For many years after the headphone was invented in 1910, there weren’t many major changes other than the development of telephone headsets. But along came earbuds, wireless and gaming headsets. Today, there are many different types of headphones and headsets. What Are Headphones, and How Do They Work? Headphones are a pair of small speakers […]
Samsung 4K Blu-ray Player
As we finally move into the world of 4K, UHD TV, we begin to long for the very best picture ever. To get a taste of that best-ever picture you will need to watch a 4K Blu-ray disc on a 4K Blu-ray player. The Samsung 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray UBD-K8500 is one of the first […]
LG B6 OLED 4K — The One to Buy
The time has finally come for a 4K TV and the LG B6 OLED 4K is one of the best you can buy. Why Buy 4K now? 4K or UHD televisions have been around for several years. At resolutions of 3840 x 2160, they contain nearly 8.3 million pixels so their resolution if four times […]
Tesla Autopilot 2.0: the Next Generation of Autopilot Hardware Suite
Tesla Autopilot 2.0: Goalposts for the Next Generation of Autopilot Hardware Suite Despite its name, Autopilot is not a fully autonomous system but rather a partly autonomous one. It’s not totally like the “driverless” technology Google and other manufacturers are trying to come up with. However, they’re essentially similar. The Tesla Autopilot 2.0 has […]
Speed up Your Computer with ReadyBoost
ReadyBoost has been around since the days of Windows Vista. It is a little known Windows feature that can use external USB flash drives (or SD cards or CF cards), as a hard disk cache to speed up disk read performance. As we will explore in this article, there are times when ReadyBoost can be […]
The Ditto – Cell Phone Alert
Sometimes the simplest idea produces the most useful device. That is the case with the Ditto by Simple Matters. It is a small device only 1 3/8” by 7/8” x ¼”. It is made of smooth, hard, plastic and comes in black, white, or transparent. Press the bottom at one end and the other end […]
2011 Holiday Buying Guide
Are you planning to buy new PC hardware parts during this holiday season to build a new computer or upgrade your current system? Let’s recap some of the products with the best cost/benefit ratios that we reviewed in 2011.
What to Do If Your Computer Doesn’t Turn On
Learn what you should do if you computer doesn’t turn on in order to identify and solve the problem.