Matrox released this some time ago, but I just found it, so here it is:
The Triplehead2Go is a box you connect a single VGA (analog) out from your PC to and then connect 3 monitors to through it’s own VGA (analog) outputs. It’s not a graphics card – Matrox has decided to not compete with the likes of Nvidia and ATi, it processes the signal to create a max resolution of 3840×1024.
Reviewers rave about the size, immersion and cost of the product (3 monitors + the Triplehead2Go cost less than $1000) but unfortunately the desktop management software falls short, getting games to work properly can sometimes be a fiddle and if you have an ATi card you can forget about it. What surprises most reviewers is that there isn’t much of a framerate hit, and the bezels between the monitors doesn’t cause much disturbance to the viewer.

Good out of the box thinking by Matrox, but unfortunately it looks like this technology will have to mature a bit (by games manufacturers, ATi and Matrox) before it becomes a ‘must have’.

AVSim review
Tomshardware review
SimHQ review
List of compatible Matrox games

The article here claims it’s light through the chip itself, but reading it, it looks more like they’ve managed to find a way to transmit data using light between the chips themselves, which is still pretty cool and will speed up the bus no end (which is a major limiting factor in PC speeds nowadays).

In order to put a PC into your car, you need to power your computer from the car itself. You also need software and they reccomend a 7″ touch screen LCD. Full instructions to be found.

What is it with floating point operations that makes chip vendors so crap at them?
Intel had the floating point operation problem when it released the Pentium processor (1+1=1.999999999 but that’s good enough). Now AMD has the Opteron and it turns out that they accidentally released a few into the wild with floating point problems as well…

We make money not art has a great set of notes on a lecture by Tom Armitage about how the game controller is basically the same everywhere, and how they have evolved for specific platforms to the point where they are no longer intuitive to the new user of console games due to the plethora of buttons and combinations you have to use. He then gives some alternatives packaged with it

of which I thought the Capcom one was really cool…

Spirit makes RFID readers which can read a wide range of standards and come in USB or SDIO (Pocket PC / WinMobile) forms, and retail at only $99 – $199! Pretty soon they’re going to go nuts on the amount of data coming in.

Since Apple moved to intel chips, it wasn’t a surprise that someone was going to hack OS X and try to run it on a run of the mill PC. Apparently Apple put a poem in their OS asking people please to not hack OS X. But the hackers have apparently prevailed and allthough there is no easy to use installer or anything, it’s only a matter of time before there will be. Apple has closed the forums of a site that discussed such matters, but there’s always another forum isn’t there?
Apple themselves refuse to redo OS X so it will run on PCs. Naturally, because they won’t sell any Maggotboxes themselves. Uhm. Do they still sell Maggotboxes? I thought they’d become redundant a long time ago and got replaced by IPods…

So, what’s cooler than a flatpanel OLED display? A transparent OLED display – duhhhh!

Ze Germans have figured out how to create transparent OLEDs which we can use in our cars and stuff – I want my whole window to be an OLED display!

Clustered 64 bit computers with up to 16 AMD Opterons in one machine: nice!

Yup, it’s on the streets now!

AMD to follow next year.

The clever cloggs at IBM have managed to find a way to slow down light to 1/300th its normal speed, which allows it to be manageable enough to use it to impart information inside computer chips. They still need to find a way to mass produce the opticals, and of course for these new architechtures they’ll need to create entirely new OSses but the idea is cool.

That’s fast!

Well, this is a piece I wrote up on the difference between the two words, as I’m of the opinion that it’s basically just a hyped up thing going down, but Emerce has picked up on it and is inviting discussion – Go me!

Make your own endoscope for $800,- using a lens, webcam, PC and scope (it’s the scope that costs $800). 2 years of research! I want to look in my body!
Who can find the HOWTO?

With pictures how to do it – stream broadband TV, mp3s etc etc etc. Looks great!

Bad vibes man, bad vibes! Dude, I’ve been telling all and sundry this for years, but now apparently they have some science to back it up (even if no-one believes them still!)

Who needs a keydrive when you can keep information on your fingernail for a full six months (the time it takes for your fingernail to completely regrow)?

Built on linux 2.6, X11 and GTK+. Sweet.
With Bluetooth, 802.11b/g and USB.

http://www.nokia.com/770

A big explanation and review of budget LCDs

Embedded linux on the size of an RJ-45 connector!

Forget cables and bluetooth – 2MBps using your skin!

Sony, Toshiba and IBM have been quietly developing a new vector-based processing architecture which promises to trash anything Intel and AMD have up their sleeves. This guy has read the patent applications and makes some predictions on what we’re going to be seeing in the PS3.
http://www.blachford.info/computer/Cells/Cell0.html

If this is too hard, then Penny Arcade might do a better job at explaining it for you.

http://www.redtacton.com/en/index.html

http://www.linksys.com/extend/

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/11013912.htm