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We take a look at Samsung’s early 2011 monitor lineup. Today we feature its 3D monitors.

Like a spindly steel insect, the Rima Light from Dreipuls stalks your desk and plants its legs amongst the detritus carelessly strewn thereon. Unlike an insect (unless it’s a giant, adjustable firefly), the Rima Light also offers ingeniously adjustable illumination.

The four legged structure suspends a semi-cylindrical “bulb” which runs the length of your desk. This bulb has four rings circling it, and these rings form the bounds of the lit part of the tube. Thus you can slide them to light up the whole length of the Rima, or you can have two any-sized sections. Thus you could avoid shining light onto the super-reflective screen of a MacBook, or just opt for small pools of light when working into the night – just enough to spotlight your glass of whisky and your ashtray, and no more.

The Rima has picked up a Red Dot design award, which pretty much always means that the product is both great-looking and works well (I have a Red Dot-winning food-processor from Kenwood and it kicks ass and takes names).

The aluminum and plastic lamp uses 65 LEDs and sucks 10-Watts of power (on a 220-Volt supply). It weighs in at a satisfyingly stable 750-grams and measures 800 x 410 x 130mm (that’s 31.5-inches long). It is also, criminally, not yet for sale.

Rima Light [Dreipuls via FastCode]

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How aggressive can NVIDIA get? That’s the question puzzling our brainboxes right now as we gaze upon the complete version of the slide that let us know about a potential Tegra 2 3D chip over the weekend. It’s not every day you hear of a 1.5GHz quad-core mobile SOC, but our discovery of corroborating evidence for the T25 module sitting alongside it makes us more willing to credit the possibility of a Blu-ray-crunching, 13,800 MIPS-capable, multicore Cortex-A9 Tegra 3. Moreover, the roadmap of production samples in Q4 of 2010 fits perfectly with NVIDIA’s claim that Tegra 3 was “almost done” in September of that year. The ULP designation on this listing stands for Ultra Low Power in NVIDIA parlance, which would indicate an aggressively tuned power management system — the only way we can envision a quad-core anything operating within a tablet. Fall 2011 is when we should know for sure.

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This article was written on July 12, 2008 by CyberNet.

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When it comes to managing dual monitors I would say that there are some things that the Mac does better than Windows, while Windows does some things better than the Mac. I’ve used an external monitor with my laptop for years, but in my book neither operating system gets it exactly right.

To elaborate on that the Mac generally has better features for managing your secondary monitor. For example, I can rotate the screen orientation without needing a third-party application or a video card control center installed. The thing that drives me bonkers on a Mac, however, is the fact that the Menubar can only be located on one screen. This isn’t like the Windows Taskbar being located on only one monitor because the Mac Menubar includes all of the application-specific menus. So even though you’re working in an application on monitor #2 you actually have to move your mouse back to monitor #1 to access any of the menus. The only thing you can do is choose which monitor the Menubar appears on.

I went looking around for a solution, and to my surprise I couldn’t find a single application that could duplicate the Menubar on a secondary monitor. The closest thing I found was a free app called DejaMenu that is capable of displaying the contents of the Menubar in a drop-down list, but the only way to initiate it is through a keyboard shortcut. It’s good enough for me:

Windows users don’t have this problem since the menus for each application are stored within the application window. I’m sure you can imagine how unproductive this can make be when you’re frequently moving your mouse back and forth between monitors. On my Mac DejaMenu has saved me a bunch of time because of this.

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One big sticking point for those still unwilling to embrace the eco-friendly credentials of electric vehicles is the undeniable fact that building an EV costs plenty in terms of resource and energy use. Hoping to counter this concern, Genovation is working on developing a new G2 electric car (the G1 was a Ford Focus modified with off-the-shelf parts to run on batteries), which will try to maximize the use of renewable and recycled materials in its construction. It’s just completed the first phase of its development, where quarter-size models have been built by Tata Technologies and a bunch of simulations, analyses, and performance tests have been run. Phases two and three will involve the building of functional prototypes and pre-production road vehicles, with phase four presumably being the onset of our sustainable living utopia.

Continue reading Genovation G2 aims to be the greenest thing you can drive, will be made from renewable and recycled parts

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