We all have many times heard about DVI, but what does it really means and what it does? What is the main function of this tiny white port on a video card? How it can benefit you and your personal computer? Do you know which DVI is suitable to meet your requirements?

Digital Video Interface is created by Digital Display Working Group to solve the problem of accommodation analog and digital interfaces just by using single connector. It was developed because of insufficiency of standardization in digital interfacing.

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The Blackberry Tour 9630 mixes the best of the Bold 9000 model with the best of the 8900 Javelin to produce one mighty fine mobile device.

Light at 130g and with good proportions (112x62x14.2mm) the Blackberry Tour feels “just right”, not too small and certainly not too big either. The display is 2.4″ and really is pixel perfect. The colours are vibrant and the text crystal clear making for the perfect user experience.

To any existing Blackberry user, the keypad feels like home from home. Well spaced keys and the perfectly placed trackball let you whizz through menus and send e-mails with utter ease & as with the Blackberry Storm, holding down the menu key lets you switch easily between open applications which speeds use up no-end.

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It’s here! The next Ferrari that every publication will be evaluating and pitting against every other supercar has arrived and its name is the 458 Italia. Called upon to replace the still very competent F430, the 458 carries on the traditional mid-engine V8 setup.

As expected, Maranello’s latest creation is a hum-dinger of a sexy beast. And it’s fast too. The new direct-injection 4.5L V8 (45 in 458 stands for 4.5L) generates a jaw-dropping 562 hp and 398 lb-ft of torque. The red line begins at 9,000 rpm. Keep in mind that the 599 GTB’s 6.0L V12 puts out 611 hp and 448 lb-ft of torque with 50% more cylinders and an extra 33% of displacement.

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ROPID is a cool looking robot designed and developer by Tomotaka Takahashi of Robo Garage at Kyoto University, he stands 38 cm tall, and weighs in at 1,600g.

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ScienceDaily (Apr. 24, 2009) — A new, extremely energy-efficient processor chip that provides breakthrough speeds for a variety of computing tasks has been designed by a group at UC Davis. The chip, dubbed AsAP, is ultra-small, fully reprogrammable and highly configurable, so it can be widely adapted to a number of applications.

A new, extremely energy-efficient processor chip that provides breakthrough speeds for a variety of computing tasks has been designed by a group at the University of California, Davis. The chip, dubbed AsAP, is ultra-small, fully reprogrammable and highly configurable, so it can be widely adapted to a number of applications. The chip is designed for digital signal processing. While not the principal kind of processor chip used in desktop computers, digital signal processing chips are found in a myriad of everyday and specialized devices such as cell phones, MP3 music players, video equipment, anti-lock brakes and ultrasound and MRI medical imaging machines.

Maximum clock speed for the 167-processor AsAP is 1.2 gigahertz (GHz), but at slower speeds its energy efficiency soars. Twelve chips working together could perform more than half-a-trillion operations per second (.52 Tera-ops/sec) while using less power than a 7-watt light bulb.

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