Get a grip of this Darth Vader Robotic Arm

"I am your father." Now that's out of the way, here's something for Vader fans and collectors of all things Star Wars. We all know George Lucas' obsession with limb amputations. Consider Luke Skywalker's loss of his right hand by Daddy-O, Jango Fett's beheading by Mace Windu, Anakin Skywalker's parting of ways with his right arm after dueling Count Dooku, and much later losing all four appendages in the climatic battle with Obi-wan Kenobi. But that's not a problem as long as you get to keep your head. Prosthetics seem to be the answer, and the Darth Vader Robotic Arm is as close you get to owning one (without having to lose one of your own).
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AMD Phenom II chip overclocked to 7GHz

Some people push physical boundaries through body modification or inane stunts and get accolades. Others break through scientific frontiers and get awarded with the Nobel prize. Overclockers, however, do it simply because it's nerdy cool.

Using the AMD Dragon platform and a 3.2GHz Phenom II X4 955 processor, overclockers at QuakeCon (an enthusiast PC convention) managed to bring the CPU clockspeed to just over 7GHz. Instead of liquid Nitrogen that cools to -196 degrees Celsius, this feat was achieved by using liquid Helium which brought the system temperature down to -267 degrees Celsius.
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Sony Bravia HDTVs making a comeback in 2010

Juicy rumors of Sony's 2010 HDTV prototypes have been making their rounds on the Web based on a document from an unverified source. Although only two pages have been disclosed, these provide an early glimpse at the company's upcoming US Bravia lineup possibly slated for the Consumer Electronics Show in early January 2010 held in Las Vegas. These include four LED-lit series and an OLED equivalent as listed below:

KDL-X500 midrange LED-edgelit LCD

KDL-X650 high-end LED-edgelit LCD

KDL-XBR11 high-end LED W-backlit LCD

KDL-XBR12 high-end Advanced LED RGB-backlit LCD

KDL-ZX series OLED

According to the leaked information, the 240Hz XBR10-series panels have been upgraded with a new Bravia Engine 3 Pro processor, Emolab's Edge Motion speakers, Sharp's recently developed UV2A LCD technology and mysterious W-LED (read: Could be just white LEDs) backlighting. There's also the long-belated Bravia Z4500 successor under the XBR12 range, which offers RGB LED backlight for enhanced color reproduction, as well as the KDL-ZX-series which will replace the dated XEL-1 OLED TV.

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Vega Tablet coming in 2010

As if Apple and Microsoft didn't already make it clear, 2010 looks like the Year of the Tablet. First viewed sitting on a table of an Nvidia executive, the Vega tablet will try to beat Apple's tablet, Microsoft's in-process Courier concept, and the semievaporated Crunchpad to the punch.

ICD, the manufacturer of the Vega, has confirmed the existence of the tablet as a real product, whose details will be more fully revealed at CES. Vega...Vegas...it seems appropriate.
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Mole and Vue Webcams reviewed

The entry hall in my house has been a test bed for home monitoring cameras for years. I like to be able to record people coming into the house and see what's going on around the front door. Anyone with a family and occasional babysitters will understand. So I continue to look for simple, robust video-monitoring solutions, and vendors keep obliging by improving the state of the art in home remote cameras.

The latest: Two interesting and very different products, Avaak's Vue and the Astak Mole. Both are very easy to get up and running, and neither require monkeying with arcane router settings to get offsite access to the video streams--something that can be a problem with the Panasonic BL-C131a cameras that I otherwise favor. (I've also tried the Logitech WiLife system, and find it quite good.)

The Vue
The Vue is the most unusual remote camera I've seen. The product is unchanged from my March 2 preview, but I had a chance to experiment with the shipping version recently. The big benefit of the Vue: The cameras are tiny, battery-powered and thus completely wireless, and the system is extremely easy to set up. You plug an included controller box into your router or switch and tuck it out of the way, and then you can place the cameras anywhere in your house on their clever little stick-on magnetic dome mounts. The standard kit comes with two cameras.
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