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 […]

Now, I’m a little skeptical of some of the reasoning in this article about a new auto concept.
But the idea behind how the car is built is sound.  Even if their eye in the sky rhetoric is a bit goofy, the design ideas seem sound.
Basically, they’re going to lighten up the car, decouple the motivating […]

DC Parris has once again assumed the podium to give us his insightful look into Net Neutraility.
DC makes an excellent argument to oppose a law currently being brought before the Congress.  It would affect all of our abilities to host content and let bandwith providers charge an additional tax on internet traffic at every leg […]

Looks like America isn’t the only country fighting a turf war over civil liberties. Over in the UK they’re passing a law to give authorities the ability to force the disclosure of encryption keys.
Two problems there. How do you prove someone has an encryption key? Because they’ve got encrypted data? Hardly a […]

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 […]

Recently I tossed up a quick shot of my under construction L shaped desk. Now that’s done and the PCBurn office is already over-run with equipment both on test and for repair. Currently there’s a small horde of laptops lying around, part of both a hobby (I like to gut and repair/part out […]

I can’t even bring myself to come up with a funnier article header than that.  And this isn’t even a humor post!  It’s from CNET, not The Onion.
Also the quote  “For Microsoft, we always want to be in the lead, making the breakthroughs,” Gates said.?  Priceless.  And here I thought they generally just glommed […]