Cool Gizmos – Gizmora

A Bartow County couple will go before a magistrate judge today to see if they will be arrested for allegedly stalking a Kennesaw police officer by installing cameras to track neighborhood speeders.
     Lee and Teresa Sipple spent $1,200 mounting three video cameras and a radar speed unit outside their home, which is at the bottom of a hill. They have said they did so in hopes of convincing neighbors to slow down to create a safe environment for their son.
     The Sipples allegedly caught Kennesaw police officer Richard Perrone speeding up to 17 mph over the speed limit. Perrone alerted Bartow authorities, who in turn visited the Sipples’ home to tell them Perrone intended to press charges against them for stalking.

The Killer K1 is priced as low as $149.99 after rebates, and will be “available for a limited time from selected e-tailers,” the company said.
     The card features a 333-MHz version of the company’s N1 network processing unit and 64 Mbytes of on-board RAM. The card lacks the “Flexible Network Architcture” capability of the original Killer card, although consumers can pay $30 to “upgrade” to this feature, the company said, apparently with a downloadable firmware upgrade.
      However, the original Killer card did not come highly recommended. In an ExtremeTech review, consumers were recommended to spend their money elsewhere. “Honestly, there’s just no way we can recommend the Killer NIC,” Jason Cross wrote. “It’s an incredibly interesting idea, and it makes academic sense, but we’re just not seeing the benefit. Even if it worked really well and we saw big benefits, you have to ask yourself if you would be better spending $279 on other computer components that would benefit every game you play and even other general tasks.”

The VP-6500VHD features IntelliWide™ for viewing 4:3 content in widescreen without appreciable picture degradation, as well as ISF™ calibration modes for optimum viewing under diverse lighting conditions.
     The included VHD Controller/Processor with our exclusive Imagix™ video processing maintains a pure digital signal path from input to output, and includes a broad array of video input choices. Your home automation interface includes IR and RS-232 capabilities with discrete input selection, power on/off, aspect ratio control and more.
      The VP-6500VHD not only represents a leap forward in high definition flat panel technologies, but the engineering advances in plasma design ensure long life in virtually any installation, with operational life extending to as much as 60,000 hours.
      We also offer the VP-6500VHDa, which is identical in all respects. However, this version is high altitude compliant to over 9000 feet.

OMG! This is just what we geeks need, another USB flash drive that holds a smell in addition to flash memory. Debreu has a new high speed flash drive that uses USB 2.0 sporting not only storage space from 128MB to 1GB , but a bamboo motif cleverly hiding a disk that holds your favorite scent for up to two hours of use. This may be the perfect valentine’s gift for the aunt that smells like cabbage. At least for a few hours anyway she will smell better. That is assuming she knows what a flash drive is.

An affordable 320MB edition of nVidia’s GeForce high end 8800 GTS is the card making the headlines and with an RRP of well under £200 it should bring cutting edge gaming to a wider audience.
     As for the specs they make good reading: 500MHz core clock frequency, 96 unified shaders zipping along at 1.2GHz and 1.6GHz effective memory. All this equates to a mighty 26.4bn texels per second and a massive 64GBps of memory bandwidth. For multimedia fans you’ll be pleased to know the card is HDCP enabled and offers up dual DVI-I and is VGA capable via a DVI to VGA converter. As for gamers they obviously get Vista-friendly DirectX 10 compatibility.
     Naturally all the usual suspects have made an appearance with offerings from ECS (£155 ex VAT), EVGA (349 euros), PNY (£174.90), Albatron, XFX and Leadtek (the last three withheld pricing). Meanwhile Foxconn is releasing vanilla and overclocked versions of the card. It claims the latter provides between 10 and 15 per cent more performance and will retail for £210 excluding VAT.

InPhase Technologies has begun bulk shipping of its 300GB holographic storage disks and drives, the firm said yesterday. The Tapestry HDS-300R drive costs $18,000, with the 1.5mm-thick platters running to $180 a piece. The firm already claims a series of high profile customers, including Turner Broadcasting, the US Geological Survey, and Lockheed Martin.
      InPhase marketing VP Liz Murphy said: “We’ve also tried to make it as easy to integrate as possible from a software perspective. So it can emulate a DVD, CD-R, magnetic optical disc or tape drive. So software companies don’t have to do any major changes to write to it in native mode.”

With 1GB of integrated memory, the metallic midnight blue DS-50 offers a truly staggering recording time; over 275 hours in LP mode and over 17 hours even in highest-quality STXQ stereo mode. Of course, you can leave some of that capacity free for your favourite MP3 or WMA tunes, downloaded podcasts or enthralling audio books – all easily navigable via either voice guidance or the intuitive menu sys

SanDisk have unveiled their JEDEC-standard iNAND embedded flash drive standard, capable of capacities up to 8GB.
     iNAND is compatible with the SD bus and commands, and is designed for use with applications such as mobile TV and multimedia storage, gaming, GPS and PDA applications. The new JEDEC (Joint Electron Device Engineering Council) standard hardware interface and integrated smart flash management software means that the drive can be easily used with mobile devices.
     “At 8GB, iNAND, with its new JEDEC standard ball-out which is also supported by a wide range of other consumer electronics products, opens up a new range of opportunities for iNAND beyond the millions of mobile handsets and consumer electronics products where it is already used,” said David Tolub, VP and co-manager of the Mobile Handset Vendor business unit at SanDisk

Yes, that is nine Behringer EP2500’s and a Crown XLS602 totaling about 20,000+ watts. Every year at Michigan Tech University there is a school wide Winter Carnival where the students create snow statues in a competition for bragging rights. Looking at the carnival pictures you can see medieval castle themes, trains, Viking boats, and all sorts of elaborate snow statues. Year after year, there is one group of students who create their own version of what a snow statue should be. The student-AES chapter of MTU design and create a full-blown snow horn. It should be mentioned that these students are also automatically disqualified from the competition because they use real materials (wood, amps, subwoofers, etc.) in addition to snow in the making of their statue..

The ScreenDuo measures roughly 4″ wide, 2.5″ tall, and 0.75″ thick, and features a 2.5″ diagonal QVGA display. It has a four-way directional pad and a couple of buttons up front, in addition to three buttons located along the top edge of the unit.
         A handy stand pops out of the back of the unit, making it possible to mount on a desk for easy viewing. Asus also throws in a USB cable to connect the ScreenDuo to your PC, and that’s where the fun begins.
         Windows Vista’s SideShow feature was conceived to allow laptops to display information on a secondary display, but that functionality hasn’t been limited to the mobile world. Auxiliary displays are nothing new on the desktop, of course—I’ve been running dual monitors for years. However, SideShow isn’t quite the same as a secondary monitor. Instead, it’s designed to be an interface for what Microsoft calls gadgets—mini applications similar to widgets on the Mac.