The company that made voyeurism cool with their popup ads for mini video cameras is now getting back into the remote control business for PVRs. Once upon a time X10 was the core technology behind ATI's successful line of Remote Wonder controllers. After failing to pay their tremendous advertising bills, X10 filed for bankruptcy a few years ago and I dismissed them as gone.

Today on the X10 Europe website you can find details of two new remote controls that are designed for Windows Media Center. Both remotes are RF based rather than infrared. While this does allow control of your MCE box through walls and likely at a greater distance than infrared, they seem to have forgotten that we need to be able to turn on the TV and adjust the volume at a minimum.

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With diminishing popularity of the 'Lance Armstrong LiveStrong' series of computers Hewlett-Packard is apparently looking to a more recent sports icon to help boost sales in its notebook division.  Returning their attention to the world of cycling, HP is planning the 'Floyd Landis Extreme Overclocked Edition'.  Powered by an Intel Core 2 Extreme boosted from 2.93GHz to 5GHz, this notebook is guaranteed to smoke the competition.  And don't worry about power during long flights because HP is rumored to be squeezing two Sony battery packs into the notebook for extra punch.

Since Landis' abrupt dismissal from Team Phonak, many believed Landis to be washed out.  But according to HP board member, George Keyworth, Landis will be found innocent of all doping allegations.  "I got the news straight from Patricia Dunn's mouth.", said Keyworth.  He continued, "You didn't hear it from me, but we have an aggressive ad campaign in the works with other sports legends such as Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire, and Sammy Sosa also promoting the notebook.  Not to give away too many secrets, but we're planning on pricing it around $1999 which should make it hard for Toshiba and Dell to compete since we're going to be assembling these computers in North Korea where labor is extremely cheap.  Oh and one other thing.  We don't want news of this getting out to France since--well, they pretty much hate Landis.  So don't tell them, okay?"

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