Logitech MX 610 Laser Cordless mouse with mail and IM buttons
Logitech presented a new wireless mouse, the Logitech MX 610 Laser Cordless mouse. It uses Logitech's 2.4GHz digital cordless technology and uses a laser instead of a LED for better tracking. The mouse displays the battery level and features fancy instant messaging and e-mail buttons which notify you when you receive a new message. The MX610 will be available in October for $59.99. More details Here

Toshiba has developed a prototype of a SED display in cooperation with Canon. A prototype was displayed at the IFA show in Berlin and the companies claim this technology combines the image quality and the response time of CTR displays with the thin profile of LCD and Plasma displays.
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Microsoft officially announced today the new Xbox 360 Controller for Windows, revealing that the wired gaming controller works with Windows XP-based PCs and the new Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system.

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The Chinese website HKEPC Hardware have thrown up their Preview of Nvida's GeForce 6500 GPU!

Our friends at HKEPC has gotten themselves a R520 card and it will probably be officially known as Radeon X1800 when launch in early October.

We put a variety of games across several different genres on similar Intel- and AMD-based systems, and then measured performance during real playing. When it really matters most, which CPU delivers the goods?

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I've got a PQI Dualchannel Kit (2x256MB) DDR500 memory for testing and decided to remove the heatspreader from one of the modules to see what chips are being used... and no PQI inside, see for yourself.

Onboard sound has always been considered a 'joke' as gaming goes, but that's not true anymore with Creative's Live! 24 onboard sound. Of course, most serious gamers probably already have an add-on solution such as Creative's Audigy 2. However, those of you who're still 'leaning against the fence' or planning to built a new system might want to reconsider buying an add-on sound card (except for maybe the X-Fi). Our test reveal some interesting results, while you don't get the full feature of Audigy and Audigy 2 sound cards, the Live! 24 bit onboard provides nearly the same level of performance, sometimes even better!

The liquid metal has significant advantages over other single phase liquid solutions. The thermal and physical properties of the material give it the ability to cool extremely high heat fluxes.

Swinging away from the usual hardware, today TweakTown are looking at two of the latest and greatest gaming mice from Logitech and Razer. In the left corner we have the Logitech MX518 and in the right corner we have the Razer Diamondback Plasma Edition. Both offer impressive features such as on-the-fly sensitivity adjustments and 1600 DPI accuracy. Which is the best for your gaming rig? Read on and find out our thoughts!

Deric over at PCPop has got the scoop again! this time the first screens of AGEIA's PhysX Physics Processor Unit.

By now, most of us have heard that NVIDIA will be bringing back integrated graphics into their upcoming AMD C51 Chipset, which is expected to launch within a few weeks, but is NVIDIA's SoundStorm Technology ready for a glorious return? Or will NVIDIA be entering into the arena an entirely new audio technology? We'll share some thoughts and tentative possibilities here in this article.

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The supply of high-end earphones is unlimited, it seems. Yet another contender in the competitive, but exclusive market is Ultimate Ears and its Super.Fi 5 Pro pair of earphones. They offer an in-ear design with a stylish exterior to give it an edge. With a design similar to Etymotic?s ER-4 MicroPro, they should have no problem blocking out excess noise, which is a pleasant "feature" to look forward to.

Following on from the information disclosed at the Fall Intel Developer Forum recently, we've sat down to take a look at how Intel's next-generation CPU architecture is shaping up - Is this what the CPU giant needs to strike back against AMD in the market?

It will launch it in the first week of October and those cards should be available just after. Some of them will be available in quantities like the 500MHz card while the 600MHZ card will be there but not in numbers.

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Comex 2005 had just opened it doors at Suntec City, occupying the whole of level 4, and having large halls at level 6. Being one of the largest IT and consumer electronics show. Here we saw great deals, and of course new products, being introduced right here at the show.

The Logitech G5 Laser is Logitech's answer to the recently launched Razer Copperhead. The G5 Laser comes with a similar Laser based 2000dpi sensor, and has a rather elaborate weight management system. Look here, while VR-Zone takes a first look at this brand new mouse!

It?s been quite a while since we have seen any major activity in the sound card arena. It was around 15 years ago that Creative came out with the first SoundBlaster product and completely changed the way we experienced audio on our computers. Since then, SoundBlaster has gone through multiple iterations and has been improved numerous times, but even the most recent sound cards are based on a platform derived from the original SoundBlaster Live! which debuted approximately seven years ago.

Polymer Vision, a subsidiary of Philips, reports that they will present a portable consumer device with a "rollable display" at the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) in Berlin, Germany, September 2-7.

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Imagine an upgrade to a newer processor where you could use your existing AGP 8X graphics card and upgrade to PCI Express on the same motherboard later? Imagine a new motherboard where you can upgrade all of this using DDR modules and then move over to DDR2 later?