CHEAP DVD PLAYERS

The Seattle Times has an interesting article about the ultra-low priced DVD players on the market. No-name DVD players were available on sale before Xmas for under thirty dollars, and they’re still under forty dollars if you look around. Surprisingly, the...

NEW MEMORY DEVICE

Engineers at Princeton University and Hewlett Packard have come up with a combination of cheap materials that might result in a very small card capable of storing far more data than a CD – the example is a gigabyte of information in one cubic centimeter, about...

DELL MP3 PLAYER

Dell will be unveiling its MP3 player and online music service tomorrow, in another direct shot at Apple’s iPod and iTunes. Like the iPod, the Dell Digital Jukebox is a high capacity disk-drive based device. The accompanying software is a Dell-branded version of...

DELL MOVES INTO HOME ELECTRONICS

Here’s an interesting article about Dell’s move into home entertainment. Dell is conservative and only goes into new areas that it intends to dominate, so expect a big marketing push later this year for the new lineup. The new products include a digital...

EXTERNAL HARD DRIVES

Your new computer probably includes USB 2.0 ports – physically identical to USB 1.1 ports, but capable of transferring data at much higher speeds. One interesting way to use them is to buy an external hard drive. Like everything else, external drives have been...

TERMINATOR 2: MAXIMUM HARDWARE

There’s yet another release of Terminator 2 on DVD, the “T2: Extreme DVD” in a cool embossed metal box. One of the features you’ll see advertised is an ultra-high resolution version of the movie with 5.1 sound for your PC, in addition to the regular version for your...