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Apple quietly installed copy protection in its new MacBooks, blocking some honest customers from watching iTunes movies on their external displays.

Es sorprendente que una noticia como la nueva versión de la plataforma Tesla de Nvidia haya pasado casi desapercibida. Hablamos, después de todo, de una serie de tecnologías que por primera vez ponen la potencia de un superordenador en una caja con precio y tamaño aptos para un laboratorio pequeño o el salón de alguien con ganas de gastar unos 8.000 euros. Tal vez el problema sea que en la industria de la informática nadie haya sido capaz de poner un número que sea la frontera entre un ordenador y un supercomputador. ¿Cuántos teraflops –billones de operaciones por segundo- hacen falta para que algo deje de ser un PC o una Workstation y pase a ser un ordenador digno de tal nombre?  Leer

The Nokia N82 is still the best phonecam on the market. Fine optics and a good image-editing suite pal around with GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi and a music player to make this one well-rounded rig.

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Unless you're a deeply geeky watch aficionado, a frequent patron of Barney's or a protesting student during the French labor strikes of the mid-1970s, then you've probably never heard of Lip. Time to get educated. Thirty-five years ago the European watch manufacturer pioneered some of the geekiest tech and most innovative design ever found in a timepiece. But all was not to be well for Lip. A volatile political and labor climate in France shattered the 141-year-old company and led to it being closed for nearly 15 years.

After numerous false starts, Lip was jump-started back to existence in the 1990s. Since then the watchmaker has enjoyed a quiet resurgence by returning to its nerdy roots and hiring back many of the original designers of these timepieces. These reissued watches are both technically and physically identical to their DeGaul administration-era counterparts. Here are a few of our favorites.

Left: Originally conceived in 1973 by Roger Tallon, designer of the TGV high-speed train, the Lip 200 "Dark Master" set the design standard that all Lip watches would follow for the next 30 years.

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Another watch invented by Roger Tallon in 1975, the Lip Diode featured one of the first digital displays ever found on a timepiece.

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A fairly radical departure from conventional design, the Baschmakoff Jump Hour was the 1972 brainchild of Prince Francois Baschmakoff, an illustrator and package designer hired by Lip. The jump hour displays concentric discs, and thin oblong cases have trickled into the design departments of many other watchmakers including Nixon, Diesel and Fossil.

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Sure looks like it came straight outta the '70s, doesn't it? Wrong! The Lip Mythic is a new timepiece released in 2008. Don't worry though — it was inspired partially from another watch Tallon designed in 1972.

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Also dreamt up by Tallon, the Fridge watch is designed to echo appliances (specifically refrigerators and iceboxes) that he grew up with in the 1930s.

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Despite an ominous moniker, the Lip Mach 2000 "Mafia" was designed in 1973 as a more svelte counterpart to the Dark Master.

The Nintendo DSi upgrades the company's popular dual-screen portable with two cameras, an SD card slot and the ability to download new games wirelessly — but it's only available in Japan, for now.

Yesterday's list of Five Gadgets That Were Killed by the Cellphone proved rather popular. It also provoked a lot of response and some suggestions for yet more victims of the cellphone's relentless growth. Here are few of the things we didn't include, yet have certainly been clobbered by the gadget widow-maker that is the mobile phone.

¿Puede considerarse el iPhone una consola? ¡Qué tontería, claro que no!. ¿O sí? Depende. El sentido común parece obligarnos a separar una DS o una PSP del teléfono de Apple pero en Sega, por ejemplo, tienen otra percepción. Según la compañía el teléfono de la manzana es la plataforma de juegos más rentable para la que programar. Sólo con la venta de 500.000 copias de Monkey Ball para iPhone –un juego bastante soso, la verdad-, Sega ha conseguido beneficios similares a los que hubiera obtenido con un éxito en la consola DS.  Leer

Owners of iPhones will likely always miss out on a large chunk of the internet, because Apple doesn't want the handset to support Adobe Flash.

