February 2013 - Austrian Club
February 2013 - Austrian Club
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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.