Got a bunch of photovoltaic cells and a vehicle that requires electricity? Toshiba’s thought up a process dubbed “Charge Grid” by which you can juice the latter efficiently. When the sun’s out and the electrons are flowing, it doesn’t pay to put them into the grid, so this system stores them in a rechargeable battery [...]

We told you Intel’s 32nm Clarkdales were power efficient, right? Well, Tranquil PC’s slapped one of those chips, a 2.93GHz Core i3-530 to be precise, into its all-new iXL Power PC and now boasts a total system juice consumption of a measly 30W at idle. That means this HTPC can get away with living the [...]

While DigiTimes has been known to get a rumor correct now and again, its success rate falls off dramatically when dealing with companies HQ’d outside of its native Taiwan. Keep that in mind when you hear it discuss a Nokia tablet with either a 7- or 9-inch screen. DigiTimes, speaking with “upstream component makers,” claims [...]

Seriously, can’t we keep any mystery in our lives anymore? After we saw what’s purported to be Best Buy’s “playbook” for the iPhone 4 debut yesterday, today we’re being treated to an inventory list revealing the stock ordered up from Apple for the big retailer’s launch of the new handset. Black 16GB variants of the [...]

Turns out all our snooping was spot on with this one. We first spotted a simpler, cheaper Nook making its way through the FCC late last month, and then only last night we got tipped off to a $150 price point for the e-reader sans cellular connection. Now Best Buy has confirmed the whole thing [...]

Is there an HDMI 1.4-compatible Blu-ray player in your future? LG’s BX580 wants to be your player of today. The device is now shipping, more or less falling in line with the “month or two” estimate we got back in May, but clocking in at $100 less than the $400 we’d expected it at. Sure [...]

When Google listed which companies were diving head first into the Chrome OS pool, Dell was surprising spotted standing around without its floaties on. Of course, that didn’t stop the company from installing the OS on one of its netbooks just for fun. Now, hot on the heels of a Dell-specific Chrome configuration, we have [...]

A week back we got word that Best Buy house brand Insignia was moving in on Dash territory with the eight-inch, 800 x 600 Infocast Internet Media Display, and that it’d be releasing on June 20. Sure enough it’s now available online, and is also sitting on a shelf at every local store we checked, [...]

Biochip bracelets be damned — nanoengineers at UC San Diego want to put sensors in your skivvies. Reseachers have begun prototyping a pair of tighty-whiteys coated with the requisite carbon electrodes to make electrochemical computing a reality, as it turns out the nether regions are a prime place to measure chemicals excreted in one’s sweat. [...]

It was inevitable, really, that a phone as widely leaked as the Droid 2 would end up caught on video. Doing the honors for us today are Android and Me, who’ve compared the new Droid to the classic variant. Funnily enough, they didn’t find too much deviation from Motorola, describing the two handsets as “virtually [...]