BenQ Announces 12 New V Series LCD Monitors: Sleek And Sexy

BenQ Announces 12 New V Series LCD Monitors: Sleek And Sexy

BenQ has certainly made an impact in the LCD industry, and while it has been some time since we viewed a unique new entrant from the company, along comes this to really change things up. The company has seemingly been hoarding up its monitors in preparation for a single major release, as they have just introduced a dozen new V Series models...

Google Working On Real-Time Language Translation Phone

Google Working On Real-Time Language Translation Phone

Google has a history of removing language barriers, but the company hasn't yet made its web-based translation service especially easy to access or use from a mobile device. We knew that Toshiba was actually working on a translation phone, but now the same company responsible for Android and the Nexus One is apparently doing the same thing....

ATI Radeon HD 5570: Affordable DX11 GPU

ATI Radeon HD 5570: Affordable DX11 GPU

"This is like déjà vu all over again." That quote from the ever-so-quotable former New York Yankee Yogi Berra is particularly suitable for today's launch of the ATI Radeon HD 5570. Just last week, we brought you our coverage of the Radeon HD 5450 launch and wrote a bit about AMD's aggressive release schedule with regard to their DirectX 11-class...

Canon Introduces EOS Digital Rebel T2i DSLR And Four New PowerShots

Canon Introduces EOS Digital Rebel T2i DSLR And Four New PowerShots

PMA, which is America's largest camera show, is scheduled to start this month in California, and it's safe to say that a handful of new Canons will be there. Today, the camera outfit introduced its newest consumer-level DSLR, the Digital Rebel T2i. The DSLR has features that have been previously unavailable at these price points, including...

Intel Launches Itanium 9300 CPU For "Mission-Critical" Applications

Intel Launches Itanium 9300 CPU For "Mission-Critical" Applications

It's easy to forget just how huge of a company Intel is when focusing solely on the consumer aspect of things, but today's announcement definitely helps to put things in perspective. Intel's chips are in everything from set-top boxes to netbooks to notebooks to hardcore gaming rigs. And they're even in some pretty classified systems within...

Micron And Nanya Partner For 42nm DRAM Process Technology

Micron And Nanya Partner For 42nm DRAM Process Technology

Before long, you'll need a microscope to see the DIMM you're trying to install in your new gaming rig. Sure, we're exaggerating somewhat, but process technologies continue to shrink at a record rate. Micron has been making news lately with their advancements in NAND technology, and now the company has partnered with Nanya in order to unveil...

iPad Interest Drops After Announcement: Survey

iPad Interest Drops After Announcement: Survey

Retrevo, a website that calls itself the "ultimate electronics marketplace," has done surveys on iPad interest both before and after the nascent device's announcement. It seems less people were interested in buying one after the announcement than before, to the tune of double, in fact.Prior to the announcement, the number if respondents saying...

500GB Of Storage For Movies And MJ's Swan Song

500GB Of Storage For Movies And MJ's Swan Song

Michael Jackson fans in Europe who find their online film collections are taking up a bit too much space on their hard drives are in luck.Samsung Electronics Co. announced today that the new Samsung S2 Portable, a transportable external hard drive, will come pre-loaded with Jackson's swan song, the movie "Michael Jackson's This Is It."The...

Boxee And Hulu Trade Blows In Congressional Hearing

Boxee And Hulu Trade Blows In Congressional Hearing

The relationship between Boxee and Hulu has been strained ever since early 2009, when Hulu suddenly and unexpectedly removed its content from being available to Boxee users. If you're not aware, Boxee is merely a software overlay that acts as a portal to web content; it essentially opens content from web sites the same way a typical web browser...

Walton Chaintech SSD Converter Makes Two CF Cards Act As Your Hard Drive

Walton Chaintech SSD Converter Makes Two CF Cards Act As Your Hard Drive

Here's one thing we can all agree on: SSDs are awesome, and far superior to HDDs in almost every scenario imaginable. Here's another we can agree on: SSDs are still priced far too high for most to give them a second glance. For years now, solid state storage has been breaking benchmarks left and right, but SSDs are still considered a niche...

Sony Interested In Entering Tablet PC Space, Taking On Apple

Sony Interested In Entering Tablet PC Space, Taking On Apple

It was only a matter of time. We knew as early as CES 2010 that slate/tablet PCs were back on track for a second wind after dying out years ago, but it seems that an unlikely contender has boosted everyone else into overdrive. Apple's iPad is the first real tablet to launch this market into the next gear, and with companies like NVIDIA, Asus...

Google's Super Bowl Ad Leaks Early: A Story Of Love & Search

Google's Super Bowl Ad Leaks Early: A Story Of Love & Search

We can't exactly say that hell has frozen over here, as Google has actually went against its unofficial no-ad policy at least once before. But then again, that whole ordeal was something entirely different than this. We've known that the search engine giant (and now operating system contender) has been looking into the TV ad business for some...

