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Can you take all the parts of a PC, fit them onto a board that is the size of a stick of gum and then charge $25 for it? Seeing is believing: The first line of the video is so simple, but also mind-blowing: This little device is the prototype version of a Raspberry Pi [...]
One of the most interesting things I saw coming out of CES 2011 is the Motorola Atrix phone. It answers a question that has been a long time coming: What if you make a smart phone so powerful that it is as powerful as a laptop? The phone has a fast processor, plenty of RAM, [...]
What can we expect to be coming down the technology pipe in 2011 and in 2015? The following article offers a view of the technological change we can expect in the computer realm next year. What will “home computers” and laptops look like in 2011? It is a very impressive list of changes: The Tipping [...]
The first dual-screen clamshell laptop is about to become reality
by Marshall Brain | August 18, 2010
Microsoft teased the idea of a dual-screen clamshell laptop when it released the Courier idea. The Courier also happened to come with a completely new OS…
Courier was killed, but the dual-screen idea (with Windows 7 rather than a new OS) lives on in the Toshiba Libretto W100 dual screen tablet, as seen here…
In this listener-mail inspired episode of TechStuff, Jonathan and Chris discuss the recently launched Apple iPad.
The surprising backlash to Apple’s iPad tablet computer
by Marshall Brain | January 28, 2010
There has been a surprising amount of backlash to Apple’s iPad tablet computer. The main things that people are complaining about include: 1) Crippled operating system. People were hoping for a real operating system that would be able to run (and multi-task) real applications on a real processor. 1a) Weak processor compared to a netbook. [...]
Progressive Scan and Being Productive – TechStuff Style
by Jonathan Strickland | January 22, 2010
Podcasting about technology is an interesting experience. Some weeks we concentrate on fun topics like tech movies or technology pranks. Other weeks we’ll tackle harder topics like electronic theory or quantum computing. This week fell somewhere in the middle.
On Monday, we published an episode about progressive scan technology. Progressive scan refers to a method of displaying pixels on a television screen or monitor. It’s the alternative to interlacing, which was the standard technology for analog televisions.
Yesterday was a rough day at CES. On top of the crowds and the noise, I managed to develop a migraine on the show floor. But before I was reduced to a whimpering mess, I did get an up-close look at one of the biggest buzz generators at the show this year: the Lenovo U1.
The U1 is a hybrid device. It’s part notebook computer, part tablet. It’s the size of a netbook computer (but don’t call it that — Lenovo officials will quickly correct you).
This morning, I’m recovering from walking the massive show floor at the 2010 Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas, Nev. I’ll be heading back out for day two in a couple of hours. While I’ve only seen a fraction of what the show has to offer, several trends are already noticeable.
Most of the trends come as little surprise. We knew that tablet computers would be popular (though there aren’t as many on the show floor as I had expected). Amazon’s success with the Kindle pretty much guaranteed we’d see more e-readers this year. Netbooks have a strong presence again. As far as televisions go, it seems everyone has 3-D and Internet-capable sets to show off. And technology that either lets you pretend to play music or actually teaches you how to play is huge.
Hot on the heels of Google’s announcement that Gmail (and other Google applications) has finally emerged from beta comes a new bombshell: Google is fleshing out the Chrome browser to become a fully-fledged operating system. In the official Google blog, Google executives Sundar Pichai and Linus Upson laid out the strategy behind the new product. According to them, the OS will be fast, secure and designed to support Web applications.
I’m not really surprised by this news. People in the tech industry have gossiped about the possibility of a Google-powered operating system for a couple of years now. When Google Chrome debuted, several tech journalists pointed out that the browser wasn’t just fast — it worked well with other Google products like Gmail and Google Docs. In some ways, Chrome is already an operating system for Web-based applications. But it exists as an application running on top of another operating system like Linux, Windows or Mac OS.
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