Category Archives: Gadgets

CES 2012 and OLED based Televisions

Remember when a decade ago when Plasma technology was first introduced to the public? People living in the then CRT dominated time period were amazed at just how thin this technology allowed televisions to become. At that point in time I recall my father saying something along the lines of, “There is simply no way televisions could have a slimmer profile.” Fast forward 10 or so years later and it’s absolutely amazing how wrong he was with that statement. Simply take a look at the video attached above to appreciate just how thin the next generation OLED based Television Panels can become! We can only wish that the strong presence of OLED technology in this years Consumers Electronics Show translates into faster adoption of the technology for devices aimed at the general public (i.e. people who do not own yachts). Anyhow, if you haven’t already done so, I urge you to look at the video above showing the latest 55″ OLED offering from LG electronics!

Dissecting a platter based Hard drive

Have you ever wondered how the hard drive in your computer works? To my surprise, almost all the tech savvy individuals I spoke to today could not provide a satisfactory answer to this question despite being able to identify almost all the internal components that make up a platter based hard disk. Luckily for us, Bill Hammack from the Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Illinois tackles this topic in his latest video.

AMD’s Press Conference at Computex on APU

If you have been keeping up with the latest in computing technology you have most likely heard about AMD’s Fusion APU platform. In laymen’s terms, an Accelerated Processing Unit consists of a CPU (Central Processing Unit) in addition to a GPU (Graphics processing unit) on a single die. The benefit of this architecture is the ability to seamlessly perform tasks taking advantage of Hardware Acceleration like video decoding and 3d rendering without having to ping the CPU (As seen in Youtube demonstrations for their Llano family of APU’s).