(Credit: Yanko Design) Though writer Radhika Seth had asked her designer pal, Jan Rytir, to come up with an ultimate mobile phone, he got a little carried away and instead turned up with a Mobile Internet Device (MID) design to die for. The sliding keyboard allows for a physical keypad without compromising […]
A lot of notebook for not much money.(Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Sold as an affordable media-friendly laptop with an eye toward design, Gateways 14-inch TC7804u offers a decent collection of features and components at a low-end price. Similar to the 15-inch MD7818u model we reviewed back in January, ... […]
How big do we want our Netbook screens?(Credit: Slashfilm) The advantage of having a Netbook: ultraportability and compactness. The necessary disadvantage, of course, is small screen size. Asusteks announcement that its Eee PC line of Netbooks would be expanding into the 11.6-inch range, therefore, should be […]
Episode 30 of the Digital City, where we discuss the new multi-camera setup in the studio, how to fight the swine flu online, how one of us ditched cable for online TV, and the crossroads of Twitter and World of Warcraft. >>Subscribe to Digital City on iTunes >>Join the Digital City Fac […]
"Excuse me, is Sarah Conner home?" It sounds like an Astroturf campaign for the upcoming computers-gone-bad movie "Terminator: Salvation," but in fact New Scientist magazine is being completely serious when it asks if the Internet itself could soon become "self-aware." The arti […]
(Credit: Modo forum) The Moonlight laptop isnt just any boring convertible tablet PC. Though the concept model looks a little thick for our taste, the curvy body and dual LCD screens are enough to cause oodles of drool. Both displays are touch screen, with the smaller LCD serving as a mouse. The secondary […]
Combining two of the most addictive things about the online universe--Twitter and World of Warcraft--seems like a good way to bring productivity in the Western world to a screeching halt. If that happens, you can blame PlayXpert, a maker of various in-game widgets for PC gamers. The company today ... Origin […]
Specifically marketed with kids in mind, PeeWee PC is a site that offers not only kid-friendly PCs, but also laptops customized for your ever-growing child. On Wednesday, PeeWee PC is rolling out the Atom-powered PeeWee Pivot Tablet Laptop. The 3-pound PeeWee Pivot Tablet Laptop--which is more of a tablet N […]
I promise this is the last time you'll hear about my keys. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) When my colleague Dong Ngo introduced us to the LaCie key-shaped USB drive back in March, the timing could not have been better, as I had just ended yet another frustrating relationship with a keychain-based USB key. Ive […]