The best products are often the simplest ones. The products that do their jobs with a minimum of fuss, that work as they’re supposed to without having to spend hours on the phone to tech support. But how do you go from the idea of a simple product to actually making it, selling it and then building a business around it? It’s a question that Melbourne entrepreneur Alon Tamir was faced with in his creation of the Wallee iPad wall mount. More »
If you listen to the marketing, 2011 is the year of the Smart TV. Not only are TV manufacturers launching televisions with internet connectivity built-in, they are developing their own platforms and SDKs for developers to create a new era of TV-based applications. It’s inevitable that TV apps are going to become mainstream, but before they do Consumer Electronics should be working together to create a uniform standard across the industry. More »
The company behind bookstores Borders and Angus and Robertson is in a lot of financial trouble at the moment. While they’ve been granted a slight stay of execution, they’re in administration, and things aren’t looking good. But given that Borders is the driving force behind eBook and eReader sales in Australia, what will happen to the budding electronic book market should RedGroup go completely under? More »
Last year, the CSIRO’s supercomputer was ranked as the 145th most powerful supercomputer in the world. Powered by NVIDIA’s Tesla GPUs and constructed by Aussie company Xenon, the supercomputer is used is a fine example of the benefits of using GPUs for scientific discovery. but according to NVIDIA’s GM of Tesla computing, Andy Keane, it’s the current developments in the mobile processing space that will drive the next generation of supercomputers. More »
Every Gizmodian’s home is filled with gadgets, and most of those products are manufactured in China. But what is it actually like to manufacture technology in China? As part of our Year of the Rabbit celebrations, we speak to Australian entrepreneur, Ruslan Kogan, about his experiences in creating a technology company through partnerships with Chinese manufacturers. More »
