Intel unveiled Larrabee GPU architecture
D' Technology Weblog — ... Intel publicly unveiled the basis of its Larrabee GPU architecture. Larrabee is fundamentally built out of existing Intel x86 core technology, which not only means that the chip design isn’t foreign to Intel, but also has serious implications for the future of desktop microprocessors. Larrabee isn’t however built on Intel’s current bread and butter, the Core architecture, instead Intel turned to a much older architecture as the basis for Larrabee: the original Pentium. ...

Intel Larrabee multicore graphics & co-processing chip set for 2009
SlashGear — Intel has announced details of their upcoming Larrabee chip, an multi-core x86-based processor that, according to senior principle engineer Larry Seiler, “combines the full programmability of the CPU with the kinds of parallelism and other special capabilities of graphics processors.”  Based on multiple Pentium CPUs with 64-bit instructions and multi-threading, Larrabee will offer high-performance graphics crunching - it is compatible with Microsoft’s DirectX and Apple’s Open CL - but also be suited to workstations.  “A key ...

USB 3.0 on the way
Web User | News — USB Intel has announced details of USB 3.0, the next generation of the universal serial bus interface. Nicknamed SuperSpeed USB, USB 3.0 is expected to hit the market in 2010 and will be capable of transferring data at a rate of up to 4.8Gbps, well in excess of USB 2.0 speeds. Intel's announcement was supported by other industry giants such as Microsoft, Dell and NEC. Even rival chipmaker AMD is behind the new interface. "Lifestyles filled with HD media and digital audio demand quick and universal data transfer," said Phil Eisler of AMD. "USB 3.0 is an answer to the future bandwidth need of the PC ...

Intel pronta para lançar SSDs de 80 e 160GB
MacMagazine — Tudo indica que a Intel — em joint-venture com a Micron — está pronta para lançar seus primeiros SSDs para consumidores, com modelos de 1,8 e 2,5 polegada e capacidades de 80 e 160GB, tal como divulgamos anteriormente em março. Se o slide acima — obtido pelo Expreview.com — for verdadeiro, os modelos X18-M de 1,8 polegada e o X25-M de 2,5 polegadas poderão ler dados a 240MB/s e gravar a 70MB/s. Não serão os mais rápidos do mercado, mas muito velozes para o público que a Intel planeja atingir, com preços bastante acessíveis. O ...

Dell, Intel e outros querem diminuir a dependência do Windows em PCs
MacMagazine — A Dell, Intel e outros parceiros anunciaram no final da semana passada novas tecnologias que oferecerão bons avanços em mobilidade no mundo dos PCs. A idéia é tirar a Microsoft da jogada, permitindo que usuários tenham acesso aos seus emails, browser e outras funcionalidades básicas sem a necessidade de iniciar o Windows. Uma outra idéia, chamada Remote Wake, consiste na possibilidade de um notebook acordar um PC com Windows do modo sleep — muito útil para aplicativos de voz sobre IP (VoIP) e para usuários que necessitam acessar remotamente os seus ...

Intel SSDs confirmed: 80GB & 160GB consumer, plus 32GB enterprise
SlashGear — As expected, Intel has announced its new solid-state drives at the IDF today.  Of the three new drives, two will be aimed at the consumer market and the third at enterprise and server markets; each boast read rates of up to 250MB/s, SATA 3Gb/s interfaces and between 40 and 140-percent increases in battery life and real-world performance compared to a traditional 5,400rpm HDD.  The two consumer models, the the X18-M and X25-M, will come in 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch sizes and be available in 80GB and 160GB capacities.  Using MLC flash memory chips, write speeds will ...

Intel’s mystery Tablet: reworked clinical assistant or new Classmate?
SlashGear — Are Intel dusting off their Mobile Clinical Assistant concept and attempting to give it 10cc’s of today’s ultramobile gloss?  That’s certainly what it looks like going by today’s IDF keynote; Dadi Perlmutter, executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Mobility Group, closed the show by throwing up this slide and promising details on Wednesday. The edges have got a little more rounded and the buttons rearranged, but otherwise it looks very similar to the original concept back in 2006 (shown above).  That in itself evolved ...

Kingston se une à Intel na comercialização de drives SSD
MacMagazine — A Kingston, maior fabricante mundial de módulos de memória para computadores, fechou uma parceria com a Intel para a comercialização de drives flash (SSD) para fabricantes de computadores e servidores. Com o acordo, a Kingston passará a revender os drives SSD produzidos pela Intel para grandes companhias como HP, Dell, IBM e outras. A empresa ainda ficará responsável por realizar testes e prestar todo o suporte técnico necessário. Os produtos com a marca Kingston começarão a ser distribuídos antes do final de 2008 e incluirão modelos para notebooks ...

