Tech News
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Microsoft Unveils Project Natal a 3D Motion Sensing Camera @ Techfragments
Published: Tuesday, June 2, 2009 | By: WillThis is a very cool new item coming from the Microsoft camp. Everyone has to check this toy out.
Microsoft Unveils Project Natal a 3D Motion Sensing Camera
Microsoft, in an attempt to challenge the Wii motion remote, has
unveiled a new 3D motion capture camera that integrates full-body
motion into the Xbox 360 game console. Code-named Project Natal, the
3D camera is able to translate movements into onscreen play - without
even holding a remote or device in your hand. Furthermore, the XBox
360 3-D motion sensing camera is also able to recognize facial and
speech movements that allow a more personalized experience with the
gaming console. A video demonstration shows a kid telling the xbox 360
to "take picture" and the camera took a picture of each side of his
real skate board in a few seconds. A few seconds later, the kid was
flipping through skateboards in a skating game and selected the one he
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BFG EX1000 1000W PSU Review @ JonnyGURU
Published: Monday, June 1, 2009 | By: WillThe BFG Tech EX Series PSUs have been on the short list of interest at Ninjalane. Looks like JonnyGURU takes the newest EX1000 out for a spin, and things just don't look as good as they should. Take a read, and see what you think.
"I've looked at several BFG units in recent months, but none have piqued my curiosity as much as this week's review subject. The EX1000 belongs to a brand new line of units from BFG, bringing the "Frequency Conversion" feature from their previous high end unit to a new platform that adds the magic words "modular cables" to the deal.
Grab yourself a coffee, pull up a chair, and we'll find out just what this new line from BFG brings to the power supply party."The PSU does fair okay, but the commentary is excellent.
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Corsair® launches Obsidian Series 800D high-performance chassis
Published: Monday, June 1, 2009 | By: WillCorsair® launches Obsidian Series 800D
high-performance chassis
- Fully-featured chassis designed for high-end system builders and liquid-cooling enthusiasts -
Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C., June 2nd, 2009 - Corsair®, a worldwide leader in high-performance computer and flash memory products, today at Computex 2009 announced its entry into the PC chassis category with the launch of the Corsair Obsidian Series 800D.
Flexible, roomy and sturdy, the Obsidian Series 800D full tower chassis was designed exclusively by Corsair and incorporates features demanded by the enthusiast market.
The steel structure of the Obsidian Series 800D has a matte black coating both inside and out, and is finished with a brushed aluminum faceplate for a professional, high-end look. It supports up to five 5.25 inch and six 3.5 inch drives in total, is compatible with ATX, Extended ATX, and Micro ATX motherboards and incorporates advanced features that make it ideal for demanding system builders. These include four hot-swap SATA bays, a cut-out section in the motherboard tray for easy CPU cooler installation and a unique cable management system that decreases cable clutter to increase airflow. The tool-free design also allows for easy entry and simple installation of 5.25 inch drives.
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Vista SP1 vs SP2 @ TestFreaks
Published: Monday, June 1, 2009 | By: WillWith Windows 7 making such a huge splash lately with the free 1 year testing and all. The new Service Pack 2 for Vista has really went unnoticed for the most part. Well don't fear teh TestFreaks look to change that and shed some light on the subject.
"So... Service Pack 2 arrived with not a lot of celebration, not much has been really mentioned about it at all anywhere. Being who I am though I like to know things, so I decided to run a whole bunch of tests before and after the upgrade and compare them to see just what, if anything, might have changed. "
We have get this one and see what we notice here at Ninjalane.
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AMD's 'Istanbul' six-core Opteron processors reviewed @ TechReport
Published: Monday, June 1, 2009 | By: WillLooks like AMD is getting back into the server game, and we can only hope the trickle down effect comes into play. Ninjalane would love to get our hands on one of these bad boys.
"The new "Istanbul" Opteron packs six cores into a single chip, which makes it the fastest, most power-efficient Opteron yet. But can it match Intel's formidable Nehalem Xeons? The answer might surprise you--in more ways than one."
I am so hoping for a consumer real soon.
