12 and 18 V. The KitchenAid blender Fulton showed has a 1 horsepower motor and uses 110 V. It runs at full speed when it’s powered through eCoupled and can crush ice. Baarman claims 98.6% efficiency, compared to the 100% you’d get by plugging in...

1.3 GHz CPU, is faster. The high level of performance of the V1100 has its downside: at two hours and 19 minutes, it has the worst battery life in the sample. This holds back its efficiency compared to its rivals: HP uses a somewhat weaker battery (3600 mAh,...

were up sevenfold from numbers a year earlier. But given that the first netbook, the ASUS Eee PC 700 (running a low-voltage Celeron), only debuted in Taiwan in October of 2007, that’s a bit like saying you drink way more espresso now compared to when Starbucks...

compared to the older and established video compression technologies like MPEG-1 and MPEG-2: independent encoding of pictures and video increased encoding efficiency, more efficient compression of pictures, video and textures very variable resolutions scalable...

the laptop form factor, unusually. The funky backlit multimedia keys which control simple functions like play/pause and volume settings are now in between the keyboard and the speakers, just below the screen. Compared to the rest of the computer, the touchpad...

don't touch it. Courtesy Artisan/Lightstorm The result was all the more pleasing: the projector we built convinced even the notorious skeptics at the THG lab in Munich. Despite daylight flooding the room, the luminous efficiency of 3,500 ANSI lumens made it...

to look at the space-saving Divx format. We analyzed the new Divx version 6 in the THG Lab, and compared it to WMV 9 and MPEG-2.. We took advantage of the opportunity to put the Divx 6 codec through its first-ever lab test. The focus was on comparing it with...