XYZ offers a true computer desk
If you are a workaholic like myself, chances are you barely have enough room to get anything done on your desk. If you own a desktop computer, you can bet it is probably occupying a good chunk of your workspace real estate. To get back desk space, you could always move the computer to the floor. Depending on the space down below, however, you could just end up banging your knees into a computer case on a regular basis. Here’s a thought. How about the desk actually becoming the computer?
Dot Dot Dot Ex Why Zed Design, a product development consultancy operating out of Cape Town, South Africa, has designed a desk that is a working computer. The XYZ Computer Desk pictured above is sleek with a smooth gray finish, chrome legs, and sports an lcd monitor suspended by a bracket on the back. It also comes with a CD-RW/DVD bay, USB plug and Hot Keys, all located out of the way on the left-hand side. Did I mention the desk was also upgradeable? To access the guts of the computer desk all you need to do is lift the desk lid. Just add a mouse and keyboard to your desk and you’re off–sweet!
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We’d already heard that Intel planned to trot out some dual-core Atom processors sooner or later, and the Fudzilla website has now turned up a few more details on ‘em courtesy of a supposedly legitimate leak. According to it, the first dual-core processor will be dubbed the Atom 330, and will clock in at the same 1.6GHz as the current single-core Atom 230 (no word on that 1.87GHz version we heard about previously). What’s more, the processor will supposedly pack 1MB cache memory (twice the amount of the current single-core processor), and boast a TDP rating of just 8W, which is a good deal more than the 2W rating the current Atom 230 has, but still far less than any of Intel’s other low-voltage processors. Still no word on a price for it, unfortunately, but it’s said to be on track for a release sometime in the third quarter of this year.
It is interesting to note that this Bluetooth mouse from Chinavasion not only offers you the advantages of a wireless mouse experience (making it perfect for those who are constantly on-the-g0), the Bluetooth dongle can also be paired with other Bluetooth controller accessories such as PS3 controllers. This surely beats 2.4GHz wireless receivers that are pretty common in the market today, and with a 100m working range (dongle), you shouldn’t find any problem enjoying your Bluetooth compatible peripherals with it. It is priced at $28.99, but if you decide to order in bulk it will come at a discount.
While recent attempts to create a perpetual motion machine somehow, inexplicably didn’t pan out, a physics professor from Osaka University now claims to have made a scientific breakthrough of another sort, with him now touting nothing less than a supposedly successful demonstration of cold fusion. That was apparently done by forcing deuterium gas under pressure into an evacuated cell containing a sample of palladium dispersed in zirconium oxide, which caused the deuterium to be absorbed by the palladium sample, resulting in a denser, or “pynco” deuterium, with deuterium nuclei that are close enough together to fuse. That process also supposedly resulted in a rise in temperature to about 70° Celsius, and a temperature in the center of the cell that remained “significantly warmer” than the cell wall for 50 hours after the test. Of course, there doesn’t appear to be any other scientists ready to back up the experiment just yet, so you’ll have to rely on your own armchair science expertise to get your hopes up or down accordingly on this one.
There aren’t many sorts of vehicles that haven’t been solarized, but it looks like Dutch company Czeers has managed to find one, with it now showing off what it claims to be the world’s first solar powered speedboat. Dubbed the MK1, the solar panel-ensconced vessel can apparently reach a top speed of 30 knots (or roughly 35 miles per hour), all the while operating in relative silence. The company doesn’t seem to have overlooked the other parts of the boat either, with it also boasting touchscreen-based control system and a suitably luxurious leather interior. No word on a possible price or release date just yet, naturally, but you can catch a glimpse of it in action in the video after the break.
I don’t know why I never saw these commercials. As a kid, I LOVED M.A.S.H. and I loved computers. Of course, I was more of an Atari fan back then, but I would have loved to see my old friends together in these commercials.
