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Tuesday
Mar 4,2008
(Credit: Steve Guttenberg)

The SACD is a “super” CD, it sounds better, offers multichannel, high-resolution sound, and hybrid SACDs are backwards compatible with CD players. Sony initially pushed SACD as a CD replacement and the market yawned. OK, but you would have thought that audiophiles would have, en mass, supported …

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  • $25,000 uber-box gets Blu-ray

    Tuesday
    Mar 4,2008
    (Credit: SE2 Labs)

    When SE2 Labs debuted its “ITC One” media system late last year, one of the complaints was that it lacked a Blu-ray player. That might seem picky at first blush, until one surveys the laundry list of functions this uber-box already provides: an Xbox 360, HD personal …

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  • DARPA plans craft for five-year flight

    Tuesday
    Mar 4,2008

    The Vulture is expected draw on spacecraft design.

    (Credit: NASA)

    DARPA is close to awarding a contract for the initial development phase of an unmanned aircraft capable of staying aloft for five years at a time, according to the aviation magazine Flight.

    “Aviation has a perfect record–we’ve never left

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  • iPhone launching in Ireland on March 14th?

    Tuesday
    Mar 4,2008

    Filed under: CellphonesLooks like the iPhone is launching in Ireland with O2 on March 14th, according to Pocket-lint. It’s supposed to go for the low, low price of €399 (including VAT) on the 8GB and €499 for the 16GB; we haven’t heard anything solid either way, but we’ll let you …

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  • Tuesday
    Mar 4,2008

    The Aiptek A-HD records 720p video on inexpensive SD cards.

    (Credit: Aiptek)

    In the market for a digital camcorder? You could spend $179.99 on one of those Flip Video Ultras, which let you record a whopping 60 minutes of YouTube-quality video. Or you could pay $119 for the Aiptek …

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  • HP printers can’t stop, won’t stop

    Tuesday
    Mar 4,2008

    HP is poised and ready to send a barrage of printers to our office, and to that we say, “Bring it on!” This won’t be the first time we’ve been deluged with printers from HP, and we’re eager to get back in the ring. Need proof? Just …

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  • Dell gets rugged to pump up sales

    Tuesday
    Mar 4,2008

    The Latitude XFR D630 from Dell is not sexy.

    But that’s not the point. The PC maker’s first ruggedized notebook isn’t having a New York coming-out party with runway models a la the colorful Inspiron and XPS laptops from last summer. But the company does hope that …

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  • Cleaning 400 years of dust from books

    Tuesday
    Mar 4,2008

    DUBLIN, Ireland–There isn’t quite an inch of dust on top of Institutione Catholica, a two-volume theological set of books dating back a few centuries. But it looks close.

    The entire top of the volumes are coated in a thick, brown mass. Some of the dust has formed into balls …

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  • Tuesday
    Mar 4,2008

    The Morgan LifeCar emits nothing but vapor

    (Credit: CNET Networks)

    Hydrogen fuel-cell projects are usually only the realm of global automakers such as GM, Ford, and Honda, with enormous R&D budgets and a few thousand spare engineers. Boutique British carmaker Morgan is bucking the trend, however, with the unveiling …

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  • Tuesday
    Mar 4,2008

    BMW's Efficient Dynamics concept study sports special aerodynamic wheels

    (Credit: CNET Networks)

    From a distance it looks just like a regular soccermom-mobile. But the car that BMW put center stage this morning at the Geneva auto show represents the German automaker’s vision for fuel-efficient technologies over the …

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