Xbox Live Outages All Over The United States (TGS to Blame?)

With the 2006 TGS in full swing and Microsoft delivering yet another "Bring It Home" media blitz, could all that bandwidth be to much for MS to handle? Many customers are experiencing Xbox Live outages for several hours with no explanations from tech support. More…

JVC's new VCR upscales VHS to HD 1080i! Really.

"It seems unlikely that anyone who's invested in a nice big HDTV is hanging on to their old VHS collection, but for the one or two out there that refuses to toss their taped-off-HBO copy of Back to the Future, JVC offers this VHS/DVD player that upscales your crappy-quality movies to 1080i." It also has a DVD-Recorder, the HD-VHS thing is a bonus. More…

A Printer that Delivers 1,000 Pages a Minute

Two researchers from The College of Judea and Samaria in Israel have designed an ink-jet printer head that could lead to printers capable of chugging out 1,000 pages per minute – or even more. More…

$1195.00 Industrial Keyboard

I think this is the keyboard used by villians from James Bond movies, solely to show off how fiendishly evil they are. "My keyboard costs $1000. Why? Because I am an evil madman!" Even after reading the specs I'm still not sure why it costs so much. Surely stainless steel and silicone rubber aren't THAT expensive? More…

Passively cooled, overclocked XFX GeForce 7950 GT 570M Extreme reviewed

Very good review highlighting the image quality differences between this card and ATi's x1900XT. This passively cooled card overclocks to very impressive speeds, but ultimately falls short of the value offered by the ATi x1900xt options. More…

USB Flash Memory for Windows Vista ReadyBoost

From ExtremeTech: "ReadyBoost is Vista's capability to extend the disk cache to USB flash devices. But not all flash devices are ReadyBoost capable. We grab nine high-capacity USB keys and see which ones work." More…

Amazing Tiny Engine Made with Over 250 Parts w/Photos.

Although he had never heard of "model engineering," a friend of his knew of his machining talents and brought him some books on model making from England. His interest in model engines was inspired by these publications, and he scaled down some of the available plans to make smaller versions of engines he saw there. More…