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Many of you may know about the new UK comedy show called “The IT Crowd”. It is a hilarious TV show airing here in the UK on Channel 4 which is about 2 IT guys in a company and a new girl who claims she can use computers on her CV (resume) but can’t and [...]

The SED, based on a new type of flat-panel display technology, was created through the merging of Canon’s proprietary electron-emission and microfabrication technologies with Toshiba’s CRT technology and mass-production tehcnologies for liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and semiconductors. Like conventional CRTs, SEDs utilize the collision of electrons with a phosphor-coated screen to emit light. Electron emitters, [...]

You know Stewie, the evil and extremely smart British baby on the series Family Guy, well he is getting his own radio talk show, sort of like a podcast. It is only for the internet so I see no reason for it not to be listed in iTunes and it will start sometime this year. [...]

I have never heard of this technique. But it is used to make pixes look a lot sharper without changing the monitor. This is how it works: Each pixel on a display is made out of 3 smaller sub pixels with the colours red, green and blue. Each colour is then adjusted to change the [...]

Peter Moore had a recent interview with the Japanese website ITmedia where he admitted that the Xbox 360 could possibly see a Blu-ray external add-on. Even though it was announced at the Microsoft keynote at CES that the HD-DVD add-on would be coming soon for the Xbox 360, Moore said this isn’t certain. Because the [...]

The Details 3.6″ high quality LCD screen provides bright, vivid viewing. Lightweight mobile design – iPod slips into the back of the iSee 360, creating a sleek, compact, all-in-one appearance. Replaceable, rechargeable 2400mAh battery delivers 4 hours battery life, without using power from the iPod battery. AC adapter charges iSee and iPod at the same [...]

After playing myself silly hours on end I took some photos to share with you. The photo above shows the 360 with the faceplate and the wireless controller. Looks cool, eh? Click on for some more photos or click here to see the entire photoset on Flickr. I’ll be posting some of the good and [...]

On Tom’s Hardware Guide they have a good guide on introducing you to all the cables that are inside and outside your computer as well as general video cables you would use in your TV. Every computer system, whether a desktop PC or a notebook, includes a bunch of connectors, both inside and out. Can you [...]

With news being quite scarce this morning I have nothing interesting to blog about. But I remembered that last night Joystiq started their 48 hour, non-stop, Xbox 360 marathon. They have a retail version of the 360 to try out and play with. They will, step by step, build up their entertainment centre where the [...]

An article on CNET has tons of pictures from Xbox 360 games including Project Gotham Racing 3 (shown above), Perfect Dark Zero, Ghost Recon 3, Quake 4, Dead or Alive 4 and many more. There are lots of screenshots and from what I have seen they look pretty good. But I’m not going to judge [...]