ALIENWARE 17 Gaming LAPTOP

•Soft-touch palm rest: The palm rest and surrounding keyboard area are made of a soft-touch material for a smooth and comfortable feel, letting you play longer while minimizing discomfort.

The durable anodized aluminum shell, reinforced by a magnesium-alloy frame, protects your LCD and the internal components. Angled front and side walls give the Alienware 17 an elite and stealth look. And it’s designed for maximum performance, with a rear GPU/CPU exhaust vent to manage heat generated inside the system.

•Maximum signal strength: The WiFi and radio antennae are built right in to the top ledge of the lid to maximize signal strength and reduce radio interference.

•Plenty of ports: Whether you want to plug into an external display, speaker or transfer movies and music, we got you covered with all the ports you need. Alienware 17 comes with an RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet IPv6, three SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and one USB 3.0 port with PowerShare technology (allows you to charge USB devices when the computer is turned off or in standby mode), a mini display port, HDMI 1.4 output / 1.3 input, 7-in-1 media card reader and more.

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Unleash the power

Alienware 17 is powerful inside and out — it’s packed with new technology for maximum performance. With optional 4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7 Quad Core overclocked processors, you get the speed, power and performance you need to lead in everything you do. And the 8-cell battery means you can cram more action into a single charge.Unleash the power 

•4th Generation Intel® Quad Core™ i7 processors with optional overclocking deliver maximum power and performance, designed specifically for gaming. And they balance monster performance with efficient power use, so you can game longer.

•Intel® Smart Cache Technology speeds up your loading times by sharing the cache memory found in your CPU and GPU — so your applications load faster and your pictures are rendered more quickly.

•Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 allocates your system’s power more efficiently, so you can listen to music, play games and chat with friends on online at the same time without bogging down your system.

•Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology gives you up to 8-way multitasking so you can run more programs in the background while consuming less system resources. That means if you’re leveling a dungeon full of zombies, editing videos and downloading music all at once, you’re experience will remain quick and smooth.

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The Choice of Next Generation Graphics

Designed from the ground up to deliver a potent combination of superior game performance along with immersive play, the optional AMD Radeon™ R9 M290x GPU improves features and effects in games as well as being optimized for an incredible Windows 8.1 gaming experience.Pump up your audio experience

AMD Enduro™ technology switchable graphics mode optimizes your notebook for instant performance on your AMD Radeon™ GPU when needed, consuming zero watts power when not.

AMD Mantle API gives game developers the power to speak directly to the GPU core. With such a direct connection to your hardware, game developers are discovering a whole new world of immersion and performance made possible by AMD graphics The AMD Radeon™ R9 M290x offers cutting edge features as well as full functionality of DirectX® 11.2 for Windows 8.1 while also providing intelligent power features to extend battery life.

Get the competitive edge with optional NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 880M with 8GB GDDR5 graphics memory. Turn on lightning-fast FXAA anti-aliasing for the ultimate combination of image quality and performance. NVIDIA® Adaptive Vertical Sync prevents image tearing, and NVIDIA® PhysX brings your games to life with dynamic, interactive environments. 

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Pump up your audio experience

Powered by Klipsch® Speakers: Your Alienware 17 is a precision-tuned, premium stereo system designed to deliver the most lifelike audio experience you have ever heard from a laptop. Dynamic drivers provide a punchy, rich, full range of sound, to give you the best gaming experience possible. 

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Dolby Home Theater v4: Whether you’re listening through headphones, your laptop speakers or your home theater setup, Dolby Home Theater v4 delivers the captivating listening experience that your games and media demand. Surround Decoder creates a virtual surround sound experience and Volume Maximizer lets you blast your audio at peak volume without noise or clipping. And Dolby Home Theater comes with an easy-to-use interface, so you can maintain total control over your audio settings at all times.

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Connect and conquer

A built-in Killer Gigabit Ethernet NIC identifies and prioritizes your network traffic so that latency-sensitive streams that require maximum speed, like games or video chat, are prioritized over less-important traffic. See which applications are hogging your bandwidth and limit them using Visual Bandwidth Control™ so they don’t interfere with your games. Or go wireless with a Broadcom 5G WiFi adapter for faster speeds, better range and improved battery life. 

