Today I take a look at how to install a low-cost wall mount LCD swing arm and exactly what it’ll free up re: desk space.
Good stuff.
PCBurn - Review: Brateck LCD Wall Mount Adjustable Swing Arm

One of the sticky points of the 100$ laptop being developed for emerging markets had has been resolved.
They’ve decided to do away with the hand crank in favor of a less strenuous pull string design.  In addition to it working out better overall, it also generates more power.
Technology Review: Emerging Technologies and their Impact

I’ve got quite a few laptops laying around these days.  Every once and a while I get into a buying jag of surplus gear on EBay and bam suddenly the office is filled with a “like whoa” excess of something.
It’s cheaper than gambleing or drugs, okay?
*ahem* So, I”ve got one of the laptops up, rebuilt, […]

Lead thinker Eugene Kaspersky over at  Kaspersky Labs has decided to raise the ever ready specter of the poor getting uppity.
We can’t send over end of life PCs to third world countries, he warns, because they’ll put them to nefarious ends like virus writing!
Not too much of the scare monger, eh?  Bet he even made […]

Now doesn’t that make you feel good about pumping up Apple’s revenue?  They’re all about the warm fuzzy hippie artists.  And the slave like labor force that produces product for them.
Macworld UK - Inside Apple’s iPod factories

Blu-Ray. 1,500$(USD). Is it my imagination, or are the manufacturers of these devices confused on which century we’re inhabiting?
Back in 1980, high end electronics were low yield, expensive to produce, largely small run items. ICs (integrated circuits) hadn’t taken the playing field quite yet and devices required many components.
Currently you only need […]

Nicholas Negroponte was previewing a working model of the 100$(USD) laptop for every child laptop.  Apparently it stole the MITX spotlight.. but with a feature rich laptop coming in at 100$, you can probably imagine why.
Now… why they can’t crank these puppies out mass-production style and use the sales to subsidize the cost on the […]

There is an outfit selling laptops on Ebay by the name of ClassicComputerRecovery. In one of their sales it states, and I quote, “We are not technical people here and do not have the knowledge, time or resources to repair this unit. This item should prove […]

Microsoft is pitching Nintendo’s Wii as the answer to the PS3. Why it would give the Nintendo system a shout aside it’s own kit is unclear, aside from Microsoft folks having the marketing sense of a roadside lemonade vendor.  I’m guessing they do their best when they’ve managed to crush all competition in a market […]

Veridicus over at Gadgets Wanted has pointed out a pretty neat gadget for checking on what’s running over the wireless channels.  You can achieve a similar effect with a 802.11 card and one of the many signal strength monitoring programs.  I’m assuming they have those in Windows too?
This puppy goes beyond that though, and monitors […]