Pimp your Home with a Disappearing Pool Table

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A Pool Table needs a lot of space, that is why most guys who would want one at home do not own one. BallerHouse found a custom pool table that disappears into the floor.
The trap door installation of this Pool Table is right out of a James Bond movie. To install a Pool Table in a floor requires some serious remodeling. I guess for most of us that means we will just continue to go to a bar to play.
See a video of Disappearing Pool Table below.
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Posted on Thu, 9 Oct 2008 07:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 Review

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Tweaktown published a review of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4550 Graphics Card.
Quote from the review: "The low to mid-range market has been heating up over the past few months; NVIDIA released the 9500 GT which I personally felt was a massive disappointment due to the price to performance ratio when compared to the 9600 GSO. Read more

Posted on Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 Review

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AMD announced the new mainstream video card series HD 4600 today. Hexus has published a review of the Sapphire HD 4670.
Quote from the review: "ATI fits in practically more of everything with this card: more shading, texturing, and antialiasing performance. Harnessed together, the underlying technologies for Radeon HD 4670 GDDR3 make it the fastest graphics card in its pricing sector, and the 2D multimedia feature-set isn't bad. Read more

Posted on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Weekly Top 10: PSP 3000, Toshiba XD-E500, Tribot and Femisapien

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This week we launched our 100 day countdown to the Thanksgiving Sales. Every day since August 19th we feature one Tech-Gift Tip until retailers will blast out their Thanksgiving Sale offers.
This week the Leipzig Game Convention started and on the hardware side Sony made three announcements: Sony PSP-3000, 160GB PS3, and wireless keypad for PS3.

See also our latest Tech Video Reports.
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Posted on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Femisapien Robot is shipping

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The WowWee Femisapien has started shipping from Amazon.com like the WowWee Tribot. If you like a little female friend, the Femisapien is for you. In Japan Sega is selling the Femisapien as E.M.A.
The Femisapien features fluid movements and speaks her own form of Femmish and responds to user gestures, touch, and sounds with her own.
The Femisapien can even interact with and control other Wowwee robots. If you tilt her head you can access her three main function modes: Attentive Mode with interactive wandering, seeing and hearing functions, Responsive Mode for walking and scripted actions, and Learning Mode where she remembers exactly how you move her. Read more

Posted on Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:56:44 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sapphire PURE CrossfireX 790FX Motherboard Review

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Club Overclocker published a Sapphire PURE CrossfireX 790FX Motherboard review.
Quote from the review: "I hate to admit it but I haven't been in the AMD game for a long time. The last AMD I owned was a Barton 2500. Don't get me wrong, this isn't going to be an Intel Fanboy writing an AMD motherboard review. I've been a long time fan of AMD dating back to the K5 series. But the truth is outside of some exceptional video cards, AMD hasn't given us a whole lot to get excited about lately. Read more

Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2 in Crossfire Review

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Tweaktown published a review of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2 in Crossfire.
Quote from the review: "It’s hard to turn around and say that the HD 4870 X2 is one of the most anticipated cards of recent times, due to the plain fact that there have been so many cards released over the last three months. While some had thought that the new HD 4870 would become the fastest single card solution on the market, the price AMD launched the card at gave indication that the chances were going to be pretty slim. Read more

Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB Review

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Hexus published a review of the Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB video card based on the new ATI HD 4870 X2 AMD announced today.
Quote from the review: "Our performance evaluation shows that the HD 4870 X2 only comes into its own when the resolution is cranked up to 2,560x1,600, along with serious image quality; anything lower and it's sat there, twiddling bemused transistors. Read more

Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:07:29 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Definitive Technology Disappearing In-Wall Speakers

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The problem with putting speakers in your home is that they tend to look bad and ruin the décor. The best way to add speakers, without having to look at them or the wires they need is to put speakers in your walls. Definitive Technology announced a new line of Disappearing In-Wall speakers that has six round and two square speakers to choose from.

The speakers all use a low profile micro-perf grill, hidden flange and small diameters. The design of the speakers means that you don’t have to have custom sheetrock or spackle skills to install them. The speakers come in 3.5”, 4.5”, 5.25”, 6.5” and 8” diameters in 2-way designs along with a 6.5” single speaker and a pair of 5.12” and 6” square designs. Prices for the speakers run $179 to $379 each. Read more

Posted on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:48:20 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 Review

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Benchmark Reviews has published a Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 review.

