From Bit-tech.net:

Finished earlier this year, E.E.L. Ambiense's mini-ITX mod, BluBawx, is a little beauty! We've had a couple of other small form factor mods pop up this year, like Chris Cook's Atomwood and Sleepstreamers Rampage, and not to forget Ingram by Jeffrey Stephenson, so it's clearly a popular modding segment for the Pro's.

From Tweak Town:

As we all know (by now), DFI is a manufacturer known for stuffing in as many overclocking options as they can in their motherboards. They became famous on the back of the nForce 4 LANParty boards. These were some of the best boards for AMD overclocking that you could buy. DFI has continued this mindset and still offer some of the most “tweakable” boards out.

From DailyTech

Portable Capture Station
Millions of people could be helped, says Intel

There are an estimated 55 million people in the United States who have specific learning disabilities such as dyslexia or vision problems that hinder their ability to read. While there are solutions that can help mitigate these problems, millions of people around the world still have problems reading. A computer with text-to-speech capabilities can help, but doesn’t help much with printed text in textbooks or newspapers.

From TechSpot:

Last September Intel unveiled its highly regarded Core i5 processor along with the new LGA1156 platform, delivering a brand new chipset aimed at the all-important mainstream market. As you learned from our previous coverage the Core i5 700 and Core i7 800 parts are based on the “Lynnfield” architecture, while the Intel P55 chipset goes by the codename “Ibex Peak”.

From X-bit Labs:

EVGA, a leading maker and supplier of advanced graphics cards and mainboards, has unveiled a unique graphics board that features Nvidia GeForce GTX 275 graphics chip to process graphics and Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 (G92, 9800 GTX, 8800 GTS 512MB) chip to process physics effects using PhysX application programming interface.

The rise of Web-based apps, virtualization, and a crop of powerful mobile devices have the traditional PC desktop on the run.

By Serdar Yegulalp
October 31, 2009 07:00 AM

Well, is it? If all the buzzwords about cloud computing, Web apps, software as a service (SaaS), the free desktop, and the rise of netbooks and tablet PCs, are to be believed, it may well be.

The truth, I suspect, is more modest. What looms for the desktop as we know it is not the end, but rather death and then transfiguration. The desktop PC is set to go through a grand mutation of the form that will expand its reach rather than kill its current incarnation(s) outright. It may be the end of the desktop as we know it, but also the birth of many more desktops. As Roger Ebert said about the James Bond archetype during the post-Soviet era, the sun hasn't set on England yet -- but it's getting mighty dark out.

From DailyTech:

Rechargeable batteries are used in so many different products that we use today – everything from our computers and mobile phones to our cars have batteries inside. One of the major areas of research is in new battery technologies that will increase the run time of electrical devices and make safer batteries.