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Razer unveiled what they are hailing as "the first true gaming laptop" at PAX yesterday, and at first glance it does look pretty awesome, the device has been built in partnership with Intel.

The Blade features an all aluminium chassis weighing in at 6.97lbs and only 0.88 inches thick and a 17 inch LED backlit 1080p screen, Switchblade User Interface - Razers interface is comprised of 10 dynamic adaptive tactile keys for easier access of in-game commands, and an LCD capable of two modes one mode that displays in-game information when a mouse is in use and another ...

United Airlines is choosing to go "Paper-less" with its organisation. To do this all United and Continental pilots will be given an iPad as part of a new electronic flight bags scheme (EFB). United Airlines said the iPads will replace paper flight manuals and provide pilots with navigational charts through a special app made by Jeppesen Mobile FliteDeck. A conventional pilots flight bag contains a large 12,000 sheets of paper manuals weighing 38 pounds, this will all be replaced by an iPad making things a lot more convenient.

United Airlines are citing the "Green savings" of switching ...

EA games employee Frank Gibeau has been going on record saying that the PlayStation Vita stands a better chance in the market than Nintendo's 3DS because apparently it has a more innovative design and better technology and a better set of operating system software. EA also said the the PS Vita has a much stronger title line up going for it and is likely to win in a head to head against the 3DS although general speculation still remains whether the Vita and 3DS will be able to compete against similarly priced tablets.

Nintendo think they have the potential to take the PS Vita on since ...

IBM is one of the world's best known technically specialist companies and they have been breaking the boundaries of current technology again. They have constructed a single hard drive unit made up of multiple individual hard drives, 200,000, to be exact with a combined storage capacity of 120 PetaBytes. To put that amount in context every single thing on the internet could be backed up 60 times with that amount of storage.

A 120 PetaByte drive could hold 24 billion music MP3 tracks at 5MB each but it is unlikely the developers IBM Almaden had such a use in mind. Developing this monster ...

PAX (Penny Arcade eXpo) starts today and at the Madcatz booth you can get the opportunity to get hands on with their latest gear for gaming incluing Street Fighter X Tekken Arcade Fightstick Pro in two flavours one for Xbox 360 and one for PS3 expected to release in September for MSRP $159.99

The Fight stick Pro is an authentic Japanese-style Sanwa Denshi joystick & buttons, featuring 30mm 8 button layout with additional multi-speed Turbo functionality and arcade style ball topped stick, connecting via a 4m (13ft) USB lead, it also has a switch to lock controls ...

AMD finally has a new CEO to permanently fill the position which Thomas Seifert has been occupying since Early January when Dirk Meyer left because investors didn't approve of his plans for AMD's future. The new CEO, Rory Read, comes straight over from Lenovo where he worked as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for many years. He has a big task ahead of him trying to bring AMD back up to competing levels with Intel in the mobile, laptop and desktop market.

He is hopeful that with the launch of AMDs 28nm ARM chips AMD can start to push Intel out the mobile market, also with AMD (the ...

The well known computer component producers Thermaltake have come up with a new range of power supplies for the high end market. Four power supplies which will all have silver 80 plus certification and be part of the Toughpower range. They come in large wattages only; 1000W, 1200W, 1350W and 1500W. The reason behind this new range of products is to take the existing bronze certified Toughpower range of PSUs and make them; more efficient, quieter and more stable.

The efficiency is consistently above 80% between 20-100% load and at optimal efficiency it gets as high as 91%. Offering ...

EA Games EULA agreement for the new service "Origin" which will be needed to play Battlefield 3 has been met with controversy. Under the title of "Consent to Collection and Use of Data" if you agree you give EA permission to scan your hard drive for information on your computer, operating system, application usage, software, software usage and peripheral hardware as well as granting permission for EA to use, reproduce, broadcast and sell this information.

It doesn't however do this in a sneaky way it clearly states: " IF YOU DO NOT WANT EA TO COLLECT, USE, STORE, TRANSMIT OR DISPLAY ...

According to TechPowerUp the company POV (Point of View) is planning to release a GTX 550Ti graphics card with 4GB of DDR3 memory. GDDR3 runs at half the speed of GDDR5 so runs at 2133MHz instead of 4000MHz and upwards. The memory bus is also only 128bits so the memory on the card is significantly slower. Apart from that the card is pretty much the same as a reference GTX 550Ti. It features 192 CUDA cores at 900MHz core and 1800MHz shader and has a DVI, VGA and HDMI port. It takes power from a single 6 pin PCI-E power connector and POV says it will cost 113 Euros. But what we want to know is what ...

Outlaw is a Mid-Tower ATX chassis that the manufacturer says offers premium features, innovative layout, and superior styling at a ground breaking price point.

The Outlaw flips the motherboard tray upside down putting the graphics card closer to the roof, the motherboard is accessed from the opposite side of the case (taking off the right panel when looking at the front), this configuration is to allow for better cooling of graphics cards.

The front bezel is coated in the BitFenix soft touch rubber (seen in their other chassis) and contains 4 USB 2.0 ports, ...

At London's Southbank Centre on September 2nd, 3rd and 4th VSM takes place, Vision Sound Music - the UKʼs first festival of music for visuals, so what bearing does this bring to eTeknix ? well there will be a number of video game related events happening there.

Friday will see the first of these with sessions, the use of Xbox Kinect as an advertising platform hosted by Microsoft executive Tom McQuillin exploring how brands can make use of the new technology to bring their products into peoples living rooms.

The second presentation relating to gaming ...