Jul 17
ThermalTake’s Black Element gaming
mouse has been out for a little while now, but a new variation of
that rodent has recently hit stores, putting a twist on its already
pretty robust feature-set – and we mean that literally.
Jul 12
If you’ve taken all the information we covered about home automation earlier and decided that you want to install one in your home, then the next (and obvious) thing you need to do is figure out which provider to go with. Vivint appears to be a prime contender, seeing as they’ve just recently got the Central Station of the Year Award.
Jul 09
Fujitsu has developed two new mobile
PCs – a hybrid tablet and a convertible notebook – all set up and
ready for Windows 8 and the business-end of the computer market.
Jul 09
Gartner Inc. reported today that organizations will spend over $3.6 trillion worldwide on IT products and services, which is about a three percent increase compared to last year’s spending, totaling $3.5 trillion. The report was revised from a previous forecast of a 2.5 percent increase in spending this year on IT products and services.
The report said that the largest market for IT will continue to be telecommunication services, which will grow to $1.7 trillion this year—up 1.4 percent from last year. More will also be spent on Internet technology and consumer electronics by businesses in emerging economies. It’s expected that IT services will increase by about 2.3 percent this year largely due to demand for consulting services.
The cloud is going to be one of the areas that should experience some real significant growth, according to Gartner. Cloud tech spending is expected to grow to $109 billion—a whopping 19 percent this year. That amount is also expected to double by the year 2016.
[via Bloomberg]
Gartner reports global IT spending to reach $3.6 trillion this year is written by Elise Moreau & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Jul 06
Dust off that Walkman, Daddy-O! SONY’s new series of cassette tapes sports larger text and wider labels designed to appeal to a whole old generation of music fans!
Jul 06
Here’s Why Your Geek Squad Appointment Has Been Delayed Until Half Past Never [Rumors]
Posted in: Today's Chili
A tipster who works for Best Buy has told us that the company on Tuesday began implementing a “restructuring plan,” which is PR-speak for massive layoffs and the reason your Geek Squad appointment has been indefinitely delayed. More »
Jul 05
July 4th has come and gone, and we hope it was a good one for you. Unfortunately for the people who attended the San Diego Independence Day fireworks, the show that was supposed to last 18 minutes was reduced to a 15 second-long explosion of fireworks. That’s right, they all went off at once.
It was said that a technical problem caused a signal to be sent to the barges about five minutes before the show was to begin, which actually set the timing for the fireworks to go off after the introduction. According to the fireworks company that put on the show, Garden State Fireworks, all signals were tested properly hours leading up to the show.
Check out the video below to see the entire show explode right before your eyes, from start to finish.
The company said that a mishap like this one is very uncommon and there was nothing found to be wrong in the pyrotechnics, so it had to be an electronics problem. An embarrassing situation for the Port of San Diego, a tweet was sent out last night apologizing for the short-lived event.
[via CNET]
Tech glitch causes San Diego fireworks to go off all at once is written by Elise Moreau & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.
Jul 03
Windows RT Tablets? Count HP Out
Posted in: Today's Chili
It seems that the biggest manufacturer
of PCs will not be putting out a new tablet device based on
Microsoft’s upcoming Windows RT operating system.
Jul 03
When I was working on a prototype for an electronics project many years ago in college, I remember wishing that a kind of a stretchable wire had already been invented. Well, after many years, it looks like the technology is finally here. Researchers at the McCormick School of Engineering together with a team of U.S. scientists were able to develop a technology that will allow electronics to stretch nearly four times its size and length. How? The team reportedly created a highly porous three-dimensional structure using a polymer material that can stretch to three times its original size. Then, they placed a liquid metal called EGaIn inside the pores which allows electricity to flow consistently even when the material is excessively stretched.
“By combining a liquid metal in a porous polymer, we achieved 200 percent stretchability in a material that does not suffer from stretch. Once you achieve that technology, any electronic can behave like a rubber band,” environmental engineering and mechanical engineering professor Yonggang Huang said. Huang’s paper entitled “Three-dimensional Nanonetworks for Giant Stretchability in Dielectrics and Conductors” was recently published via Nature Communications last month. Right now, the challenge is the loss of conductivity in the stretchable electronics. Researchers are hoping that the technology will be applied to medical devices sometime in the future.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Patient monitoring patch is in the pipeline, Binary Chairs by BRC Designs,
Jul 03
Bendable electronics are nothing new. But if you’re after an electronic party trick, you’re going to want to get your hands on a new breed of stretchable circuitry. More »
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