GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Logitech Cube Mouse: Inside the Rectangle – Of Mice & Cows

Any Texan might be tempted to make a down-payment on a full-sized cow instead; thereby answering the proverbial question: "Where's the beef?".

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Apophis Meteorite USB 3.0 Drive – News Flash: It Came From Outer Space

Zana Design, located in Poland, has come up with an extreme bling USB flash drive that will soon part some well-heeled buyers from their money.

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
2013 Smartphones Trend: Smartphone LapDocks or Webtops = Convergence or Just A Fad?

Bring-Your-Own-Brain is a concept that refuses to die, because its soul is PC device convergence, the number one technology trend in 2012 & continuing into 2013 & beyond.

 

BATTERY & POWER TECHNOLOGY
Battery Technology Snap Update – Do the Math

UCSD researchers are developing sophisticated algorithms that should result in lighter battery designs that will cut charge time in half, while reducing cost by 25%.

 

BATTERY & POWER TECHNOLOGY
USB PD – Power Delivery Standard: You’ll Get a Charge Out of This

According to two of the USB Power Delivery specification developers, instead of one size fits all, it will be "one USB cable does it all".

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Blokket in Your Pocket – Signal Blocking Pouch Has You Covered

Blokket is simply a pouch made of silver mesh embedded in a nylon material, and that is the reason it is able to block electromagnetic fields and data transfers.

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Raspberry Pi Turbo Mode Adds 50% More Rockin’ With Overclockin’ Under Warranty

Eben Upton, the founder of the non-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation, has turned up the sizzle under warranty, and at no additional charge.

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
3 Slices of Raspberry Pi: A Supercomputer, Board Revision 2.0 PCB, & Now Made in the UK

The words Lego toy blocks, supercomputers, & raspberries do not typically fit into the same sentence, unless one is thinking "outside of the box".

 

DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
KeyView Smartype Keyboard With Display Screen – Here’s Lookin’ at It

The concept is not rocket-science, but will almost certainly find a core group of PC users that need, or just want the features offered.

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Switch LED Bulb With Liquid Cooling System Emulates Incandescent Bulbs

Electrically non-conductive, food-grade, non-toxic, non-staining; and those are terms describing Switch Lighting company's LED "LQD Cooling System".

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Logitech’s Washable Keyboard K310 – Wash & Don’t Swear

It's a well known "scientific fact" that dirty language leads to dirty input devices, & the result of intense rocket-scientist research is the Logitech K310 washable keyboard.

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
USB Flash Drive in a Bottle is Probably Just a Flash in the Pan

The Hum "blank" USB flash drive is more about art than data storage & a few things may have been lost in translation.

 

DELL
Dell Computers Assisted Analysis for Mars Rover Curiosity Landing

When the ultimate wireless, peripheral, mobile gadget landed on Mars, August 5, 2012, two clusters of Dell's PowerEdge servers were there in spirit, or at least in the spirit of data.

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
$35 Raspberry Pi Linux Computer – Random Slices & Intel’s Nuke NUC?

Businesses, schools, & universities can deploy entire fleets of desktops for a small fraction of the price of traditional PCs.

 

AMD
Intel’s Thunderbolt vs AMD’s Lightning Bolt or Just an Open Source Standard?

Don't ever think for even a minute that the best technologies always win. They frequently don't. A gorilla at the playground can often beat-up the smaller, but very intelligent so-called "nerd". Intel may know their Thunderbolt will fade from the scene in the same way that FireWire has diminished, but it may still be used to keep the smaller "nerd" from getting a decent meal at the cafeteria. Right about now AMD could really use a good, hot meal.