Kingston se une a Intel para a comercialização de drives SSD
MacMagazine — A Kingston, maior fabricante mundial de módulos de memória para computadores, fechou uma parceria com a Intel para a comercialização de drives flash (SSD) para fabricantes de computadores e servidores. Com o acordo, a Kingston passará a revender os drives SSD produzidos pela Intel para grandes companhias como HP, Dell, IBM e outras. A empresa ainda será a responsável por realizar teste e prestar todo o suporte técnico. Os produtos com a marca Kingston começarão a ser distribuídos antes do final de 2008 e incluirá modelos para notebooks profissionais ...

Intel demonstra Moorestown, chipset para gadgets móveis futurísticos
MacMagazine — A Intel aproveitou o início do Developer Forum desta semana para demonstrar um exemplo funcional de um aparelho com o Moorestown, que tem previsão de lançamento para 2009-2010. A fabricante de chips ainda não descreveu o projeto por completo, mas afirma que a tecnologia será bem mais eficiente para Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) e PCs ultraportáteis. Clique aqui para assistir ao vídeo incorporado. O chipset será construído pelo processo de 45 nanômetros e terá seu design totalmente reformulado. Só para você ter uma idéia, a energia ...

Intel discontinuing 45nm processors
SlashGear — Intel is continuing to phase out the old in order to bring in the new. In fact, just yesterday they announced that they would be discontinuing several 45nm processors in order to make room for newer products and technologies. Since the demand has moved to processors that offer higher performance, there is no need for these older processors. You will still be able to get these items until 2010, but they are already taking measures to phase them out. However, Turbo Memory items will be phased out by June of 2009. You can view all of the products being discontinued below. ...

UbiFit and UbiGreen apps
textually.org — Researchers at the University of Washington and Intel have created two new cell phone applications, dubbed UbiFit and UbiGreen, to automatically track workouts and green transportation. UWNews via DVICE. Thanks to built-in accelerometers like the iPhone they figure out if you're walking, running or biking, and cell phone towers to determine when you're in a vehicle. ...

Intel finaliza desenvolvimento da tecnologia de fabricação de chips em 32 nanômetros
MacMagazine — A Intel anunciou hoje que finalizou o desenvolvimento da sua tecnologia de fabricação de chips em 32 nanômetros, que resultará em processadores com maior eficiência energética e menor geração de calor que os disponíveis no mercado atualmente, produzidos em um processo de 45 nanômetros. O novo processo de fabricação consiste em novas técnicas que permitem o desenvolvimento de transistores cada vez menores, resultando em chips com um número bem maior deles que os atuais. Desta forma, a Intel garante o cumprimento da sua estratégia de apresentar uma técnica nova e mais ...

Intel 32nm Development Phase is Complete
I4U News — Intel 32nm Development Phase is Complete Posted on Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun More Hardware & Peripherals News Intel 32nm Development Phase is Complete Intel has announced that the development phase for its next-generation 32nm process is complete. The smaller the manufacturing process used to create CPUs, the more CPUs Intel can get per wafer, thus reducing the cost to build CPUs and increasing the number of CPUs built per wafer. Smaller manufacturing process also means a cooler chip that requires less power for the end user meaning longer battery run time for ...

The Road to CES: What do you want?
Boing Boing — (Embedded Flash video above, and here's a downloadable MP4) In just a few weeks, Boing Boing TV will be traveling to Vegas for The 2009 Consumer Electronics Show with the Boing Boing Gadgets guys -- Joel, John, and Rob. We're planning to broadcast video reports from the show floor. We're also bracing ourselves for lots of casino umbrella drinks. To get us started in planning our coverage on the blog in text, photos, and in video, we thought it might be cool to hear from ...

The Road to CES: What do you want? (Boing Boing TV + Gadgets Wünderteam, ACTIVATE!)
Boing Boing Gadgets — (Embedded Flash video above, and here's a downloadable MP4) Halloo, Xeni visiting over here on Boing Boing Gadgets for a quick post -- yup, that's my blurry mug above. Go ahead, click my face! I talk! So, in just a few weeks, Boing Boing TV will be traveling to Vegas for The 2009 Consumer Electronics Show with the Gadgets guys -- Joel, John, and Rob. We're planning to broadcast video reports from the show floor together. We're also bracing ourselves for lots of ...

