iPod, iTunes, iPhone and more Gadgets

HP has a whole lotta’ new laptops to launch, possibly at a press conference this Tuesday if Notebook Italia is on the money. The designations are a real mouthful, so brace yourself: in all, we could be looking at Pavilions numbered dv2600, d6600, dv9600, and tx1300, and new HP G7000 and HP G6000’s also coming in the form of Compaq Presario F700 and F500 models. There are a crazy amount of specs here, so it’s probably safe to say that there is a machine to suit your requirements. Screen sizes range from 12.1 inch with the tx1300 up to 17 inches with the dv9600, CPUs range from 1.6GHz Core Duos and 1.7GHz Athlons up to 2.2GHz Core 2 Duos and … well, you get the point. Most notably, the new dv models include HDMI among their image output ports, with the dv2600 featuring some kind of fancy new print on the outer casing (pictured above). For a more detailed listing, check the read links below. Fortunately, spec sheets don’t require translation.

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We don’t want to take this seriously, so we won’t. Another company has claimed to have produced a device that produces more energy than is put in, which –we shouldn’t have to tell you — is impossible. The Daily Mail is the dumb — but actually kinda clever, ’cause they’ll get lots of readers, and they don’t mind bending the truth — deliverer this time, adding some kind of twisted authority to the “news.” The company behind the free publicity is called EcoWatts, who are apparently keen to sell their £100-200 white tube thing to homeowners, with the aim of reducing their electricity bill (and not solving all the world’s energy problems in one fell swoop, apparently.) Altogether now: “ughhh.”

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PC case modders will tear up anything in search of a bit of novelty, especially if it happens to reek of old school. Ancient telephones — we hear they were called rotary phones, or something — happen to fulfill the old school criteria, with one modder surrounding his PC in cracked wood, and hooking it up to an old phone. The phone now works with Skype and other VoIP solutions, with the owner presumably waiting in anticipation for all the calls to tell him how awesome / clever he is.

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