For those of you who wish to avoid the shock of high electricity bills this summer, here is a viable solution. Marvell and 4Home have come up with an energy management solution that allows consumers to monitor and control their home’s energy usage by simply plugging into an electrical wall outlet. With the Plug Computer, you can self-track detailed energy records and thus drive down your future energy costs.
The Plug Computer is based on the SheevaPlug and is powered by Marvell Sheeva CPU technology.
It features 4Home’s ControlPoint software which allows …

Legendary Pictures has bought the rights to a Mass Effect film from Electronic Arts in a deal which sees key staff from BioWare signing up as executive producers for the project.According to The Hollywood Reports the film has already found a writer too - I Am Legend’s scribe, Mark Protosevich.
BioWare founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk will be involved in the project, along with Mass Effect game director Casey Hudson, all as Executive Producers. The film will be produced by Avi Arad, Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni.
Arad described the story …

Hooray for voice command systems… that no one uses. Okay, so maybe someone uses ‘em, but until voice recognition software improves drastically and / or our own memory banks swell dramatically, we still see most motorists reaching for buttons, toggles and wheels when it comes time to interact with their vehicle. That said, existing Ford owners with SYNC’d rides can soon do a lot more talking with their system thanks to a few complimentary updates hitting the Traffic, Directions & Information (TDI) sector. The cloud-based service will allow drivers to …

Blur is an upcoming arcade racing video game developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Activision. It features a racing style that incorporates real world cars and locales with arcade style handling and vehicular combat. The multiplayer beta for the game started on March 8th and was publicly available on the Xbox Live Marketplace on April 6th.
There are two types of people in this world: those that like their driving games to be as close to really driving a car as possible, and those that want games to be everything …

Electronic Arts has announced that it will begin charging pre-owned users for access to the multiplayer portions of some games as part of the next stage of Project Ten Dollar.
This new step in Project Ten Dollar only affects some EA Sports titles at the moment and the feature is being called ‘Online Pass’. The first game to make use of it will be Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11, though EA says all Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of their EA Sports games will use it after that.
Customers who buy the …

Asus has previously experimented with Bamboo covered laptops, but when we last saw them the bamboo was really just a lid covering, rather than a central component of the chassis. That is set to change with a series of new laptops that use much more bamboo that Asus claims the machines are entirely recyclable.
Asus also pointed out additional benefits in that the whole notebook is 100 per cent recyclable, and that after forming the bamboo parts first, 75 per cent less plastic is used in the injection moulding method of …