BBtv: Farewell, My Lovely Consumer Electronics Show
Boing Boing Gadgets — Although we didn't bother with CES last year, this year the Boing Boing team will be out in the cold Las Vegas desert, sifting through piles of sadness incarnate to find the precious products that might actually make our lives — if not truly better — a little happier in the coming year. I'm more excited about going to CES as I have been in a long time. (Thanks in large part to your suggestions.) We try to keep it positive around here, but sometimes that's easier to do when everyone else seems so down in ...

Joel Johnson on the Road to CES: What Do You Want? (BBtv + BB Gadgets)
Boing Boing — Continuing in Boing Boing tv's "Road to CES" series, Joel Johnson at Boing Boing Gadgets sez: Although we didn't bother with CES last year, this year the Boing Boing team will be out in the cold Las Vegas desert, sifting through piles of sadness incarnate to find the precious products that might actually make our lives — if not truly better — a little happier in the coming year. I'm more excited about going to CES as I have been in a long time. (Thanks in large part to ...

Joel Johnson on the Road to CES: Film Noir Edition (BBtv + BB Gadgets)
Boing Boing — Continuing in Boing Boing tv's "Road to CES" series, Joel Johnson at Boing Boing Gadgets sez: Although we didn't bother with CES last year, this year the Boing Boing team will be out in the cold Las Vegas desert, sifting through piles of sadness incarnate to find the precious products that might actually make our lives ??? if not truly better ??? a little happier in the coming year. I'm more excited about going to CES as I have been in a long time. (Thanks in large part to ...

Intel fecha 2008 faturando alto com o processador Atom
MacMagazine — A Intel Corporation não tinha um ano de tremendo sucesso desde 2005 quando convenceu a Apple a usar seus chips em toda sua linha. Em 2008, considerado por alguns especialistas como o ano do Atom, a fabricante não somente driblou a crise enfrentada pelos Estados Unidos, que afetou as vendas em todo o mundo, como fez uma conversão em massa na indústria de PCs. Acer, Asus, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, e Toshiba — citando os nomes principais — aderiram ao produto quase da noite para o dia. Embora tenha sido pioneira na ...

Boing Boing Gadgets at CES: Video Report, Day Two.
Boing Boing Gadgets — (Flash embed above, downloadable MP4 version here.) In today's installment of Boing Boing Gadgets' video coverage from CES 2009 in Las Vegas: * Rob Beschizza reports from the Sony press conference. Sony Electronics president and COO Stan Glasgow unveiled new OLED and LCD TVs, "Webbie" social networking video cameras, and the P series "lifestyle devices." Rob got a hands-on demo of these 1.4 pound laptops, which retail for $900 and allow you to connect ...

Boing Boing Gadgets at CES: Video Report, Day Two.
Boing Boing — (Flash embed above, downloadable MP4 version here.) In today's installment of Boing Boing Gadgets' video coverage from CES 2009 in Las Vegas: * Rob Beschizza reports from the Sony press conference. Sony Electronics president and COO Stan Glasgow unveiled new OLED and LCD TVs, "Webbie" social networking video cameras, and the P series "lifestyle devices." Rob got a hands-on demo of these 1.4 pound laptops, which retail for $900 and allow you to connect via WiFi, Bluetooth, or Verizon ...

[CES 2009] Behold Our Awesome Roundup Of CES Booth Babes, And Yes… Another Giveaway!
OhGizmo! — By David Ponce So, CES is over. Don’t cry, we’ve done enough of that for all of you over our battered feet and crooked backs in the last few days. Instead, cheer up because here is our super awesome collection of CES booth babes, available for your perusal and more importantly, your vote. Yes, not only can voting elect governments and decide between greasy pizza or nutritious McD’s for the office lunch, but it can now also get you some drool-worthy convention floor swag. We were able to find 13 beautiful ladies willing to be photographed. But it wasn’t ...

Will personal area networks take off?  Intel thinks so.
Gadgetell — Section: Computers, Networking, Wireless, Trade Shows, CES Intel dedicated part of its booth at CES to mobile Wi-Fi personal area networking (PAN).  The idea is simple, Wi-Fi enabled components speak to each other using an ad hoc network without the need for a router. The idea seems promising.  Intel had a pair of Wi-Fi headphones that supposedly worked with the computer there.  There were also a pair of Wi-Fi speakers under the display table that are not out yet.  The PAN would work similarly to pairing your Bluetooth ...