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Massive storage and monster speed

Make your Alienware system a vault of games, movies and music with an optional 1TB Quad Play RAID 0 solid state drive (SSD) — that’s four 256GB SSDs in a RAID 0 configuration . You get faster boot speeds, data access times and the ability to write massive amounts of data in a flash with minimal battery life consumption or system noise. 

Ultimate control. All from one place.

Change how you experience the game. The redesigned Alienware Command Center 3.0 lets you choose lighting and special effects, accelerate your gaming performance, monitor in-game results, and more — all in one hub.

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AlienFusion

Access your system’s power-management controls so you can decide when you need maximum performance or when to scale back for more everyday programs. Find Out More

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AlienFX system lighting

Create custom lighting and special effects to suit your unique gaming style. Apply 20 different colors to 10 different zones (including rear panel, chassis surround and track pad) for up to 10,240 billion color combinations.

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AlienAdrenaline

Launch games your way with personalized shortcuts in Game Mode, maximize performance with the new Accelerator feature, and keep an eye on resource consumption with Performance Monitoring.

FITNESS TRACKER, VIVOFIT WATCH

Getting you up off your bottom, THESE DAY'S  IS GET OFF COMPUTER OR PLAYSTATION, text station, cell talking, your office chair walk it off we need it , And moving is, of course, the goal behind most wrist-worn step trackers. But the Vivofit’s implementation is especially effective. When you’ve been sitting for long periods, the red bar appears. Shorter bars pop up next to it for each additional 15 minutes you’ve been stationary. The device doesn’t vibrate, or beep, or otherwise interrupt your workflow. But should you glance down at your wrist, it’s an instant reminder to get up and save yourself from the inevitable death our desk jobs are delivering us

On its slightly curved LCD display, the Vivofit can show you how far you’ve walked, how many calories you’ve burned, the time, date, your heart rate, your steps, and the steps remaining towards your daily goal. The latter is another thing that sets Garmin’s fitness tracker apart: After starting with a default number of “goal” steps for the day — mine was 7,500 — the Vivofit starts to learn how often you walk around each day. It adjusts your goal accordingly, pushing you to be more active, but not unreasonably so. For example, after getting within 100 steps of my goal by the end of the work day, I was surprised to look down at the end of my daily commute to see that the number of required steps had been upped. I still exceeded that, and the next day, my goal steps were upped some more. The fitness tracker isn’t a pitiless whip cracker though. If you have a few slower days, the step goal drops back down.

The Garmin Vivofit, like other fitness wearables, connects and communicates with your phone over Bluetooth. You tap and hold the device’s singular button for about two seconds to sync with the accompanying Garmin Connect app, but it can conveniently store up to three weeks of data onboard.

Garmin’s Connect app itself is pretty lacking, especially when compared to other fitness apps out there. Where others offer colorful graphics and options for tracking multiple facets of your health (Fitbit lets you track what you eat each day and your water intake), Garmin’s app is pretty spartan in its functionality. It sticks with just your walking stats, an activity log, and your sleep. There’s also a section where you can accumulate badges for fitness accomplishments, and a social space where you can see and compare stats with your friends. Personally, I found no real need to visit the app unless I just wanted to see my step data charted out after the past day, week, month, or year, or look through my bike ride activities uploaded through Garmin Connect. None of this is a dealbreaker though — the Vivofit’s main purpose is to motivate you to get fit; the actual history of those movements is less important.The Vivofit, while perhaps not the most fully featured wearable, is the most motivating one I’ve tried thus far. The fact that it doesn’t need to be charged daily or weekly is a huge plus over competitors — and if the battery does die before its promised year-long life is up, it’s just a pair of user replaceable coin cells. For those looking to make their workouts more targeted, or get more accurate calorie burning stats, its Ant+ heart rate monitor compatibility is a big bonus. Other than displaying the date and time, it doesn’t try to venture into smartwatch territory, and that’s fine. On top of that, it’s priced competitively with other trackers on the market. If I were getting a wearable for a family member or friend, this is the one I’d buy.

