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- Mini DisplayPort becomes a real standard
When Apple unveiled its aluminum MacBooks in 2008, it broke new ground on several fronts, offering users aluminum unibody enclosures, multi-touch glass touch pads... and a new display connector of its own design: Mini DisplayPort. Just over a year on, the Video Electronics Standards Association has adopted Mini DisplayPort...
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Last by loophole at 6:49 PM on 11/11/09 - OpenOffice.org mouse has 18 buttons
No, this is no April fools joke—at least, we don't think so. OpenOffice.org now has its own pointing device thanks to WarMouse, a little-known firm that's announced an 18-button monstrosity geared for the multi-platform productivity suite. Behold: Yes, the OOMouse has 18 buttons (all...
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Last by derFunkenstein at 11:25 AM on 11/11/09 - Acer unveils 23'' multi-touch monitor
You don't need to spring for a touch-screen notebook or some sort of all-in-one PC to take advantage of Windows 7's multi-touch capabilities. As CrunchGear reports, all you have to do is grab a display like Acer's...
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Last by kamikaziechameleon at 8:34 PM on 11/01/09 - New Logitech gaming keyboard has customizable backlight
Logitech is known for big honkin' gaming keyboards with built-in LCD screens and oodles of configurable buttons. The company's new G110 gaming keyboard is a little less flashy, but it still packs a healthy number of gamer-friendly features, not to mention aesthetic extras to make you stand out at...
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Last by Sahrin at 8:43 AM on 10/18/09 -
Apple's aluminum keyboard
Metal, white plastic, and scissor switches
Can low-profile chiclet keys, sleek industrial design, and an Apple logo make a good desktop keyboard? And can such a device pry a fan of clicky keyboards away from the IBM Model M and its ilk?
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Last by waffle911 at 7:12 PM on 10/26/09 - New StarTech KVM switch has native DisplayPort
With many newer monitors and graphics cards flaunting DisplayPort connections, it's about time keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) switches got in line, too. StarTech now claims to be the "first to market" with a DisplayPort-capable KVM switch, which it sells for $219.99 from its online store. The "2 Port Professional USB DisplayPort KVM...
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Last by Trymor at 10:02 AM on 10/10/09 - Microsoft shows off multi-touch mice
After having invaded our phones and notebook touchpads, multi-touch technology may soon make its way into our mice, too. During a tour of Microsoft's labs, the folks at CrunchGear got live demonstrations of several multi-touch mouse prototypes from Microsoft's Applied Sciences team. The prototypes include a "cap" mouse whose entire...
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Last by dukerjames at 3:14 PM on 10/07/09 - Eyefinity pushes over 24 million pixels with one next-gen Radeon
Say you're AMD, and you make graphics chips that nearly double in performance with every generation. Yet games haven't been getting all that much more demanding over time. What would you do with all of that excess power, especially if you wanted to stir up interest in your...
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Last by UberGerbil at 3:44 AM on 09/14/09 - New Microsoft Bluetooth keyboard is thin, expensive
Some folks like their keyboards big, heavy, and loud. Others don't mind typing on something a little smaller and more portable. Microsoft has addressed the latter portion of the market with its new Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000, which is purportedly the company's thinnest keyboard ever. The device is "just a...
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Last by Jambe at 8:27 PM on 09/10/09 - 15-inch MacBook Pro gets anti-glare option
Love Apple laptops but hate glossy displays? Good news, then: you don't have to cough up $2,549 for that 17" MacBook Pro with the non-glossy display. CNet News reports that Apple has added a non-glossy option to its more affordable 15" MacBook Pro. The smaller system starts at $1,699...
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Last by matter3 at 1:22 AM on 08/14/09 - Deal of the week: Dell's UltraSharp 2408WFP for $469
Last time we featured Dell's UltraSharp 2408WFP in our deal post, it was on sale for $517. Today, the display is on sale again, but Dell's actually offering it for just $469—$80 cheaper than the new "starting price" and well below the $689 this display cost last year. Unlike...
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Last by gerryg at 6:03 PM on 08/11/09 - Project Natal gesture recognition could be coming to Windows
Microsoft's Project Natal may be coming to the PC. The gesture and video recognition tech was developed by Redmond's research division and demoed on the Xbox 360 at this year's E3 expo as a control scheme for games. According to a CNet interview with Bill Gates,...
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Last by Disco at 5:59 PM on 07/16/09 - Cooler Master preps fancy twin-laser gaming mouse
When enthusiasts hear the Cooler Master name, they're probably more likely to think about enclosures like the Cosmos 1000 than gaming peripherals. Be that as it may, Cooler Master showed us a surprisingly elaborate gaming mouse when we visited its Computex suite last week. The Sentinel Advance has twin laser...
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Last by ew at 11:10 AM on 06/12/09 - Synaptics brings buttonless clicking to netbook touchpads
COMPUTEX — How do you make a netbook as compact as possible without turning the touchpad into an unusable strip of plastic? Synaptics believes it has a solution: the ClickPad. At Computex last week, we got to try the new pointing device in a customized concept system based on HP's...
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Last by YeuEmMaiMai at 10:50 AM on 06/11/09 - Deal of the week: A 1080p monitor for $150 shipped
Many of our deal posts feature graphics cards, but what good is a shiny new GPU if you're stuck with an old 17" LCD—or, worse, a cheap 17" CRT—that forces you to play at low resolutions? Although nice flat-panel displays with IPS panels often cost upward of $500, you don't...
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Last by JustAnEngineer at 7:20 PM on 05/19/09 - Saturday science subject: Brain-control bonanza
The OCZ NIA game controller we reviewed last summer may have been but a small taste of things to come. According to the New Scientist, several other controllers that can translate players' brain waves into input will hit the market over the coming months—and they could turn...
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Last by Rakhmaninov3 at 8:44 AM on 04/27/09 - LCD prices are on the rise, says iSuppli
The global economic downturn has led to price drops in some parts of the computer hardware market. However, you probably shouldn't count on finding too many LCD monitor bargains out there—assuming iSuppli's numbers are accurate, that is. The research firm's latest report says LCD monitor panel prices are on...
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Last by slash3 at 3:56 AM on 04/11/09 - New Dell monitor has 21.5'' panel size, 1080p resolution
The slow transition to desktop monitors with 16:9 aspect ratios seems to produce some odd specimens. Dell's latest entry is the SX2210, a new "full HD" display that couples an unusual 21.5" panel size with a 1920x1080 resolution. The SX2210...
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Last by MadManOriginal at 7:22 AM on 04/06/09
