The Anatomy of a Motherboard
It’s a crucial component in any laptop or desktop computer, but very few computer owners actually know what a…
Alienware's Small Gaming Desktop Is Getting a Big Boost
Alienware generally makes giant honking gaming computers. There are two exceptions: The tiny Alpha, and the…
AMD's Powerful New R9 Nano Graphics Card Fits In Small Places
This year, I bought myself an Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 graphics card. It was time to upgrade. And I was pleasantly…
Give Your Old Laptop a New Graphics Card With These DIY Kits
Thinking about buying a new gaming laptop? Hold up: you might not need to. A new graphics card could breathe new life…
The Metals In Your Phone Aren't Just Rare; They're Irreplaceable
It takes a lot of different materials to make a modern day phone, and a fair number of them are of the rare earth metal…
65 Years Ago The Transistor Jump-Started The World Of Modern Technology
65 years ago, December 16th 1947, William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain operated the first ever working…
The iPhone 4S Costs $0.49 More to Build than the iPhone 4
The fellows at iSuppli have done what they do best, breaking down the material nitty gritty of the 4S to find how much…
The Transistor Was Almost Called the Iotatron
When Bell Laboratories wrapped up work on the transistor in 1948, they let 25 employees vote on the name. And for some…
IBM's Processors Will Think Like Brains
It's been just over 30 years since IBM released its first PC and shook the whole world up. Hoping to do some more…
What If Samsung Stopped Supplying Parts For the iPhone 4?
This is all hypothetical, but what would happen to the iPhone 4 if Apple's vigorous legal campaign against Samsung…
Sony Adds a White Pixel to Energy-Saving "White Magic" Phone Screens
So Sony's got a brand new TFT LCD. Big whoop. But here's something to write home to your grandmother about: the 3-inch…
Snapdragon-Equipped Phones Are Going Minority Report With Gesture Recognition
Qualcomm did some amazing things with the Snapdragon family of chips. Before their launch, I doubt anyone cared a hoot…
A Shape-Shifting Cellphone That Changes the Center of Gravity For Different Uses
Imagine looking at Google Maps on your tablet, and feeling one corner grow heavier where your destination is located.…
Toshiba's Tablet Camera Sensor May Be Small But Shoots Video at 1080p
Toshiba's created an 8MP camera sensor for tablets and phones that they say has the smallest pixel size of all sensors,…
Maybe Apple's Thunderbolt Cable Is Worth $50 After All
It doesn't take long, does it? The same day Apple's new Thunderbolt cable hit retail shelves, iFixit took it apart to…
The Silver Conductive Pen: Poindexter's Gonna Need a Bigger Pocket Protector
A warning to the nerd who dares mix his ballpoints with this pen! It's a dangerous life for a nerdlinger, now the…
HP's Building Flexible Displays For Soldiers' Wrists and Ever-Changing Price-Tags
Some mad flexi-OLED prototypes have been shown off by other companies before, but HP's getting in on the act with…
Toshiba's Got a 4-Inch LCD to Rival Apple's Retina Display
Sure enough, there have been several displays edging out Apple's potent Retina Display. Toshiba's 4-incher is the…
This May Be the iPhone 6 Screen: Sharp's Ultra-Thin p-Si LCD
Oh, you think rumormongering about the iPhone 5 is hot? Just you wait until you hear what's said to be in next year's…
Apple's Japanese Suppliers Don't Skip a Beat
When asked the inevitable questions about the impact of Japan's recent earthquake and tsunami tragedy on Apple's…