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Murray sent word of a new laser mouse from Logitech, with a review here. LoneWolf spotted this story about it. Because the laser light used in the MX 1000 relies on a short wavelength, the MX 1000 mouse is approximately 20 times more sensitive to surface details than conventional optical mice, according to the company. They also have ladybug and football mice now.
Always good news: chocolate is good for you! However, don't plan a daily meal of chocolate because the researchers warn the weight gain from eating too much chocolate would cancel out the benefit. Awww.
Everyone's talking about the new ATI Catalyst Control Centre today, but on the NVIDIA side of things IANAG looked at coolbits for overclocking and other features. I covered coolbits back in 2002 here.
The Electronic & Computer Trade Show is on at the moment in London, with some coverage on Accelenation. Hexus have reports on ATI and Shader Model 3.0, an end to the filtering war and no more DirectX.
Interviews are a big item today, with professional gamer Fatal1ty interviewed on Hexus and Richard Huddy from ATI on 3DVelocity. There's an interview/ad with a waterjet cutting guy on Controlled-Insanity while two people from Nintendo chatted with Bytesector. CreativeMods have their modder of the month answering a few questions, too.
From crag_v: In my shop today we've just discovered that any Windows box running XP SP2 will not power up any USB device that draws more than 500mA - this includes many 'must-have' devices like my USB Thumb drive that I use around the shop! This applies to computers using either Intel ICH5 or ICH6 (I/O Controller Hub) and (unofficially) machines running SiS chipsets - VIA machines (for example) don't seem to be affected. More info here. From Microsoft: "To work around this issue, you must power the USB device by an external power source if one is available..." Oh thanks, Bill, I'll just break out my power brick and plug it in to my thumb drive, shall I?
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