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Guess who showed up at Computex with an all-new dual-core processor? Nah, we’re not referring to AMD or Intel (though they certainly did) — we’re talking about VIA. The company quietly (re)introduced a dual-core desktop chip here in Taipei, with the codename Nano DC being used to describe it for the time being. The device utilized a VN1000 Digital Media Chipset and fully supported dual-channel DDR3 memory. A Chrome 520 GPU was helping to push out a 720p movie trailer on the demo system, and the innate compatibility with HDMI and DisplayPort should keep home cinema owners happy. The 65nm chip was clocked at 1.6GHz, and we were told that it wouldn’t be venturing into mobile machines in its current form. ‘Course, this device has been a bit of unicorn for the past couple of years, but company representatives seemed certain that it would finally be ready to ship (using a different process technology, mind you) in around six months. We shall see. Live action video is just past the break.

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Okay…so the party is over and we have a winner for our $100 Amazon gift certificate that we are giving away for our 1-year anniversary celebration. To pick the winner you would think that we would do something technology/computer related like write a quick program to generate a random number between 1 and 73 (the number of comments). Heck, we could have even used one of the several online random number generators but that just isn’t random enough for us.

So we developed our own concoction to ensure that it was as random as possible. Yep, we printed off numbers 1 to 73, cut them out, and drew the number out of a hat.

The number that we drew out…32 which was a comment by “Old Man Death.” Congratulations and you should be receiving a quick email as a confirmation before we email you the $100 gift certificate!

Just for fun we pulled out second and third place to taunt you. Unfortunately those people won’t receive anything (except our thanks, as always) but they were comments 14 (Matt) and 64 (nogg3r5). Shucks…you guys were so close.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the contest and we really enjoyed hearing about your favorite articles. Hopefully you’ll continue to read us as we venture into our second year.

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Instead of actually designing a set of knives to match their individual purposes, designer Mia Schmallenbach turned to math to tell her what shape they should be. The beautiful Meeting set is the result of drawing a diagram based on the Fibonacci sequence and almost literally joining the dots.

Despite this arbitrary choice, the knives look pretty handy, comprising a paring knife, a carving knife, a 15cm (6-inch) utility knife and a 20cm (almost 8-inch) chef’s knife. All of these knives nest together like Russian-dolls and fit perfectly inside a big stainless-steel (or wooden) block.

The Fibonacci sequence, you’ll no doubt remember from school, starts with 0, 1 and continues by adding the previous two numbers together: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8 and so on. It can then be used to make shapes. Plotting squares whose sides are the length of successive Fibonacci numbers and then drawing an arc through their opposite corners will give the Golden Spiral, a shaped found in nature: the nautilus shell, for example. By making this shape, along with others suggested by the sequence, Schmallenbach came up with the design

These knives don’t come cheap, though. The full-metal set, made by French cutlery manufacturer Deglon, will cost you over $900 (if you can find it in the US). The wood-encased set is a more reasonable €400, or $490.

Kitchen knives [Mia Schmallenbach/Coroflot via Oh Gizmo!]

Digging all the Moorestown tablets and phones we’ve been seeing at Computex? Yeah, us too, but it looks like we’re still going to be waiting a considerable amount of time for them to hit the market. According to Intel’s Anand Chandrasekher, the first Moorestown devices won’t pop up for at least six to twelve more months. That may be after the end of 2010 mark we had heard before, but let’s hope Intel is using the time to get things just right. Anand also said that the first Moorestown products will be tablets rather than smartphones, the latter arriving sometime in the first half of 2011 — not too surprising given handset manufacturers’ history of designing and optimizing around ARM silicon and the fact that the smartphone flavor of the Intel-friendly MeeGo OS is still in development.

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