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New BUGBase Brings Self-Build Mobile to Pre and Droid Smartphone Levels

by Jay Garrett on February 15, 2010

Every hardware tweaker will know about BUGLabs‘ build-a-phone, kinda like a Modu self-build, but now it’s had a refresh.

BUG 2.0 is now faster and Android ready.

The latest BUGBase, which is essentially the brain and nerve center, has been upgraded to TI’s OMAP 3 platform.

Before I get “huh?” from you – this actually brings the base up to spec with the likes of Motorola’s Droid and the Palm Pre.

Because it now stands shoulder-to-shoulder with top-end smartphones it’s only reasonable that it should support Android – thankfully it does. This also gives the new BUGBase tastey access to the Android App Market.

Worry not gadget builders! Although the BUGBase is new and sparkly it will still play nice with all those other bits you’ve been using to create your frankengadgets with – whether they be WI-Fi radios, GPS receivers, speakers or the BUGMotion accelerometer.

As yet there’s no price or release date for the new BUGbase.

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Brothers of Stokholm Wall of Sound – The Worlds Most Powerful iPod Speaker

by Jay Garrett on November 4, 2009

wall-of-soundIf you’re no longer impressed by your iPod dock and friends just stand there; pointing and laughing at the small speakers hooked up to your iPhone – it may be time to scare the living bejeebus out of them!

What you need is a wall of sound – not just any wall of sound though.

You need THE Wall of Sound iPod speaker from Brothers of Stokholm.

The wall is hand-built and made up of 28 individual speakers, each housed in their own chamber.

It even has its own tube amplifier hidden away inside – if you look very carefully at the picture you might be able to spot that little iPod down there.

The pitch reads: “It looks frightening and it IS frightening!” – at 102 kilos, 125 Watt output and 950 x 1250 x 300mm it certainly might require the wearing of brown trousers!

What is scary and rather disconcerting about “the world’s most powerful iPod speaker” is the price – from $4495 plus shipping and the fact that the first batch has already sold out! :0.

If you’re not scared then why not order one now?

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New Alienware Invasion – All New Aurora, Area 51, M15x and ALX Spec’d

September 23, 2009 Click to read more →
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Gamers with a more than average budget rejoyce!
Alienware have broken their silence and followed up on their ‘Invasion’ teasers.
So – what’s new?
Well, there’s a refreshed Area-51 M15x laptop which carries the usual “most powerful 15-inch gaming laptop in the universe” tagline.
Under the hood is a 2.0GHz Clarksfield Core i7 920XM coupled to a 1GB [...]

Maingear Axess – A Home Theatre That Can Handle Hardcore! Gaming, That is!

June 18, 2009 Click to read more →
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Looking for a HTPC (Home Theatre PC) that you can actually play the top most demanding games on?
Maingear’s new Axess HD Gamer should cover all those very bases.
The Axess is loaded with a Core i7 processor, up to 12GB of DDR3 memory, 2x NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT cards in SLI, a Phantom Lapboard and robust [...]

Alienware All Powerful M17x Breaks Free Early

May 29, 2009 Click to read more →
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Well – what a shocker!
Alienware’s All Powerful gaming laptop has broken free – just proves that it is in fact all powerful!
So how about those clues?
Was the decoding right?
Well, yeah. Pretty much.
The lappy does get a pair of 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M GPUs but no Core i7.
You do get a Core 2 Extreme quad-core CPU [...]

Fujitsu UMPC – Smaller and More Powerful Than Sony Vaio P

April 27, 2009 Click to read more →
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Here’s a totally knock-out netbook, UMPC (ultramobile PC) or whatever Fujitsu are calling it.
Who cares – check out the specs!
With a 2GHz Atom CPU, it’s up to be the fastest pocket PC out there – but manages to be smaller than Sony’s Vaio P or the Everun Note.
It’s packing a 5.6″ 800-line touchscreen display, wifi and bluetooth; SSD [...]

HP Blackbird 002 With Voodoo DNA

October 8, 2008 Click to read more →

I heard about this monster and that was well over a year ago.
Finally, the Blackbird 002 from HP has finally flown the nest and landed in the UK – does it deserve the name that it shares with a powerful Honda motorbike and the fantastic spy-plane otherwise known as the SR71?
Well, the recipe looks promising [...]

Evesham NX600-HDX – it’s a monster

November 15, 2007 Click to read more →

What am I going to do?  In the quest for my do-it-all laptop Evesham have thrown a spanner in the works.  What they’ve gone and done is released the Zieo NX600-HDX.
Now, it features Intel’s X7900 Xtreme processor (2.8GHz, 4MB cache, 800MHz) that claims to lead the market for intense mobile computing, providing power efficiency and supreme power [...]