Where does the time go. Had to believe another year has rolled by and here we are, just after Valentine’s day celebrating another National Battery day—wow! While unable to find out who invented Battery Day, or exactly when, I was able to trace it back to 2009. Why February 18 for this national observance? The best reason I can think … Read more
The arrival of National Battery Day inspires some thoughts about batteries, who invented them, and what we do with them.
Dollars per nit Three new 4K projectors were recently announced, Acer’s $4k, 4K 3K lumen VL7860, N-tech’s $0.47k, 4k, 1.5k lumen, and BenQ’s $1.5k, 4k, 2.2k lumen HT2550 projector. Acer’s and BenQ’s are also HDR compatible, Acer is supporting a wide color gamut of 110 percent of the Rec. 709 color space and is Rec. 2020 compatible, and BenQ offering … Read more
2018 the year of the specs As you may recall, you regular readers of TechWatch, I’ve made bets with people that 20% of us elite class will be wearing attractive looking smart glasses by 2020. At the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona, Deutsche Telekom and Zeiss announced future collaboration in the field of smart glasses. Their goal is to … Read more
The better to see you with my dear. My grandmother told me, never stick anything smaller than your elbow in you eyes or ear. But grandma didn’t know about lasers, VR, and AR (she would have liked them). By now almost anyone reading this knows about the screen-door effect one gets when a display is placed close to your eye—you … Read more
In one of the largest product launches outside of CES where Premium consumer products took center stage, HP is taking premium to the mainstream with its latest commercial product launch. The company has introduced three Elite commercial notebooks, two Z-series workstation notebooks, four high-res monitors, and docker for all. Elitebook 800 G5 series HP positions its EliteBook series as the … Read more
With 21 quadrillion available, surely, I can have a couple. If it storms in Colorado I see it in Tiburon. Half way between HP’s workstation campus in Fort Collins, CO, and Rocky mountain high Denver is Castle Rock, CO. DirecTV receives and compiles its satellite and fiber-optic transmissions at its Castle Rock Colorado broadcast center which are then uplinked to … Read more
We’re going to have them. Back in 2016 I bet several people we’d have consumer-class smart glasses and that 20% of the population would be using them by 2020. I got scared around mid-2017, but now I’m feeling more confident. However, rule one for a consumer product is that it has to look good. Rule two, it has to be … Read more
$2.91 billion in sales, $1.1 billion profit up 33% from last quarter. Nvidia reported record revenue for the fourth quarter ended February 8, 2017, of $2.91 billion, up 34% from $2.17 billion a year earlier, and up 10% from $2.63 billion in the previous quarter, with growth across all its platforms. “Industries around the world are racing to incorporate AI. … Read more
Are the Chinese crazy? The Chinese grabbed headlines in 2010 with the announcement of their home built Tianhe-1 supercomputer, that delivered 1.2 PFLOPS, aided by AMD GPUs. The Tianhe-1A, a companion system at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, delivers pushed the performance up to 4.7 peak PFLOPS. The National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin is now planning a new supercomputer, … Read more
The accidental art of storms across Texas caught on satellite
