Audio

Samsung Beat @ DigitalTrends

Diamond Xtreme Sound 5.1 @ Gamepyre

Cases

Apevia X-Supra Mid Tower @ OCIA  AeroCool M40 SFF @ Hi-Techreviews

Nexus Caterpillar ATX Quiet @ Virtual-Hideout

Cooling

Cooler Master Hyper 212 CPU Cooler @ Futurelooks

ASUS Silent Square EVO CPU Cooler @ HardwareLogic

External Hdd

Thermaltake Blac-X Hard Drive Pod @ Pro-Clockers

Eagle Tech ET-CS2LSU2-BK 2.5 Inch USB Drive Enclosure @ Bigbruin

Etc.

Sam & Max: Moai Better Blues PC @ TTGamer

SteelSeries Ikari Laser Mouse @ ThinkComputers

The only part about this news that's keeping me from shouting "GO JOE!!" from the tree tops is the fact that EA's producing it. Time will tell, but I'm not hopeful.

"Hopefully, it won't just be relegated to mobile phones and Pogo.com, instead featuring billions of red lasers and blue lasers generating next-gen sparks, ultimately missing every single intended target."

Ouch. Started by an electrical short circuit, 'eh? I guess if you were holding out for LG's new LCD HDTVs, you might have to wait a while...

"The company published a Chinese-language press release that noted other LCD TV and monitor production lines were not involved in the fire and unaffected lines will be dispatched to cover the LCD monitor production lines, while related inventory should be able to partially satisfy customer demand for the next two months."

Tarinder over at Hexus explains why those GPGPU thingers we've heard so little about to this point aren't garnishing the attention they deserve. His reasoning?

"Given the right kind of workload, which is inherently and ostensibly parallelisable, they can be programmed such that performance is significantly better than, say, running the same dataset on the CPU."

Seems that Phenoms don't heart them some Ubuntu so much... yet. The Phoronix guys have had some luck with the latest Hardy Heron build, & have posted some benchmark results.

"Fortunately though this support isn't stagnate and a better picture is painted when using the latest development builds of Ubuntu 8.04 'Hardy Heron' with the Linux 2.6.24 kernel."

CPUs

Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 45nm Wolfdale @ Madshrimps

Video Cards

XFX 8800 GT 256MB XXX Alpha Dog Edition @ HotHardware

Etc.

Kingston SD2/8GB SDHC Card @ ASE Labs

Scythe Ninja and Ninja Mini CPU Coolers @ TechwareLabs

Optoma HD80 @ DigitalTrends  Eternal Sonata @ BonaFideReviews

DisplayLink's USB-to-DVI adapter @ the TechReport

Logitech Harmony One Advanced Universal Remote @ TechGage

E-TEN Glofiish X650 GPS Smartphone @ TweakTown

SOYO 47-Inch LCD 1080p HDTV MT-SYXRT4791AB @ BenchmarkReviews

Anycom Bluetooth Solar Powered Handsfree Car-Kit SCK-1 @ Futurelooks

GMC K1 Muse MediaCentre Mid Tower @ XtremeComputing

Corsair TX750W Power Supply @ HardwareSecrets

Although this is definitely big news in the HD disc format wars, I still don't think the "winner" will be fully decided anytime soon.

"Four out of six major Hollywood studios have recently decided to publish high-definition DVDs only using Blu-ray. Netflix said that with such a clear signal from the industry, it will only buy Blu-ray discs going forward and will phase out stock of HD DVD by about the end of the year."

Now that Yahoo has officially turned down Microsoft, they're looking to shore up the company . The Google possibility has already been discussed, but I'd forgotten about AOL & Yahoo's previous attempt at web nirvana. They're keeping all options on the table...

"It said Yahoo and AOL had previously tried to join forces, but were unable to agree on the price of a deal."

More mobile news today as nVidia rolls its first mobile CPU, which will incorporate a 750MHz ARM 11 core. The chip doesn't eat much juice while displaying 720p, either:

"The 65nm APX 2500 incorporates a 750 MHz ARM 11 with 256 Kbytes L2 cache, low-power graphics and video cores and an image processor supporting up to 12 Mpixel imaging. It dissipates about 200milliW decoding a 720p video stream, the company claims."

Any guesses as to how this will sell? I'm thinking it'll be about as well-received as Palm's Treo 700w was initially. Good to not have all of your eggs in one basket, I suppose...

"Microsoft said that the Sony Ericsson device should be available to end users this year and that examples of it will be on display at the (Mobile World Congress) conference in Barcelona."

Notebooks

Apple MacBook Air @ TechReviewSource

Video Cards

PNY XLR8 GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB @ HotHardware

HIS HD 3870 X2 1GB GDDR3 @ 3DGameMan

Motherboards

ASUS P5N-T Deluxe @ InsideHW

ASUS Maximus Formula Intel X38 @ ThinkComputers

EVGA 780i SLI @ Motherboards.org

RAM

Aeneon XTUNE DDR3-1333 2GB @ HardwareLogic

Cooling

Asus Silent Knight II CPU Cooler @ HardwareLogic

Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler @ LegitReviews

Thermalright IFX-14 CPU Cooler @ Madshrimps

Thermaltake DuOrb VGA Cooler @ Virtual-Hideout

CoolIT PURE Silent Liquid CPU Cooler @ TechGage

Etc.

Microsoft Sidewinder USB Gaming Mouse @ Hi-Techreviews

HeadRoom Total BitHead Portable Amp & DAC @ techPowerUp

Thermaltake BlacX USB Hard Drive Docking Station @ OCIA

OCZ ProXStream 1000W PSU @ HardwareSecrets

CSI: Hard Evidence Xbox 360 @ Gamepyre

Motorola RAZR2 V8 @ DigitalTrends

V7 D22W12 22 Inch Widescreen Monitor @ Gamepyre

iPhone Portable Power Station @ OCIA

OnAir Solution GT Mobile HDTV Tuner @ OverclockersOnline

NYKO Zero Wireless PS2 Controller @ Futurelooks

UniBlue ProcessScanner Software @ Tweaknews

Moneual Labs M775 Mid Tower Professional Series Case @ Bigbruin

Guess this means I should've bought Yahoo shares when this announcement was made last week. Live & learn.

'Even though when Microsoft made its offer to buy Yahoo! it included a 62 per cent premium Yahoo! shareholders are now better off selling their shares on the open market."

I can't stop staring at these pics & just shaking my head in disbelief. Absolutely stunning.

"His Stewart Snowmatte laboratory-grade screen is the biggest I've ever seen in a home, and in the back of the theater, there's a Sony ultra-high-resolution (4,096-by-2,160) SRX-S110 digital projector. I'm looking everywhere, jotting down questions, and Kipnis sounds almost giddy talking about his theater's capabilities."

If you haven't seen it yet, your Firefox will pop up the ol' update window & proceed to do its thing.

"In this latest patch roll-up, Mozilla warned that three of the vulnerabilities could be used to run arbitrary code. This could include drive-by installations of bots, Trojans, spyware and other malicious executables."

Remember that box that they were trying to steal back from Ben Kingsley? Yeah, that's what I thought of as I read this article. Never thought I'd actually see the headline that someone made one... heh.

"The device generates random numbers at a data rate of 2.0 megabits a second, according to Toshiba in a paper presented at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) here."