Guts

Science

How A Laser Could Make Your Hard Drive 1000 Times Faster

5:50AM February 9, 2012 | Jamie Condliffe

The reason people are so pumped about solid-state hard drives right now is because they’re super-speedy. But if you think your SSD is fast, just wait until a new breed of laser-based hard drives comes to market. More »


Mobile

Blurry Mobile Phone Shots Could Be Eliminated With This Flash-Boosting Chip

11:15AM February 3, 2012 | Andrew Liszewski

STMicroelectronics hopes to make the wimpy LED flash on your smartphone as bright as the xenon flash in your camera with a new chip that packs a supercapacitor for quick bursts of power. More »


Computing

This Giant Chunk Of Metal Is 4KB Of Memory

1:00AM January 25, 2012 | Sam Biddle

What’s this gent holding? A toaster? Farm equipment? Part of an engine? Wreckage from a destroyed tank? Nope — that’s 4KB of old-fashioned IBM memory. That’s enough to hold 12 per cent of my Facebook profile picture! More »


Computing

Intel’s CPU Insurance Is An Overclocker’s Wet Dream

5:00AM January 20, 2012 | Jamie Condliffe

Overclocking processors used to be extremely nerdy, but if anything it’s becoming more common these days. For those intent on squeezing performance from their chip, Intel’s new CPU insurance means getting it wrong needn’t be that expensive. More »


Computing

Mushkin’s Speedy New SSD Drives Are At The Top Of My Post-CES Buy List

12:00AM January 13, 2012 | Andrew Tarantola

My new years resolution — stop putting up with the interminably slow boot times of my desktop’s conventional hard drive. With these new solid state drives from Mushkin, I may actually keep my resolution past January. More »


Cameras

Who Wants A Video Lytro Cam?

2:15PM January 12, 2012 | Adrian Covert

The Lytro cam is probably my favourite piece of tech that has come out in the last couple of years. You never have to worry about a photo being in focus. Well according to The Verge, who interviewed Lytro’s Director of Photograpy Eric Cheng, a video-capable Lytro cam is totally possible. More »


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Hands On Intel’s Latest Stab At Mobile Processing

1:30PM January 11, 2012 | Brent Rose

The Medfield codename invoked strange Cloverfield associations for me. Would Intel’s first serious mobile chip be a monster that destroys absolutely everything in its path? Well, the dust has cleared, and we have the Atom Z2460. It’s not going to crush everything else, but it looks damn decent. More »


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Hands On Intel’s Last, Best Mobile Hope

9:15AM January 11, 2012 | Brian Barrett

Intel would be the first to admit that it’s fallen far behind int he mobile game. The company desperately wants in on the post-PC land grab, but so far hasn’t been able to put out a chip that’s not a battery-draining false start. Medfield is the processor that’s supposed to change all that. And based on our brief hands on, it honestly just might. More »


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Qualcomm Puts Quad-Core Processor In TV

4:00AM January 11, 2012 | Brent Rose

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors have been a hallmark of mobile devices for the past few years. Not content with keeping the party in your pockets, the Snapdragon is coming to your TV, to the tune of 1.5GHz quad-core processor mightiness. More »


Computing

Why You’ll Be Hearing From Xerox PARC A Whole Lot More

1:36PM December 23, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Much has been written about Xerox PARC, its legendary R&D legacy, and its inability to make money off their groundbreaking innovations. But what many people don’t know is that 10 years ago, it launched a new plan to turn research into dollars. This printed memory/logic circuit is the first fruit of the new plan. More »