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www.techienews.co.za <strong>February</strong> <strong>2013</strong><br />

Dear Members and friends!<br />

Welcome to one and all in <strong>2013</strong>. Glad you made it past the 21 st December 2012,<br />

the day the world was meant to end. Gosh, and some folk actually believed this<br />

nonsense. Goes to show how vulnerable some people out there are.<br />

So, here we are again, new year, new article heading, same topic – techie stuff –<br />

you know, the stuff that makes the world go ‘round. Let’s see what the specialists<br />

will grace us with this year. You can be sure that many new items will be offered<br />

once again, from cameras to TV’s, computers, laptops, notebooks, ultra-books,<br />

smart phones and the new ‘animals’ on the block, the phablets, the abbreviation<br />

for a combination of a phone and tablet such as e.g. the Samsung Galaxy Note II,<br />

a masterpiece of technology. It’s a gadget that just about does anything, short of<br />

making coffee for you, and you can probably do that too with it, I just haven’t<br />

learnt how as yet ☺.<br />

You can of course also combine other gadgets with each other such as the dude<br />

in the picture below did. By the way, this is not a mock-up This guy got pulled<br />

over by a traffic officer who took the pic and published it.<br />

One other interesting stat that I read over Xmas was that<br />

YouTube is the third biggest TV channel in the UK? I must<br />

confess that I watch a fair number of videos on that<br />

channel as well as some of the clips are truly hilarious<br />

and highly entertaining.<br />

At the time of writing this article, one of the most important<br />

computer fairs just ended in Las Vegas, Nevada, the<br />

CES, short for Consumer Electronics Show, a spectacle<br />

run for 4 days where just about every company of note<br />

exhibits and showcases their newbies – in other words, a<br />

techie’s dream show, subject to having a wad of high<br />

value currency in your back pocket !!!<br />

One interesting, although not so new idea anymore, but becoming more and more<br />

affordable, is Corning’s bendable glass called Willow Glass which shall be used in<br />

the future for phones and other displays. Corning is also well known for its Gorilla<br />

Glass which is used extensively these days by the likes of Apple, Samsung etc.<br />

for near scratchproof cell phone displays on the iPhones and Galaxy’s. The<br />

Willow Glass is as thin as a business card (about 0.1 mm) and can be curved into<br />

a serious arc without breaking. Displays can literally be ‘wrapped around corners.<br />

The first commercial products are expected to enter the markets in 2014.

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