New AI chip coming next year

XYZ Computing tests the Jabra BT250V bluetooth headset. Incidentally, it features a blue colour scheme. A very useful functionality is the fact that it can vibrate. Apart from that, it has a well thought design and a good battery life, all at a good price But as usual, there is nothing indicating that it can connect to a PC.

A news piece, perhaps, rather than a review. Extremetech has breaking news about an AI - artificial intelligence - Chip bound to make your games smarter. Now instead of changing the difficulty of your games from the setup menu, you'll have to swap silicon. The company, Alseek, will bring forth more info in 2006.

If you are serious about portable audio, then you have to have the Creative SB Audigy 2ZS PCMCIA version. Vasily Melnik from Xbitlabs applauds Creative Labs for having slashed the size of the card to something absolutely minute. Now you can have ASIO support and EAX 4.0 advanced HD support for your laptop on top of THX certification of course. Check compatibility of your PCMCIA controller in your laptop first though.

PCworld makes a list of top 10 point and shoot digital cameras to buy and it is quite surprising to find Casio and HP occupying the first two places. Five MP seems to be the bare minimum to be considered high quality and the best buy Casio is capable of recording 640x480 pixels video with full audio which is better than SVCD quality.

Viperlair checks the Asus DRW-1608P Dual Layer burner which retails for a cheapo $45. You know when a technology has matured when it costs the same price as the product it replaces. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with the burner, expect perhaps the price of the media. Nero 6 software is included but the driver is somewhat slow compared to others and experiences somewhat eratic performance.

If you do not have enough space in your room or do not want to untangle the wires accompanying those seven speakers, you might well have a look at that article from Presence PC which tests 11 2.1 Speaker sets. From Trust, Altec Lansing, Hercules, Trust, Creative Labs and Logitech. The conclusion couldn't be simpler - test those speakers before making your choice. µ