We don’t design and hardware quite as much as we used to, but I’m making an exception for these. A good while back, I wrote about a pair of headphones I thought was the most understated and attractive I’d ever seen[......]
Case fans are in the running for the least appreciated PC component. They're not often glamorous or sexy, but without fans, your big and burly desktop system is little more than a vertical oven for your hot running PC parts. Even if fans don't get the attention they perhaps deserve, there's still some innovation going on by those who build them, like BitFenix, which just announced its new Spectre Pro Performance Fan Series[......]
The future of PC graphics What's next for graphics? Why, Graphics Core Next, of course. Thanks, AMD, for that nicely pallindromic way to start off a feature[......]
While the first teardowns of the iPhone 4 (excluding Gizmodo's crude vivisection) were extremely exciting due to the novelty of the design, the 4S doesn't have much to offer. The stem of the iPhone 5 hopefuls' slight disappointment, i.e. that the 4S is essentially a spec bump, meant that this teardown would necessarily be less than thrilling. [......]
Remember being angry and disappointed when OCZ dumped its DRAM business to pursue other interests? Looking back, it's hard to argue with that decision, and even more so when you consider the numbers. [......]
The Building Windows 8 development blog has been an interesting read for a while. [......]
Giving engineers, scientists and architects the ability to see the objects they're making in 3D brings amazing benefits. [......]
Smart Design: Fanless Heatsink Spins Itself Concrete Speakers Look Good, Yet I Question Their Fidelity The Five Best Things About OS X Lion Watch The Final Space Shuttle Mission Here (Maybe) CrunchGear Is Headed To TechCrunch/Gadgets [......]
This is a nice little twist on the traditional heatsink design you find on CPUs around the world. While normally you’d have a thermally conductive surface, some heat pipes, and a fan driving air over stationary heatsink plates, this design from Sandia switches things up. [......]
Say you really like Angry Birds. Like really. And you want to play it at home on a big screen[......]
You might have the fastest, sleekest gaming tower in existence, but that pudgy, unsightly monitor is probably bringing you down. Maybe it's time for something with design sense. That's what HP is hoping for with the announcement of the new x2301 desktop monitor [......]
Rent-to-own (RTO) retailer Aaron’s Inc. proudly claims on its website that over 55 million North American households swear by its name. But the company can now safely transfer one Casper, Wyoming couple out of its swear-by-us list to the swear-at-us list[......]
One of the design gurus over at LG Electronics must have a vendetta against thick bezels, so in designing LG's new Blade series of laptops, that was the first thing to go. He and his team then built of pair of laptops measuring 14 inches (P430) and 15.6 inches (P530) with a display thickness of just 4.5mm and 4.7mm, respectively, and then made sure that both would weigh less than 5 pounds[......]
Created for "a series of special demonstration appearances," this Leaf Nismo RC is a racing-based rethinking of the Leaf design and powertrain. They’ve shaved off about 40% of the weight, bringing it down to just over 2000 lbs, lowered it to have only 2.4″ of clearance, and of course switched it over to rear wheel drive. [......]
Dyson has shown off its legendary design books – the tomes carried around by the innovative company's engineers to put some of the sketches and ideas in that end up in the products. The idea books are on show at Gadget Show Live 2011, and illustrate how the concept of the ball-based vacuum cleaner was developed[......]
