Young or old, almost everyone loves Lego. If you admit it or not, you do. For the few that have never played or built with Lego, perhaps they won’t understand the draw that Lego can have, but I am sure they will appreciate the art and the skills of the builders from these sites.

Source:42 Amazing Sources of Lego Inspiration & Creativity

AMD’s finally dumped its fabrication facilities and technology onto a new spin-off brand, as expected. ATIC (Advanced Technology Investment Company) is on board as well, and the newly-formed GLOBALFOUNDRIES has $6 billion in investments to start out with, along with 2,800 employees. GLOBALFOUNDRIES will be primarily be building chips for AMD, just like usual, but will also be open to other gigs as a 3rd party chip builder — its main rival TSMC just scored a deal with Intel to produce Atom chips on the cheap, a first for Intel who usually keeps production and processes in-house. First up for the new company? Churning out a 32nm process. We like the sound of that.

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AMD announces GLOBALFOUNDRIES spin-off, forgets to name it something awesome originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 vs. ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860

Don’t get too comfy, NVIDIA. AMD showed up today with mobile video cards of its own, the new ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and HD 4830. The cards are working off of AMD’s new 40nm process, with DirectX 10.1 support, dual DisplayPort out and 1080p acceleration claims galore (or 2560 x 1600, if that’s your thing). The 4860 sets itself apart with GDDR5 memory, and both cards do ATI PowerPlay, ATI PowerXpress and ATI Switchable Graphics for power saving and maximum buzzwordage. The cards will be first available in ASUS laptops in Q2 of this year.

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AMD’s new ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and HD 4830 chew pixels with 40nm teeth originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source:AMD's new ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and HD 4830 chew pixels with 40nm teeth

While these three weren’t quite ready for CES, they’re still being debuted in Las Vegas alongside Sony’s new Blu-ray devices. The W-Series, as with the recently announced BRAVIA Z5100 and XBR9 models, is fully equipped with an Ethernet jack and a Yahoo!-powered widgets engine. Consumers who bite on the 52-inch KDL-52W5100, 46-inch KDL-46W5100 or 40-inch KDL-40W5100 can expect easy access to Amazon Video on Demand, YouTube, Sony Pictures content, etc. The new family also includes Sony’s Motionflow 120Hz technology, DLNA compatibility, a USB port for loading up external media, BRAVIA Sync (HDMI-CEC), four HDMI inputs and the Xross Media Bar (XMB) interface. As expected, each one sports a 1080p panel, and while pricing details are still sorely missing, the trifecta should hit retailers later this Spring. Full release is after the break.

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Sony expands connected BRAVIA HDTV line with new W-Series originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It has been more than 35 years since Martin Cooper placed the first call on a mobile phone to his rival at Bell Labs while working at Motorola. Heck, it’s been nearly 20 years since Saved by the Bell’s Zack Morris placed a phone call to Kelly Kapowski from his locker. In that time, phones have come a long way.

Source:From Brick to Slick: A History of Mobile Phones