$1500 gets you a non-working graphics board

THOSE OF YOU WHO get your kicks footling about in the innards of your computers will be delighted to hear of the impending arrival of the Traversal Technology OGD1. And if field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) float your boat then you should truly be in hog heaven. The card, which was designed in collaboration with the Open Graphics Project, is sold as a blank, containing only basic diagnostic tools, so only those with advanced HDL programming and FPGA logic design skills need apply.