1976. 10 years old, I wake the family up on Christmas morning.
Like every Christmas before, I impatiently wait while the adults get themselves out of bed, come downstairs and start the coffee brewing.
That particular year there was an especially noteworthy present waiting for me under the tree. One of those colorfully wrapped packages contained a [...]

High definition television is relatively young. Unlike many new technologies which never rise above niche product status, or worse yet die stillborn, high definition consumer displays have been adopted by the mass market relatively quickly.
Just a few years ago we all had standard definition CRT-based televisions. Maybe you still do, and are wanting to replace [...]

I love reading stories about Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel who is clearly the world’s number one and most successful gamer. Fatal1ty has won 12 major championships, but more impressively, across 5 different games.
One of Fatal1ty’s top games is Quake 4, and John Chow wrote an interesting post about a competition in Taiwan to find the [...]

I’ve had this video showing some Halo 3 multiplayer footage sitting in my saved items for a while. I was stunned by the speed of the footage and I’m getting so excited about this game. I can quite easily see myself taking a day off work on Halo 3 launch day just to [...]

Kotaku had an interesting story yesterday about an academic who created a supercomputer cluster costing a measly $5,000, using eight PS3s. Apparently the PS3 is very good at clustering because of the very powerful Cell processor.
Although my PC definitely doesn’t have as much power as a supercomputer I really feel that I should use [...]