Test-driving the laser-wielding QB telepresence robot
I “robotted in” to Anybots, a Silicon Valley startup, and test-drove its QB telepresence robot. I particularly enjoyed trying to crash it into walls. But is it worth the $15,000 price tag?
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Archive for July 10th, 2010
Road Trip Pic of the Day, 7/10: What is this?
If you know what this is and where it is located, you could win a prize in the CNET Road Trip Picture of the Day challenge.
The high-tech tools of Keller’s kitchens
Road Trip 2010: It’s not all great ingredients and top-tier cooking at the world famous French Laundry and Per Se restaurants. Thomas Keller, one of America’s best chefs, also turns to innovative gadgets.
DIY Weekend: High-tech birthday cake
When the partner of CNET’s Ina Fried insisted on no candles on his birthday cake, she got creative, using an iPod Touch to illuminate things.
How to generate your own Steve Jobs e-mail
In an attempt to satisfy the vast demands of fanboys desperate for an e-mail from Apple’s CEO, an e-mail bot is created. It ought to satisfy everyone’s needs.
Top-rated reviews of the week (photos)
Here are a few of CNET Reviews’ favorite items from the past week, including the LG Sentio, the Creative Labs ZiiSound D5 speaker bar, and the NEC MultiSync PA271W display.
Realtek High Definition Audio for Vista\Win 7 (x86/x64) 2.50
Audio drivers available for download from the Realtek website are general drivers for our audio ICs and may not offer the customizations made by your system motherboard manufacturer To be sure you obtain the full features customizations provided in your original audio product please download the latest drivers from your system motherboard manufacturer 39 s website
Realtek High Definition Audio for 2K/XP/03 2.50
Audio drivers available for download from the Realtek website are general drivers for our audio ICs and may not offer the customizations made by your system motherboard manufacturer To be sure you obtain the full features customizations provided in your original audio product please download the latest drivers from your system motherboard manufacturer 39 s website
DivX for Windows 8.1.0
DivX is a free download that provides everything you need to enjoy high quality digital videos on your computer including HD H 264 mkv videos with AAC audio and videos created using all previous versions of DivX technology You can also play your DivX files divx avi on millions of DivX Certified reg devices today Look for DivX Plus trade HD Certified devices later this year that will support playback of all DivX and DivX Plus files as well as mkv H 264 AAC videos from the Internet
AnyDVD & AnyDVD HD 6.6.6.5 Beta
AnyDVD is a driver which descrambles DVD Movies automatically in the background This DVD appears unprotected and region code free for all applications and the Windows operating system as well With AnyDVD 39 s help copy tools like CloneDVD Pinnacle Instant Copy InterVideo DVD Copy etc are able to copy CSS protected Movies You can remove the RPC region code thereby making the movie region free and viewable on any DVD player and with any DVD player software With the help of AnyDVD you can watch movies with non matching region codes with every DVD Player Software you like AnyDVD is capable of removing unwanted movie features including subtitles and prohibition messages such as copyright and FBI warnings It also allows you to launch an external application whenever you insert or remove a disc or prevent 39 PC friendly 39 software from automatically launching when you insert a video DVD AnyDVD decrypts not just DVDs AnyDVD allows you also to play copy and rip protected Audio CDs Decryption is not all that AnyDVD offers You can control the drive speed of your DVD drive allowing you to reduce the noise level when watching movies on your PC You can even adjust the display frequency of your monitor for both NTSC and PAL displays