Just yesterday I was discussing about the difficulty of storing and efficiently accessing downloaded content. Nokia is doing something a bit different with its Z-Wave Home Control Center. Using a Nokia mobile phone or a PC it will be possible to coordinate virtually everything in a smart home.
Every day the future of digital downloads looks brighter and brighter. It was only yesterday that we learned that 51% of Altantic’s revenue now comes from digital downloads, a percentage bound to increase as the CD decline is accelerating. And although total music sales declined from $14.6 billion in 1999 to about $10.1 billion this year, [...]
As Samsung is finally starting mass production of its 256GB SSD, anyone that ever had problems with a crashing hard disc (and there has been many of us) hopes that solid-state storage will gain enough momentum to soon become mainstream. At a time when flash memory supply far exceeds demand, SSDs are also a big hope [...]
The time has come sooner than we all thought. PC Mag is going 100% online from January 2009. Unsurprisingly, the much awaited move comes from a computer related publication reaching out to “Internet ready” customers, not having to worry about how existing clients will access the digital content. Surprisingly, the online format will remain that [...]
Back in May the Burj Dubai became officially the tallest structure in the world. But May was also the time when europeans Robin Schmidt and Jan Bednarz managed to get inside the building pretending to be engineers and did the first base jump from 650m up! As mentioned, the Burj Dubai will be built to [...]
Still a concept by SGI, consisting of virtually thousands of Atom processor modules. Despite the fact that such a thing would melt without some kind of extremely good cooling, power computing even for the home and the small business is definitely very modular [Source: Wired]
A couple of days back I wrote about how the PC remains the best gaming platform. In a recent 10 year anniversary event of Polyphony Digital in New York there was demo hardware for the upcoming Gran Turismo 5 that could well be a glimpse into the future of gaming.
The hardware consisted of four combined PS3 [...]
The Mazda KAAN is a concept that cannot be built with current technology. To be most possibly seen and “driven” in futuristic computer driving games… [Source: Inhabitat]
Before reading further, I make it clear I am talking about modern gaming PCs and not about any box lying on a desk. So now that this is out of the way I will draw your attention to recent performance and graphics comparisons between the PS3, the Xbox 360 and new powerful PC rigs.
Almost all [...]
Back in the summer when netbooks were young and we were still awaiting how well they would do in the market I wrote two pieces. The first one was called “5 questions posed by the arrival of netbooks” and set the stage for comparisons with mobile devices both larger and smaller than netbooks, while the [...]
When I first saw the ELIICA (Electric LIthium-Ion CAr) months ago I could not believe somebody bothered to make an 8-wheeled electric prototype. Well, now it will retail for $255K (for very very few) and despite the obvious citroenesque looks it is mighty impressive [Source: Designblog]
Nice but where were these designs when people were still buying and playing CDs? [Source: DesignBlog]
The first details of Red’s Scarlet and Epic based DSMC system are finally here. Have you noticed? I am not saying Scarlet and Epic DSMCs because these two now discussed-to-death components are simply the brains (or cores if you like) of Red’s system that lets you combine what you like to build a simple DSLR, [...]
What is the difference between SSDs and flash storage in the form of USB sticks or cards for digital cameras? As for classic hard discs, the larger the capacity of a SSD the better. I have never met a single person, novice or professional, saying that they never need their hard discs capacity no matter [...]
In principle, Neil Young had a very good idea. Basically you keep your beloved (old) car but make sure that the technology that moves it is more environmentally friendly. How to do that? By replacing its poison spewing engine by electric motors drawing their power from natural gas or hydrogen. For this reason, Young has started Linc [...]
