Earlier this year Lenovo announced that it had partnered with online repair shop iFixit to design new Lenovo ThinkPad T-series laptops that are easier to repair than most of the company’s other recent notebook computers. Now the new Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen 5 is available to purchase, featuring a user-replaceable battery and keyboard as well as […]
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8 Comments on Meta Quest operating system to power third-party headsets from Asus, Lenovo, and others
Meta Quest operating system to power third-party headsets from Asus, Lenovo, and others
8 Comments on Meta Quest operating system to power third-party headsets from Asus, Lenovo, and othersFacebook’s parent company Meta has announced that the operating system that powers its Meta Quest virtual reality headsets is now available to third-party device makers. And two of the first companies planning to launch products powered by Meta Horizon OS are Asus and Lenovo. Microsoft and Meta are also “working together to create a limited-edition […]
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BIGTREETECH launches BIGTREETECH Pi 2 single-board PC and CB2 compute module with RK3566 processor
4 Comments on BIGTREETECH launches BIGTREETECH Pi 2 single-board PC and CB2 compute module with RK3566 processorThe BIGTREETECH Pi 2 is a single-board computer with a 1.8 GHz Rockchip RK3566 quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 processor. While it looks a bit like a Raspberry Pi Model B, this little has a few things that Raspberry Pi’s computers lack including support for up to three storage devices (eMMC, SD card, and M.2 2242 PCIe […]
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Now you can play Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on a TI-84 Plus CE graphing calcultor
A basic calculator is a tool for quickly performing quick arithmetic functions. But graphing calculators are basically programmable computers. While they’re designed as math aids for students, engineers, and others… hackers have been porting games like DOOM to run on graphing calculators for decades. Now someone has ported a full Sonic the Hedgehog game to […]
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LinkStar H68K-V2 is an updated version of the $99 pocket-sized 4-port router with Android, OpenWrt, and Armbian support
3 Comments on LinkStar H68K-V2 is an updated version of the $99 pocket-sized 4-port router with Android, OpenWrt, and Armbian supportThe LinkStar H68K-V2 is a 4-port router with two Gigabit Ethernet ports, two 2.5 GbE ports, and support for WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2. It’s also a tiny device that measures just 80 x 60 x 40mm (3.15″ x 2.36″ x 1.57″). Available for $99 from Seeed Studio, the pocket-sized router is an updated version of […]
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CWWK X86 P5 Dev Board is an Alder Lake-N router board (4 x M.2 2280 slots optional)
Chinese mini PC maker CWWK’s X86 P5 mini PC is a small fanless computer powered by an Intel Alder Lake-N low-power processor and featuring two 2.5 GbE LAN ports, and two HDMI 2.0 ports. It first launched in late 2023 and is available from AliExpress or the CWWK website for around $149 and up. Now […]
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Lilbits: Playdate’s growing game catalog, Zotac’s ZBOX PRO eGPU, and Framework’s firmware woes
2 Comments on Lilbits: Playdate’s growing game catalog, Zotac’s ZBOX PRO eGPU, and Framework’s firmware woesThe Playdate is an unusual and ambitious handheld game console. The $199 console has a 1-bit display and a set of simple controls that includes a hand crank. Instead of enabling support for existing games, the folks behind the Playdate partnered with indie game developers to create a bunch of new games for the console, […]
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BP2 aims to be another BoringPhone (not to be confused with Heinekin’s Boring Phone)
This week Heineken and HMD announced a brand new phone that does… far less than most modern phones. The Boring Phone is 4G flip phone that’s designed to be a distraction-free device for phone calls and text messages, but not much else. And it’s a limited edition device that will only be available through giveaways […]
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Short Stack mod shrinks the Nintendo Wii down to the size of a deck of cards
The Nintendo Wii is relatively small by game console standards, measuring 157 x 60 x 197mm (6.2″ x 2.4″ x 7.8″). But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t be smaller. Hardware modder James Smith took the guts of a Nintendo Wii and put them into a new custom case that’s about the same size as a […]
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This mini PC with an Intel U300 processor offers Raptor Lake performance on a budget
The Intel Processor U300 is a 15-watt, 5-core, 6-thread chip based on Intel’s 13th-gen “Raptor Lake” architecture. It’s basically the lowest-performance Raptor Lake chip available, but it should deliver substantially better single-performance than Intel’s Alder Lake-N chips for budget devices. Intel launched the U300 processor last year, but up until recently the only Intel U300/U300E-powered computer I’ve […]