We’ve been witness to a lot of tech battles, both now and in the past.
Decades ago, one of the premier technological battles was between the Betamax and the VCR. The clear cut winner is arguably obsolete in this day and age, but there still remains technological wars to be won to this day.
After witnessing most of these tech gad [...]
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Famous Gadget Battles
We’ve been witness to a lot of tech battles, both now and in the past.
Decades ago, one of the premier technological battles was between the Betamax and the VCR. The clear cut winner is arguably obsolete in this day and age, but there still remains technological wars to be won to this day.
After witnessing most of these tech gad [...]
Keep Track of Your Phone this Holiday...
In a survey of over 5,000 gadgets (MP3 players, phones, tablets, and laptops) that got lost around the world this past year. The most common time for losing a phone was during holidays, especially while traveling.
Make sure to click on the picture below for the full size.
The best things to do are:
Back up your data: if you lose your phone, [...]
The History of Apple
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From Pop Chart Lab:
The world’s most comprehensive mapping of Apple products, this print shows every computer released by Apple in the last thirty years, from the original Mac through the MacBook Air. Products are sorted according to type, including the connections between various form factors [...]
Nook Touch Software Update
The Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch has gotten a software update from 1.0.1 to 1.1.0. Highlights are faster page turning, and improved font rendering. I found both to be slightly noticeable, but are well worth the update. The gray fuzz around letters has now largely disappeared, leaving a much crisper text. The page turning is al [...]
The Top 20 SSD Manufacturers in 2011 ...
StorageSearch.com, which tracks over 300 SSD manufacturers, has published a list of the top 20 most important companies. So who made the cut and who didn’t?
Some of the winners are:
Fusion-io
STEC
SandForce
Texas Memory Systems
OCZ
And some of the losers:
Micron Technology
NextIO
DDRdrive
Memoright
BiTMicro
I must admit that I’ve wanted [...]
What’s WHDI?
I put out a call on Sunday for suggestions about what topics I should cover. One of them was WHDI. So what is it? WHDI is short for Wireless Home Digital Interface, and promises to cut the cord clutter that becoming increasingly common for us with tons of gadgets and electronics.
WHDI is a consumer standard for HDTV, and has prominent compan [...]
Why is Borders Failing?
If you’ve been watching the news, then you probably know that Borders, one of the most well-known and visited bookstore chains, is going bankrupt. It’s closing 200 of it 642 stores, with all the stores closing being superstores. I for one have cashed in all my Borders gift cards and catching up on reading.
But why is Borders closing? Or rath [...]
Unboxing the iPad Data
John Kumahara and Johnathan Bonnell made a really great infographic “Unboxing the iPad Data” (larger version) showing data associated with the release of the iPad.
Top Articles on Teknophilia [Top 5]
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mooi
I’d like to wish everyone a late “Happy New Year!”
Last year, I started Teknophilia and have tried to cover pretty much everything in the field of technology. So I thought it would be good to see which of these articles attracted the most interest.
In decreasing order, last year’s top 5 articles were:
1. Windows Media Center Customizati [...]
Less Do, More Think [SOTW]
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colemama
“I am very concerned with how technology is used and even more concerned with how technology is talked about in education. Many people will have us believe that more technology is the way to improved education. What I have seen is that more technology leads to no fundamental change in teaching.
What is even more concerning is that [...]
How Important have Apps become? [Info...
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Source: Flowtown
“Smart” Eyeglasses Fill Y...
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B_Zedan
“New high-tech glasses track your gaze and display information about what you’re looking at, which could make a simple stroll down the street much more interesting.
Researchers in Finland have made a prototype pair of glasses that attaches to a small handheld computer and retrieves information from a database.
“The glasses recognize [...]
Tablets and Cloud Computing
Uncrate
With the release of Apple’s iPad, BlackBerry’s Playbook, and Toshiba, HP, and Dell joining the fray, I have to wonder whether this is another gimmick, or a fundamental change in the industry.
In recent years, we’ve been changing from laptops to netbooks. This was bound to happen because first, we don’t really need a powerful computer [...]
USB Dead Drops
agoasi
“‘Dead Drops’ is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. I am ‘injecting’ USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. You are invited to go to these places (so far 5 in NYC) to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to s [...]
Re-Evolution: Technology + Culture + ...
Remember when you could go to the World’s Fair and see the future? The amazing technologies, ideas, and exhibitions that were bonded by the feelings of progress, excitement, and anticipation of a better world? What happened to that? Re-Evolution is a large scale industrial art and technology festival in Los Angeles that is trying to bring ba [...]
Mozilla Seabird: Greatest Concept Pho...
Mozilla Labs
The folks over at Mozilla Labs (Firefox, Thunderbird) launched the Concept Series a while back as a way to share “ideas, expertise & vision for the future of the Web, the Mozilla project and Firefox.” Billy May, a product designer, produced the “Open Web Concept Phone,” which has since been named “Seabird”.
This phone follow [...]
Google Gives away TV’s!
Shekhar_Sahu
Google’s conferences always have an awesome freebie with attendance, at several conferences; they’ve given away their phones (Nexus One) and other’s (G1, EVO 4G). This is some pretty great loot, but it looks like their latest conference is going to be remembered by its 600 attendees as the best one yet. What could be better th [...]
India’s $35 Tablet
viagallery.com
India is showing off prototypes of a $35 touchscreen tablet which it hopes to sell to students in 2011. The tablet is Linux-based, and will have a word-processor, web-browsing, and video-conferencing. At an added cost, a solar-power option is available for people without access to electricity.
Kapil Sibal, the human resources [...]
Why the iPad shouldn’t take off...
Fiona Page
The iPad won’t be something I admire until it becomes a household name. I don’t mean the one it is now, where the mention of one garners “oohs” and “aahs” from whomever may be nearby. I mean a household name where mentioning it is as natural as mentioning that you have a cell phone. I think of i [...]
Engineer Guy [Education]
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