AMD to finally take on netbook space with new Fusion chip… next year

AMD to finally take on netbook space with new Fusion chip… next year

We’ve always stated AMD should go after the gaping hole between netbooks and thin-and-lights by releasing a low-power platform with solid graphics abilities, and it looks like the company’s finally coming around — AMD’s John Taylor just told us that the chipmaker will be releasing a netbook-class Fusion CPU / ...

AMD to finally take on netbook space with new Fusion chip… next year

AMD to finally take on netbook space with new Fusion chip… next year

We’ve always stated AMD should go after the gaping hole between netbooks and thin-and-lights by releasing a low-power platform with solid graphics abilities, and it looks like the company’s finally coming around — AMD’s John Taylor just told us that the chipmaker will be releasing a netbook-class Fusion CPU / ...

HMK 561 electric bike concept seats you on the battery, makes you significantly more attractive

HMK 561 electric bike concept seats you on the battery, makes you significantly more attractive

Most electric bikes are fairly sordid affairs, tiny more than an ordinary bicycle with a motorized hub, a strap-on battery pack and regenerative braking abilities (if you are lucky). Not this HMK 561 electric bicycle concept, which took home an iF Design Award for some seriously forward thinking. It’s not ...

HMK 561 electric bike concept seats you on the battery, makes you significantly more attractive

HMK 561 electric bike concept seats you on the battery, makes you significantly more attractive

Most electric bikes are fairly sordid affairs, tiny more than an ordinary bicycle with a motorized hub, a strap-on battery pack and regenerative braking abilities (if you are lucky). Not this HMK 561 electric bicycle concept, which took home an iF Design Award for some seriously forward thinking. It’s not ...

Motorola partners with Microsoft, will use Bing search and maps on Chinese Android phones

Motorola partners with Microsoft, will use Bing search and maps on Chinese Android phones

Uh, whoa. When we heard Google’s threatened pullout of China had prompted Motorola to seek out an alternative search provider for its China-bound handsets, we cannot state we were anticipating a partnership with Microsoft to result. But here we are, staring at a press release announcing the Bing search ...

Razer and Sixense distribute SDK and FPS shooter utility through Steam

Razer and Sixense distribute SDK and FPS shooter utility through Steam

Surely you remember those Sixense motion controls that we caught lounging around at Razer’s CES booth, right? Yeah. Today at the Game Developers Conference, both outfits have teamed up in order to distribute the Ultra-Precise Motion Controller SDK and FPS utility library via Steam, which should give devs the capability ...

MSI starts shipping two 12.1-inch, AMD-powered Wind12 U230 netbooks

MSI starts shipping two 12.1-inch, AMD-powered Wind12 U230 netbooks

It sure took ‘em long enough — just over four months if you are keeping score — but MSI has finally shipped its next-generation netbook. The AMD-powered Wind12 U230 has left the docks this day in two distinct flavors (the U230-033 and U230-040), with both touting Windows 7 Home Premium, ...

Music Planet waterproof speaker ball makes bath time more melodic

Music Planet waterproof speaker ball makes bath time more melodic

Remember that waterproof Bluetooth speaker that you picked up last summer after none other than Billy Corgan endorsed it? Here’s comes round two. Available exclusively in the Land of the Rising Sun (surprised?), the Music Planet speaker ball is IPX7-certified to shrug off water damage for up to 30 minutes ...

TiVo posts $10.2m loss, remains on deathwatch

TiVo posts $10.2m loss, remains on deathwatch

We’ve had TiVo firmly on deathwatch since 2005, and even though the company’s shares have recently surged with the launch of the TiVo Premiere and another legal victory over Echostar, things are still looking somewhat bleak: the Q4 numbers are in, and everyone’s favorite DVR company just posted a $10.2m ...

First iPad ad premieres during the Oscars

First iPad ad premieres during the Oscars

Apple’s doing the Oscars up right tonight — not only was Steve Jobs making friends on the red carpet, but the company ran the first iPad ad just now during the broadcast. It’s pretty much what you’d anticipate out of an Apple ad, but, you know, more magical. Get ...

First iPad ad premieres during the Oscars

First iPad ad premieres during the Oscars

Apple’s doing the Oscars up right tonight — not only was Steve Jobs making friends on the red carpet, but the company ran the first iPad ad just now during the broadcast. It’s pretty much what you’d anticipate out of an Apple ad, but, you know, more magical. Get ...

Strobeshnik: probably the most awesome hard drive clock of all time

Strobeshnik: probably the most awesome hard drive clock of all time

Turning aged hard drives into clocks has been a common occurrence for years now, but there is still something magical about this rendition. Designed and crafted by Svofski, the Strobeshnik relies on the stroboscopic effect to create the illusion of a persistent numeric display. The HDD platter itself has ten ...

Strobeshnik: probably the most awesome hard drive clock of all time

Strobeshnik: probably the most awesome hard drive clock of all time

Turning aged hard drives into clocks has been a common occurrence for years now, but there is still something magical about this rendition. Designed and crafted by Svofski, the Strobeshnik relies on the stroboscopic effect to create the illusion of a persistent numeric display. The HDD platter itself has ten ...

Skinput Makes the Human Body an Interface

Skinput Makes the Human Body an Interface

What if you could turn your skin into a touch-interface? That’s the idea driving Skinput, a system that takes advantage of the vibrations generated when we tap our body. The prototype is accurate enough that different parts of the body can be turned into switches that control a variety of ...

Samsung Go N315 grabs a Pinetrail processor

Samsung Go N315 grabs a Pinetrail processor

Samsung hasn’t yet abased itself to competing head-on with the lowest price netbooks out there, but its Samsung Go can at least vaguely keep up with the times spec-wise, notching up from the N310 to the N315 model name in the process. The $429 rubber-clad netbook has been bumped to ...