Components

By Darren Allan The Voltera V-One, an innovative machine which can print prototype circuit boards in mere minutes, has been declared the international winner of the James Dyson Award for 2015. The four engineering students behind the device, from the University of Waterloo in Canada, have scooped £30,000 (around $45,000, AU$65,000) in order to further…

By Darren Allan If you’re bang up-to-date with your PC’s processor and operating system – in other words, if you’re running a Skylake CPU along with Windows 10 – then you’ll be pleased to hear that Intel’s Speed Shift tech will soon be making a difference to your computer’s performance. So what’s Speed Shift exactly?…

By Darren Allan If you’re bang up-to-date with your PC’s processor and operating system – in other words, if you’re running a Skylake CPU along with Windows 10 – then you’ll be pleased to hear that Intel’s Speed Shift tech will soon be making a difference to your computer’s performance. So what’s Speed Shift exactly?…

By Desire Athow Putting software first are what hyper-converged infrastructures are all about. Hardware, for once, takes the back seat, which is what worries some of the more traditional players. Combining commodity hardware with smart software to produce a self-sustaining system guided by the SDS (Software-Defined software) motto. Not surprisingly, it has disrupted the business…

By Desire Athow Putting software first are what hyper-converged infrastructures are all about. Hardware, for once, takes the back seat, which is what worries some of the more traditional players. Combining commodity hardware with smart software to produce a self-sustaining system guided by the SDS (Software-Defined software) motto. Not surprisingly, it has disrupted the business…

By Darren Allan The world of 3D printing is a fast developing one, and increasingly more affordable (with options like the sub-£500 Ooznest PRUSA i3, pictured above), but it’s still far from novice-friendly – although new innovations are set to help on that front, with one notable device being a handheld 3D scanner. This hardware…

By Darren Allan The world of 3D printing is a fast developing one, and increasingly more affordable (with options like the sub-£500 Ooznest PRUSA i3, pictured above), but it’s still far from novice-friendly – although new innovations are set to help on that front, with one notable device being a handheld 3D scanner. This hardware…

By Darren Allan Crucial has revealed its new BX200 SSD, a 2.5-inch drive which is aimed at consumers and SMBs. The SSD comes in three capacities: 240GB, 480GB and a 960GB offering for those who really need space as well as speed. As for the core statistics, Crucial claims that its new piece of solid-state…

By Darren Allan Crucial has revealed its new BX200 SSD, a 2.5-inch drive which is aimed at consumers and SMBs. The SSD comes in three capacities: 240GB, 480GB and a 960GB offering for those who really need space as well as speed. As for the core statistics, Crucial claims that its new piece of solid-state…

By Parker Wilhelm Emojis are a boon to the savvy message-sender trying to save a few characters, but switching keyboard presets on a phone or copy-pasting from a desktop can be a hassle. Thankfully, a company called EmojiWorks has developed a fully-functional Emoji Keyboard for those who believe a smiley is worth a thousand words.…

By Parker Wilhelm Emojis are a boon to the savvy message-sender trying to save a few characters, but switching keyboard presets on a phone or copy-pasting from a desktop can be a hassle. Thankfully, a company called EmojiWorks has developed a fully-functional Emoji Keyboard for those who believe a smiley is worth a thousand words.…

By Desire Athow Computer users have now far more choice when it comes to storing their data than ever before. Gone are tapes and floppy disk drives; free and affordable cloud storage, thumb-sized USB flash drives, removable cards barely bigger than a thumbnail, pocketable hard disk drives, optical discs costing pennies and blazingly-fast solid state…

By Desire Athow Computer users have now far more choice when it comes to storing their data than ever before. Gone are tapes and floppy disk drives; free and affordable cloud storage, thumb-sized USB flash drives, removable cards barely bigger than a thumbnail, pocketable hard disk drives, optical discs costing pennies and blazingly-fast solid state…

By Jamie Carter Introduction and how it works In the wireless world of cloud infrastructure and services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) just chucked a curve-ball. Or, rather, a Snowball. A 50TB hard drive weighing 20kg that can be quickly filled with data and posted to AWS for uploading to the cloud, Snowball is said to…

By Jamie Carter Introduction and how it works In the wireless world of cloud infrastructure and services, Amazon Web Services (AWS) just chucked a curve-ball. Or, rather, a Snowball. A 50TB hard drive weighing 20kg that can be quickly filled with data and posted to AWS for uploading to the cloud, Snowball is said to…