LG and Intel Work Together on Future MIDs
I4U News — LG and Intel Work Together on Future MIDs Posted on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:00:00 CST | by Shane McGlaun | Topic: Mobile Phones Intel and LG announced that they would be working together on new mobile internet devices at MWC 2009. Intel's Moorestown hardware platform and a Linux-based Os called Mobiln v2.0 will be the heart of the new platform. LG and Intel expect the device to be one of the first Moorestown devices to market. Moorestown is the next generation MID platform from Intel that uses a 45nm Atom CPU, graphics, and memory controllers to supports numerous wireless solutions when combined with ...

NVIDIA responde a processo da Intel que exige que ela interrompa a produção de chipsets próprios
MacMagazine — A NVIDIA respondeu hoje a um processo documentado na segunda-feira pela Intel, no qual esta alega que um contrato de licenciamento das duas empresas — com duração de quatro anos — não se estende à sua futura geração de CPUs com controladores de memória “integrados”, como o Core i7 (de codinome “Nehalem”). Segundo ela, a ação não atinge chipsets NVIDIA comercializados atualmente. A NVIDIA entrou no acordo em 2004, visando levar inovações da plataforma aos sistemas de CPUs da Intel. Em contrapartida, a Intel licenciou o portfólio da ...

NVIDIA contra-ataca processando Intel por violação de contrato
MacMagazine — A NVIDIA registrou ainda ontem um contra-processo (PDF, 884KB) sobre a Intel, alegando “violação de contrato”. A ação ainda visa a acabar com a licença que a Intel tem do portfólio de patentes da NVIDIA. O processo é a resposta judical da NVIDIA à acusação feita pela Intel no mês passado, alegando que o contrato de licenciamento de chipsets de ambas não se estende à sua futura geração de GPUs com controladores de memória “integrados”, tal como o processador Nehalem. “A NVIDIA não iniciou essa disputa ...

2GHz Intel Atom unveiled
SolSie.com — 2GHz Intel Atom unveiled image With the unexpected huge success of the Netbook, which are mostly powered by the 1.6GHz Atom processor.  Intel unveils its 2GHz variance. The new chip was  was introduced by Intel senior vice president Anand Chandrasekher at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing. The new chip (codenamed Z550) runs at higher clock speed while remains as sub-3W power requirement. The chip also introduces Intel’s infamous  Hyperthreading technology, which promises better processing parallelism. We should expect the new wave of netbooks equipped with the Z550 at Summer end. [image] ...

BB Video review: Tricaster, and the Future of Live Video Online
Boing Boing — (Download MP4, or watch on YouTube.) In today's episode of Boing Boing Video, we review the Tricaster, a compact device that facilitates high-quality live internet video broadcast production for a lot less dough than the equivalent amount of traditional TV production gear. A number of web video productions are now using the Tricaster, including Mahalo's newly launched Kevin Pollak chat show. I visited the set this week to view the device in action with BBV editor Wes Varghese and Richard Metzger. ...

BB Video review: Tricaster, and the Future of Live Video Online
Boing Boing Gadgets — (Download MP4, or watch on YouTube.) In today's episode of Boing Boing Video, we review the Tricaster, a compact device that facilitates high-quality live internet video broadcast production for a lot less dough than the equivalent amount of traditional TV production gear. A number of web video productions are now using the Tricaster, including Leo Laporte's TWIT.tv, and Mahalo's newly launched Kevin Pollak chat show. I visited the Kevin Pollak ...

BB Video: John Gaeta on "Ninja Assasin," and "Hybrid Entertainment" Merging Film and Games.
Boing Boing — (Download this video: MP4, or watch on YouTube) In today's episode of Boing Boing Video (sponsored by WEPC.com, in partnership with Intel and Asus), visual effects guru John Gaeta (Matrix, Speed Racer) offers a sneak peek inside his newest project, Ninja Assassin. Along the way, we explore a broader realm of questions about the future of games, movies, and interactive entertainment. Will movies become more like games, ...

BB Video: "Ninja Assassin" - John Gaeta on Hybrid Entertainment Merging Film and Games.
Boing Boing — (Download this video: MP4, or watch on YouTube) In today's episode of Boing Boing Video (sponsored by WEPC.com, in partnership with Intel and Asus), Academy Award winning visual effects guru John Gaeta (Matrix, Speed Racer) offers a sneak peek inside his newest project, Ninja Assassin. Along the way, we explore a broader realm of questions about the future of games, movies, and interactive entertainment. Will ...

Boing Boing Video: recent episodes, in case you missed 'em.
Boing Boing — Here's a recap of recent episodes of our daily original video program, in case you missed them in the firehose of blog fixins that is Boing Boing. * The Throbbing Gristle Interview (Download MP4 or watch on YouTube): Richard Metzger and I interview the godfathers (and mothers) of Industrial Music once dismissed by a British lawmaker as "wreckers of civilization." Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter "Sleazy" ...

