY and electronic arts projects don’t interest you, you probably won’t be interested in this video or the remainder of this article.
Getting creative wasn’t easy, however. I felt like a colorblind kid who’d been thrown a deluxe box of Crayolas. Most people who come to Max/MSP already have a problem in mind that they wanted to solve, like “How do I get my Guitar Hero controller to play real music?” or “How can I create propane-powered flame organ?” Instead, I had a solution in search of a problem.
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As klutzy Apple laptop users know, damage from spilled water, coffee, or other liquids is not covered under the standard warranty. To uncover any potential for warranty fraud, it’s rumored the Cupertino, …
The BD-P1500 will get DTS-HD Master Audio by the end of 2008.
Samsung has put out some pretty good Blu-ray players, but the company needs to setup an RSS feed to keep buyers up to date with the constantly changing firmware plans. We got a note from Samsung this afternoon …
