The Elements of Gadgets and Gaming
Let’s stop for a minute to appreciate the fact that Apple has literally named their newest iPhone the “Excess”. Which perfectly sums up the current state of the high end smartphone market. Cupertino’s newest shiny has come under fire for yet another boost in price. The base model XS starts at $1,379 CAD for the…
Lithium batteries have completely revolutionized the way we build and use our gadgets. They’re small and light, but pack a big energy wallop. They can also spontaneously explode, like when this this poor chap’s e-cigarette set his pants on fire. What’s going on here? What are lithium batteries? Lithium is the lightest metal. It packs the highest energy…
The thing about DRM is it will always get hacked, eventually. Sometimes it’s dead stupid. Just ask Keurig, who saw their attempt defeated by a piece of plastic. The purveyor of overpriced, low quality coffee launched their Keurig 2.0 brewing system last year. It features a scanner that only allows approved K-Cups to be used…
The Raspberry Pi, everyone’s favourite little project board, is getting a big upgrade. The new version, dubbed the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B+, is doubling up on processing power and memory. It now features a quad-core ARMv7 processor running at 900mhz, as well as 1GB of RAM. The organization notes that it’s about six times…
Millions of Americans suddenly woke up without broadband today, as the FCC voted to change the definition of high speed internet access. The regulator approved a report, in a 3-2 vote, that asked the minimum definition be changed to 25mbps, up from 4mbps. The report came to this conclusion after taking family internet usage into account….
Modern computing turns 66 this year. It was in June 1946 that ENIAC, the first general purpose computer, was turned on. That got me thinking. If the transistor had never been invented, how large would a modern tube powered computer be? ENIAC weighed 27 tonnes for its 17,468 tubes and other components. So I Googled…