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Mad Shrimps have created an Intel Core i7 CPU Water Block Roundup. We got some strong contenders this time, which will give the blocks, that we already tested, a serious run for their money. Last roundup was really lacking most of the Europe fabricated blocks. This time we got them in the lab, due to the big effort done by the guys from Aquatuning.
AirQ has found an interesting video on MIT TechTV. The Indoor Autonomous Helicopter, is a project developed by the Robust Robotics Group at CSAIL.
iGadget Life has an informative article on Ejecting a Stuck Disc from a Mac Superdrive. It comes with a small amount of sexual innuendo for the bored Apple users out there. :) You know what’s snappy? Having a CD/DVD Superdrive on your Mac that is nothing more than a little slit on the side. It’s unobtrusive and stylish, and oh so fun to glide a disc into and wait for that moment when it grabs hold with its little motor finger and swallows the media. That sounded kind of sexual. My my.
On that note, we have an story that has no lack of phallic inference in it. In fact it is about a 4WD with seats made of whale penis. It may or may not surprise you that this thing is being made in Russia, and comes with a massive price tag. The €1 million ($1.6 million) Dartz Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition armoured car has been developed by the same company, RussoBaltique, that built armoured vehicles for Tsar Nicholas, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsk.
Thanks to Draco II for sending in this Kodak ZX1 vs Flip Mino HD pocket mini camera comparison. I recently went on a 1 week holiday to Charlotte Pass Ski Resort in Australia’s Snowy Mountains and took a media loan Kodak ZX1 HD pocket video camera with me. Soon afterwards I was lent it’s competitor, the Flip Mino HD to review so I have compared them.
T-Break have a cool little video demo of MSI Multi Touch Windows 7 Desktop with Wind Touch. MSI was at Gitex and one of the most interesting things they were showing was their multi-touch Windows 7 based All-in-One PC powered by the ION Platform.
Android 2.0 First Look: Fresh Face, Sick Speed. Gizmodo has a sneak peek at the new Android OS currently being devloped. You're best off trudging through the entire gallery here, since BGR has annotated every little shot with accompanying (and sometimes subtle) changes.
TorrentFreak has an article On the growth of uTorrent. Fresh data on the market share of BitTorrent clients shows that uTorrent remains the client of choice for over 60% of all BitTorrent users. Vuze is in second place, but its market share has dropped to 14%. Transmission, on the other hand, continues to gain ground, with the client’s market share increasing by 23% in the last two months.
BBC reports that Crystals hold super computer key. Tiny crystals could hold the key to creating computers with massive storage capacity, scientists believe. The crystals could be used as storage devices for desktop computers capable of holding 100-times more data than current systems.
OpenBSD 4.6 has been released. Originally expected to be released on the 1st of October, OpenBSD 4.6 was delayed due to a number of "serious CD production problems. Version 4.6 is the 26th release on CD (27th via FTP) of OpenBSD and includes a number of new drivers, performance improvements and new features. Visit the official web page here.
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