"Featuring an industry-first 24 hour Military Class burn-in test and a sleek all-black design, the Z77 MPower is poised to change the overclocking and performance game." MSI has been teasing a new motherboard reveal for a little while now with the unveiling scheduled for today. We can get a look at the fully featured z77 Mpower from MSI today. … [Read more...]
Product Review: Neato XV-11 Robotic Vacuum
I had a Roomba for a while but it stopped working properly, now preferring to jitter around in circles than clean an entire room. I took it apart several times, tried clearing sensors, reseating components, and blowing out all the dust that a vacuum encounters. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to repair it. Shortly after getting the Roomba, I read about the Neato. It was described … [Read more...]
The Missing Link: Microsoft releases hardware designed for Windows 8
I gave the Windows 8 beta a pretty thorough try but I did not find myself a big fan of the changes to the desktop experience. One of the problems was that the Metro style Start Menu was horizontally oriented. If I were on a tablet or touch screen, I could grab the screen anywhere and slide it around. On a standard keyboard and mouse, you have to aim for a small scroll bar at … [Read more...]
USB 3.0 could become a standard power adapter for laptops
Smartphones have come a long way in recent years with almost all of them (except the iPhone) standardizing on micro-USB for data and power charging. In the future, notebooks could also be ditching the proprietary chargers and standardizing to charge with USB. The USB 3.0 Promoter Group provided a news release (.pdf) to announce the USB Power Delivery specification has been … [Read more...]
News from Google IO 2012 – Android 4.1, Nexus 7, and Nexus Q
The opening day and keynote of Google IO 2012 seemed to go pretty well for Google. They made some big reveals and then bam! right when the Google+ talk started to get boring they hit you with skydiving. Things introduced include: Android 4.1, Nexus 7 tablet, Nexus Q media player, Google+ new features, and more on Google Glass. … [Read more...]