http://www.chipdouro.com Gadget news, reviews, rumors and trends. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:23:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Back in November we reported on another in what's becoming a long line of issues with Dell's and Alienware's laptops, with M17x owners suffering from "skipping, stuttering audio" -- rather unbecoming in a high-end gaming rig. Dell was quickly on the case and initially indicated that a BIOS update last ... http://www.chipdouro.com/dell/still-no-fix-in-sight-for-alienware-m17x-stuttering-audio-issue-maybe-you-can-help.html Alright, we'll leave all the zingers for you and our mercurial staff to deliver, and just use this space to dish some info on the hardware. Ivor Kovic, an emergency physician from Croatia, has recently demoed a new iPhone cradle that turns the already multifunctional handset into a CPR assistance ... http://www.chipdouro.com/apple/caption-contest-iphone-as-a-cpr-device.html The inability to work with files on the iPhone has been a complaint from day one. The iPhone OS provides no way to interact directly with documents or other files stored on the phone, rendering the device’s owners dependent on application developers to add to their apps methods to work ... http://www.chipdouro.com/smartphones/iphone-explorer-file-control-at-last.html As it turns out, Infineon may have been a little bit... optimistic when it said its SLE66 CL PE was "unhackable" -- but only a little. The company should have put an asterisk next to the word, pointing to a disclaimer indicating something to the effect of: "Unless you have ... http://www.chipdouro.com/uncategorized/christopher-tarnovsky-hacks-infineons-unhackable-chip-we-prepare-for-false-advertising-litigation.html You know, we were surprised these Wii Remote appendages actually made it to the pre-order stage way back in April of last year, a feeling which slowly dissipated as they failed to make it out to real retail. Until now. The 2lb / 1kg Riiflex sleeves for your Nintendo-approved wand ... http://www.chipdouro.com/peripherals/riiflex-wiimote-dumbbells-cease-being-a-joke-now-on-sale.html Sure, there's not much chance of popping down to your local hypermarket and picking up something with a Power7 roaring inside, but there's also nothing stopping you from a bit of vicarious investigation, now is there? IBM's eight-core, 1.2 billion-transistor Power7 chips have begun shipping as promised, with the entry-level ... http://www.chipdouro.com/uncategorized/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local-server-farm.html Cubicles are the site of many of the worst cases of adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), so it's perhaps a bit ironic that Quotient's ADHD System looks an awful lot like a cubicle on wheels. It's an automated machine that presents a series of games and challenges for a user ... http://www.chipdouro.com/uncategorized/quotient-system-electronically-diagnoses-adhd-oh-look-a-bunny.html ... http://www.chipdouro.com/uncategorized/friday-poll-best-gift-for-a-love-seeking-nerd.html Say all you want about how bad your local forecast is, it's way more accurate than our local solar forecast. The last time we checked, solar storms are said to knock out GPS temporarily sometime in the next two years -- the kind of window that would make even the ... http://www.chipdouro.com/uncategorized/summer-loving-nasa-engineers-launch-sdo-probe-to-worship-the-sun-video.html The end of another week is drawing to a close which means I get to share the past week with you. My home office, Mobile Tech Manor, is often a revolving door for little gadgets and this week was no exception. I did some thinking about my recent business trip ... http://www.chipdouro.com/uncategorized/this-week-in-mobile-tech-manor-75.html