Triangulate Your Commute With the Folding Strida 5 Bike
Strida 5 Folding Bicycle
Windows Vista SP1 Available In Japan
Available in Akihabara, the gadget district of Toyko, is this hotly-anticipated add-on for Microsoft’s finest: Windows Vista Ultimate Service Pack 1. Guaranteed to clean your system and get things running smoothly again.
USPS brings sexy back to the recycling game with “Mail Back”
Hot on the heels of Apple’s newest recycling program, the United States Postal Service has stepped up with its own electronics recycling setup. Called “Mail Back,” the program lets you pop most small electronics and inkjet cartridges in a postage-paid envelope for free recycling. The program is currently a pilot in just 10 areas, including Washington, DC, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Diego, but that includes 1,500 post offices. The program could go national if it proves successful.
Build your own quad SLI: NVIDIA launches the 9800 GX2
NVIDIA is a company on the move. After dominating most of 2007, NVIDIA found itself faced with newfound competition in the form of the Radeon HD 3850 and 3870, as well as the dual-GPU 3870X2 that launched in early 2008. The 9600GT NVIDIA launched in February has proven to be a potent mid-range competitor against ATI’s HD 3800 series, but the company’s offerings in the highest market segment still depended on the G80—until now. Although Ars has yet to receive a sample of the GX2, we expect to have one shortly. In the meantime, here are the highlights of the card and its capabilities.
NVIDIA’s 9800 GX2 is, as the name indicates, a dual-GPU card. Unlike ATI’s 3870 X2, the 9800 GX2 is built on two printed circuit boards (PCBs) with a single cooling structure in between the two cores. Both companies claim that their respective choice of single-PCB or dual-PCB is the best option for a variety of reasons, though NVIDIA also spent time explaining how this unified cooling system is far more effective than that of the ill-fated 7950 GX2. The card itself is 10.5″ long and dual-slot, both of which are standard for high-end cards today.
Sizing up the NVIDIA-VIA acquisition rumors
PlayStation 3 firmware update brings Blu-ray 2.0 home
AMD’s Barcelona to hit server racks in April
Airport Extreme + USB Disk = Time Machine Backup
Camera Raw update adds support for several DSLRs to OS X
A lot of the wait for camera support in Aperture was due to the new RAW engine that was being developed for Aperture 2.0. An Apple spokesperson told Ars that this new low-level “plumbing” would allow the flexibility to release camera support more often. Apple made good on that today with the release of Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.0. (Say that five times really fast.)
Hasselblad’s H3D 31MP SLR, now supported by OS X.
Redact Texts Like the Feds in Microsoft Word 2003
