ExtremeTech had a look at the quality of the images and video available on 5 different portable media players and decided that the Archos 604 was best. They compared the screen on the Archos to that of the Apple iPod, Creative Zen Vision:M, Epson P-4000 and the Cowon A2. They checked things like brightness, contrast, [...]

String Theory, that Theory of Everything that purports to explain all of physics as arising from evanescent strings vibrating in 10, 11 or possibly 26 dimensions, seems to be in a spot of trouble. An article in the New Yorker describes some of the travails of the theory and it’s theorists.
It seems that certain [...]

Remember that Sony Libre eBook reader that you didn’t buy back in ‘04? …Well here’s another opportunity not to buy one. This time it’s the Sony next-gen eBook reader, called appropriately enough, the Sony Reader, aka the model PRS-500.
The Reader still uses that very nice electronic ink that’s easy on the eyes, and has been [...]

Just when some thought that the mouse was at an evolutionary dead-end, Logitech comes along and announces a new cordless laser mouse model, and proclaims it to be “world´s most advanced mouse”. The advanced-ness of the 800-dpi MX Revolution seems to be due to the new flywheel-like scroll wheel that supports really-fast scrolling…as well as [...]

Well it’s official - at a price of $249.99, the Zune digital music player via Microsoft will be at exactly 99 cents more than the (same capacity) 30GB iPod from Apple.
Sure, some may complain about the Zune’s higher price point, but others say that it’s well worth the added cost. The extra buck buys you [...]

Nokia announced their N95 converged phone yesterday. The phone, er, multimedia computer (as N is wont to call it) is a nice example of a converged device, combining telephony with a 5 megapixel camera, GPS functionality, a music player, 2.6in QVGA screen, photo and video (30 fps) capability, 160 MB of storage plus a microSD [...]

Are you looking to bypass a security system that is based on a fingerprint sensor? Want to avoid the fuss and bother of loping off someone’s finger?…(a gang of car thieves in Malaysia used just that technique back in 2005).
Well then, the Mythbusters have a work-around solution for you. The popular-science duo has [...]

It’ll cost you $799.99 to buy it and $13 a month to use it, but the new TiVo Series3 HD Digital Media Recorder might well be worth…at least according to a new article in the New York Times. The Series3 is the first digital video recorder from TiVo to support recording of high definition TV [...]

The ancient board game of Go is yielding to automation - this time in the form of the use of Monte Carlo methods. Rémi Coulom has used the technique to develop a Go-playing computer program called Crazy Stone.
Wired Magazine reports that CS is so good it recently won a gold medal at the 11th [...]

Apple introduced their revised versions of the iPod, nano and shuffle last week. The good news is that capacities are up, prices are down and the shuffle is now deemed to be the “world’s smallest digital music player “. While most reviewers liked the idea of getting a better product for less money, they regard [...]