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News and Computex Updates
Published: Monday, June 1, 2009 | By: DennisHey everyone, Just a friendly reminder about how site updates will happen this week. As some of you may know I'm in Taiwan again covering Computex which is a day ahead and 12 hours different from my normal schedule. Whenever possible I'll be posting direct news updates of cool stuff but that will not always happen so be patient and keep checking back.
The current plan is to have daily coverage like before but depending on what goes on after the show that may or may not happen. Seems with every Computex I attend I get yet another after show party invite.
. (I'll try posting some infor about these parties as well) Also if there is something you have heard about and want to see more drop by the Ninjalane Message Forum and let me know. I'll be checking it from time to time..
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A closer look at fresh versus used SSD performance
Published: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | By: DennisThinking about moving to SSD? Might want to give this a read.
The block rewrite penalty inherent to flash memory has interesting performance implications for SSDs. As we've discovered, some SSD controllers cope much better than others when facing well-used drives.
I'm still on the fence, the SSD stuff is pretty cool but not so much mainstream yet.
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Sparkle GTX260 Core 216 GeForce GTX 260 Videocard Review @ PCSTATS
Published: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | By: DennisSparkle has been doing some great stuff with videocards in the past by including fancy coolers and LED displays to show various things like frequency and voltage.
Seems this GTX260 is just a plain jane.
Sparkle has teamed up with nVidia to produce the Sparkle GTX260 Core 216, a graphics card that stands as a direct challenger to AMD's Radeon 4870 graphics card. The "Core 216" part of the Sparkle GTX260 Core 216 videocard's name refers to the GPU having additional shader processors enabled. While the original Geforce 260 GTX had 192 shader processors, the Core 216 variant has an additional 24 enabled, for a grand total of, you guessed it, 216 shader processors.
With any luck we'll be visiting with Sparkle at Computex this year.
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NL: Review Block - Case Edition
Published: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | By: DennisMotherboards maybe be what defines your computer but the case is what most people see. I'm just glad that everyone has gotten away from the premods.
- NZXT Beta Mid-Tower @ Techgage
- SilverStone Precision PS02 @ Phoronix
- Cooler Master HAF 922 @ Hexus
- Thermaltake V9 Black Edition Case Review @ Tweaknews
- Cooler Master HAF 922 @ techPowerUp
- IKONIK RA X10 SIM PC Case Review @ Real World Labs
- Antec P183 Review @ Overclockers Online
- TechwareLabs Reviews the Silverstone Fortress FT-01 Computer Case
- Cooler Master Storm Scout Review @ OCC
- Thermaltake Element S Mid-Tower Chassis @ Tweaktown
- Coolermaster Scout @ Pro-Clockers
- Cooler Master Storm Scout Mid-Tower Case Review @ Hardware Canucks
- Neoseeker reviews the Cooler Master Scout case
- Lian Li PC-9 case review @ TweakPC
- Cooler Master Storm Scout Case @ LanOC Reviews
- Cooler Master HAF 922 Case Review @ OCIAHoly shite that is a long list. We can't handle all these cases. Oh wait
Yes we canMost of them at least.
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Why journalists deserve low pay
Published: Monday, May 25, 2009 | By: DennisIn a way I have to agree. Lately the news media has been really lacking in the stories they cover and you can clearly tell when it is a "slow news day". I still remember a news media frenzy over a delayed airliner. They had news copters, people in the airport lobby and all the while claiming "we have no idea what is going on but we speculate that......."
Good times, good times. Keep it real and report on good stuff that's what I say.
Then again if journalists are paid like Wendy's workers the mindless "do you want news with that?" mentality comes out and every little thing gets reported on in hopes that one big story (made up or real) will land some sort of recognition or get them fired. Either way, corporate news centers win and we are all left wondering stuff like if aliens really exist? or if Steven Colbert will ever run for president?.
The demise of the news business can be halted, but only if journalists commit to creating real value for consumers and become more involved in setting the course of their companies.
As many of you have figured out, we don't really report news here at Ninjalane but rather just repost stories that we find interesting. Many of those stories are review links to other websites but every once in awhile there is some good mainstream stuff to report on or an original story that needs to be posted.
