While premium laptops often steal the spotlight, the reality is that most consumers gravitate towards budget laptops. And there’s a good reason for this choice—a laptop priced around $500 can very well meet your needs for several years. However, there’s a catch. Manufacturers are aware of this trend and have strategically saturated the market with a myriad of models, each ...
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4 Broad Technological Inventions That Dramatically Altered our Lifestyle
In today’s world, we constantly experience new inventions whether it is a smart phone, computer or even something simple as duct tape. Most of us are familiar with the endless introduction of various gadgets and are even proud owners of some of them. Each time a device comes along, we are amused by it because the impact it has on ...
Read More »So The NSA Wants A Quantum Computer That Cracks Tough Encryption!
Sooooo…one of the newest headlines in the tech world is that the NSA is looking to get their hands on a quantum computer that is capable of cracking tough encryption… If you’re a conspiracy theorist or…let’s face it, a regular any man at this point, then you are already familiar with the “rumor” that the NSA is quite in tune ...
Read More »Quirky Cordies Makes Desktop Cord Management Possible
If you’re a tech freak like most of us around here then the chances are that your desk is a tangled mess of cords. Sure, you might organize them with toilet roll tubes but what about when you want to actually use them? Well, check out Quirky Cordies! Quirky Cordies are a cheap way to keep your cords organized while ...
Read More »How Your Brain Measures Up To A Super Computer
We have all heard about how incredibly powerful the human brain is, but a group of Japanese and German scientists wanted to see just how powerful it truly is. They did this using an 83,000 processor super computer...
Read More »Chip Comb Does Not Compute Your Mullet
DOES NOT COMPUTE! DOES NOT COMPUTE! WARNING! WARNING! MULLET PROXIMITY SENSOR ENGAGED! EXECUTING PROGRAM 'BILLY RAY CYRUS TERMINATION' CODE! MUST TERMINATE!
Read More »HP Decides to Keep Its PC Division After All
Several months ago, HP announced they were going to spin-off their PC division. In an interesting turnaround decision, it looks like HP has decided to keep their PC division after all.
Read More »IMEC meets Howest: The First Solar Powered Laptop
We’ve seen solar-powered laptop cases and even a crazy Apple patent that suggested sun powered back lighting, but this is a concept that could change computing as we know it. The “IMEC meets Howest” is claimed to be the first laptop which relies completely on the power of the sun. Energized by two solar panels, no electricity source is needed ...
Read More »Homemade Data Rig Has 90 TB of Storage Cooled By 40 Fans
A Russian modder has crafted the perfect solution to limited storage space for all of those torrents you’ve been downloading recently. This homemade computer rig rocks out with 90 terabytes of storage. But 90 TB of computing generates a ton of heat, which is why this computer needs 40 fans to keep cool. More than enough space to download pretty ...
Read More »PC Case Mod Turns Your Computer Into a Mini-Oven
If you walked into a friend’s room and saw this sitting under their desk, you’d probably be like “Um, why the hell do you have an oven in your room?” Because it really does look like a fully-functioning oven. But in reality, this is a PC case mod by Czech modder Zby�ek, who woke up one morning and decided to ...
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