Linus Torvalds is making the Chromebook Pixel his primary laptop
It’s no secret that Linux forefather Linus Torvalds is a pixel density enthusiast. He railed against the poor resolution of most laptop screens late last year, saying 2560 x 1600 should be the...
View ArticleNew benchmark could point to LG Optimus G2 with Snapdragon 800
We’ve already been hearing word about LG’s Optimus G follow-up for quite some time, though the rumor mill hadn’t been as busy following CES 2013. An early benchmark revealed some startling specs for a...
View ArticleKobo Arc 10HD spotted with Tegra 4 and 2560 x 1600 display
Barnes and Noble might have pulled the plug on Android-powered tablets, but its competitors at Kobo appear ready to double down. There appears to be a high-resolution Kobo Arc 10 in the works,… View...
View ArticleNew images of the iPad 5 front panel leak
Apple’s management team must hate the name Sonny Dickson by now. The website continues to leak high resolution images of what look to be legitimate, near final components for upcoming Apple devices....
View ArticleLenovo plays the long game with 21:9 ThinkVision monitor
Ultra-wide monitors and PCs are cropping up on a regular basis these days, so it’s little surprise to see that Lenovo’s unveiled its own cinematic panel at Berlin’s IFA conference. The company’s...
View ArticleKyocera creates 1mm thick ceramic piezo film speaker for ultra thin TVs
The latest generations of LCD TVs have gotten progressively thinner and shrunk the surrounding bezels to almost nothing while maintaining that now standard 1080p resolution. That’s great for the...
View ArticleCES 2014: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon loses some weight for CES 2014
Lenovo has come out swinging at this year’s CES 2014, with a number of products focused on the pros. Most important is the third-generation ThinkPad X1 Carbon, which Lenovo claims is now the world’s...
View ArticleTegra K1 benchmarks nearly double A7, Snapdragon 800 performance
Benchmarks for the newly announced Nvidia Tegra K1 indicate that it could live up to the lofty promises made by the graphics processing company at CES 2014. Preliminary tests found that the 192-core...
View ArticleSamsung launches an ultra high-def monitor for designers
Samsung has unveiled a a 31.5-inch UHD desktop monitor built to support a 3840 x 2160 resolution. The UD970 features 8.1 million pixels, and a 178-degree wide viewing angle. The monitor is built for...
View ArticleSony has 3 good reasons for not putting 2K screens in phones
The LG G3 is a seriously nice phone with a seriously high-resolution display. But is a 2560 x 1440 display really necessary on even a 5.5-inch smartphone? Sony doesn’t think so. They opted […] Read...
View ArticleSharp develops 736ppi IGZO LCD for use in 4K smartphones
Apparently numbers are what sells smartphones, and that’s why Apple made the iPhone 6 thinner rather than increasing its battery life, and why screen resolution and pixel density are always being...
View ArticleExclusive: Raspberry Pi CEO: I really want to see Amiga emulation on...
Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton is looking to spark a nostalgic Amiga emulation revolution following the launch of the Raspberry Pi 2. Thanks to a faster, quad-core ARM CPU and double the RAM of the...
View ArticleBuying Guide: Best monitor: the best displays on the market
Introduction Ten years ago, monitors were nothing more than necessary accessories. Today, they can be luxury items that dramatically improve all aspects of computing and content consumption. There are...
View ArticleLG develops 111-inch double-sided 4K OLED TV
The hottest tech in displays right now is OLED and 4K. Combine the two and you have a fantastic, high resolution at any size TV, but LG has gone a step further by […] Continued: LG develops 111-inch...
View ArticleLogitech debuts G810 mechanical keyboard with ‘faster than Cherry’ switches
Mechanical keyboards are definitely of the moment, and here’s another one from Logitech. The G810 Orion Spectrum is a full-size gaming keyboard with Romer-G mechanical switches which Logitech claims...
View ArticleThink your SSD will last forever? Google has some answers on that
The jostling between SSDs and spinning hard disks is an ongoing process, and some new research from Google has thrown light on the reliability of solid-state drives both in general terms, and compared...
View ArticleAcer’s widescreen projector blasts 120 inches of game onto your wall
Gaming monitors? Pah, says Acer, as the company unveils its new gaming projector which allows for the latest and greatest shooter to be played on a 120-inch screen. Acer claims that the Predator Z850...
View ArticleNvidia’s latest supercomputer is like ‘a datacenter in a box’
Move over, Watson – if you haven’t already. Nvidia has just unveiled the DGX-1, the "world’s first deep learning supercomputer" built on the firm’s newly announced Pascal architecture. Designed to...
View ArticleInterview: A closer look at HP’s new revolutionary memory technology
Two weeks ago, HPE announced a new memory type that promises to change make things slightly more exciting in the world of storage and computing generally. Dubbed Persistent Memory, it is initially...
View ArticleAsus ZenBook 3 promises to outperform a MacBook while being thinner and lighter
Regardless of how you feel about Apple, you can’t deny that the company’s hardware division has certainly pushed things forward in terms of design. We continue to get ever-thinner devices, with higher...
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