When building or buying a desktop gaming system, enthusiasts don’t normally put much thought into how much it’s going to weigh, or how hard it will be to carry around when attending a LAN party. Notebook and netbook end users are much more weight-conscious consumers than are folks looking at desktops, obviously. And in the case of a gaming desktop, users tend to opt for power over form factor. Then the day comes that you decide to bring the system to someone’s house, or to a hotel ballroom, for a LAN party.

For anyone who’s had trouble shutting off his computer, who keeps saying she just needs to hit the Stumble bar “just one more time,” who needs to fight just one more battle in World of Warcraft, there’s a spot in Washington state to unwind and get away from it all.reStart Internet Addiction Recovery Program is on five acres in rural Washington and just got its first live-in patient, a 19-year-old WoW addict. “We are not anti-technology,” reStart psychotherapist Hilarie Cash told AFP. “It is about helping people

People may gripe that a company like Apple gets all sorts of positive publicity simply because its iPod and iPhone products are selling so well, but there’s a dark side to rampant fame as well. The bad definitely comes with the good, and a chorus of angry MacBook Pro owners have apparently made themselves heard.The story goes something like this: folks purchasing new MBPs with the 7200rpm hard drive were hearing all sorts of weird whirring, clicking and popping noises from their drives. Some users even reported

The Warpia Wireless USB Display Adapter is one of the few wireless USB devices on the market, and promises to send your computer's display to a TV or projector up to 30 feet over wireless USB.

Today, Plantronics introduced a new premium Bluetooth headset that is designed to blend superior sound quality with a simple, sleek design. The Discovery 975 which retails for $130 comes with a cool rechargeable carrying case that can triple talk time from 5 hours to up to 15 hours while protecting and storing the earpiece. The case includes an LCD screen that displays the battery and earpiece charge levels as well as Bluetooth connectivity.

The Discovery 975 features AudioIQ2, the next generation of Plantronics AudioIQ digital signal processing (DSP) technology, and two microphones to precisely capture the users voice and simultaneously cancel background noise. Users dont have to worry about pressing special buttons or having sensors touch their face to activate the noise-canceling capabilities AudioIQ2 works automatically wherever the user is having a conversation.

The greatest name in sound? The only name in sound? Yeah, something like that. Whatever Bose’s slogan happens to be these days, the company is doing itself proud by introducing yet another glorified set of cans designed to help you tune out mortar fire and crumbling buildings, not to mention airplane noise and rowdy children.Dubbed the “quietest Bose headphones ever,” the fresh QuietComfort 15 acoustic noise-cancelling headphones are said to be the company’s best performing, ever. While details are scant on

While Sony has made strides to ditch its proprietary ways in some aspects, it certainly has more work to do in others. Take the memory card game for example. Most everyone these days uses a camera that supports either SD/SDHC or CF (CompactFlash). You’d probably have to search pretty hard to find anyone using xD, Memory Stick Pro or any other off-the-wall format.That said, Sony’s still a believe in the MSPro and MSPro Duo formats, as it has today introduced a new pair of flash cards for those who think 16GB

Computer hardware website ChipHell has posted up some pictures of AMD's upcoming DirectX 11 graphics card, codenamed Juniper.

Here are the first pictures of the Juniper/Evergreen DirectX 11 video card by AMD/ATI. For hooking up monitors the card has a has a pair of dual DVI outputs and then both DisplayPort and HDMI connectors. There is also an exhaust port on the back for what could be an outside thermal exhaust system.

An upcoming issue of Entertainment Weekly’s print magazine will feature a video advertisement that plays on an embedded video player. The ad’s package will likely remind you of the heavy-paper packaging found in the novelty greeting cards that play sound. The player will have a roughly two-inch screen with a speaker embedded below it. Similar to the greeting cards, the ad will start playing automatically when the page flips open. The player is scheduled to run ads for CBS shows and Pepsi. CBS and Entertainment

Nearly a month ago, we told you about RadioShack’s plan to offer T-Mobile phones and services in its retail stores. Now, we’re seeing that plan put into practice: The new T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Google as well as other T-Mobile products and services are currently available in more than 4,000 RadioShack stores across the United States and in Puerto Rico. “With an exciting product like T-Mobile’s myTouch 3G, The Shack continues to build its authority in innovative, mobile technology,” said Peter Whitsett, Executive