Filed under: Desktops, Gaming

If you checked into those NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX benchmarks and felt they met with your high standards, now you can actually get one (or a bunch) into your rig. According to reports, the brain-laser of a graphics card can now be had (in various iterations) for the low, low price of $329.99 (at least from Newegg). And before you ask — Crysis: Yes. Doom: Yes. Overlords: Welcome. Will blend: Yes. Russia: Benchmarks you.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Mini tripod brings massive optical zoom to your mobile

Filed under: Transportation

Your favorite driverless vehicles from the DARPA Urban Challenge are getting set to tackle yet another task — speed racing. Yep, Junior, Boss (pictured) and Ben will all be greasing their gears in an attempt to outrun the others around one lap of the 1.97-mile, 11-turn circuit, all without smashing into walls or hailing a motorist to take over. Unfortunately, all three won’t be on the track at the same time — which ensures that no green / red shell ejections will have an effect on the outcome — but those interested in seeing this in person can head on down to Long Beach on April 20th.

[Via CNET, image courtesy of PaulStamatiou]

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Filed under: Laptops

Certainly not the first 17-inch Satellite to emerge from Toshiba’s lair, the L350 Series is aimed squarely at the budget set who still have a thing for screen real estate. The entire family packs a WXGA+ (1,440 x 900) resolution TruBrite panel, Vista Home, a dual-layer DVD writer, integrated WiFi and a built-in webcam with microphone. Based on model, you can also get up to 4GB of DDR2 RAM, a 200GB hard drive, GMA X3100 or ATI Radeon X1250 graphics set, three Sleep-and-Charge USB ports and your choice of an Intel Core 2 Duo T5550 or AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 CPU. If you haven’t already pieced it together, it’s not the specs list that’s impressive here — it’s the $749.99 starting price tag. You get what you pay for, you know.

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Forget Green Wing, Channel 4’s got a backstage pass with download prog Green Room