Bring Your Sexiest Gear To Hardware Alley At Disrupt NY

Every year I’m given the best job a guy could ever want: planning hardware alley, a one day extravaganza of some of the best hardware I’ve ever seen. This event, which happens on the last day of Disrupt, is a crowd favorite and I’d love to feature your gear. What is Hardware Alley? It’s a celebration of hardware startups (and other cool gear makers) that features everything… Read More

T-Mobile will no longer carry BlackBerry devices

By the looks of it, BlackBerry chief John Chen wasn’t appeased by T-Mobile’s attempt to make peace — in fact, things have only escalated: T-Mobile will no longer carry any BlackBerry device. In a press release today, the company formerly known as…

Crazy guy destroys a silo tower by smashing it with just one hammer

Crazy guy destroys a silo tower by smashing it with just one hammer

It’s like real life Jenga. Only instead of carefully removing each piece of the puzzle, this lunatic uses a sledge hammer to smash the base of a silo into smithereens so that the entire tower will collapse in one off the wall demonstration.

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Boxee.tv forum hacking yields thousands of user messages and personal data

In what maybe one of the biggest yet at the same time least publicized hacking incidents, the forums of Boxee.tv has been hacked and the fruits of those efforts have … Continue reading

Google Maps users, rejoice: ‘search nearby’ is back

The incredibly useful “search nearby” tool was one of the casualties of the Google Maps redesign, but today Mountain View re-introduced the feature. For those who didn’t constantly use it to find new Indian restaurants a few blocks from their…

Samsung UD590 29-Inch 4K LCD Monitor

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Here we have a new 4K LCD monitor from Samsung, the UD590. Adopting a TN panel, this new 28-inch LED-backlight monitor provides 3840 x 2160 4K native resolution, 1000:1 contrast ratio, 300 cd/m2 brightness, 1ms (GTG) response time and 170/160 degree viewing angles. In terms of connectivity ports, it has 2x HDMI and DisplayPort. The UD590 is now listed on Amazon US. [Product Page]

Leadtek GeForce GTX 750 Ti OC Graphics Card

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Leadtek has announced a new graphics card ‘GeForce GTX 750 Ti OC’ to its line-up. Powered by the first generation NVIDIA Maxwell GPU architecture, the card packs 640 CUDA Cores, a 128-bit memory interface, a core clock of 1072MHz (1150MHz Boost Clock) and a 2GB of GDDR5 memory set @ 5400MHz, and features DVI-D, DVI-I and mini-HDMI outputs. Pricing info is still unknown at the moment. [Product Page]

SanDisk CloudSpeed Extreme Enterprise SSDs

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SanDisk hits back with a new line of enterprise SSDs, the CloudSpeed Extreme. Coming in 100GB, 200GB, 400GB and 800GB capacities, these high performance 2.5-inch SSDs are packed with 19nm MLC NAND Flash memory chips, a SATA 6.0 Gbps interface, a MTBF of 2.5 million hours and can deliver read and write speeds of up to 450MB/s and 400MB/s, respectively. Prices unannounced yet. [Product Page]

Mouse Computer MDV-GZ7400B Desktop PC

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As part of the MDV ADVANCE, the MDV-GZ7400B is another newly released desktop PC from Mouse Computer. Specs-wise, the system sports a 3.40GHz Intel Core i7-4770 processor, an Intel Z87 Express Chipset, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 1GB graphics card, an 8GB DDR3 RAM, a 500GB hard drive, a DVD Super Multi Drive, a 500W 80PLUS SILVER power supply and runs on Windows 8.1 64-bit OS. The MDV-GZ7400B sells for 99,800 Yen (about $967). [Product Page]

LUXA2 EnerG 10400mAh Portable Battery Charger

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LUXA2 is offering you their latest portable battery charger, the EnerG 10400mAh. Measuring L139mm x W63.5mm x H23mm and weighing 245g, this travel-friendly battery charger is equipped with a 4 point LED status indicators, two USB 5V outputs ports (1x 2.1A, 1x 1A), a micro-USB charging port and a high-capacity 10400mAh Li-ion battery. The EnerG 10400mAh is available now for $39.99. [Product Page]