Items tagged with 'ford'

Ford's Next Hybrids Will Communicate With Electric Grid, Charge Smartly

Ford's Next Hybrids Will Communicate With Electric Grid, Charge Smartly

We were pretty moved by DOW Chemical's recent "Human Element" campaign, and we're delighted to see yet another major American corporation going above and beyond the call of duty in order to better our planet. Ford, along with its utility partners, have announced that they are testing out one of the industry's first vehicle-to-electric... Read More
Ford Wants Your Teen to Hate It

Ford Wants Your Teen to Hate It

How would you feel if you couldn't drive faster than 80, or couldn't raise the volume on your car radio above a certain point?  OK, maybe you wouldn't care so much, but your teenage son or daughter might.  Ford is going to introduce a new system, MyKey, on its upcoming 2010 cars, starting with the Ford Focus. ... Read More
Dell Unveils the Affordable XPS 630

Dell Unveils the Affordable XPS 630

DELL BRINGS FULL-THROTTLE GAMING WITHIN REACH The XPS 630 Delivers Elite Gaming Features, Technologies and Upgradability at an Affordable Price With a starting price of $1,249, the XPS 630 delivers stellar performance and innovative features, all in a sleek, compact brushed-aluminum chassis.  Gamers won’t outgrow the... Read More
Stanford Camera Chip Sees In 3D. Me Too

Stanford Camera Chip Sees In 3D. Me Too

Keith Fife and his colleagues at Stanford University have come up with they call a "multi-aperture image sensor," which allows digital pictures to collect and store depth-of-field information. Unlike other 3D camera setups, the data is gathered at the chip level, so no expensive and complicated multiple lens setups are... Read More
Emergency Swerve: Cancel or Allow?  Ford Cars Get Microsoft Inside

Emergency Swerve: Cancel or Allow? Ford Cars Get Microsoft Inside

Thankfully the collaboration between Ford Motor Company and Microsoft is only for the entertainment system- "Initially to be made available in twelve 2008 models across the Ford family and across the entire 2009 lineup from FoMoCo, the service will be a fully-integrated, flash memory-based system that enables drivers to... Read More
BigFoot Networks Launches More Affordable Killer NIC K1

BigFoot Networks Launches More Affordable Killer NIC K1

BigFoot Networks, the makers of the Killer Network Interface Card, have launched a new, more affordable version of the product.  The first Killer NIC, aka the M1, sells for roughly $250. It is equipped with a 400MHz network processing unit, a large "K" heatsink, 64MB of DDR RAM, and a USB 2.0 port for connecting... Read More
Galaxy GeForce 7800GTX 512MB - An Affordable Option

Galaxy GeForce 7800GTX 512MB - An Affordable Option

While any brand of Nvidia's 7800GTX 512MB can hardly be considered "affordable" by many, the Galaxy GeForce 7800GTX 512MB might come as close to the term as possible. Sporting all the goodness of a 7800GTX 512MB, TweakTown explains why Galaxy's card is a decent buy."The Galaxy graphics card is a fantastic buy... Read More