Why are folks so keyed up about 4K? At first glance, that’s the type of question that answers itself: by definition, a 4096-pixel wide image delivers around four times the resolution of 1920 x 1080, and that’s a healthy multiple. It’s actually of a broadly similar magnitude to the difference between 1080p and old-fashioned analog … Continued
University of California, Riverside runs entire building floor off of 1.1-megawatt green battery
We’re used to batteries powering a lot of devices, but the University of California, Riverside is upping that a notch by charging up a whole floor’s worth. The school’s Winston Chung Global Energy Center is walking the eco-friendly walk and has started using a huge bank of rare earth, lithium-ion batteries from Balqon to produce … Continued
Microsoft Research’s MirageTable brings some augmented reality to your tabletop
We got a look at a holographic telepresence project from Microsoft Research earlier this week, but that’s far from the only Kinect-enhanced rig it’s working on these days. This setup dubbed a MirageTable was also shown off at the Computer-Human Interaction conference in Austin, Texas this week, offering a glimpse of one possible future where … Continued
FCC Fridays: May 11, 2012
We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there individually, we’ve gathered up an exhaustive listing … Continued
UK gets official Top 100 music streaming chart next week, Billboard seen crying in the corner
Used to be, musicians were judged (commercially speaking, of course) by how much radio play they got and how many albums and singles they sold. The UK’s answer to Billboard, the Official Charts Company, has seen a future filled with streaming music from services like Spotify, Napster and Deezer and decided that it needed a … Continued
Microsoft puts a price on carbon, says its footprint will be neutral by July
We’ve seen quite a few tech companies boast about their environmental efforts in recent years, and it looks like you can now also add Microsoft to the list of those attempting to be carbon neutral. As you might expect, while that includes some alternative energy efforts and energy-saving measures, it also makes use of a … Continued
Norway’s Zero team crosses Europe in hydrogen cars without a backup
It’s not quite a trip around the world, but a trek that Norway’s Zero team recently undertook in a pair of hydrogen-fueled cars is certainly an impressive enough feat in its own right. Late last month, they drove two Hyundai Ix35 FCEVs from Oslo to Monte Carlo (admittedly one of the easier ways to technically … Continued
Maingear and Origin now stocking GeForce GTX 690 cards, will probably run Crysis
Gaming stalwarts Maingear and Origin have casually announced that the duo will now happily sell you a rig packing NVIDIA’s beast of a graphics card, the GeForce GTX 690. The $1,000 hardware packs two 28mm Kepler GPUs and is tipped to be the world’s fastest graphics card — unless you work in an NVIDIA testing … Continued









