Home security hasn’t changed much in the last couple decades. Door locks, peep holes, and alarms cover much of the available product spectrum in consumer grade home security. While technology exists to actively record video via Internet enabled cameras, implementations of these systems are typically expensive or tricky to operate. Logitech, the computer peripheral company most recently [...]
Posted in Cameras, Consumer Electronics, Networking, PCs and Laptops, Powerline, Video 
Tags: camera, homeplug, Logitech, Logitech Alert, networking, powerline, security 
No Comments »While interactive table top displays haven’t really entered the mainstream of society, they’re still an extremely cool technology with an almost limitless number of uses. Implementations of these devices, such as Microsoft’s Surface, offer users a two dimensional multi-touch computing environment. And while they’re especially well suited for situations in which several users may simultaneously interact with the [...]
Posted in Displays, PCs and Laptops, Touchscreens Tags: haptics, Madget, Microsoft Surface, multi-touch, touchscreen, widget 2 Comments »The introduction of the tabbed web browsing user interface was a major improvement to web browsing software – so much so that all major web browsers, like Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera all include some rendition of tabs to organize web pages in an Internet session. Prior to tabs, each web page a user [...]
Here’s video of an interesting experiment by Mozy, the online data backup provider. In an effort to impress the importance of data backup in today’s world, the company offers random passers-by a free laptop if they’re willing to destroy theirs immediately and completely. The number of individuals who decline the offer effectively demonstrates that many [...]
Posted in PCs and Laptops, Storage Tags: backup, Cloud Storage, Mozy, network attached storage No Comments »We’ve been huge proponents of both long term and redundant data backup solutions, but nothing to the extent being considered by the European Space Agency. At a conference last month, Europe’s version of NASA considered creating a “Doomsday Ark” on the Moon as a hedge against some cataclysmic eventuality like nuclear war or other extinction [...]
Posted in PCs and Laptops, Science, Space, Storage, Technology Tags: Databank, Doomsday Ark, ESA, Moon, NASA, RAID, space, storage 1 Comment »Blu-ray discs exceeding 100GB of capacity should be available shortly, now that the Blu-ray Disc Association has finalized and released its BDXL specification. In an announcement today, the association said the following: “…manufacturers can now obtain licensing information and license applications needed to begin production of the high capacity write-once and rewritable discs and hardware [...]
Posted in Optical Storage, PCs and Laptops, Storage Tags: BDXL, Blu-ray, blu-ray disc association No Comments »If you’re a serious gamer or nuclear fission simulation specialist, you’ll love Intel’s newest experimental multi-core CPU. Like its previously announced 48 core cousin, this 50 core behemoth of multi-threaded processing power is being dubbed a single chip cloud computer processor. Based on 22nm process technology, specially designed software will need to be developed to utilize the [...]
Posted in PCs and Laptops, Processors Tags: 48-Core CPU, Cloud Computing, Intel, processor 1 Comment »
