Install OS X on Your Hackintosh PC, No Hacking Required!

Two months ago I walked through how to build a Hackintosh Mac on the cheap using PC parts. Since that post, the OSx86 scene has changed rapidly, and now you can install Leopard on your computer about as easily as installing Leopard on a Mac—no command line hacking required. In addition, the resulting installation is—theoretically, [...]

Dissent Grows as Scientists Oppose NASA’s New Moon Mission

NASA’s plan for manned space exploration focuses on establishing a base on the moon, as a vital stepping stone for a visit to Mars. The initiative has been trumpeted by the Bush administration, which wants the first mission to launch by 2020. But trouble is brewing as a growing group of former mission managers, planetary [...]

Electronic contact lenses offer superhuman eyesight

Engineers have managed to combine a flexible contact lens with an imprinted electronic circuit and lights. The new contact lens could superimpose computer displays onto a person’s eyesight.
Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or [...]

Sprints shows its new WiMax devices

4G is on its way!! THIS YEAR!
LAS VEGAS — With just a few months to go before the launch of its next-generation wireless network, Sprint Nextel Corp. has a distinctly modest lineup of compatible devices.
At the International Consumer Electronics Show here this week, Sprint showed only two computer modems that will definitely be available in [...]

Apple introduces MacBook Air

During his Macworld Expo keynote address on Tuesday morning, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the MacBook Air, a computer that the company billed as the world’s thinnest notebook — small enough to fit inside an interoffice mailing envelope. It’s priced starting at $1,799 and will be available within two weeks.
Sporting a silvery finish, the MacBook [...]

Best Buy to double number of stores selling Apple’s Mac line

Leading U.S. electronics specialty retailer Best Buy said this week it plans to increase the number of stores carrying Apple Inc.’s Mac computer line twofold in the next several weeks, signaling robust demand for the Windows PC alternatives in the broader consumer market.
The comments came courtesy of Best Buy executives who held a session at [...]

An Apple TV With a Blu-ray Player?

Rumors are flying fast and furious over what Steve Jobs will pull out of his blue-jean pocket a week from Tuesday at his annual speech at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. These include a movie rental service for iTunes, a super small notebook computer perhaps with a solid-state hard drive, a notebook docking station, [...]

HD-DVD – Runs and hides from CES

“….HD DVD group is canceling its CES press conference; tail severely between legs over today’s explosive news that Warner — the last “undecided” studio — was going to the other side and doing Blu-ray discs exclusively.”
We just got an email which stated that the HD DVD group is canceling its CES press conference; tail severely [...]

Lone holdout in DRMed music recommends DRM circumvention

Sony tacitly recognizes the inconvenience caused by its DRM usage, and even recommends that iPod users circumvent some of its own DRM.
With three of the big four music labels abandoning DRM, that leaves Sony as the big holdout. That’s right, the same company that brought you the Sony rootkit scandal is also the last [...]

Toys”R”Us Offering Wii “Bend Over” Bundle

Toys”R”Us has just gone above and beyond the call of corporate greed, in an effort to take advantage of every consumer interested in purchasing the popular Nintendo Wii console. The retailer is offering what is perhaps the worst next-gen console “bundle” in the history of gaming: a Nintendo Wii and 10 games (no first party [...]

2007 In Numbers: More People Using Yahoo Mail Than Gmail

Suprising but True …. at least according to this research…..
Email remains one of the most popular of online services. Companies such as Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft have offered free online email since the earliest days of the internet. Google was late the party, launching Gmail in April 2004. Where as Google has come to dominate [...]

Mars rovers find new evidence of ‘habitable niche’

Inch by power-conserving inch, drivers on Earth have moved the Mars rover Spirit to a spot where it has its best chance at surviving a third Martian winter — and where it will celebrate its fourth anniversary (in Earth years) since bouncing down on Mars for a projected 90-day mission in January 2004.
Meanwhile, researchers are [...]

Chinese Wii knock-off gets sequel, Vii 2

While Nintendo is too busy these days, keeping up with demand for the Wii, to even consider working on an improved version of their revolutionary system, the Chinese that created the Vii, that funny replica of the Nintendo Wii, already have a sequel ready, the Vii 2.

Sure it might not have been as good [...]

iRobot Roomba 560 PC Magazine Review

If you’ve strolled down the aisles of Target or Bed, Bath, & Beyond lately, you may have come across a curious sight—that of an honest-to-goodness vacuuming robot for sale. iRobot, maker of the brave little PackBots now deployed extensively by the U.S. military, has been selling its Roomba robot floor vacs for years now. In [...]

Researchers develop 2-D invisibility cloak

A University of Maryland research team has used plasmon technology to create the world’s first invisibility cloak for visible light.
Harry Potter may not have talked much about plasmonics in J. K. Rowling’s fantasy series, but University of Maryland researchers are using this emerging technology to develop an invisibility cloak that exists beyond the world of [...]