Boing Boing Video: recent episodes, in case you missed 'em.
Boing Boing — Here's a recap of recent episodes of our daily original video program, in case you missed them in the firehose of blog fixins that is Boing Boing. * The Throbbing Gristle Interview (Download MP4 or watch on YouTube): Richard Metzger and I interview the godfathers (and mothers) of Industrial Music once dismissed by a British lawmaker as "wreckers of civilization." Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter "Sleazy" ...

BB Video - $5 Cover: Craig Brewer's New MTV Series on Local Indie Music Life
Boing Boing — (Download MP4, or watch on YouTube) In today's episode of Boing Boing Video, Director Craig Brewer (Hustle and Flow , Black Snake Moan ) talks to us about his latest project -- the MTV online series $5 Cover, about the internet-age lives and dreams of struggling musicians in Memphis, Tennessee. $5 Cover is described as "a rough-and-tumble ...

$1.45 billion record fine: EU slaps Intel hard in antitrust case
CrunchGear — The 9-year-long antitrust battle between Intel and the European Union (the European Commission, to be exact) ended today and there is a clear loser: Intel. The company faces a $1.45 billion fine for abusing its No. 1 position in the market for computer chips. This is the highest fine the European Commission has ever imposed on a company. Apart from the financial punishment, Intel was ordered to stop illegal rebates and illegal practices to fence out other chip makers on the European market. A spokeswoman of the Commission summarized the verdict as follows: “Intel has harmed ...

Recently on Boing Boing Video...
Boing Boing — Here's a recap of recent episodes of our daily original video program, Boing Boing Video. * (Embedded Above) - Diving into Space: Miles O'Brien in NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab (Download / YouTube). Our esteemed guest space correspondent brings us this special report on the same day NASA astronauts complete their final space walk -- and zero-g repair job -- on the Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission #4. * Miles O'Brien Reports: An Astronaut Climbs Everest (Download / YouTube). ...

BB Video: "Dance Dance Revolution. With Flamethrowers. Pointed At You."
Boing Boing — (Download / YouTube) In today's episode of Boing Boing Video, we experience the funky flaming glory that is DANCE DANCE IMMOLATION, a pyro-parody of the popular arcade game in which one jumps around on touch-sensitive pads underfoot in rhythm with music. With DDI, you do this inside a flame-retardant suit. Miss a step, you get torched with a giant flamethrower. Dance Dance Immolation combines video games, music, and propane. You play DDR. A good performance wins ...

BB Video: "Dance Dance Revolution. With Flamethrowers. Pointed At You."
Boing Boing Gadgets — (Download / YouTube) In today's episode of Boing Boing Video, we experience the funky flaming glory that is DANCE DANCE IMMOLATION, a pyro-parody of the popular arcade game in which one jumps around on touch-sensitive pads underfoot in rhythm with music. With DDI, you do this inside a flame-retardant suit. Miss a step, you get torched with a giant flamethrower. Dance Dance Immolation combines video games, music, and propane. You play DDR. A ...

Pacific NW Readers take note: Coroflot Creative Confab comes to Portland, June 11
Core77 — Hot on the heels of the highly-energetic, highly-crowded (140+ person) New York City installment of the Creative Employment Confab, Coroflot is bringing the panel + networking event to the City of Roses in its only Pac NW appearance, Thursday, June 11 at the University of Oregon's White Stag Block in Old Town. As before, the event will run for three hours, feature ample opportunity for networking with local creative professionals and recruiters, and center on an engaging panel discussion with some of Portland's top designers and design recruiters. We'll be spotlighting ...

Pacific NW Readers take note: Coroflot Creative Confab comes to Portland, June 11
Core77 — Hot on the heels of the highly-energetic, highly-crowded (140+ person) New York City installment of the Creative Employment Confab, Coroflot is bringing the panel + networking event to the City of Roses in its only Pac NW appearance, Thursday, June 11 at the University of Oregon's White Stag Block in Old Town. As before, the event will run for three hours, feature ample opportunity for networking with local creative professionals and recruiters, and center on an engaging panel discussion with some of Portland's top designers and design recruiters. We'll be spotlighting ...

Recently on Boing Boing Video...
Boing Boing — * Dance Dance Immolation: Flames! Games! Dames! Experience the funky flaming glory that is DANCE DANCE IMMOLATION, a pyro-parody of the popular arcade game in which one jumps around on touch-sensitive pads underfoot in rhythm with music. (Download MP4 / Watch on YouTube) * "Big Yank" Vintage Jeans TV Ad (late '70s or early '80s, we think?) that screams ...

