Doesn't use any batteries, and is apparently lighter than other mice. It must use some kind of magnetic induction from the included pad to draw it's power.

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Now that Dell have aquired Alienware, they seem to be selling ridiculously over-specced and over-priced PCs. The XPS Renegade has four 512Mb GeForce 7900 graphics cards in SLi, two 10,000 WD Raptors in RAID 0 aswell as a 400GB drive. It also has a 4.26Ghz overclocked CPU. Pretty amazing, but for the price of $9930 USD, it should be.

Dell XPS Renegade

28th March 2006

According to The Inquirer, Dell has sold all of these. They probably didn’t make that many, but it’s suprising they sold any at $9930.

XGL is an X server which uses OpenGL for it's drawing operations, allowing you to create some pretty swish desktops. By the time Longhorn's finally released, most of the technology it offers will probably have been around under linux for a while, but I'd still like to see a DirectX version running on windows.

XGL wiki
Source [WhaleSalad]

I have a Holux GR-213 for sale. It’s brand new and unused, the only reason I’m selling it is because I bought it to use with Tomtom, but my PDA isn’t compatible with cabled GPSs, only Bluetooth. I’m just looking to break even really, so it’s half the price that Holux sell at.

eBay UK

BT Wholesale in conjunction with the service providers has been testing an up to 8Mbps ADSL service for what seems forever. Today sees BT Wholesale announce the product.

From 31st March 2006 the product will go live on a national basis. The service should be available on around 5300 exchanges, which will cover around 99.6% of homes and businesses in the UK. The key component to the Max services is that they are rate adaptive (i.e. will run at the highest speed they can) in both the downstream and upstream directions, which should see the vast majority of lines running a lot faster than under the existing planning rules used by BT Wholesale.

The potential line speeds are 160kbps to 8192kbps downstream, with upstream from 160kbps to 448kbps on Max, and 832kbps on Max Premium. 78% of BT lines are expected to manage 4Mbps or faster, 6Mbps to around 42%. It should be pointed out that even if you get the full 8192kbps, this is actually 3.6 times faster than an existing 2Mbps line. This is because a 2Mbps line runs at 2272kbps so that with the network overheads people will see close to 2Mbps under ideal conditions, so an 8192kbps line speed will provide around 7.1 to 7.3Mbps of potential data speed.

First it was 512k, then 1Mbps, now 2Mbps, and soon to be 4Mbps or more.

Source [ADSL Guide]

A project of Niklas Roy, a german artist who works with electronic components instead of paint, Pongmechanik is a version of pong whcih uses motors and relays instead of a screen. There's a video with subtitles in english, which I recommend you watch.

PongMechanik

It's hard to imagine using a higher resolution display than my notebook's 1920×1200 WUXGA screen, but there are Q-WUXGA 3840×2400 displays available. Images and text are so sharp on my TFT, that I couldn't imagine using a resolution that high on a panel less than 60″. It's four times the resolution of HDTV!

Source [The Inquirer]

I have a few Vista domains for sale. For anyone that doesn’t know, Vista is the next operating system from Microsoft, the successor to Windows XP.

GoVista.US [eBay]

GetVista.US [eBay]

I also have GetVista.org and VistaSite.US. Leave a comment if you’re interested.

The United States Army is testing lasers on the battlefield. Ionatron, Inc. of Tucson has developed a weapon called a femtosecond laser, which creates light pulses that last less than 10 trillionths of a second. These pulses carve a channel of ionized oxygen in the air which can conduct electricity. Then, the weapon blasts lightning bolts through these 30-foot channels of conductivity. This is said to be especially good at neutralizing bombs. Ionatron's CEO says his company will be sending 12 of these units to Iraq, the first one by the end of July.

Source [Defensetech]

SAN FRANCISCO -Intel Corp. has developed a single-chip wireless LAN solution that meets the 802.11n MIMO (multiple input, multiple output) standard, which offers 108 Mbit/second of bandwidth.

The chip, which integrates two radios and the associated power amplifiers in CMOS, was described here Monday as "the first CMOS MIMO radio."

Krishnamurthy Soumyanath, director of the communications circuits lab at Intel's Hillsboro, Ore. campus, told reporters here at the International Solid State Circuits Conference that it is likely that Intel will put the chip on the market fairly soon, though he called that a "business decision". What I can say is that the technology works and that it can go on the market very soon, no question about that.

Intel engineer Yorgos Palaskas led a design team which put two transmitters and two receivers on the die, with integrated power amplifiers. Intel also could offer high-end customers three transmitters and three receivers for more consistent bandwidth, or solutions with two transmitters and three receivers.

Looks like I'm going to have to wait even longer for that dual core laptop I've been waiting for.

Source [EEtimes]