China’s Tianhe-2 supercomputer is expected to arrive in 2015. At 50 petaflops it would be three times faster than the new Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer but let’s face it, vaporware doesn’t count in the supercomputer race and China has only held the title once (in 2010 when its Tianhe-1 briefly held the title of the…
Category: Computer Hardware
Memoto discrete, wearable digital camera records your entire life in 30-second intervals and saves recorded “moments” in the cloud
Stockholm-based Memoto, has developed a postage-stamp, waterproof, wearable camera that snaps a photo of your surroundings every 30 seconds, creating a visual archive of your life. The camera shoots 5 megapixel pictures, logs GPS coordinates and date/time, and has a two-day battery. It is capable of storing over 4,000 photos. A small, stainless steel clip…
Apple introduces iPad Mini (and a new MacBook Pro, new iMacs, new Mac Mini, and other tiny stuff)
A trash talking Schiller made a point to compare the new iPad Mini to the other guys (ahem, Google Nexus 7) in today’s announcements telling the crowd, “You get a tablet experience on the iPad Mini. You get a scaled-up phone experience on the other”. Bunch of exciting Apple gear was announced today. Good specs…
AMD steps up game while struggling for relevance – introduces Vishera chips overclocked up to 5GHz
AMD is stepping up their game with the new Vishera series of chips. AMD notes that the new Piledriver processor architecture boosts performance by 15% over the previous generation of FX chips – and at a lower price. For instance, the unlocked FX-8350 offers 8 cores clocked up to 5GHz for $195. Ziff Davis noted…
Apple loses UK appeal against Samsung and now must run 14pt ads in UK newspapers admitting their mistaken claim
Rumor: Amazon in talks to buy TI mobile chip division bringing vertical business model more in line with Apple and Samsung
Rumors are circulating that Amazon is looking to buy Texas Instruments’ (TI) smartphone and table oriented OMAP chips division, bringing its table business model more in line with Apple and Samsung. Recall that TI recently announced that it was exiting the smartphone and OMAP chip business and moving its focus to embedded platforms (particularly in…
China’s Lenovo passes HP to become the world’s #1 PC maker
New MIT discovery prints carbon nanotubes on paper to create chemical sensors
MIT chemists have printed carbon nanotubes on paper to create a sensor for detecting dangerous gases. The lines are printed on specially treated paper. When an electrical current is passed through the paper, the change in resistance indicates gas molecules that have bound to the printed nanotubes. The test sensor detected small traces of ammonia…
Say it isn’t so – no microSD nor removable battery on upcoming LG Optimus Nexus?
Sharp begins production of 5 inch 1080p display that is 1.3 times denser than their own leading 720p display
Sharp has started “full scale” production of a new 5 inch 1080p HD (1920 x 1080) smartphone display that sports a whopping 443ppi – higher than anything else on the market (LG’s 440ppi LCD is the closest). Sharp started manufacturing the “LCD panel type 5” last month but Sharp said they are ramping up production…








