The Smart City Just Might Be an Engineer’s Unfulfilled Dream We’ve lived most of our adult life in Silicon Valley or what some call a bubble environment. You know: Everyone and nearly everything is connected 24/7. Everyone has 4-5 devices …
Post-Dubai VR Interview with Lewis Smithingham, president, 30ninjas Shortly after his return from the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), we caught up with Lewis Smithingham, president of 30ninjas at CES in Las Vegas where he was busy shooting and producing …
The Alternate World of Virtual Reality at CES Even though industry analysts are lukewarm on the success of VR (virtual reality), you couldn’t tell it as you navigated around many of the booths during CES with HMDs (head-mounted displays) taking …
Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands is the eagerly anticipated tenth installment of the Ghost Recon series and it’s set in a massive open world in Bolivia that can be played solo or in four-player co-op. The player can engage the …
Introducing the EVGA CLC 120/280 Liquid Coolers The EVGA Closed Loop CPU Liquid Coolers at 280mm (above) and 120mm (below) have arrived. These new liquid coolers from EVGA feature excellent cooling performance, low noise, complete software controls, and even RGB …
We have been playing and evaluating Resident Evil 7 Biohazard (RE 7) on PC since it was released one week ago. Although we did not like what the Resident Evil series had become, and although we didn’t have high expectations …
NVIDIA’s latest game bundle has just kicked off for anyone buying a GeForce GTX 1080 or GTX 1070 GPU, either as a stand alone video card or included in a PC desktop or in a notebook. They can get a …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …