President Obama will inherit a lot of things when he takes the oath of office on Tuesday. So good, some… not so good. And while his new digs on Pennsylvania Avenue are the same as his predecessors, his ride has been thoroughly refreshed for the 21st century.

It’s been eight years since Ableton Live introduced its signature screen layout for live performance: clips, scenes, sends, tracks, and devices. For the first time, a single controller combines all the basic elements of that Live set in a single hardware layout. Akai’s APC40 is a plug-and-play, driver-free hardware controller developed with Ableton.The APC has [...]

Philips premieres the ultimate home cinematic viewing experience with the Cinema 21:9 LCD TV. It is actually the first cinema-proportioned LCD TV in the world that features a 56 inch screen with the 21:9 aspect ratio, so you can watch movies in the 2.39:1 format completely fill the screen. There are also three-sided Ambilight Spectra [...]

In 2006 Dr. Daniel Stanciu (then working on his Ph.D.) and Dr. Fredrik Hansteen discovered a way to use light to change the polarity of a magnet. Even more impressive was the fact that it only took an extremely short laser pulse of about 40 femtoseconds (an unimaginably short time equal to one millionth of [...]

OCZ Technology Group, Inc., today unveiled the OCZ Apex SATA II 2.5” Solid State Drive (SSD) Series, the affordable midrange offering for enthusiasts, system builders, and mainstream computer users demanding the latest technology in this fast-developing sector of the storage market. This cost-efficient SSD offers a reliable upgrade from traditional hard disc storage while maintaining [...]

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Chinese giant Newman takes another shot at iPod Fatty with the Manman A1. The 4th-gen Nano lookalike features something called Smart Touch 3.0 UI. From the photo, the A1 seems to support some form of touchscreen interface. It has a 2-inch screen and plays video (RM/ RMVB included) and MP3, WMA, [...]

Ezio today introduced two 22-inch displays that overcome normal color limits. Both the 1680×1050 FlexScan S2232W-E and the 1920×1200 S2242W-H have new, wide color gamut panels that cover 95 percent of the Adobe RGB color space and 92 percent of the NTSC space, suiting them to editing still and moving images versus the low-color panels [...]

Kensington Computer Products Group, today announced its SlimBlade Trackball for the Mac and PC that brings a whole new level of control, comfort and ease to today’s digital savvy users. Kensington’s breakthrough design combines hardware and software into one integrated interface for smooth operation allowing users, for the first time ever, to navigate and manipulate [...]

Google, having reduced its hiring rate, is also reducing its hiring staff.The company said on its corporate blog that it’s cutting about 100 jobs.”Given the state of the economy, we recognized that we needed fewer people focused on hiring,” said Laszlo Bock, Google’s vice president of people operations, in the blog posting. “Our first step [...]

Best Buy Mobile will be getting an exclusive deal with Sprint for the Palm Pre release. For 60 days the number one consumer electronics retailer will be the only place where you can get your hands on the Palm Pre, besides Sprint of course. This partnership makes sense seeing the Sprint also launched the Samsung [...]