The Asus 1015E is a mini-laptop with a 10 inch display and a 1.1 GHz Intel Celeron 847 dual-core processor. It’s not exactly a powerhouse, but it’s a portable notebook that weighs less than 3 pounds and which should offer significantly better performance than an Intel Atom-powered netbook. Asus started offering the 1015E last month for $299. […]
Acer Iconia A1 Android tablet coming to America for $169
Acer recently started selling a 7.9 inch Android tablet called the Iconia A1 in Europe. Now it’s coming to America, where it will sell for just $169 and up. That makes it one of the most affordable tablets available from a major brand. The Acer Iconia A1 features an iPad mini-like 1024 x 768 pixel […]
Acer launches Aspire P3 Windows 8 ultrabook/tablet convertible
The Acer Aspire P3 is a Windows 8 tablet with the guts of an ultrabook — and Acer is calling it an “ultrabook convertible,” thanks to the keyboard docking station which lets you use this 11.6 inch tablet as a notebook. Acer will offer the Aspire P3 with a choice of Intel Core i3 or […]
Acer unveils Aspire R7 notebook, desktop convertible
Plenty of PC makers have blurred the lines between notebooks and tablets this year by offering Windows computers that can function as either. Acer’s going another way with the Aspire R7. It’s a notebook that you can use as a tablet, or a desktop PC. At first glance the Acer Aspire R7 looks like a typical […]
BeagleBone Black is a $45 Android, Linux computer and hardware prototyping board
There’s a new player in the low-cost, ARM-based, mini-computer space. The BeagleBone Black is a $45 device which can run Linux or Android software and which can be used as a barebones computer or as the brains of a hardware project such as a robot, a home automation system, or more. It’s sort of what […]
B&N adds Google Play store to NOOK HD, NOOK HD+
Barnes & Noble is stepping up its competition with Amazon in the digital tablet space by adding support for hundreds of thousands of Android apps to its latest tablets. The somewhat surprising thing is that B&N is doing that by adding support for the Google Play Store to the NOOK HD and NOOK HD+. While […]
This is what Paranoid Android’s Halo notification/multitasking looks like (video)
The Paranoid Android development team is working on a new tool called Halo which completely rethinks the way Android handles notifications and multitasking. Halo is inspired by Facebook’s “chat heads” feature which lets you see and respond to incoming Facebook chat messages from any app without closing the window. But Halo works with every app that […]
Lilbits (5-02-2013): Is this the Motorola X Phone?
Ever since Google acquired Motorola, there have been rumors about the cool new phones we should expect. While the last few devices from Motorola have had their charms (such as extraordinary battery life or super-thin bezels), they were all in development before Google bought the company. But now the Google-owned Motorola is working next-gen hardware, […]
Hacker builds a water-cooled Raspberry Pi case because… why not?
The Raspberry Pi is a low-powered mini computer with a 700 MHz ARM11 processor. You can safely overclock it to 1 GHz. But if you want to get really crazy and go higher than that you might need a custom cooling solution. Or maybe you just want to build one because it’d look awesome. That […]
VIA launches VAB-600 Pico-ITX board with a WM8950 CPU
VIA has introduced a new board which you can use to build a low-power, small form-factor PC or embedded device. The VAB-600 is a Pico-ITX board which measures just 3.9″ x 2.8″ and which features an 800 MHz VIA Wondermedia WM8950 ARM Cortex-A9 processor with Mali-400 graphics. Clearly a system with that chip isn’t likely […]