Archive for November, 2007

Demonstration of Futuristic Exoskeleton

I don’t know if many of you have read the Heinlein book Starship troopers but I bet a few of you have seen the movies. Sadly the movies portray the humans very differently from the book, in the book the humans fight in powered exoskeletons that you could think of as tiny versions of the [...]

Information on R700, Next Generation GPU from AMD

ATI is starting to finally make some headway in proper GPU design from what I can tell in the little data that is available about this next gen GPU. Typically GPU cores tend to get progressively larger from budget to midrange and enthusiast platforms. Each separate GPU is a large monolithic core meaning that an [...]

AMD Phenom Results

AMD’s Phenom has been out in the wild for a few days but unless you were scouring the net for results then this launch could have slipped on by. For the most part the performance has been lackluster from AMD while Intel has been pushing their products with samples of the new QX9770 hitting the [...]

Futuremark Launches Benchmark Ticker

This is a nifty bit of code here that Futuremark has implemented. Their Benchmark Ticker is a little web-app that shows incoming 3DMark 2006 and 2005 scores along with the country they are sent from and some rudimentary data about the system used to generate the score. The page is still technically in beta but [...]

Black Friday

Well it’s that time of year again. Time to plan out your Black Friday shopping extravaganza and there is no better place to start than here. I’d be wary to call myself a Black Friday shopping pro but I’ve have enough opportunities to grab a little bit of knowledge that I’ll so thoughtfully pass on [...]

WoW Advertisements Bring in Mr. T and William Shatner

I hate the World of Warcraft. It has turned Blizzard from the company that produced great titles like Starcraft, Warcraft II, and Diablo I and II into a company that enslaves millions in their eternal grind to hit level 6070. That being said, these two following commercials made me laugh rather hard and I have [...]