Most booths at the Consumer Electronics Show are pretty bland, but Spectra International's booth stood out with several walls of eye-searing pink Hello Kitty electronics. The cat face with its trademark missing mouth, a symbol of international cuteness, was plastered on everything from phones to USB sticks. There were even Hello Kitty toasters and hair dryers on display. Read more
An estimated 1.6 million visitors will gawk at very expensive cars, eye-searing color schemes and beautiful show girls at this year's Thailand International Motor Expo held just north of Bangkok. The region's second largest car show - just behind the Tokyo motor Show - hopes to slow the region's slump in auto sales by adding some glitzy shows and great faces to the window shopping experience. Read more
A website vaguely describing what could be a handheld device is heating up rumors on the Internet, OrigamiProject.com, registered to Microsoft, is believed to outlined a new approach to generate a product category between the PDA and the Tablet PC, which appears to fit very well into Intel's description of a Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC). Read more
During the first unofficial day of Microsoft's TechEd 2006 conference in Boston, we got a first idea how programmers will be able to embed their own .NET functions, such as from Visual C#, directly in the new ribbon of Microsoft Office 2007 - one of Microsoft's first applications ever to completely replace the venerable menu bar. Read more
Our worldwide overclocking championship has begun and we wanted to introduce you to the everyday components our teams will be tweaking to supersonic speeds in a bid for a shot at $5,000. Read more
Does a NAS device with high data transfer rate and a Web interface that is easy to configure actually exist? Synology shows how it should be done. But the enclosure is not without its faults, either. Read more
Intel’s 45 nm Core 2 serious is known to boast substantial overclocking margins, and the entry-level E7200 with 3 MB L2 cache costs less than $120. We'll show you how to get close to 4 GHz from this little gem. Read more
After a long weekend of intense benchmarking with nearly 1,300 liters of liquid nitrogen, one team emerged victorious. They’re on their way to Paris to represent the United States against four other international teams. Show them some support! Read more