Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Officially Announced

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Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 Is World's First 2TB, 7200 RPM Hard Drive

SSDs might be catching up to the trusty HDD in capacity, but this first-of-its-kind, 2-terabyte, 7200 RPM drive from Hitachi serves as a reminder that for speedy mass storage people can still afford, the old standby still remains king. The Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000, is a 3.5-inch drive that f

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HP G62t Core i3 Notebook Pairs Envy 15 Looks With a $600 Price Tag

Sony just announced a few colorful Core i3/i5 notebooks, and now HP is following suit with its new G62t. Its design closely resembles HP's $1300 Envy, but you'll pay less than half of that for the G62t's base configuration. That $600 base model has respectable specs, too: a 2.13GHz Core i3 pr

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The History Behind the F-35B Vertical Lift: from Napkin to First Supersonic Plane [Airplanes]

Dr. Paul Bevilaqua is the aerodynamicist who designed the F-35B shaft-driven lift fan years ago at Skunk Works, Lockheed Martin's advanced technology program. His invention changed short-take off and vertical-landing (STVOL) planes forever, making the Lightning II the first supersonic aircraft with

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How-To: Expand your camera with CHDK

As anyone who has lusted over the technical specifications for Canon's new Digital Rebel XSi knows, the capabilities of the average point and shoot camera are severely limited. Using the CHDK firmware hack, the features of Canon point and shoot cameras can be significantly expanded, allowing for ult

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Creative Zen X-Fi Gets Launch Timing, Price

We brought you some leaked info on Creative's upcoming PMP not long ago, and now it's official. The credit-card-sized player will come in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB versions, and the larger two will support 802.11 b/g wi-fi for wireless syncing of music, video and photos and an IM chat function. It's got

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One-Petawatt Laser Opens For Business In Texas [Laser]

In the basement of the physics building at the University of Texas in Austin is the world's most powerful laser. Switched on for the first time last week, it has an output of a quadrillion watts—in terms of zeros, that's 1,000,000,000,000,000. Wired has gotten its hands on some stunning pictures o

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New Palm Pre Promo Vid Shows Fandango, Pandora Apps; Multitasking Galore

[HTML1] Palm has released another demo video of the Pre in action, and this time, some pretty nice-looking third-party apps are the focus in planning a (dirty?) weekend for three friends. I'm liking this. Within, we see our favorite husky-voiced, perhaps opium-addicted voice actress fly through th

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Philips' SA2840 GoGear PMP is Shuffle-esque, Squeezes in a Screen [PMP]

Laughing in the face of the clip-on Coolman MP3 player and almost widdling in the trousers of the iPod shuffle itself is Philips' new GoGear SA2840 PMP. It's petite, clip-on and comes with a 4-line screen. Yup, even though it's just 1.6-inches square and 0.6-inches deep its got a 128 x 64 pixel OLED

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New Nanofiber Tech Could Make Your Clothes Positively Electrifying

Forget grades of wool—the clothing of the future's going to be measured in millivolts. Researchers at UC-Berkeley have created electricity-generating nanofibers that could someday be woven into your clothing. The fibers are about 100 times thinner than a human hair, but can generate electri

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