Drones Taking Flight

Consumer Drones Are Nuisances, Not Profits At CES, a whole new flock of fly-high, fly-fast, fly-bad drones were introduced and now the category is suddenly destined to be the next monstrous consumer category. Some were so small they fit in …

NVIDIA’s new Game Ready Driver for Resident Evil 7 Biohazard

We have been playing Resident Evil 7 Biohazard (RE 7) since it launched late last night – which was perhaps not such a good idea as the game is the stuff that nightmares are made of. However, it is a …

The Long-Term View of Autonomous Transportation

It won’t be long – at CES they said 5-20 years – that the next generation of Woz/Steve-types will think that phreaking a phone has to be about the dumbest thing people did back in ancient times. Now hijacking an …

Oculus Rift VR Benching – Part 1

BabelTechReviews purchased an Oculus Rift HMD (Head Mounted Display) and Touch controllers in mid-December, and since then we have been playing VR games using a variety of video cards. We have also been exploring potential ways to accurately benchmark VR …

Holiday Hangover

Next Year, Let’s Think “A Little” About the Recipient Between the rush of retailers to entice me to buy more and the sudden love/attention the press gets from publicists to meet with someone about something at CES, my inbox runneth …

When it’s Time for a Job Change

It’s Time – Recognize the Signs when it’s Time for a Job Change Business is only beginning to take advantage of the Knowledge Economy. The new economy is built on people with strong creative, intellectual properties who can deliver a …

NVIDIA’s Major Announcements at CES 2017

The conclusion of Jensen’s presentation summed up his nearly 1-1/2 hour keynote presentation at CES 2017: We want to bring video games to everyone. We want to turn your home into an AI, we believe your home will engage in …

The Notebook GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050 GPUs are now available

Following the release of the powerful GTX 1080/1070/1060 notebooks, with the same silicon and features as found on their Pascal desktop counterparts, the new GeForce GTX 1050/Ti GPUs bring great gaming experiences to ultra thin notebooks while supporting the latest …

Kingston’s 2TB Flash Drives are the World’s Largest

At CES 2017 today, Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced DataTraveler® Ultimate Generation Terabyte (GT), the world’s highest capacity USB Flash drive. DataTraveler Ultimate GT …

Tomorrow’s Entertainment – in 2041

The New Breed of Filmmaker, Content Consumer in 25 Years Arrival isn’t just a movie, it’s like art films I used to view during college with underlying thoughts, meaning and ideas you had to dig for and think about. It …

The Smart Home Puzzle

Your Castle – The Smart Home Puzzle is Missing a Few Pieces I’d made up my mind. This is our year for the smart home! We’ve nibbled at the edges for some time: Wired/wireless network for devices Smart TVs (yes, …

The RX 480 vs. the 290X vs. the GTX 1060 – Has AMD Neglected Hawaii? – 35 games benchmarked

It’s been about six months since BTR compared the RX 480 versus the GTX 1060 and versus the 290X. It will be interesting to see if there have been any major performance changes since then. Has AMD neglected Hawaii in …