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We heard whispers that the Dell Streak tablet would come this summer and it looks like the wait won’t be long: Dell will be selling the device for $500 next month. Oh, and it’ll be unlocked. [ All Things D ] More

Nvidia’s Fermi-based GeForce GTX 480 might be the fastest GPU in the world, but it’s five hundred dollars . So, you might be more interested in their actually affordable variants , coming out later this summer, which are $300 and $100.

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Nvidia’s Fermi Graphics Card Roadmap: When You Can Melt Your Eyeballs for Cheaper [Rumor]

Whatever Sony’s promises may have been regarding stereoscopic 3D performance on the PS3, we’re going to get what we get . And so far, that’s 1080p content at 60fps (2D) turning into 720p content at 30fps (3D). More

This summer , Nokia, Samsung, Silcon Image, Sony and Toshiba have set aside differences to team up and create the most awesome mobile HD plug known to man . It’s like the trailer for a really lame action movie. More

The curtain has been pulled back on iPhone 4 , and the list of new features is massive: There’s multitasking (finally!), a refreshed interface, and literally hundreds of other changes, all coming this Summer. Here’s the full rundown.

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iPhone OS 4.0: All the New Features [Iphone Os 4]

Dave Pell, on what it means to have our heads in the cloud, as he puts it: More

Today HP announced the V1020h, a 720p-recording, SDHC card-reading pocketcam. It has a built-in USB plug and an HDMI port for sharing, but the real noteworthy tidbit here is the pricetag: $109. There’s not much more info on the V1020h’s specs quite yet, but at $109 it’s a good $30 cheaper than the least expensive pocketcams we tested in our most recent Battlemodo . It’s purple and it’s slated to hit shelves this summer.

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HP V1020h Pocketcam Is Less Pricey Than Its Peers [Pocketcams]

A leaked roadmap had previously indicated that Sprint would be launching a 4G WiMax handset sometime in 2010, but now the company has confirmed that we’ll be seeing the technology within the next few months. But is the network ready? Well, sort of. Sprint’s been working with Clearwire on building up a 4G WiMax network since 2007 , and while it’s taken longer than they thought they do have it up and running in 27 markets that serve 30 million people

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Sprint Confirms First WiMax Handset Will Arrive By Summer [Sprint]

Cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) backlights are fast disappearing due to the more efficient and brighter LED swaggering onto the TV scene, but the Japanese company Sanken Electric claims its new CCFL technology is 60 per cent cheaper to produce. Too little, too late for the unfashionable technology? Sanken reckons TVs perform just as well using two of its lamps as opposed to the six normally required. As production won’t start until this summer, it’s unlikely we won’t see them in TV sets for at least another year—and by then, LEDs will reign supreme

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60 Per-cent Cheaper CCFL Lamps Could Outshine LED Backlighting in TVs [TVs]

Deep in my heart I always wanted a Snuggie or a Slanket , but my innate aversion to these naff devices from hell always stopped me. Not anymore, thanks to these cool full body blanket designs by Icelandic designers Vík Prjónsdóttir . Yes, I can most definitely do this.

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The Snuggie for Stylish People and Home Thespians [Blanket]