Recently on Boing Boing Video...
Boing Boing — * BB Video + PopSci: Frozen on Video: Theo Gray Sculpts in Solid Mercury, with Some Help from Liquid Nitrogen. (Download) We team up with PopSci and Theo Gray to bring you this episode -- in which the MAD SCIENCE author shows you how to make delicious mercury-sicles shaped like fishies and turtles! * "Tank Tour": One of World's Largest Collections of ...

BB Video: Miles O'Brien on Technology Questions in The Air France Disaster
Boing Boing Gadgets — (Download MP4) In today's episode of Boing Boing Video, space/aviation/tech reporter Miles O'Brien speaks with me about the role of technology in the recent Air France crash. He answers a number of questions posed here on Boing Boing by commenters on our previous episodes: how "black boxes" work, why they're not built to float, whether they would be more effective if they streamed data constantly while in use, and whether better training in the "lower-tech" aspects of piloting could ...

BB Video: Miles O'Brien on Technology Questions in The Air France Disaster
Boing Boing — (Download MP4) In today's episode of Boing Boing Video, space/aviation/tech reporter Miles O'Brien speaks with me about the role of technology in the recent Air France crash. He answers a number of questions posed here on Boing Boing by commenters on our previous episodes: how "black boxes" work, why they're not built to float, whether they would be more effective if they streamed data constantly while in use, and whether inadequate training in the "lower-tech" aspects of piloting could have helped. ...

BB Video: Maker Faire Selects - CandyFab, DIY Screen Printing, Electric Music.
Boing Boing Gadgets — (Download / YouTube) In today's edition of Boing Boing Video, Mark Frauenfelder and Boing Boing Gadgets editor Lisa Katayama profile three cool things found at the recent Bay Area Maker Faire: The Yudu personal screen printer, an interactive, collaborative, musical Tesla Coil, and a candy-fabbing device from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. Below, one of the freaky, free-form sugar creations produced (photo courtesy Windell of ...

BB Video: Maker Faire Selects - CandyFab, DIY Screen Printing, Electric Music.
Boing Boing — (Download / YouTube) In today's edition of Boing Boing Video, Mark Frauenfelder and Boing Boing Gadgets editor Lisa Katayama profile three cool things found at the recent Bay Area Maker Faire: The Yudu personal screen printer, an interactive, collaborative, musical Tesla Coil, and a candy-fabbing device from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. Below, one of the freaky, free-form sugar creations produced (photo courtesy Windell of Evil Mad Scientist ...

Recently on Boing Boing Video...
Boing Boing — "A VOLTA" from NASA Project: Narco-Cholo Game Ultraviolence (Download / YouTube). The debut of a new video from the NASA music project: "A Volta," featuring Sizzla, Amanda Blank & Love Foxxx. Video by Logan, with art by The Date Farmers. Extra videos: A "mockumentary making of" video and a musical montage of Date Farmers art at the blog post. Maker Faire Selects - CandyFab, DIY Screen Printing, Electric ...

BB Video: Omega Recoil, Mad Electro-Makers Who Craft Giant Tesla coils
Boing Boing — (Download / YouTube) Boing Boing Video today peeks inside the electrified world of Omega Recoil, a group of engineers and "makers" who craft giant Tesla Coils, and stage humorous and thrilling performances with those large electrical devices. What's a Tesla Coil? From the Tesla Society website: [It] is one of Nikola Tesla's most famous inventions -- essentially a high-frequency air-core transformer. It takes the output from a 120vAC to several kilovolt transformer & driver ...

BB Video: Omega Recoil, Mad Electro-Makers Who Craft Giant Tesla coils
Boing Boing Gadgets — (Download / YouTube) Boing Boing Video today peeks inside the electrified world of Omega Recoil, a group of engineers and "makers" who craft giant Tesla Coils, and stage humorous and thrilling performances with those large electrical devices. What's a Tesla Coil? From the Tesla Society website: [It] is one of Nikola Tesla's most famous inventions -- essentially a high-frequency air-core transformer. It takes the output from a 120vAC to several ...

Recently on Boing Boing Video...
Boing Boing — Omega Recoil, Mad Electro-Makers Who Craft Giant Tesla coils (Download MP4 / YouTube) We peek inside the electrified world of Omega Recoil, a group of engineers and "makers" who craft giant Tesla Coils, and stage humorous and thrilling performances with those large electrical devices. ...