CURVED WATCH FROM Green View Is A Digital Marvel

While major tech developers are battling it out on the smartwatch front, there are other lesser known companies that are innovating. Maybe it’s unfair for me to say that the major players aren’t innovating anymore, but that’s kind of the reality we live in. They follow the voice of the public, while the smaller players spend their time and money pursuing new technologies. One such technology is Green View’s E-Ink Curved Watch that will redefine the timepiece as we know it.

Green View is a division of Eink Transmart Electronic (as far as I can understand), and they recently unveiled their 4th iteration of their innovative e-paper watch. It’s a beautiful piece that will certainly make you look sophisticated and in sync with the edge of technology.

E-ink paper has become quite a subject lately, and more and more people are talking about how it could come to replace any touch technology in the future. Not only is it super thin, but it’s also a whole lot easier to work with than touchscreen glass. The e-paper watch is a feat of innovation, and compared to many of the watches that are on the market right now, it’s a beast.

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The Green View curved watch is a direct fashion statement, and the company behind it explains the curved watch with a somewhat confusing yet intriguing statement.

“The ultra-thin movement leads a new watch trend. The ergonomic curved surface perfectly fits your wrist. The black and white background can be interchanged as you like. The 180° wide viewing angle makes your time readable from every angle. The e-paper displays by reflecting light, and it is easy to read even in sunlight and comfortable to your eyes.”

SCIENTISTS ARE LOOKING FOR TIME TRAVELERS ON THE INTERNET

The idea of time travel, one of humanity's favorite sci-fi fixations, is documented as far back as the 9th century BC, in the text of the Indian Mahabharata poem. It seems to be a built-in human trait—not even our ancient ancestors could escape the temptation to wonder if it's possible to skip backwards and forwards through time. But while physicists continue to research the theoretical science behind time travel, not many people have just come out and asked: Hey, is there anyone out there from the future?

Researchers from Michigan Technological University's physics department recently decided to give it a shot, using the internet as their megaphone. They searched the web for prescient messages that could be evidence of future-dwellers. Unfortunately (surprise!) they didn't find any—but they plan to keep looking, according to the study recently published on Arxiv.

The team's approach was to comb through search engines, social media, and popular websites looking for references to information that only someone who had jumped forward in time (they opted against looking for people who had traveled to the past) could know.

Specifically, they looked for two specific terms: Comet ISON and Pope Francis. The thinking was, since Comet ISON was only discovered and introduced to popular nomenclature in 2012, and likewise Pope Francis, the first of that name, elected just last year, any mentions of the names from before those dates must have come from someone who had seen the future.

It's an interesting idea and all, but the method has some serious shortcomings—which is why the study authors note that just because their search came up short, it doesn't disprove time travel. For one, what if humans who had traveled the future had no interest in tweeting or sending tell-tale emails after they got there? Or even if they did, maybe they didn't give a damn about Comet ISON and Pope Francis? Or, maybe there is no internet in the future?

It's also possible, the researchers mused, that some as-of-now unknown law of physics makes it impossible for people from the future to leave traces of their existence behind. Or, they're very good at covering their tracks to avoid skewing the course of history.

On the off chance that there are time travelers hanging out in cyberspace that are ready and willing to communicate with us present-day folks, the researchers put out a call on "a popular public internet forum" asking any time travelers out there to shoot them an email—and for the sake of accurately assessing the ramifications of their existence, to indicate whether or not their actions would alter history by stipulating #ICanChangeThePast2 or #ICannotChangeThePast2. Again, they came up empty handed.

Not say that time keep on slipping into the passed , but maybe the experiment failed by time travel isn't possible? That's surely the most likely scenario, but many scientists aren't willing to see this time come time is slipping into the futuer . Some prominent physicists, most famously Stephen Hawking, claim that bending space-time is theoretically possible—by exploiting black holes, or wormholes if they exist, or by traveling at superspeeds, based on Einstein’s theory of relativity. We just don't have the necessary know-how or technology to do it yet.

But maybe we will, in the future, and just in case, it’s worth keeping a look out for people who have experienced the sci-fi dream of defying time and space. The authors of this latest study weren't the first to try and reach out to potential future-humans. Hawking famously threw a party for time travelers, sending out the invitations after the party was already over. In 2005, MIT students held a time travel convention in the hopes that people from the future would attend. In both cases, no one showed.