The Death Of The Battery Is Upon Us: Plastic Supercapacitor Could Recharge Gizmos

The Death Of The Battery Is Upon Us: Plastic Supercapacitor Could Recharge Gizmos

Battery life has been a huge issue around these parts. Particularly when it comes to notebooks, it always feels like manufacturers are giving us rough life estimates that are nowhere near accurate when compared to real-world figures. From R/C cars to notebooks to cars, there's no question that batteries are necessary in the world of technology,...

Shocker: Consumers Hate Waiting For Slow Web Sites

Shocker: Consumers Hate Waiting For Slow Web Sites

Well, wouldn't you know it? Consumers hate, hate, hate waiting for web pages to load, and they have no sympathy whatsoever if the site is being hammered during a "peak time." That's the conclusion drawn by a soon-to-be-published survey by Gomez, which found that while consumers were more than willing to wait in long checkout lines in retail...

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ATI Radeon HD 5570: Affordable DX11 GPU

ATI Radeon HD 5570: Affordable DX11 GPU

"This is like déjà vu all over again." That quote from the ever-so-quotable former New York Yankee Yogi Berra is particularly... Read More

ATI Radeon HD 5450: DX11 On The Cheap

ATI Radeon HD 5450: DX11 On The Cheap

Over the course of the past four months or so, AMD has been on a tear, releasing a slew of new DirectX 11-class GPUs at price... Read More

OCZ Vertex 2 Pro, Sandforce Powered SSD Preview

OCZ Vertex 2 Pro, Sandforce Powered SSD Preview

What's this? Yet another SSD product from OCZ Technology? It's not like the company doesn't already have a staggeringly large... Read More

Intel and Micron Unveil 25nm NAND Flash

Intel and Micron Unveil 25nm NAND Flash

IM Flash Technologies is a joint venture between Intel and Micron that is targeted for producing NAND flash memory. With... Read More

iPad's Identity Crisis and Apple's A4 CPU Showstopper

iPad's Identity Crisis and Apple's A4 CPU Showstopper

As you've no doubt heard by now, Apple launched a new mobile computing device and it's within a product category that is... Read More

Samsung P2350 23" LCD Monitor Review

Samsung P2350 23" LCD Monitor Review

Samsung is the largest and one of the more popular consumer electronics companies in the world. Besides its hugely successful... Read More

AMD Phenom II X2 555 and Athlon II X4 635 Performance

AMD Phenom II X2 555 and Athlon II X4 635 Performance

AMD is launching a bevy of new processors today, targeted squarely at budget conscious consumers, looking to save a few bucks... Read More

The Origin of Speed: Origin's Genesis Gaming System

The Origin of Speed: Origin's Genesis Gaming System

Last week, we brought you a preview of newcomer Origin PC's Genesis desktop and announced a system giveaway (details available... Read More

NVIDIA GF100 Architecture and Feature Preview

NVIDIA GF100 Architecture and Feature Preview

Back in late September of last year, NVIDIA disclosed some information regarding its next generation GPU architecture, codenamed... Read More

ATI Radeon HD 5670: DX11 For Under $100

ATI Radeon HD 5670: DX11 For Under $100

AMD continues their barrage of DirectX-11 class GPU releases with the affordably priced ATI Radeon HD 5670. If you remember... Read More

NVIDIA Demos 3D Surround Gaming On GF100

NVIDIA Demos 3D Surround Gaming On GF100

Some of the most impressive booths at CES 2010 used walls of screens that were spanned and combined to display one scene.... Read More

Digital Experience: NVIDIA GF100, Thinkpad Edge

Digital Experience: NVIDIA GF100, Thinkpad Edge

The night before the first day of CES is typically filled with numerous parties and pre-show expos loaded with hot new products... Read More

CES Showcase: Crucial and Seagate Demo New SSDs

CES Showcase: Crucial and Seagate Demo New SSDs

Today we stopped by Storage Vision 2010 and spoke with Crucial / Micron about their upcoming products. They had an impressive... Read More

CES Showcase: Asus Announces Four New Laptops

CES Showcase: Asus Announces Four New Laptops

It's CES time and that means a flurry new products will be hitting the streets soon. Today, we attended the Asus 2010 CES... Read More

Gabbing With the Sound ID 400 Bluetooth Headset

By Daniel A. Begun Those who know me well enough, know that I’m not much of a phone person--which is to say I don’t like to talk on the phone much… I’m more of a talk-to-you-in... Read More

Adventures in Firewall Permissions: Getting BitDefender to Work With Netflix Watch Now in Windows Media Center

At a recent tradeshow, while I was walking by the BitDefender booth, a BitDefender representative literally shoved a copy of BitDefender Internet Security 2010 into my hands. Never one to say no to free... Read More

My View of the Vue Personal Video Network Wireless Camera System

Back in February, I met with some very smart folks from a San Diego-based company called Avaak. They were demonstrating a wireless camera system meant for remote video monitoring. What impressed me the... Read More