BB Video: Day in the Cloud - Google + Virgin America + Boing Boing + Games + Netbooks
Boing Boing Gadgets — (Download MP4 / YouTube) Google Apps and Virgin America are teaming up for a day of cloud computing in the clouds: "Day in the Cloud," Wednesday, June 24. Boing Boing will be on board -- me (Xeni), Rob Beschizza from Boing Boing Gadgets, and our friend Jane McGonigal, of Avantgame and Institute for the Future. In this Boing Boing Video episode, I speak with Porter Gale of Virgin America, and Jen Mazzon, a "digital mom" from ...

BB Video: Day in the Cloud - Google + Virgin America + Boing Boing
Boing Boing — (Download MP4 / YouTube) Google Apps and Virgin America are teaming up for a day of cloud computing in the clouds: "Day in the Cloud," Wednesday, June 24. Boing Boing will be on board -- me, Rob Beschizza from Boing Boing Gadgets, and our friend Jane McGonigal, of Avantgame and Institute for the Future. In this Boing Boing Video episode, I speak with Porter Gale of Virgin America, and Jen Mazzon, a "digital mom" from Google, about the in-flight game ...

(BB Video) Mile-High Gaming with Virgin + Google
Boing Boing — (Download / YouTube) In today's Boing Boing Video episode: our mini-documentary of "Day in the Cloud," a mile-high frag-a-thon aboard two dueling Virgin America planes both eqipped with in-flight WiFi. During the one-hour flights, bloggers and game dorks played games that required internet connections, to compete for netbooks and pure ultimate leetness over their foes. Competing on the plane from Los Angeles to San Francisco (named "YouTube Air"): me (Xeni), Rob Beschizza from Boing ...

(BB Video) Mile-High Gaming with Virgin + Google
Boing Boing Gadgets — (Download / YouTube) In today's Boing Boing Video episode: our mini-documentary of "Day in the Cloud," a mile-high frag-a-thon aboard two dueling Virgin America planes both eqipped with in-flight WiFi. During the one-hour flights, bloggers and game dorks played games that required internet connections, to compete for netbooks and pure ultimate leetness over their foes. Competing on the plane from Los Angeles to San Francisco (named "YouTube Air"): me (Xeni), Rob ...

(BB Video) Mile-High Gaming with Virgin America + Google
Boing Boing — (Download / YouTube) In today's Boing Boing Video episode: our mini-documentary of "Day in the Cloud," a mile-high frag-a-thon aboard two dueling Virgin America planes both eqipped with in-flight WiFi. During the one-hour flights, bloggers and game dorks played games that required internet connections, to compete for netbooks and pure ultimate leetness over their foes. Competing on the plane from Los Angeles to San Francisco (named "YouTube Air"): me (Xeni), Rob Beschizza from Boing ...

BB Video: Pirate Bay Surrenders to Hollywood, interview with co-founder Peter Sunde
Boing Boing — (Download MP4 / Watch on YouTube / Watch it at boingboingvideo.com.) Founders of The Pirate Bay have made a deal to sell off "the world's largest BitTorrent tracker" to a Swedish gaming company for about $7.8 million. More than 20 million visitors use the site each month. This April, TPB's three founders and a representative of their ISP were sentenced to a year in prison and damages of about $4 million over allegations of copyright violation. A week before the news was announced, I ...

BB Video - Pirate Bay Surrenders to Hollywood: Peter Sunde interview
Boing Boing — (Download MP4 / Watch on YouTube / Watch it at boingboingvideo.com.) Founders of The Pirate Bay have made a deal to sell off "the world's largest BitTorrent tracker" to a Swedish gaming company for about $7.8 million. More than 20 million visitors use the site each month. This April, TPB's three founders and a representative of their ISP were sentenced to a year in prison and damages of about $4 million over allegations of copyright violation. A week before the news was announced, I ...

Intel Reports Q2 Financials
I4U News — Intel Reports Q2 Financials Posted on Wed, 15 Jul 2009 07:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun | Topic: Technology News Intel has announced the financial results for Q2 2009 with overall revenue of $8 billion. Intel does point out that the earnings announced do not include the effects of the massive European Commission fine levied against it. Intel reports a non-GAAP operating income of $1.4 billion and a net income of $1 billion with earnings per share of 18 cents. On a GAAP basis, Intel reports an operating loss of $12 million and a net loss of $398 million. That equates to a loss of 7 cents per share. ...