While it's no jack-of-all-trades, the LG 3G phone masters one: It takes surprisingly sharp photos at up to 1,600 x 1,200 pixels, even in dimly lit conditions.

Don't talk to strangers — scan them instead. That's the idea behind the so-called ShotCodes on clothing by W-41, a Netherlands-based online apparel company. If you spot one of these unique logos in the wild (bar, club, methadone clinic, DMV), you surreptitiously snap a photo of it with your phonecam and a tiny app directs you to the wearer's LinkedIn, Facebook, or MySpace profile. You can then decide whether a "Hello" is in order. To get in on the action, simply visit W-41.com, download a free mobile app, select a ShotCode, and purchase gear from the online store ($50 to $57 a pop). Owners can connect their symbol to any Web site. Beats having to dust off lines like "If you were a phaser, you'd be set on 'stunning.'"*

*Other pickup line options: "Later, when my Facebook page asks me what I'm doing, can I write 'You'?" "You're as curvy as a toroid." "If I said you had top-specced hardware, would you interface with me?"

Intel's latest 45-nanometer quad-core processor called Core i7 is available now for high-end and gaming desktops. Intel is now ahead of its rival AMD by more than a few months as AMD's comparable desktop processor isn't scheduled to launch until early next year.

What it is: Stara Technologies Mosquito

What it's used for: Air-dropping packages to precise coordinates

It's easy to drop stuff out of a low-flying chopper and have it land where you want. But in a war zone, low-altitude aircraft draw attention — and gunfire. To avoid the bad guys, high-flying planes can release Stara's Mosquito. Its customizable cylinder, which can handle up to 150 pounds, contains a GPS unit and servomotor for steering the parachute to a drop site up to 2 miles away. Actuators cut loose the payload at a preset altitude (from 50 to 1,500 feet). This way, anyone tracking the chute will end up as much as a half mile from the goods, which may be camouflaged as, say, a fist-sized rock (like above). The company is promoting the $10,000 Mosquito for special forces deliveries — money, passports, blood packets. Our dream app: air-dropping pizzas to our patio in five minutes or less, guaranteed.

Pity the makers of PDAs, MP3 players and pocket digital cameras: Their devices have been all but wiped out by the advent of the massively capable smartphone.

En apenas dos meses Barak Obama tendrá que apagar su Blackberry 8700c, un dispositivo del que rara vez se separa. Durante la campaña era fácil sorprender al nuevo presidente electo de EE.UU. contestando correos o con el teléfono colgado del cinturón. Sólo le es infiel –Obama también tiene un iPhone- en contadas ocasiones.  Leer

Data transfer is going into overdrive as the ubiquitous Universal Serial Bus, better known as USB, prepares to make a tenfold jump in speed. Version 3.0, the first update to the USB specification in eight years, will also deliver greater power efficiency and the ability to recharge a wider variety of gadgets -- and it will most likely mean the death of the competing standard known as FireWire.

The Asus M50Vm-B4 is a desktop-killer, with HDMI, eSATA, a 10-key number pad, and a 2.53-GHz Core 2 Duo processor. Wonderful, but leave it plugged in — battery life is a paltry 1.5 hours.

The tech industry is shifting toward greener gadgets, and while their efforts may appear altruistic, they're in it for the money, too.

There are plenty of reviews and incredibly detailed spec-sheets for the D700 already online, so we'll just cover a few of the quirks and delights. In short, though, the D700 kicks ass. It's easy to use, and takes an incredible picture, even in the dark.

Sony Ericsson persigue objetivos ambiciosos. Quiere tener un teléfono móvil capaz de sacar fotografías de 20 megapíxeles antes de 2012. Sony –una de sus partes- va al menos por buen camino. Acaba de anunciar un sensor de 12,2 megapíxeles que podría llegar a los teléfonos a lo largo de 2009.  Leer