Snow Leopard Compatibility Problems

In marketing-speak, I am a Mac and a PC. My primary computer is an iMac and my laptop is a MacBook Pro. But I also have several Windows rigs as well, running everything from Windows XP to Vista and Windows... Read More

DisplayLink Revisited

Back in April , I had to the chance to review a pair of 7-inch, USB-powered, LCDs, meant to be used as secondary displays. Both displays were Nanovision Mimo Monitors and used DisplayLink technology. They... Read More

A Peek at Graphics Tablets

If you frequent HotHardware, then you are probably well aware that we tend to include a fair number of photos, screenshots, and other relevant art elements in all of our product reviews . We go to great... Read More

Rocking Out With The i-Rocks KR-6230 Compact Keyboard

I am happy to report, that since the initial publishing of my "Mechanical Key Switch Keyboards Demystified" post, a number of the more obscure 'boards I mentioned in the piece have been made... Read More

Gigabyte Offers Up Some Input--Devices That Is

Regular readers of my blog know that I've got a somewhat unhealthy obsession with input devices; more specifically keyboards. I've spent the better part of the last few months experimenting with... Read More

It's Not Just A Docking Station Anymore

The vast majority of notebook docking stations have traditionally been nothing more than port replicators or breakout docks that give users the ability to quickly connect their portable computers to desktop... Read More

When a Deal is Not Really a Deal

Yesterday, my home phone rang and it was a number I didn't recognize (the Caller ID said "Jacksonville, FL"). I often don't answer the home phone if a non-descript Caller ID appears or... Read More

HP TouchSmart 600 All-In-One PC Review

HP TouchSmart 600 All-In-One PC Review

With a claim of “nearly 30-years of touch innovation” under its belt, HP is no stranger to touch-input technology. The company... Read More

CES 2010 Highlight Wrap-Up In Pictures and Video

CES 2010 Highlight Wrap-Up In Pictures and Video

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas gets the year going in the right direction for everyone in the high tech industry.... Read More

Intel WiDi Wireless Display Technology - HOT

Intel WiDi Wireless Display Technology - HOT

At this year's CES show in Vegas there have been more than a couple of relatively exciting announcements and of course Intel... Read More

NVIDIA Next Gen Tegra Processor Unveiled At CES

NVIDIA Next Gen Tegra Processor Unveiled At CES

NVIDIA invited members of the press to a briefing at the Las Vegas Hilton so that the company's fearless leader, Jen-Hsun... Read More

Intel Arrandale Core i5 and Core i3 Mobile Unveiled

Intel Arrandale Core i5 and Core i3 Mobile Unveiled

Looking back at silicon innovation over the past decade, you'll notice three primary design targets that tend to dominate... Read More

Intel Core i7 Mobile CPU (Clarksfield) Review

Intel Core i7 Mobile CPU (Clarksfield) Review

For quite some time now, Intel has been the undisputed leader when it comes to laptop CPU performance. This advantage comes... Read More

Upgrading Your Notebook Hard Drive To An SSD

Upgrading Your Notebook Hard Drive To An SSD

Upgrading your notebook's legacy hard drive to a new, fast SSD is a substantial upgrade that makes good sense for a number... Read More

Apple 13" Macbook Pro Video Review

Apple 13" Macbook Pro Video Review

Synopsis: The 13" Macbook Pro features Apple's uni-body enclosure that is carved from a solid block of aluminum for added... Read More

Alienware M17x Dual-GPU Gaming Notebook Review

Alienware M17x Dual-GPU Gaming Notebook Review

Synopsis: The M17x is Alienware's current flagship gaming notebook. It features an anodized aluminum shell that is available... Read More

EVGA Interview Dual Monitor System Review

EVGA Interview Dual Monitor System Review

Synopsis: EVGA's Interview Dual Monitor System incorporates a pair of 17" widescreen LCDs with an innovative rotatable stand... Read More

Digital Experience: NVIDIA ION, Tegra Netbooks and More

Digital Experience: NVIDIA ION, Tegra Netbooks and More

The more well-known industry trade shows, like CES, Computex, and E3, are not necessarily the only venues where technology... Read More

Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 All-in-One PC Review

Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 All-in-One PC Review

Synopsis: The Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 is an all-in-one desktop with plenty of features and bells-and-whistles to keep all... Read More

HP HDX 18t Premium Series 18" Notebook Review

HP HDX 18t Premium Series 18" Notebook Review

Synopsis: HP's HDX 18t Premium Series Notebook is a mammoth 18" desktop replacement machine with a wealth of multimedia-targeted... Read More

Intel Core i7 Overclocking - A HotHardware How-To

Intel Core i7 Overclocking - A HotHardware How-To

Synopsis: Intel's Core i7 processor offers a significant performance increase over previous generation Core 2 processors.... Read More