By Evan Ackerman We spotted this thing in the Microsoft press room, where at first glance it looks like an unassuming little netbook running Windows 7… There’s more to it than meets the eye, though: And more: The Onkyo DX1007AS stores a second 10.1 inch (1,366 x 768) monitor behind the first...

By Evan Ackerman I don’t have a big screen TV, but I can pretend that I do by sitting just inches from the screen. Sony is having none of that, though, with their Distance Alert system, which uses a small camera to measure your distance from the TV screen. If you get closer than about a meter...

The Lenovo IdeaPad U150 CULV ultraportable last spotted strutting its patterned stuff in Japan last month has finally made it to the US, with pricing kicking off at $649 .  The U150 packs a choice of 1.3GHz Pentium dual-core or Core 2 Duo processors, together with 3GB or 4GB of RAM, 250GB or 320GB...

ASUS aren’t messing around when they say they want to crash the top three notebook vendors worldwide, even if that means they need to make some acquisitions rather than rely on their own product line.  According to ASUS chairman Jonney Shih, the company is eyeing up Toshiba’s notebook division...

By Chris Scott Barr For a long time now, Apple has only offered glossy screens on their notebooks, which has frustrated some people to no end. Apple ended up offering an anti-glare option on their 17-inch MacBook Pros, but not for any of their others. Well today Apple has caved into demands and allowed...

The PSP Go! is shaping up to be great, but it doesn’t have a full QWERTY keyboard, does it.  Acidmods forum member folklord36’s PSP Laptop does, though, courtesy of an Xbox Chat Pad, together with relocated speakers, LED lighting and more. The screen section is a customized Joytech visor...

By Evan Ackerman The only thing I don’t like about steampunk is that it tends to promise more than it delivers, like these ray guns , which don’t actually vaporize people. This steampunk laptop, on the other hand, works as advertised. It’s not powered by steam or anything, but it’s...

By Evan Ackerman We first saw Monkeylectric’s persistence of vision LED bicycle wheel system at Yuri’s Night back in 2008 . They’ve updated their software and hardware with the m464q wheel display system, which is capable of full motion video at 256 pixels resolution. The wheels have...

The Acer Aspire Timeline 15.6-inch, 1.3Ghz laptop. (Credit: Acer) Now that surfing the Net while flying is no longer new, I really want a computer that can last the entire flight from San Francisco to NYC, which is about 6 hours long. Acer seems to have a solution for that. On Tuesday, the company announced...

(Credit: Fujitsu) The potential of the Netbook market is turning even the skeptics into believers these days. On Tuesday, Fujitsu is expected to announce its first Netbook-class laptop for the North American market. It’s called the Fujitsu M2010 , though the company prefers to describe it as a...

Last year’s NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT substrate problem is still causing headaches for Apple , who have announced they will be extending warranty support for those MacBook Pro owners affected.  The issue, in which overheating of the GPU causes display distortion or failure, can only be addressed...

Well this is pretty cool! It seems a company called Tessera is working on a new system that uses ionic-cooling for cooling down hot laptops that are running at faster and faster speeds. This new cooling idea might be able to offer 30% more cooling than a standard fan according to Tessera and the University...