Last minute geek

1. Asus festeggia i 30 anni con lo ZenBook Edition 30
(Italiano/webnews)

Asus rilascia lo ZenBook 13 Edition 30 in quantità limitate, con un aspetto elegante: bianco perla e rivestimento in pelle ma l'hardware non sorprende. The post Asus festeggia i 30 anni con lo ZenBook ...

2. Gorgeous seven-segment display that depicts numbers by heating and cooling
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... Each segment is blackish in color when cool, but slowly changes from reddish to yellow to green as it heats up. Behind the scenes is some nifty hardware work by the physicist Moritz v. Sivers, as this ...

3. iPhone Pro, new iPad and 16-inch MacBook Pro details emerge
(English/engadget)

As usual before the fall, Apple's next batch of products are coming into focus. A Bloomberg report has given us our best glimpse yet at the new hardware, including "Pro" iPhones that'll ...

4. Optoma NuForce BE Free6 truly wireless Bluetooth earbuds review
(English/the-gadgeteer)

... in the box? Left and Right earbuds Charging case USB–C Charging cable, about 12-inch length Instruction manual Hardware … Optoma NuForce BE Free6 truly wireless Bluetooth earbuds review Read More ...

5. TaoTronics SoundSurge 60 active noise cancelling headphones review
(English/the-gadgeteer)

... fold up nicely to fit inside their hard-shell carrying case.  What’s in the box? Headphones  Carrying case   User guide  3.5mm audio cable  Charging cable Hardware specs Connection: Bluetooth 5.0 ...

6. Alienware's Aurora desktop and gaming monitors get a huge redesign
(English/engadget)

... gaming hardware, both in a bid to throw in new specs and brin... Read all  ...

7. Kickstarting a clever, tiny wireless mouse/presentation controller designed for tight spaces
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... crowdfunders for hardware, making them a good bet for fulfilling orders. They're $89 for limited earlybird purchases, $99 full price, and $188 for two-packs. I ordered one. TRACPOINT - TRAVEL MOUSE and ...

8. How much keyboard latency can you take?
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... up filtered through a zillion layers of microcontrollers, firmware, virtual machinery, applications, hardware abstraction layers and God knows what else before a byte gets to the screen. How annoying is ...

9. Getting deplatformed from Apple. “Your account has been permanently disabled. There is nothing else you can do, there is no escalation path.”
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... and conditions.” It turned out that getting locked out of his Apple account made all of Luke's Apple hardware almost useless. From his article on Quartz: I started to realize just how far-reaching the ...

10. How to make a replica of the GENIAC Electric Brain from 1955
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... panel with six areas of concentric perforations, six similarly perforated Masonite disks, and some additional hardware listed in the supplies section below. Slotted brass bolts were positioned on the main ...

11. Valve's VR headphones started life as two speakers taped to a skate helmet
(English/engadget)

As Valve is continues its forays into VR hardware, the company has shared some insights into the development process for the headphones included in its Index VR kit. Read all  ...

12. This tiny Nintendo Switch TV dock looks amazing
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... of a Kickstarter campaign. Normally, that'd make picking one of these up a non-starter for me. I've been burned too many times in the past by hardware that took years to drop or simply disappeared into ...

13. We're live from Samsung's Galaxy Note 10 event in Brooklyn
(English/engadget)

Samsung has already shown off some new hardware, but today's the day we finally get to see what the company is doing with the Galaxy Note. Are we getting two of them? Almost definitely. Is a 5G model ...

14. Three Companies Bringing Innovation to Open Keyboards
(English/Linuxtoday)

 FOSSforce: As open source hardware becomes a real thing, open keyboard companies are redesigning the input device from the ground up using open designs. Read all  ...

15. LG's next dual-screen phone may gain a small outer display (updated)
(English/engadget)

While Samsung and Huawei refine their foldable devices, LG has introduced expanding hardware with its V50 ThinQ (shown above) that uses a case to add a second screen. The company's invite to its unveiling ...

16. Podcast: "IBM PC Compatible": how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... standard for PC hardware. There are many reasons that IBM came to dominate the fragmented PC market: they had the name recognition ("No one ever got fired for buying IBM," as the saying went) and the manufacturing ...

17. Google pledges to 'maximize' recycled material in own products
(English/engadget)

Google has been making consumer hardware under its "Made by Google" brand -- like its Pixel phones and Google Home Minis -- for three years, and dabbled in other hardware for a few years before ...

18. "IBM PC Compatible": how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... Microsoft's preferred integration partner, where a young software-hardware wizard named Tom Jennings (creator of the pioneering networked BBS software FidoNet) would work with Microsoft's MS-DOS source ...

19. How To Find Hardware Specifications On Linux
(English/Linuxtoday)

There are plenty of tools available to find hardware specifications on Linux systems. Read all  ...

20. The Latest Certified Open Source Hardware: July 2019
(English/makezine)

  The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) runs a free program that allows creators to certify that their hardware complies with the community definition of open source hardware.  Whenever you ...

21. SNK promises 'next gen' Neo Geo hardware to follow its Mini console
(English/engadget)

Amid the retro gaming console fad, last year's release of the Neo Geo Mini didn't attract as much attention as others, but SNK is back this summer with a $140 Samurai Shodown edition to celebrate ...

22. The Morning After: The best wireless earbuds we've used so far
(English/engadget)

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous. August is upon us. We're ready to make the call on the "best true wireless earbuds" around, and Samsung's next generation of new hardware is starting ...

23. Ford acquisisce Quantum Signal
(Italiano/webnews)

Con lo scopo di consegnare centinaia di veicoli autonomi per la fine dell'anno, Ford ha deciso di affidarsi allo sviluppo software e hardware di Quantum. The post Ford acquisisce Quantum Signal appeared ...

24. Samsung teases dates for a new Galaxy Tab and Galaxy Watch
(English/engadget)

Samsung isn't waiting until its Galaxy Note 10 event on August 7th to show all the hardware it's releasing later in 2019. The company has teased online reveals for its latest Galaxy Tab (believed ...

25. Purism Reveals Final Hardware Specs of the Privacy-Focused Librem 5 Linux Phone
(English/Linuxtoday)

The Librem 5 Linux phone is currently available for pre-order Read all