Quote from the review: "Sapphire has always offered the most influential ATI graphics products available, and the new Radeon HD 4850 is no different. Although it still uses GDDR3 clocked at 993 (1986 MHz DDR), unlike the 4870 version that is decked out with GDDR5, the Sapphire 100242L model offers 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) on its 625 MHz 800-core RV770 GPU. Read more

Posted on Sun, 6 Jul 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Oracle Damages in SAP Case could top $1 bln: Filing

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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Damages sought by software maker Oracle Corp could top $1 billion in an intellectual property lawsuit it has brought against arch-rival SAP AG , according to a court filing.
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Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 in Crossfire Review

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Tweaktown published a review of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 in Crossfire.

Quote from the review: "Given the level of excitement the HD 4850 left, not only with us, but also gamers and enthusiasts all over the world, the HD 4870 quickly became extremely anticipated by people. Will it beat the GTX 260? - How much faster than the HD 4850 is it? - Can it out-perform the GTX 280? - How does Crossfire scale? Read more

Posted on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sapphire PURE Hybrid Crossfire 780G Review

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Hi-Tech Reviews tested the Sapphire PURE Hybrid Crossfire 780G motherboard.

Quote from the review: "This new motherboard from Sapphire has all the features that any person could ask for when they are building a new or replacement HTPC. Read more

Posted on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 512MB Review

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Club Overclocker published a Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 512MB review.

Quote from the review: "What a crazy week this has been. First, with the unintentional early release of the 4850, followed by the nVidia bombshell announcement of the 9800GTX+, there has not been a dull moment. All this chaos in the market has precipitated a serious price war in which all of us win. Read more

Posted on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

How to teach Femisapien aka E.M.A Robot Fencing

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As reported last week the Sega E.M.A female toy robot is actually the WowWee Femisapien which will be released in the States soon for $99. Besides the good looks the Femisapien is actually quite powerful. Through simple posing of the robot you can program whole sets of scripted moves.

The videos below show how to teach the Femisapien to fence against each other. Read more

Posted on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:22:09 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sega E.M.A. female Robot is actually WowWee Femisapien

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Yesterday Sega announced the E.M.A. (via CrunchGear ) female robot toy in Japan. Robotsrule points out that this robot is actually made by WowWee and is called Femisapien. The Sega E.M.A. is just adapted for the Japanese market.

The WowWee Femisapien is schedule for a late summer release in the U.S. for $99. Read more

Posted on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:04:45 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 X2 Reviewed

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TheTechLounge published a Sapphire Radeon HD 3870 X2 review.

Quote from the review: "So why not just get two 3870s and rub a little CrossFire into your box? There are two reasons, really. For most people, that's just not an option. Dual-PCI-Express can easily tag a Benjamin onto the price of a motherboard, and, in Micro-ATX land, it's a mythical beast that visits overclockers in their dreams. Read more

Posted on Tue, 3 Jun 2008 21:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

SAP Co-founder's TSG Hoffenheim reaches 1st Bundesliga

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The Soccer team of little village club TSG Hoffenheim reached the top league of German Soccer today. The village has only about 3,300 inhabitants, but one important one that changed everything.

SAP Co-founder Dietmar Hopp loves soccer and especially TSG Hoffenheim and invested in the club and a new stadium. The little village will get a 30,000 seat stadium early next year. Read more

Posted on Sun, 18 May 2008 13:01:28 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

SAP reports strong Double-Digit Growth

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SAP AG today announced its preliminary financial results for the first quarter ended April 30, 2008. Business Objects is included in these results from January 21, 2008 onwards.

SAP reported its ninth consecutive quarter of share gains. Based on U.S. GAAP first quarter 2008 software and software related service revenues on a rolling four-quarter basis, SAP's worldwide share of Core Enterprise Applications vendors, which account for approximately $37.4 billion in software and software related service revenues as defined by the Company based on industry analyst research, was 32.6% for the four-quarter period ended March 31, 2008 compared to 31.9% for the four-quarter period ended December 31, 2007, and 28.2% for the four-quarter period ended March 31, 2007, representing a year-over-year share gain of 7.6 percentage points, of which approximately 4 percentage points came from organic growth. All prior period share numbers have been adjusted to reflect the acquisition of Business Objects. Read more

Posted on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:31:46 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

DreamWorks' Katzenberg disappointed with 3D Talks

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By Sue Zeidler

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - DreamWorks Animation SKG Chief Executive Jeffrey Katzenberg on Tuesday said he was disappointed with the pace at which movie theater chains were moving to deploy digital and 3-D technology.
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Posted on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:48:31 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Firefox 3 Beta Review, Verdict: A Disappointment

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OSWeekly tested the latest Firefox 3 beta and is not impressed. Firefox 3 is now in beta 5 and available for download at the Mozilla site.

Quote from the review: "I’ve been testing the latest release of Firefox since my last article, which discussed the areas Mozilla needed to work on. Overall, it looks and feels like the last release. Read more

Posted on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:40:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr