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Guru3D has put a peltier on a Nvidia 7900GTX. "A little while ago a marketing contact of Guru3D was trying to convince me that TEC cooling, or what we all know as Peltier cooling is a very good way to cool down hardware these days."
Here is a really cool video of some guy making a nice picture in MS Paint. He manages to make a detailed image of a car using only the rudimentry tools that MS Paint offers including adding colour, shadows and texture.
The Inquirer has a bit of news on the AMD Front. Apparently there are rebates for some AMD processors introduced to keep competitive with Intel and some comments on the upcoming quad core AMD CPUs.
From Glenn: Microsoft has released a patch for West Australians who are going into daylight savings this year.
Some software called LocalCooling has the ability to adjust power management profiles of your PC to save power. The aim is to get enough users using the software to reduce worldwide greenhouse gas emissions and so far with around 7600 users they have saved 4000KWh. I wonder if this could turn into a competitive thing similar to F@H???
From Matt: Sydney Airport is looking at using RFID to help track baggage. "Industry experts say that baggage mishandling costs the industry globally $US1.7 ($2.17) billion each year, and that much of this cost is due to failures in the barcode-based tagging system that's currently in use at most airports worldwide. A spokesman for Sydney Airport said it had sent staff to look at overseas airports already using the electronic tagging technology dubbed "radio frequency identification" (RFID) - and that it would be commencing its own trials shortly."
For those into Lan Parties, check out a few of the upcoming LANs here. Lans listed there include LANs from all over the country.
PCMech have a useful article showing you how to remotely control your PCs. "Remote connection is one of those things, like high speed Internet, when, once you have it, you can never go back. Most people never bother to set it up either because they do not [think they] need it, think solutions cost too much or believe it is too hard to set up on their own."
Apparently the much anticipated Optimus Keyboard is set to cost around $1200. I wonder if this makes it the most expensive keyboard ever?
According to this page ATI will be releasing a new dual GPU graphics card in a similar fashion to the Nvidia GX2s. "We saw this model at Computex this year. Today, GeCube announce availability of it latest invention. The Gemini 2 Dual GPU card. Gemini 2 integrates two 80nm X1650XT onto the same card. This allows one to experience almost doubled performance through the use of a single card. The card comes with 4 digital output which allows you to hook up to 4 monitors. On top of taht, ATi CrossFire Physics support enhance real live explosion scenes for realistic gaming."
Futurelooks takes a look at a whole bunch of robotic toys. I spose some of them aren't toys if you program them for evil.
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