[H]ardNews 1st Edition

Cathode Round-Up:

8 different Cold Cathodes are rounded up and tested at Gideon Tech. We are not sure how you would benchmark a cathode, I mean don’t you plug it in…it comes on ( or doesn’t ), end of test.

In conclusion, once I got passed the initial shock of seeing 8 Cold Cathodes in a box, I was able to settle down and take a close look at this companies product. A lot of companies sell CCFL's and the only real differences between companies are packaging and quality of the phosphors in the lamp.

Bigger Cathode Round-Up:

X-Treme Cooling takes the cake for big ass cathode reviews…today. These guys line up like 30 cathodes turn off the lights, and we all know what happens next. This is a translated link, so it may be a bit hard to read.

Getting ZZZ’s:

X-Ray vision, microwave drills are just a sample of the stuff the ZZZ Online fellas have cooking in this weeks edition.

What Eli Jerby and his colleagues have created is a microwave drill that has no rotational parts, works without producing dust or noise and can cut almost anything 'non-conductive' which has a melting temp below 2000C (things like concrete, glass, silicon, stone, rock, marble, alumina and basalt).

NVChess:

NVChess is a chess game that takes advantage of advanced shader technology, so if you have a GF4 or a Radeon and you play chess, check this one out.