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Daily Crunch: Light Capture Edition

By Bryce Durbin

Disney turns its Monorail into huge Tron light cycles
Instant film isn’t dead – it’s just weird and expensive
EA drops fat cash on The Old Republic
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/03/11/the-playstation-move-everything-old-is-new-again-if-you-ask-sony/
Sic semper tyrannis: motion control in video games

Daily Crunch: Pixeled Edition

By Bryce Durbin

Video: Pixel-bots to the rescue!
Even as tiny blocks, you’ll recognize Super Mario Bros. in this Arduino project
Aw, iPhone app fridge magnets
Move over Humping USB Dogs. Here comes the Dodobongo USB Dog.
NES game harmonicas let you blow on your cartridges for fun and profit

OCZ drops SSDs to below $100

By Devin Coldewey

In Dave’s SSD roundup the other day, the cheapest drive carried the day — naturally. Though the Kingston SSDNow V only has 40GB of space and you pay a pretty high price/GB, it’s really the easiest entry to SSD-land, and 40GB is plenty of space for a boot drive. In fact, you could even make do with 32GB. And lucky for you, OCZ just released a new Onyx model that gives you just that for under a bill!

Daily Crunch: Down Below the Ocean Edition

By Bryce Durbin

Inverted, ocean-bound “seascrapers”: aqua-communes for the future?
Did you know there was a Last Starfighter video game?
Energizer battery charger contains a trojan
SNES cartridge plays ROMs loaded from your computer
Sony reminds us of the high-cost of first generation 3D TV

Daily Crunch: Unboxing Dots Edition

By Bryce Durbin

Why software costs so much: It’s the packaging!
Corduroy: not just on your trousers any more
Nippon Oil and Hitachi aim at mass-producing microbe-derived biofuel
Magnetic quantum dots
Steam for Mac: 100 percent official. Try to act surprised. (But still, yay!)

CrunchGear Week in Review: Bathroom Remodeling Edition

By Bryce Durbin

Here’s a recap of some of the stories from the past week on CrunchGear:
Thunder 30 amplifier from Orange
A call to arms: Reboot the public bathroom
LEGO synth has you build your sound
Throw away those Baby Einstein DVDs
Thin, flexible “solar threads” to turn fabrics into power generators

Daily Crunch: Electronic Break-In Edition

By Bryce Durbin

Thieves use extreme measures to snatch 20 Apple notebooks
LEGO synth has you build your sound
Let there be… nanophotonic avalanche photodetectors!
A first? Muslim woman refuses to submit to airport body scan, not allowed to board flight
Interesting read: the potential of the iPad, from the perspective of a book designer

Daily Crunch: Teleconference Edition

By Bryce Durbin

Here are some of yesterday’s stories:
Video: Excellent hand-built, self-powered marble-lifting machine
This Casio G-Shock looks like they dipped it in Pixy Stix (comes with robot)
Canon weather-sealed 70-200mm L… coffee thermos?
Will Valve revitalize Mac gaming with Steam for OS X?
MIT’s teleconferencing robot can interact with, strangle you
LED flashlight records nightvision video

AMD’s new AMD 890GX HD chipset announced, reviewed, lauded

By Joseph L. Flatley
AMD has officially announced the successor to its 790GX chipset, and the kids at Hot Hardware have not only put it through its paces but have been kind enough to let us in on their results. Apparently the two 890GX they tested should at least perform “on par” with previous AMD platforms, although the integrated Radeon HD 4290 graphics (performing at a none-too-shabby 700MHz, according to the company) were found to be “superior to any other AMD IGP,” even surpassing the performance of Intel’s HD Graphics solution in a number of tests. If that ain’t enough for you, the Radeon HD 4290 natively supports DirectX 10.1 — but not DirectX 11. That’s what we call “tough love.” But that ain’t the whole sordid tale, not by a longshot: check out the plethora of links below if you dare, or simply peep the PR after the break.

Continue reading AMD’s new AMD 890GX HD chipset announced, reviewed, lauded

AMD’s new AMD 890GX HD chipset announced, reviewed, lauded originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Super Talent debuts SuperCrypt thumbdrives with USB 3.0, 256-bit encryption

By Joseph L. Flatley

Hot on the heels of its USB 3.0 thumb drive the kids at Super Talent have announced the SuperCrypt line of secure portable storage. These devices are available in capacities up to 256GB and offers up to 240 MB/s transfer rates, with your choice of either 128-bit ECB (SuperCrypt) or 256-bit XTS (SuperCrypt Pro) encryption. As for the rest of us, this bad boy is fully backward compatible with USB 2.0, so you’ll be able to access Grandma’s famous top secret chicken recipe (why else would you own one of these?) on damn near any computer you need to. No word on a price or release date, but we’ll be keeping our eyes peeled. In the meantime, feel free to check out the PR after the break.

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Super Talent debuts SuperCrypt thumbdrives with USB 3.0, 256-bit encryption originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Daily Crunch: Bath Night Edition

By Bryce Durbin

Here are some of yesterday’s top stories:
Throw away those Baby Einstein DVDs
Music Planet: Ball-shaped, water-proof MP3 player for your bath tub
Muitos brasileiros estam comprando televisões especificamente para A Copa do Mundo
Build (or just buy) your own flying hovercraft
Valve understands the internet, quietly launches biggest alternate reality game since “I Love Bees”

Daily Crunch: House of Cards Edition

By Bryce Durbin

Thin, flexible “solar threads” to turn fabrics into power generators
Microsoft Surface could go mobile with this miniature projected version
Video: Alice in Wonderland movie from 1903
Be careful when handling that iBuyPower laptop!
New Panasonic batteries make serious promises (and need serious work)