Ever heard of Mobile High-Definition Link, or MHL for short? Today, it’s a way to connect a smartphone to a HDTV or monitor via microUSB. But the new SuperMHL could challenge HDMI and DisplayPort dominance over your entire home theater. Read more…
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Look Out HDMI and DisplayPort, There’s a New Cable in Town
“Hidden city ticketing” can offer steep discounts on airfare. Basically, you book a flight past your destination , with your target destination as a stop on the route, and save more than if on the direct route. Skiplagged is one site that shows you these hidden deals. Read more…
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Skiplagged Finds "Hidden City" Fares for the Cheapest Plane Tickets
itwbennett writes: For too long, it looked like SSD capacity would always lag well behind hard disk drives, which were pushing into the 6TB and 8TB territory while SSDs were primarily 256GB to 512GB. That seems to be ending. In September, Samsung announced a 3.2TB SSD drive. And during an investor webcast last week, Intel announced it will begin offering 3D NAND drives in the second half of next year as part of its joint flash venture with Micron. Meanwhile, hard drive technology has hit the wall in many ways. They can’t really spin the drives faster than 7, 200 RPM without increasing heat and the rate of failure. All hard drives have now is the capacity argument; speed is all gone. Oh, and price. We’ll have to wait and see on that. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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How Intel and Micron May Finally Kill the Hard Disk Drive
If you ever wondered what the characters of South Park looked like in real life in the minds of Trey Parker and Matt Stone, wonder no more. Last night’s crazy episode revealed what Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny would look like if they weren’t just cartoons made of shapes and circles but actual humans instead. Read more…
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What the characters from South Park look like in real life
Samsung’s serious about virtual reality , and not just with a fancy headset accessory for the Note 4. The company’s also built its own lightweight 360-degree camera, dubbed Project Beyond. Read more…
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Samsung Project Beyond: A 360° Camera For Streaming Virtual Reality
Yes, we just got done telling you all about some Microsoft Band rumors, but don’t bother with those: The Microsoft Band is officially official . The 10-sensor fitness tracker, which should last two days on a charge, will go on sale tomorrow for $200. Read more…
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The Microsoft Band Is a $200 Heart-Monitoring Wristable Supreme
How often do you find yourself interested in playing table tennis only to discover that small plastic ball either missing, crushed, or too sticky from a round of Beer Pong to bounce? The Sharper Image has the solution in the form of this $60 Virtual Pong game that projects a ball of light on the walls and ceiling, saving you from having to spend countless pennies replacing that white plastic IRL one. Read more…
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Virtual Table Tennis Finally Gets Rid Of That Expensive Plastic Ball
Induction stove tops might be more energy-efficient than electric or gas burners, but many chefs miss the obvious visual cues about what temperature they’re cooking at—a red-hot burner is hard to misinterpret. So for its new Chef Collection Induction Slide-in Range, Samsung is introducing a clever new feature that uses LEDs to project fake flickering flames onto the side of a pot. Read more…
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Fake LED Flames Indicate How Hot Samsung’s New Induction Stove Gets
Windows: Many people have kept their old Windows XP computers running because they have software on the systems that can’t be reinstalled. VirtualXP lets you migrate an existing Windows XP installation into a virtual machine that you can run on Windows 7 or 8. Read more…
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VirtualXP Runs Your Old XP Installation Safely in Windows 7 or 8
Next year is the 800th anniversary of sealing the Magna Carta, and to prepare for the milestone, British Library conservationists used multispectral imaging to save parts of the text thought to be lost. Read more…
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Multispectral Imaging Found Magna Carta Passages Lost for 250 Years