With the IdeaPad U150, Lenovo continues stepping gradually from the bookish land of ThinkPads into the world of cool ultraportable...
The HP EliteBook 8440w won't win awards for ultrathin design elements or elegant looks, but underneath the almost military-style e...
The
Acer Aspire
5740-6378 parks itself next to most midrange laptops. It feels fast enough for all common productivity applications;...
GE Hitachi
Nuclear Energy
, one of the world's biggest providers of nuclear reactors, says it has an alternative to burying nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, the proposed waste repository that the Obama administration has said is now "off the table." Based in Wilmington, NC, GE Hitachi wants to use nuclear waste as a fuel for advanced nuclear power plants, significantly reducing the volume of waste and the length of time that most of the w...
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LG has entered its own little battle 'bot into the Android fray, but the InTouch Max GW620 is no bone-crushing super phone . Rather, it's a bargain-basement effort that doesn't have much of an arsenal with which to shatter its bigger rivals into a thousand flaming fragments.
The GW620 is available for free on a £22-per-month contract, and you can also pick it up for around £270 SIM-free. Read more...
Though the awkward model number doesn't roll off the tongue, the Toshiba Satellite T135D-S1324 ultraportable laptop is a slim, sleek package that offers some pleasant surprises while making a few compromises. Read more...
My first impressions of the
Nikon D300
digital SLR camera may rekindle my fondness for Nikon SLRs. It's not a perfect 10, but it's interesting and nicely built, and it performed better than I expected.
In Video: Five Reasons to Love the Nikon D300
I'm in Ford Country, but not to drive one. Rather, Porsche Cars of North America has invited a small group of auto writers to Dearborn for sneak-peak of two future SUVs. One is a very rare and experimental (one of two) Cayenne S Hybrid prototypes, the other a Cayenne Diesel brought over from Denmark. Read more...
On paper, Philips's new DVR-DVD recorder looks like the ideal combination. Boasting an 80GB hard drive, the HDRW720 pauses and rewinds live video and archives your shows to DVD+R/+RW. Unfortunately, the deck comes saddled with some crippling limitations, including needlessly arcane onscreen menus, and the inability to record directly to DVD. Read more...
