We may all drool over the latest and greatest PC hardware as it trickles onto the web, but quite honestly, it’s the same story year after year. More transistors, more cores, more efficiency combined with more processing power. The real excitement however, will come when scientists finally unlock quantum computing for the masses. The potential of such technology has far reaching and incredibly powerful potential. And thanks to the help of several intelligent...
If you’re familiar with the Samsung Alias currently available on Verizon Wireless, the Samsung Zeal is the obvious successor. Featuring the same dual-hinge desgin and E-ink display means a nifty transforming phone that takes to physical tricks to adapt to the variations life offers. As far as specs go — we don’t have any quite yet. But it’s not exactly a “smart” phone. With that said, the featurephone market is still quite important to...
Foxconn has been in the news quite a bit this past year, though not in the way that I’m sure the executives would like. First it was for poor working conditions. Then it was for mass suicides occurring on a daily basis attributed to the poor living/working conditions. And now some more less than stellar news for the consumer electronic manufacturering giant. Truth be told, it’s not really another “bad” story per say. Just a handful of pictures...
We’ve seen this scenario before — batteries are languishing behind technological improvements in our digital devices. Roughly every couple of months, we see some story detailing an all new method of creating/charging batteries or some new material that supposedly will increase runtime considerably. And yet many years and several stories later, we’re still left with this pathetic Lithium-Ion gig we’ve been using for the last several years. Though...
With the increase in popularity, touchscreen-enabled phones have solved one problem and created several more. Of those new problems, perhaps one of the more troubling ones pertains to cold weather-living people. How exactly do you keep your hands warm and push all of those onscreen buttons? You typical capacitive touchscreen needs some type of resistance to register input. The human skin is great for this. Gloves — not so much. In recent years, however, a new...
