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Round up: Subnotebook madness!

2008-06-03 13:39:34 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...swank touchscreen via a $100 DIY kit, which is advertised as being as easy as unscrewing the bezel and plugging in a few cables At Comptex, Asus also announced an iPhone sized USB WiMax dongle , which doesn't really look that convenient. They also confirmed the Eee Box B202, which has had it's old chassis design re-applied . The Eee Box will...
 
Tags: battery life claims, subnotebook, battery life, eee box b202, eee box, battery, eee, month-old eee purchase, asus
 
 
 
 
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Office Worker Luxuriates in His Wood-Paneled Cubicle

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2008-06-17 10:29:55 by Dylan Tweney in Gadget Lab
...swank corner office? Sick of wasting your daylight hours in a sad, soulless cubicle ? Bring the swank to you, like Jared Nielsen, who lords it over his officemates with his mahogany-paneled walls and hardwood floors Nielsen completes the effect with an ornate end table to hold his LCD monitor and phone. Missing from this setup? Any place to...
 
Tags: swank, cube, swank corner office, ostentatious cube makeovers, lcd, lcd monitor, soulless cubicle, hardwood floors, fit anythng
 
 
 
 
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JR Tokai plans maglev railway for Japan, won't open until 2025

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2007-12-26 01:39:00 by Darren Murph in Engadget
...swank maglev railway in Japan. The bad news? It's not scheduled to open until 2025. Reportedly, JR Tokai will be coughing up around 5.1 trillion ($44 billion, give or take a few mil) of its own change to build the system that will stretch between the "Tokyo metropolitan area and the Chukyo region, with Nagoya at the center." Of course, we're...
 
Tags: tokai, swank maglev railway, bad news, news, tokyo metropolitan, chukyo region, image courtesy, japan, system
 
 
 
 
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SIM2 reveals $32K C3X 1080 DLP projector, wallets cringe

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2007-12-01 18:21:00 by Gourav in Latest Gadget
...swank new projector from SIM2, but on paper, it looks like the wait was worth it. The firm's new-generation version of the Grand Cinema C3X (dubbed C3X 1080) features a gorgeous Giorgio Revoldini-designed chassis, TI's brand new DarkChip 4 DLP device, a 10-bit video processor, HD scaling and deinterlacing capabilities, 1080p24 support, a...
 
Tags: c3x, grand cinema c3x, projector, usb control sockets, 12-volt trigger outputs, home theater environment, 10-bit video processor, sim2, high-gloss gunmetal
 
 
 
 
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Sony's 1080p VPL-VW40 projector set for January release

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2007-12-27 08:27:00 by Darren Murph in Engadget
...swank new front projector you'd been asking pleading for? Trust us, it's for the best. Apparently, Sony is looking to release its VPL-VW40 to the masses at the end of January, and judging by the specs, it looks an awful lot like the discontinued VPL-VW50 -- save for the price. The BRAVIA SXRD PJ sports a 1080p native resolution, 15,000:1...
 
Tags: bit, 12-bit panel drive, sony, 1080p native resolution, price tag, price, home entertainment, fair share, january
 
 
 
 
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VidaBox's 10.4-inch vPad controls your home

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2007-12-29 12:07:00 by Darren Murph in Engadget
...swank CableCARD-equipped HTPCs , and this home controller shares that very same pizazz. The 10.4-inch tablet rocks an SVGA (1,024 x 768) panel, integrated 802.11b WiFi, a built-in speaker and a rechargeable Li-ion good for around 2.5 hours. As expected, this unit enables owners to control multi-room audio, climate zones, security cameras,...
 
Tags: vpad, home automation hardware, home controller shares, unit enables owners, vidabox vpad, control multi-room audio, 4-inch tablet rocks, mirage software, home entertainment
 
 
 
 
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DIY time lapse intervalometer saves dough, improves creativity

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2007-12-31 23:01:00 by Darren Murph in Engadget
...swank camera mod, this time giving DSLR owners an easy (and affordable) method for handling time lapse photography. Granted, this creation isn't the simplest to build, and there's still a few notable limitations that keep it from supreme greatness -- namely the inaccurate interval setting and the occasionally problematic short output pulse --...
 
Tags: time, time lapse photography, improves creativity, shutter release hack, swank camera mod, ice melt, dslr owners, supreme greatness, notable limitations
 
 
 
 
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DIY time lapse intervalometer saves dough, improves creativity

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2008-01-01 04:01:00 by Darren Murph in
...swank camera mod, this time giving DSLR owners an easy (and affordable) method for handling time lapse photography. Granted, this creation isn't the simplest to build, and there's still a few notable limitations that keep it from supreme greatness -- namely the inaccurate interval setting and the occasionally problematic short output pulse --...
 
Tags: time, time lapse photography, improves creativity, shutter release hack, swank camera mod, ice melt, dslr owners, supreme greatness, notable limitations
 
 
 
 
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HP reveals 22-inch w2207h / 24-inch w2408h LCD monitors

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2008-01-03 00:00:00 by Darren Murph in Engadget
...swank new LCD monitors, so we'll get right to it. First up is the 22-inch w2207h (pictured above), which rocks a 1,680 x 1,050 resolution BrightView panel, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, 300 nits of brightness, a five-millisecond response time, VESA mount support, HDMI (HDCP-compliant) / VGA inputs, a double-hinged base and My Display technology...
 
Tags: reveals 22-inch w2207h, 22-inch w2207h, cdm2 brightness, lcd monitors, resolution brightview panel, brightness, resolution, 24-inch w2408h, four-port usb hub