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Look out, Bluetooth — Ozmo Devices has its eyes set squarely on you. Okay, so perhaps such gargantuan truth sucker as adversarial as advertised, but there is no denying the current the aforesaid company’s fresh legislation is planning to goal the precise same devices the present BT is embedded over now. Ozmo has announced a partnership investing in Intel at Computex the are able to provide the latter company’s Cliffside WiFi Personal Area Network (PAN) technology to “low-power devices.” Essentially, WiFi radios who completely stink a reduced amount of juice nowadays will take on double roles — accessing WLAN networks and working at the duties for the most part reserved for Bluetooth — that might enable devices to hold one a reduced number of element stuffed through bulking conditions up. As of now, there is continued no takers on the design, but word on the street has Belkin currently testing the process out for kicks and giggles (or perhaps somewhat way a larger number of serious).

We heard properties got coming. Now it looks like it’s as if we have got a instant ultra-thin laptop sporting Intel’s custom-built, 65-nm processor mostly unveiled in Apple’s MacBook Air. At in regards to 3:00 moments to the Envy 133 video, Rahul Sood, Voodoo founder, reads this his new Envy 133 uses an “off roadmap chip” of Intel design that consumes 20 watts of power. Looking at the Envy spec sheet reveals a processor running at either 1.6GHz (SP7500) or 1.8GHz (SP7700), provided 4MB L2 Cache and 800MHz FSB. Right, folks are the particular specs as the customized CPU at last found inside of Apple’s MacBook Air. Also of note, LaptopMag displays the current Voodoo’s instant-on IOS is none a good amount as opposed to DeviceVM’s Splashtop that ASUS is already bunging to all of its motherboards. Make no mistake, such hunky chunk of carbon fiber is a great deal magical, it is just recently not the mystery it seemed when launched the morning.

Robotics undergo appear a for a long while way, but properties a great deal often miss the innate, nervous sense of reluctant touch. Intel researchers hold reached somewhat similar in on a robotic hand which uses electrolocation to put up a robotic hand conform to the form of an object before interacting surrounded by it. Shown at Research@Intel Day, the hand uses fish-like electrolocation to bounce electric fields off of objects and consequently conform the hand to the current circumstances in true time. They use the dynamic “Pre Touch,” and it am able to establish useful for configuring robotics before properties interact provided objects without, say, damaging them or missing the interface completely. We’ve continued in the know of the technology for select time, but as you can see in the video once the break, Intel in the end has somewhat to show, and the possible results are how can sole be portrayed as a strangely nervous robotic hand.

Don’t get into the future of us here, Intel certainly isn’t construction full-featured Second Life and World of Warcraft apps for handheld Mobile Internet Devices. Instead they’re paying a new “Interactive 3D Streaming” tech to control and view the game remotely — similar to a couple of to overly Telekinesis app we saw messing WoW on the iPhone endure year, but Intel looks like it’s to be still a great deal more along. Their Xeon 5400 server can deal with 14 patrons simultaneously, but we are heralding the present will not be market prices effective for Blizzard anytime quickly — even though we can suppose fairly a few addicts rigging up similar institutions for themselves. The sad surprise right here is such a Intel might’ve just now found the ideal use for a MID yet.

Intel has been boasting of DirectX 10 support for its various integrated graphics options for some time now, but it’s only just recently gotten around to actually releasing a Vista driver that brings its GM965 and G35 Express chipsets up to speed. Of course, NVIDIA just couldn’t help itself from getting a few (more) digs in at Intel’s expense, and it’s now kindly provided a few benchmarks to show just how badly Intel’s integrated DirectX 10 solution stacks up against the bleeding-edge DirectX 10-ready games it now ostensibly supports. They couldn’t find a single game that was able to crank out more than 5 fps, even at a lowly 1280 x 1024 resolution and with the usual graphics intensive settings turned off. Then again, 4.4 fps in Crysis is pretty much par for the course.

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We’ve definitely heard this one before, but the buzz around a proposed $12B WiMAX partnership between Sprint, Clearwire, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Intel, and Google is deafening right now, all based on a report in the Wall Street Journal. The plan is for Sprint to merge its XOHM wireless broadband division with Clearwire, and then take a total of $3.2B in investments from a host of other players: $1.05B from Comcast, $1B from Intel, $550M from Time Warner Cable, $500M from Google, and $100M from Bright House. The resulting company will be worth some $12B, and the WSJ says investors have given their final approval for the deal — a rumor we’ve already heard with no meaningful result, so take it with a grain of salt. Or a whole salt lick, actually. We’re not certain why Big Cable is so eager to dump money on Sprint after two previous ventures both folded recently, but if this goes down, it’s a pretty big boost for WiMAX, which was looking pretty sickly lately. Still, asking consumers to have faith in Sprint and Comcast and Time Warner Cable is pretty ballsy — between the three of them, they’ve probably burned everyone in America. We’ll see where this goes — we should have something official pretty soon, according to the Journal.

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Yeah, we’ve seen other mad scientists take way more antiquated chips to higher figures on the GHz scale, but can that cyogenically cooled P4 handle all those SSE4.1 instructions? The latest feat of overclocking prowess comes to us courtesy of FUGGER, who has apparently taken Skulltrail beyond the 6GHz mark. You’ll also notice the 1,716MHz FSB (!!!) and the fact that it’s sizzling along at 1.953-volts — but hey, no one said running Crysis would be easy, right?

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You knew this day would come: Intel positioned Atom perfectly to compete with VIA’s low-power offerings, and VIA is trying to stay one step ahead in the low power game with its Isaiah processor. Who will be the winner? Well, we’d say it’s still a little early to call it, but German site Eee PC News did some quick and dirty benchmarks that show Isaiah on top by a decent margin. At this point the numbers are just in “ALU” and “FPU,” but hopefully some real world benchmarks from some retail products can clear this up before long.

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We’re smack dab in the middle of NAB week, which means a steady progression of high-end product launches for things that we can’t really afford but sure wouldn’t mind cluttering up the HQ gadget stash. Like these here workstations from HP, the xw8600 and the xw9400. The former sports up to two Quad-Core Intel Xeon X5482 processors, while the latter runs on Quad-Core AMD Opteron 2300 procs. No word on price for either of these insanely fast configurations, but with the other niceties HP is tossing in, you’re looking at a starting price above four grand.

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Check it out, ’cause you’re looking at what must be the world’s smallest QWERTY device capable of running Windows Vista Home Premium SP1. At least it will be when it makes its debut in Japan come June. Measuring just 188 x 84 x 25.9mm and 470grams, all that power / battery conservation / smallness of the Willcom D4 (aka, Sharp-built WS016SH) comes courtesy of a 1.3-GHz Atom processor pumping away beneath that sliding / tilting 5-inch, 262k color, LED-backlit 1,024 x 600 touchscreen hiding a 64-key QWERTY keyboard. Inside you’ll find 1GB of memory, a 1.8-inch 40GB disk, 2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, microSD slot, HD audio codec with mono-speaker, and Opera browser riding atop Japanese PHS (W-SIM) or 802.11b/g WiFi. Hitting Japan for ¥128,600 (about $1,254) — a lot less with 2 year contract. And with Willcom experimenting with Android, don’t be surprised to find this released in an alternate form later in the year or early ‘09. Engadget Japanese is at the launch event with plenty of hands-on images in the gallery below.

Update: Whoa, weird. Our Japanese colleagues are telling us that there’s an optional Bluetooth, companion handset for making calls over W-SIM. Gallery updated with new pics.

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