GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Booster Brolly Tech Umbrella – ‘The rain, the park, & other things’

The Vodafone Booster Brolly umbrella certainly works in the rain and at the park, but it's the other things that make it useful, even if you are not a gadget aficionado.

 

INVENTIONS & INNOVATIONS
SSD Price Trends – Solid-State Drive Price Trends Synopsis

Some solid-state drive (SSD) prices have fallen as much as 73% and are available at less than one-dollar per gigabyte.

 

DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
Dual Display Laptops – Seeing Double with Asus Taichi & Lenovo

Two displays facing opposite directions may be considered innovative, but certainly not practical.

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Logitech Solar-Powered Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard K760

Take a look at the key traits of the Logitech solar-powered, Bluetooth K760 keyboard, and watch for a PC-friendly version to be released.

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Stealth Tablet Envelope has Something Up Your Sleeve

"Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound", but you supply the leaping.

 

DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
Schott Glass Xensation Shoots at Corning Gorilla Glass 2

What happens when a Schott Glass takes on a Gorilla? Apparently, no broken glass.

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
Tactus Touchscreen Rises to the Occasion & Gets in Touch With Your Inner Keyboard

Anyone can see the possibilities for implementing touchscreen, physical Braille as a benefit to blind users. It’s enough to give a touchscreen goosebumps; and it does too.

 

APPLE
651ppi JDI Display = 2x the Resolution of Apple’s Retina Display

The new kid in town is Japan Display Inc.'s 651ppi, LCD, smartphone display.

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
3D Printers – Do Try This at Home – Rapid Prototyping, Additive Manufacturing

This technology currently is best for technophiles, hobbyists, engineers, and artists with an Apple-esque fervor, while requiring more tenacity than a hot glue gun.

 

BATTERY & POWER TECHNOLOGY
Super Lithium-Ion Battery Could Supercharge Phones, PCs, & Cars

When super lithium-ion batteries become common-place in mobile devices, it should be possible to go for days without re-charging for some devices, and twenty-four to thirty hours on a charge for a 2013 thin-and-light ultrabook or ultrathin laptop.

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Here’s an Idea: Lightbulb Marries Tree, Births WOODEN Lightbulb

If you're wondering just who would dream up the idea of a wooden light bulb, the answer is Rysouke Fukusada.

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
FXI Cotton Candy PC-on-a-Stick Upstaged by Chinese MK802 Facsimile

The plot thickened when the FXI Cotton Candy PC-on-a-Stick was dramatically upstaged by a Chinese product.

 

APPLE
Retina Display Resolution – Retina Quality, Retina Class, Retina Style

Apple created the phrase "retina display", as a marketing term, but it actually does translate into solid silicon substance.

 

AMD
Liquid-Cooled Laptops: AMD & Intel Water-Cooled Asetek Solutions

No birds were actually stoned, or shot, for this article. It's against our policy to actually "shoot-the-bird" on company premises, but we have been known to "give 'em Dell".

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Fanless, Passively Cooled, Mini / Nano PCs in YOUR Life

Ultra-low-power, passively-cooled, fanless, mini / nano PCs are hiding out just about every place you go, as well as so many locations you will never see.