Digital Summer, August 19th, Temple, San Francisco
Ubergizmo — On August 19th Ubergizmo and Girls in Tech are partnering up to create DIGITAL SUMMER in Temple, San Francisco, one of the few sustainable nightclubs in the world. The event combines three passions: Photography, Technology, and Fashion.We are bringing the most international, professional, and glamorous crowd of San Francisco for socializing, professional photo-shoot, technology, green cause, and eco-fashion. We have a cool program: Test-drive HP's coolest products Try out Intel-based latest mobile devices Studio Photo-Shoot by Eye-Fi (Feel ...

THANK YOU! Digital Summer of 2009: Smashing Success
Ubergizmo — ... Area could make it and join us to enjoy the summer before things get crazy again. Digital Summer was held at Temple, one of the few sustainable night clubs in the country. You planted 940 trees in Honduras, and the fashion show featured 15 gorgeous models that were born in 11 countries and 4 continents. We found about 1100 photos, but the DSLR cameras were too many to count (thanks to the photographers!), so share your photos. The event was sponsored by HP, Intel and Edun live and made successful by you. Thanks for your support ...

Things are looking up for Intel and the computer industry
SlashGear — You don’t have to look deeply at the numbers for Dell, HP, and other major computer makers to get an idea of how well the PC industry is doing in the current economic climate. We can look at things like CPU sales and GPU shipments to get a good broad overview of how well the market is doing since every computer sold no matter the brand has a CPU and a GPU inside. Intel holds the lion’s share of the CPU industry and therefore its fate is closely tied to the computer industry. Intel announced today that it was raising its Q3 2009 revenue and gross margin expectations. Intel reports ...

Intel Raises Q3 Revenue and Gross Margin Projections
I4U News — Intel Raises Q3 Revenue and Gross Margin Projections Posted on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun | Topic: Hardware & Peripherals The bottom of the market may have finally been reached for Intel . The company has increased its revenue and growth margin projections for Q3 2009. According to Intel, revenue for Q3 will be $9 billion plus or minus $200 million. It had previously predicted revenue of $8.5 billion plus or minus $400 million. The CPU maker expects gross margin for the quarter to be 53% plus or minus 2% and it says all other predictions are unchanged. ...

Intel's Atom CE4100 media chip unveiled
T3.com All — Intel's Atom CE4100 media chip unveiled TV takes in next-generation internet Intel is on a mission to take control of television, with the Intel Atom CE4100 media chip (or 'system-on-a-chip') its weapon of choice. Speaking to the BBC ...

Intel's Atom CE4100 media chip unveiled
T3.com News — Intel is on a mission to take control of television, with the Intel Atom CE4100 media chip (or 'system-on-a-chip') its weapon of choice. Speaking to the BBC, Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, claimed that TV will finally break free of the living room: 'TV is out of the box and off the wall. TV will remain at the centre of our lives and you will be able to watch what you want where you want,' adding that 'we are talking about more than one TV-capable device for every man and woman on the planet. People are going to feel connected to the screen in ways they haven't in the ...

Intel changes the way we search TV listings
T3.com All — Intel changes the way we search TV listings System-on-chip processors set to invade your TV Speaking in a recent interview in San Francisco, head of Intel s Digital Home Unit Eric Kim has revealed the company s plans to diversify their business to include putting Intel chips in TVs and set top boxes. Having already tried and failed to introduce the PC to the living room, Intel s new tactic is to create so called system-on-chip systems that allow televisions to spruce up the way they operate and incorporate the internet. - Samsung LE40B650 Internet TV review ...

Intel changes the way we search TV listings
T3.com News — Speaking in a recent interview in San Francisco, head of Intel’s Digital Home Unit Eric Kim has revealed the company’s plans to diversify their business to include putting Intel chips in TVs and set top boxes. Having already tried and failed to introduce the PC to the living room, Intel’s new tactic is to create so called “system-on-chip” systems that allow televisions to spruce up the way they operate and incorporate the internet. - Samsung LE40B650 Internet TV review This includes a complete rethink of the humble TV guide, ...

Nuevos procesadores VIA Nano 3000
Gizmología — No solo de Intel y AMD vive el hombre, hay varios fabricantes de procesadores por el mundo que intentan abrirse aun hoy en día un camino. Si que es un camino duro, Intel domina el mercado y AMD le sigue, a lo lejos, pero le sigue. Qualcomm y VIA son dos empresas que también intentan abrir un camino en el mercado de los procesadores, Qualcomm lo ha logrado creando procesadores para móviles, como el famoso Snapdragon, pero VIA aparte de algún procesador que montó en algún portátil de HP, poco se ha visto. Ahora VIA llega con los nuevos VIA Nano 3000, ...