Technology Archive
Panasonic’s Blu-Ray player for your car
Closed Published October 26th, 2007 in Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, TechnologyIt looks like you’re new to Easy Tech Talk, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. You may also want to follow me on Twitter to stalk me and see what I’m doing. Thanks for visiting! Ubergizmo has posted about an in-dash Blu-Ray player for your car. You can read the full article [...]
In light of the Southern California Wildfires which are raging about 30 miles from where I am, I wanted to post a small thought and question for you all out there.
The weather here is making the effort to fight the fires very tough and I was thinking that man’s next great technological advancement should be [...]
Recycle old electronics and cell phones
2 Comments Published October 15th, 2007 in Blog Action Day, Cell Phone, TechnologyHave you ever thought about recycling you computer, cell phone, or any other old electronics that you might be throwing away? Doing so can reduce the amount of harmful materials such as lead and mercury that enter landfills and in turn enter the ground or air.
Blog Action Day has chosen the topic of the [...]
Sony confirms OLED by December 1st
3 Comments Published October 1st, 2007 in HDTV, OLED, Technology, TelevisionSony has confirmed that they will be releasing their first generation OLED TVs in early December in Japan. No you are not seeing things, that is actually how thin this OLED is. Now this might not sound that interesting but look at it this way, they are going to start manufacturing an HDTV [...]
A.I. How far is too far?
6 Comments Published September 25th, 2007 in Artificial Intelligence, Robot, TechnologyRecently a computer known as “Chinook” solved the game of checkers showing that a perfectly played game can inevitably end in a draw. Artificial intelligence, also known as A.I. has come a long way since the early days of simple computers performing simple tasks. Alarm clocks, auto timers on microwaves, temperature sensing central [...]
Texas man builds a robotic clone of his son
Closed Published September 13th, 2007 in Programming, Robot, TechnologyI saw this article this morning and found it pretty interesting.
A Texas man is building and tweaking a robotic clone of his son.
Closed Captions provided by…
Closed Published September 12th, 2007 in Computers, Technology, TelevisionHave you ever wondered how closed captions work? Me too, and apparently so did the group of guys that were sitting next to me at the bar the other night.
For live programs, anything that is spoken throughout the broadcast is transcribed by a person using stenotype or steno mask type of machines, and then the [...]
Does your brain hurt from all the CPU, GHz, RAM, and HDD out there?
3 Comments Published September 5th, 2007 in Books, Computers, Processor, TechnologyOk this will be sort of a list post. I am going to define the terms most commonly used with computers so you’ll get a basic understanding of what all these things mean.
CPU - Central Processing Unit - this is the workhorse of your computer. It does all the calculations and process management [...]
