I love it when electronic hardware manufacturers get innovative even if it’s already been done several times in the past. There’s a new Pocket PC or Ultra-Mobile PC or Mini-PC that’s gotten nicely funded over on Kickstarter. Traditionally, “Pocket PC” was Microsoft’s term for “Palm-sized PCs” running the Pocket PC operating system embedded on smartphone sized devices or PDAs (personal digital assistants) at around the turn of the century. This is a full Windows 11 …
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In my experience, printers have always been the most annoying tech product to deal with. The moving parts, managing the ink levels, loading paper, connecting computers, installing software drivers, getting the settings right. It’s always been a complicated affair. Does the HP Envy 6500 series make things easier? Maybe a little. Read on to see how the HP Envy 6500 series printer holds up. What’s in the Box The packaging includes the printer, quick start …
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I got a little hands-on time with the new HP OmniBook 5 AI laptop the other day and it looks really nice. First of all, it’s very light at 2.98 pounds. Secondly, it’s got the world’s longest battery life in a consumer AI PC laptop at about 34 hours of constant video playback. That’s pretty awesome, and it’s due to the Snapdragon X Elite processor with the ARM architecture and Windows Home for ARM operating …
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We got to see a demonstration of a cool ComfyUI template that NVIDIA created to showcase how quickly their RTX 5090 GPU can process image generation locally on a laptop computer. Most people think we need a high-end server farm in the cloud to do all of these new “Artificial Intelligence” imagery, video, and text generation, but there are numerous smaller models that can actually run locally and can run pretty nicely if you have …
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Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, recently tweeted a long post that complains about “What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is being turned into the ultimate tool of control.” He’s referring to the internet as a whole but may not realize the hypocrisy of his statements. A number of countries are starting to implement laws enforcing privacy violating technologies such as digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning …
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Thin is in again. Apple used to brag about the thinness of the iPhone 5, 6, and now the iPhone Air. But is there such a thing as being too thin? I think so. A smaller surface area is slippery Usually people hold a phone in a hand with fingers wrapping around the side. It’s the natural way to hold something, but when something is too thin, there really isn’t enough surface area on the …
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