msi GUS II – desktop graphics through Thunderbolt

By Miguel Barroso on January 26, 2012
msi gus II

Image: courtesy of sweclockers.com

Computer parts manufacturer msi has unveiled a Thunderbolt connected cabinet that houses desktop class graphic cards, the GUS II. Sacrificing portability for power is maybe a thing of the past when msi fires up their cabinet connected to a MacBook Pro at CES.

The GUS II cabinet ships with the fairly potent Radeon HD 6770. However, you can plug in any 150 W TDP graphics card according to msi. There are also plans on shipping the Radeon HD 6850.

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Awesome personal 3D printer revealed at CES

By Miguel Barroso on January 25, 2012

MakerBot Replicator
MakerBot Industries, presented their latest open source 3D printer at CES. MakerBot lets you create almost anything!

The MakerBot Replicator™ is a personal 3D printer, and by its compact size  it has no problem sitting on your desktop. Though the limit of printed products is drawn at the size of a loaf of bread, there are designs that lets you combine modules to form bigger things.

The printer uses ABS (what Lego® is made of) or PLA (a biodegradable material made from corn), and prints usually in one color, but there’s a two-nozzle option allowing you to print with multiple colors and materials.

So when you’re missing a doorknob or want to create a custom sword or a bust of your grand-pa, just download one from the community Thingiverse.com and start printing or simply make your own!

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  • The Pirate Bay

    • Future of cloud services threatened

    By Miguel Barroso on January 24, 2012

    Guy Fawkes Cloud Services
    Even though SOPA & PIPA was postponed by congress, file sharing site Megaupload was shut down and their owners arrested, risking a whopping 55 years in jail. Numerous other file sharing sites, most notably Filesonic and Fileserve have begun restricting access to files of other users, limiting the spread of content. There are even reports of mass deletion of user files on these sites and banning of US IP addresses as means of escaping prosecution.

    YouTube, Dropbox and Facebook among others have technologies in common with these file sharing sites. The step to closing down all sites where users upload non-original content has become significantly smaller. The fact that the witch hunt for file sharing sites started without a solidified policy has had a deterring effect on cloud service start-ups, Torrent Freak reports. Is this the kind of Internet we want? Is this the kind of business climate the US can afford? Share your thoughts in the comments!

    ASUS releases 12.5-inch B23E business laptop

    By Jason Yip on January 22, 2012

    At CES, ASUS showed us plenty of new products, but it seems like they had more up their sleeve, like this 12.5-inch B23E business laptop. This device houses a Core i5 or i7 processor, up to 8GB of RAM and a maximum 750GB hard drive in its magnesium-aluminum alloy shell. Furthermore, there’s a fingerprint reader, spill-proof keyboard and an anti-shock mounted hard drive, along with a 3-cell 4,400 mAh battery and a 1366 x 768 display. However, it does weigh a bit heavier to our liking, at 3.4-pounds exactly. Want more info? Check out the source link for its product page.

    Absinthe A5 jailbreak released, finally frees the whole family from jail

    By Jason Yip on January 21, 2012

    Remember the jailbreaking “dream team”? Remember 4 days ago they successfully jailbroke the iPhone 4S? Remember your envy of them and hoped that they would release it soon? Well, here it is! The “dream team” has released the Absinthe A5, which provides an untethered jailbreak for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. Yup, the whole family’s finally free! What made this possible is that over ten million users submitted crash reports which allowed for discovering the exploit used in the jailbreak. Curious to get started? Head over the source link and cut those shackles on your A5 devices.

    Apple expands iBooks in direction of education

    By Jason Yip on January 19, 2012

    Remember the Apple “media-related” announcement rumour that came right before CES? Well Apple finally held the event today and it seems like Apple’s entering the educational market more aggressively. Apple announced iBooks 2, bringing in more textbooks for the attractive price of $14.99 and under. Furthermore, authors can set their own price as long as they promise that Apple has exclusive selling rights for the ebooks. For ebook and textbooks publishers, Apple releases iBooks Author, which allows these publishers to create ebooks and have it up for sale in iBooks. Additionally, iTunes U, the service that offers lecture downloads, now has its own app and will give course syllabus and exercises in addition to the lectures. Interested? Hit Apple on the source link to find out more.

    IPv6 goes live June 6th, 2012; one year after World IPv6 day

    By Jason Yip on January 18, 2012

    When IPv4 was released, no one thought the 4.3 billion IP addresses would be used up. Of course, that was before phones, fridges and televisions joined game. Last year, all the IPv4 addresses was exhausted; fortunately, there’s another system that’s almost ready: IPv6. On June 8th, 2011, it was “World IPv6 Day” and several sites including Google, Bing, and Facebook tested the system to see if there were any problems. The results? IPv6  will officially be activated on June 6 of this year, with the addition of around 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 addresses available. Looks like it should last us a while, at least after December 21, 2012.

    iPhone 4S successfully jailbroken!

    By Jason Yip on January 16, 2012

    Earlier on, we reported that all pre-A5 devices being able to jailbreak in iOS 5.0.1. Afterwards, pod2g, along with Planetbeing, MuscleNerd, and P0sixninja, formed the scene’s “dream team” and worked on the A5 jailbreak together. The results? They have successfully performed an untethered jailbreak on an iPhone 4S. According to pod2g, it should only be a few days before it is released for the general public to finally take Apple’s shackles off your A5 devices. For now, take a look at the video after the break and wait patiently for them to release the jailbreak and find links here on TGS.

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    Canon unveils high performance PowerShot G1 X

    By Charles Wong on January 16, 2012

    Canon recently unveiled it’s top notch compact digital camera, the PowerShot G1 X. It features a metal compact body and a new Canon DIGIC 5 processor. A 4:3 aspect large 14.3 Megapixel CMOS sensor measure at 18.7mm x14mm that is similiar in size with APS-C sensors found in Canon EOS Digital SLR models. The PowerShot G1 X has the same pixel size and structure as the EOS T3i (600D) DSLR.

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    Canon’s flagship 1D-X scheduled to release in March 2012

    By Charles Wong on January 15, 2012

    Canon recently announced it’s flagship professional Digital SLR camera, the EOS 1D-X.  It will replace the EOS-1Ds Mark III and EOS-1D Mark IV models. The EOS 1D-X features a newly engineered high-performance 18-megapixel full-frame Canon CMOS sensor combined with a all-new Dual DIGIC 5+ Image Processors with 14-bit A/D data conversion that can freeze action with 12 frames-per-second (fps). The all-new Dual DIGIC 5+ image processors delivers approximately 17 times faster processing speed than the last generation DIGIC 4 and improved higher continuous shooting, better low noise performance and a huge increase in data processing than the any EOS 1D series models. It also has a dedicated DIGIC 4 processor for metering and auto focus control.

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