Tag / Technology

Take a look at this map from Gizmodo showing the cost and speed of high-speed Internet around the world. Note Japan’s average speed of 61mbps! (click to enlarge)

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I admit this is pretty cool. It’s amazing they can fit the components into such a thin case, but my question is why? I don’t necessarily want a laptop that’s a couple of pieces of paper thick. I need to see these things proven before I’m sold. Do they overheat? Are they flimsy? Do they feel cheaply made? What kind of performance do you get? How thin is too thin?

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CNET has an excellent article today listing the 10 things you should know about LED TVs. Here are the first two… 1. An LED TV is not a new kind of TV. I appreciate a good marketing ploy as much as the next guy, but an LED TV is just an LCD TV that's backlit with light-emitting diodes (LEDs) instead of standard cold-cathode florescent lights (or CCFLs). And while they've become best-known this year with Samsung's ultra-thin models, LED-backlit LCDs have been on mainstream store shelves since 2007, when Samsung's LN-T4681F debuted.   Unlike plasma and OLED, which are emissive...

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Here’s a sneak-peek at Google Voice from the good folks at Butterscotch:

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