Condoleezza Rice tests drive Tesla electric roadster
I was this morning at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View to see Condie Rice taking a fast and furious ride (up to 160 MPH) on board of the all-electric Tesla Roadster. There will be more than 400 of these cars shipping in the US this Fall, at about $90K a pop for the Rich and Famous like Governor Schwarzenegger, actor George Clooney and Google founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The Secretary of State is in Silicon Valley with Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer to discuss about innovation, green technologies, etc.
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HP to launch water-cooled fanless Voodoo notebooks this Fall
So now we know (at least we think we have a pretty good idea) what Voodoo co-founder Rahul Sood, and now CTO for HP’s Gaming Business, is working on so hard for the past few months since his company got acquired by HP. Over the week-end we got confirmation on a piece of information we overheard at the HP/Voodoo Media event last April: the Palo-Alto company will ship this Fall a line of laptops (presumably under the Voodoo brand) using Voodoo’s water-cooling technology. HP engineers are looking at 8 hours of battery life for these fanless laptops market to the hard-core gamers community.
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Nvidia presented it’s CUDA
At MPF, Nvidia presented it’s CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) programming model that let programs written in C language to take advantage of the power of Nvidia’s latest Series 8 graphics chip family. The goal is to use the power of the graphics chip (GPU) to assist the main processor (CPU) to do parallel computing and accelerate memory and floating-point intensive applications.
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The Intel Mobile Metro Notebook Concept
The AeroXperience website has published a video of the Intel’s Metro Notebook concept, introduced in April at Intel Developer Forum in Beijing.
The Metro laptop prototype is only 0.7-inch thick and weighs 2.2 pounds. This notebook concept features a secondary “Eink” display for reading email, calendar entries, eBooks, etc. The video shows you can also use Windows Media Player or play games via Eink.
According to earlier reports, the concept model is powered by Intel Core 2 Duo processor, and has an antenna, which is able to switch between the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and WiMAX links.
“Unfortunately, the representative walking the reporter through the laptop confirms that this is purely a concept device, and is really only aimed at encouraging OEMs to develop similar models,” Engadget reports.
More Crysis videos
Crysis Deathmatch Gameplay 2 (26mb):
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