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A wine-powered processor? That certainly sounds rather out of whack if you ask us, but then again, stranger things have happened in the past. Intel has done pretty well for itself in the microprocessor industry to say the least over the years, but this time around, they figure out that they can take yet another step forward. For starters, Intel has shown off a particular prototype of a processor which happens to be so energy efficient, it is capable of being powered by a single glass of wine, now how about that?

This is made possible thanks to the acetic acid in the red wine itself which in turn, will be able to produce a fair amount of energy required to power the processor. Sounds like a familiar process to those who are huge fans of science? That is because this is pretty much the same method used to power other devices such as a light bulb using potatoes as batteries. Needless to say, a wine-powered laptop is going to be far from affordable considering the amount of wine you would need, but at least it is an impressive tech demonstration that gives us something to mull over. Interesting times are ahead of us, no?

Intel Prototype Processor Runs On Wine original content from Ubergizmo.

It wasn’t too long ago that ASUS took the wraps off the T100, which for those unfamiliar is a laptop running Windows 8.1 that comes with a detachable display that can double up as a tablet of sorts. The device was priced at a very affordable $349 for the base model, and it seems that Dell has decided to join in the race as well. Dell has recently announced that they will be releasing a similar product that will be part of the company’s Inspiron lineup of computers, and that it will sport an 11” touchscreen display that can be detached as well.

Dell plans to match the T100’s price and said device is expected to cost $349 and will be powered by AMD’s processors. The Intel model is expected to retail for more at $379. According to Dell, this upcoming model will be able to last an impressive 8 hours on a single battery charge and will come bundled with a free version of Microsoft Office, making this a pretty decent deal. The full specifications remain unknown but presumably more will be revealed as the launch of the device nears.

Dell To Launch $349 Windows 8.1 Touchscreen Laptop original content from Ubergizmo.

Do you like stories about the origin of something? I clearly remember how Zuckerberg’s social network could have been known as The Facebook, now that would have been pretty sad in this day and age considering how everyone else is so used to just plain old Facebook, right? Well, it has just been revealed that Skype, the VoIP messaging system that we have all come to know and love, could have taken a slight deviation in its naming convention earlier. Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström claimed that while he was developing the app in Estonia, the first name that the group came up with was, wait for it, Skyper.

Zennström said, “The original name had an ‘r’at the end, which came from peer-to-peer in the Sky.” It seemed that registering Skyper as a domain name proved to be an issue, so they purchased the rights to Skyper.net instead. As Skyper inched closer to its launch date of August 29, 2003, they decided to drop the .net in the domain name, which was why they did away with the ‘r’ and Skype was born officially, alongside the Skype.com domain name. Another example of all’s well that ends well, no? Do you think that Skyper would have affected the eventual success of Skype that we all know today?

Skype Could Have Been Known As Skyper original content from Ubergizmo.

Did you see any pigs fly recently? The reason for me asking that is, Iran’s new moderate leadership does seem to be moving in the right direction by embracing the social media revolution as the government has lifted the block on both Twitter as well as Facebook. It must be noted that the block on both social media services was imposed four years ago after a post-election uprising, followed by crackdown in 2009. Ever since Hassan Rouhani took office in August this year, this reform-centric cleric decided to tweet on his own official Twitter account, and he was not alone as the country’s foreign minister also participated.

So far, Rouhani has used social media to share his two cents on the crisis in Syria, while congratulating Iranian athletes as well as bid holiday greetings to the global Jewish community on Rosh Hashanan. Strangely enough, Rouhani did not say anything on Monday night, and neither did he tweet an official announcement where unblocking of the social media outlets are concerned. It is nice to see the country opening up ever so slightly, and any progress is more than welcome. We do wonder what other kinds of progressive moves are in store for the near future.

Iran Lifts Block On Twitter, Facebook original content from Ubergizmo.

Unitcom hits back with another powerful gaming PC, the PASSANT i7AX7N78 Deluxe-Pro IBE. Adopting Cooler Master’s CM 690 III mid-tower PC case, the system is packed with a 3.60GHz Intel Core i7-4960X Extreme Edition processor, an Intel X79 Express Chipset, a GeForce GTX 780 3GB graphics card, a 32GB DDR3 RAM, a 120GB SSD (Samsung SSD 840 Series), a 2TB hard drive, a Blu-ray drive, an 850W 80PLUS GOLD power supply and runs on Windows 7 Professional 64-bit OS. The PASSANT i7AX7N78 Deluxe-Pro IBE sells for 339,970 Yen (about $3,420). [Product Page]