Everything is going green, not in colour, but in concept. No more wasteful power consumption, and certainly much less heat production from everyday items such as globes. Welcome to the new era of green technology.

OSRAM is a familiar name to almost any household, it might be one of those names you've seen somewhere before, but you have no idea what or where it's from. Let me enlighten you, I mean figuratively take you out of the dark. Yes, these guys are the bright flame of the bulbous world. What I mean is, bulbs and globes are their business, and you have probably bought one of their products at least once in your life.

A company by the name of Cybernet has just released its newest All-in-One PC Zero Footprint product.

The ZPC-GX31 is a complete PC system inside a keyboard - or a fancy case with a built-in keyboard - depending on which way you look at it, as explained by one of our writers. It comes with an external 180-watt AC PSU and weighs in at almost 4KG / 8.5 lbs (including the PSU), which isn't bad at all.

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Rumor has it that AMD is busily preparing a new graphics card in its Radeon HD 3800 series line-up.

HD 3830 is based on the ATI RV670 core and is a cut down version of the 3850 and 3870 in the sense that it has a 128-bit memory bus which is said to provide roughly half the memory bandwidth of the HD 3850 and 3870. It will come with up to 256MB of onboard memory.

Images have recently surfaced that pretty well conclusively confirm the specifications of Nvidia's upcoming GeForce 9800GTX graphics card.

The card which was exposed is called EN9800GTX and it features all the usual goodies - PCI Express 2.0, DirectX 10.0 (still not DX10.1) and OpenGL 2.0 support, 512MB of GDDR3 memory and triple-SLI. This specific card is based on the reference model from Nvidia which mean it carries default clock speeds. In Typical ASUS fashion, they will probably launch a factory overclocked "TOP" model sometime after the launch (April 1st).

At least on paper, it looks like nothing more than an overclocked G92 8800GT 512MB. The price tag is expected to be around $350 USD which is a reasonable price but if you were expecting a new card with ultra high performance improvements, it doesn't seem like that will be the case at this stage and from what we have seen and heard so far.

A user on Flickr by the name of "mgminthu" has uploaded pictures of what looks like Intel's upcoming low-cost Netbook, or Eco PC, as it is being called by the photo uploader.

While the shots appear as if they were taken at a trade show event in Thailand, we can work out some of the specs of the Eco PC. It is said to use an Intel Ultra Low Voltage (ULV) 900MHz processor and will include between 512MB and 1GB of DDR2 memory depending on the selected model.

We mentioned a while ago that the Neural Impulse Actuator (NIA) would reach mass production soon, and that the selling price would be around $300 USD. You can read that news article here.

Since then we have discovered that in the UK at an introductory price, the NIA will be selling for £99.00 (a little under $200 USD) at this website . So if you live in the United Kingdom, you can get free delivery of this new technology which can be set up to work with just about any game for a very good price.

The NIA is designed to read your brainwaves and muscle impulses which OCZ call electroencephalography signals and translates the EEC signal to an actual command to your PC. The improvement on game response times is said to be around 60% although, having tried the device, it takes a bit of time and effort to master. Once mastered though, you can expect your eyes and face muscles to get an extraordinary workout as they coordinate to move your character through your games.

There are some slides going around the net from a presentation Intel made about the upcoming Larrabee Core architecture. The schematic indicates that a key feature of this future product will be multiple x86 cores scalable to TeraFlops of processing power without a simple scalar stream processes, but rather the cores will work in an integrated way, offering "Global Illumination" and "life-like rendering".

Both features are part of the DX 10.1 capabilities, and are at the forefront of the graphics technology arena. Intel also claims that Larrabee will function with both DirectX and OpenGL.

Blu-ray just can't get a win. Just at the end of a multi-year fight for survival against rival Toshiba's HD-DVD format, Blu-ray has another battle to fight.

By a 56 year old Female professor.

It seems that almost 15 years ago, a patent was handed to Prof. Gertrude F. Neumark Rothschild of Columbia University, against the manufacturing of Blue laser diodes, the heart of Blu-ray technology. If the Judge preceding on the patent infringement decides the 30 companies named in the infringement are guilty... things could get expensive.

GIGABYTE made the next headlines recently regarding its upcoming GK-K8000 which claims to be the world's first mechanical gaming keyboard.

It is mechanical in the sense that it uses non-click Cherry MX-linear keys which is said to guarantee a life cycle of up to 60 million keystrokes. Do the math on that!

Word is in today that Palit is about to start shipping its GeForce 9600GT graphics card under the Sonic naming scheme with a grand total of 1GB of onboard RAM.

It uses 1024MB of DDR3 memory which is clocked at 2000MHz DDR - it is an improvement over a regular 9600GT reference card that has a memory clock speed of 1800MHz DDR. The core comes clocked at a factory overclocked speed of 700MHz which is 50MHz faster than standard.