Technology Hacks from the Owl
This Wraparound Gaming Monitor by Alienware was a prototype displayed at CES 2008 expo. It supports a max Res of 2880×900. This sample appears bleak and washed out. However, the commercial models which will be out...
A new technology from Japan makes the latest HD movies look simply archaic. Last week, engineers at NHK’s (Nippon Hoso Kyokai) Science and Technical Research Laboratories demonstrated Super Hi-Vision technology capable of a 7680×4320 resolution. At...
Security researcher Nick Breese used a PS3 to crack supposedly strong eight-character passwords in a matter of hours. Typically, previous attempts to crack such passwords took days to get the same result. Eight-character passwords are used...
All technologies are migrating onto “serial” instead of parallel, although parallel is about 10 times faster than serial data communication. Eg: SATA over Parallel ATA [IDE] The SCSI interface is also being transformed into serial. What...
The multiple countries participating in the Joint Photographic Experts Group, which created the JPEG standard, have approved an effort to make Microsoft’s High Definition Photo format a standard called JPEG XR. XR stands for “extended range,”...
Sigbritt Löthberg, 75, Karlstad Sweden has a 40 gigabits per second connection ,which is the first time ever that a home user had such bandwidth to play with. With a 40gbps line, about 1,500 high definition...
Below is a video of panoramic photo of Harlem. Those of you bragging about your 10 Megapixel cameras ought to have a look. Microsoft’s HD View technology is used to render the images into a panorama....
Intel Corporation and other industry leaders have formed the USB 3.0 Promoter Group to create a superspeed personal USB interconnect that can deliver over 10 times the speed of today’s 2.0 connection ( by adding fiber-optic...
Senior citizens at the Sunrise Home in Birmingham, UK, have found a new way to kill time. Residents as old as 103 have ditched knitting and bridge after getting hooked onto the Nintendo Wii console. Barrie...
Microsoft plans on unleashing Internet TV on or around September 27th, which will enable Media Center users to watch a variety of on-demand, ad-supported content free of charge.Best of all, this feature will simply be delivered...
