AZiO L3VETRON GM2000 Gaming Mouse and AZiO L3VETRON Mech5 Mechanical Keyboard Review
AZiO L3VETRON GM2000 Gaming Mouse and AZiO L3VATRON Mech5 Mechanical Keyboard Review
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NZXT Announces FZ-200 Series Case Fans NZXT is no stranger to the PC community, and today there's a new product to help keep your system running cool. The new FZ-200 fan comes in at a whopping 200mm with 103CFM, which is perfect for anyone desiring lower temperatures. It operates between 500 and 900RPM with a decibel rating of a mere 20, so noise certainly won't be an issue. NZXT says the new FZ-200 can provide double or even triple the airflow of 120mm fans, especially when you factor in how quiet the 200mm one will be. It comes in a version with LEDs (red, blue, green, white, and orange) and one without, so everyone should be able to find something suitable for their system. The NZXT FZ-200 is available today, with the LED versions coming in at $20.99 and the non-LED one at $17.99. Read More ...
Discovering How Dopants Affect Superconductors There are several special technologies the world is watching because once those technologies are better developed they could reshape major parts of our world. Superconductors are one of those technologies as the zero-resistance materials could drastically improve power grids and improve the speed and capabilities of computers. Why materials become superconductors though is not very well understood and now researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory have found that one belief we had about superconductors is likely wrong. To dope a material is to replace one atom in its structure with a different atom, and this is used to give semiconductors specific properties. Researchers have also doped superconductors because the atoms they add bring with them more electrons to carry a current. As more dopant atoms were added though, researchers had noticed that currents preferred to flow in one direction, and not perpendicular to that direction. What the Brookhaven researchers have found is that this is a direct result of the dopant atoms and not the expression of an intrinsic property of the superconductor being brought out by the dopants. This discovery could have a great impact on the future of superconductor research by allowing superconductors to be designed with special properties. Something similar happened in the 1970s when the effect of dopants on the electronic properties of semiconductors was discovered, which led to the advanced microelectronics of today. Source: Brookhaven National Laboratory Read More ...
ADATA Announces DashDrive Air AE400 ADATA is a company known for a variety of flash based solutions including memory modules and SSDs. The company has now announced the launch of the DashDrive Air AE400, a wireless card reader that can stream from USB and SD memory cards. The device supports streaming to mobile devices with support for three users streaming 1080p video or five users streaming 720p video. It is compatible with most major desktop and mobile operating systems including Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, and OS X. Free mobile apps are available for Android and iOS devices. In addition to the streaming capabilities, the DashDrive can also act as a wireless network bridge for up to ten devices and a charging station providing up to 5000 mAh of power. Read More ...
Blizzard Announces Dates for BlizzCon 2013 BlizzCon is the annual event thrown by Blizzard Entertainment to celebrate its games and sometimes drop big announcements. The company has taken the first step toward this years event by announcing that it will take place in Anaheim, CA on November 8 and 9. The two day event is the seventh iteration and will give attendees plenty of stuff to do while there. Gamers will be able to play the latest versions of Blizzard games, attend panels with Blizzard employees, and enter community contests. The event will also feature the global finals for Blizzard eSports events which have in the past included StarCraft 2 and World of Warcraft. Source: Blizzard Read More ...
New Silicon Anode Design for Batteries In this technological age it is a fact of life that batteries are everywhere, and that will only become more true as more advanced technologies are developed. Modern batteries are somewhat limiting though with the time it takes to charge them and how much energy they can actually hold. Researchers at the University of Southern California however have found a new battery design that will greatly accelerate charging and increase capacity, potentially at low cost. For some time researchers have been trying to replace graphite electrodes in lithium-ion batteries with silicon, because silicon can store more energy and charge more quickly. Unfortunately silicon is also relatively fragile, so eventually it will break as it absorbs the lithium ions and swells up. The USC researchers have been looking at silicon nanowires, which better survive the swelling, but they are difficult and therefore expensive to manufacture. Recently though they have decided to try more easily produced silicon nanoparticles, which were processed like the nanowires to contain pores to absorb more ions, more quickly. With the silicon nanoparticles as the anode, the researchers created a battery that can store three times as much energy as a similar graphite-based battery and recharge in just 10 minutes. The new battery is not perfect though as it only survived 200 charge-discharge cycles, compared to the 500 of graphite batteries. However, the researchers' nanowire batteries were able to survive 2000 cycles, so they are confident they can improve the nanoparticles to compete with modern batteries. Source: University of Southern California Read More ...
Zero-Day Adobe Reader and Acrobat Patch on the Way this Week Exploits and the like are nothing new to the realm of Flash Player, Reader, and other Adobe products, but luckily the latest one will soon be fixed. An emergency patch is on the way this week for Adobe Reader and Acrobat to fix some zero-day vulnerabilities. Hackers have already been taking advantage of them in order to send rigged PDFs as email attachments, however that won't be a worry before long. Adobe didn't say when the patch will arrive, just that it'll be here later this week. The exploit effectively goes around the anti-exploit "sandbox" in Reader 10 and 11, which was only discovered last week. There are some security experts that believe the attacks so far are on the same level as the Duqu attacks in 2011, though that hasn't been confirmed yet. Until the emergency patch arrives, Adobe advises everyone to upgrade to Reader 11 and turn on "Protected View," which adds even more security measures to the sandbox. Source: Computer World Read More ...
New Classroom Design for Flexibility and Accessibility Classroom design has been the same for decades with the students' seats always turned to face a common board, and rarely does any of this change. Researchers at North Carolina State University are challenging this static nature by developing a flexible and dynamic classroom. This new paradigm has many advantages including lower costs and the ability to be reconfigured for the students' needs. One of the things the researchers kept in mind when developing the new classroom was that students are coming to classes with their own technology, so having to purchase and maintain laptops for an entire class is not necessary. The typical computer classroom costs around $34,700 but with the new design the cost drops by just over twenty thousand dollars to $14,500. By utilizing mobile infrastructure so whiteboards, desks, and tables can be repositioned the classroom can also be made suitable for students with special needs, both physical and mental. The flexible classroom program has already been launched and the researchers have been working with universities to employ its concepts. Now the researchers intend to develop materials to guide others to make their own flexible classrooms. Source: North Carolina State University Read More ...
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