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Monday’s TechStuff episode was all about South by Southwest (or SXSW), an enormous, chaotic and amazing conference that the city of Austin hosts each year. The conference’s original focus was on music. Austin is known as a live music town and has an abundance of bars, restaurants and clubs with dedicated stages for music acts. It was a natural fit for Austin to host a week-long music event. Since 1987, bands from around the world have converged on Austin to play music, hang out with fans and eat their weight in BBQ. And as waistlines have grown, so too has the conference.
Are you artistic enough to be a Nobel-winning Scientist?
by Marshall Brain | April 14, 2011
This is both fascinating and unexpected. Written by Dr. Bob Root-Bernstein, a MacArthur Fellow who has been studying Nobel laureates, the article makes the point that Nobel-winning scientists almost always have artistic abilities as well: The Art of Scientific and Technological Innovations In fact, I’ve just published a study that shows that almost all Nobel [...]
This week Nvidia announced its latest Tegra processor for Tablet computers and smartphones. The chip has 4 cores, which appears to be a first in this class of CPUs. This gives it unprecedented power, as demonstrated in this video: Here is what it means in real terms – the ability to drive 1440p displays: “We [...]
On Friday we did PART 1 of the virtual CES walk-thru. Today we have PART 2 with another 20 amazing products seen in 2011 at CES: Alienware 3D Enabled M17x Laptop Razer Switchblade First Look – CES 2011 Motorola’s fast new Atrix smartphone Motorola Droid Bionic Walkthrough Hard drive vs. shot gun, M16 Audi R8 [...]
Here’s some of the most interesting stuff coming out of CES on January 6, 2011: Avatar Kinect CES 2011 CES 2011: Sony’s futuristic 3D head-mounted display Microsoft shows off ARM processors running Windows Scale That TWEETS Your Weight! Plus, Baby Monitor on Your iPhone! Withings CES Preview – Tekzilla Sony Ericcson Xperia Arc: Hands On [...]
Blast from the past – reverse engineering the 6502 microprocessor
by Marshall Brain | January 3, 2011
Back in the early 1980s, the 6502 microprocessor dominated the microprocessor landscape. The 6502 powered everything from the Apple II to the Nintendo NES. It contained just a few thousand transistors (compared to microprocessors today that exceed a billion transistors), but at the time it was quite powerful. Fast forward to today, and there are [...]
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 [...]
While I’m sure that we’ve talked about cruise control in the past, I thought we’d take just a few moments today to talk about a recent (but not necessarily new) variation of that original system — Dynamic Radar Cruise Control (DRCC). And since it’s not all-new technology, I’ll just give you a quick description of how the system works…
Phones With Facebook And Brain-Rotting Tech on TechStuff
by Jonathan Strickland | October 15, 2010
This week on TechStuff, Chris and I talked about rumors regarding a Facebook phone on Monday and on Wednesday we talked about a controversial idea that technology may have a detrimental effect upon the way we think. I also attended the Stuff You Should Know trivia contest here in Atlanta. I didn’t compete — it’s just not fair to the other teams. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
A few weeks ago, I wrote an article titled Do wars drive technological advancement? The short answer is that war can create the need for new technology and as a result engineers, scientists and mad geniuses come up with incredible inventions to meet that need. This week on TechStuff, Chris and I spoke about two inventions that are at least partly the product of war: the Gatling gun and sonar.
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