Firedog Service is Just Fired
Circuit City is gone and some of the Firedog employees feel the same as they modified this Firedog truck to say Fired. Some ingenuity I would say.
Via:GadgetReview
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Phillips has a New Master LED Bulb
Philips’ Master LED bulb has the same form factor as the old-fashioned kind, making it “simple for people to use and feel good about using.” The bulb draws just 7 watts but gives off light equivalent to 40 watts’ worth, and lasts 45,000 hours, as opposed to the 1,500 of its incandescent predecessors. Already available in Europe, the Master LED should make its way to North American sometime before July.
I replaced all of the bulbs in my house with Compact fluorescent lamp(CFL) bulbs in my house. Took about 40 CFL’s, but they work great. They do take a little bit to warmup so they are at full intensity. These new lights are a little expensive at $50 a piece, but the price will probably come down when the manufacturing process kicks into high gear.
Via:Core77
SATA3 Expected by the end of the Year
AMD and Seagate are collaborating on a new hard drive with a Serial ATA (SATA) interface, tentatively called SATA3. SATA3 offers speeds up to 6Gbps, or 600MBps.
(SATA3, or SATA 6GB/second, was developed by the Serial ATA International Organization under the Serial ATA Revision 3.0 specs.)
In the current market most consumer-grade computers use either the SATA or SATA2 interfaces. These interfaces offer throughput speeds of 1.5Gbps and 3Gbps, respectively, or 150MBps and 300MBps. Because of software and hardware overhead, the actual speed of most SATA hard drives is still less than 200MBps.
The new SATA3 interface will raise the top throughput of hard drive speeds by 200 percent which will hopefully increase the actual transfer speed of hard drives accordingly.
The new SATA3 interface will be backward compatible with the existing SATA and SATA2 interfaces and will share the same cables and connectors. SATA3 enhances power efficiency and improves native command queuing, an inherent features of SATA standard, to increase overall system performance and data transfer speeds.
SATA3 is still in the final phase of development and there aren’t any actual products out yet. AMD said it would fully support the technology with a revision of its current 750 chipset and future chipsets.
Seagate estimates however that the first SATA3-based hard drive will be by the end of the year.
Via:Seagate
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