Thursday, 31 December 2009

Geek Categories...

Gizmodo have published a list of geek 'types' list for all to check.
I'm sure there's quite a few people out there that fall into these categories in one way or another (unfortunately I fall into a few of them!)
Anyway, it makes an interesting read (for a laugh).

New Year, New Decade, New Gadgets...

We're at the end of our first decade of the 21st century and we've still not seen the hover skateboards, personal jet packs or flying cars (yet). But we are still seeing great innovations in the technology area (as well as much speculation, yes Apple tablet/iSlate I'm talking about you).

Netbooks have appeared to be fairly successful in the last year, but look to get even better with the introduction of new Intel CPUs and chipsets (Intel Pinetrail). Nvidia's Ion2 is set to make its debut early in 2010 and if they can resolve their 'spat' with Intel should make the Netbook/Nettop arena even more appealing to potential buyers.

The market for low cost, low power home media + basic usage boxes is growing, with more and more friends & colleagues asking me for recommendations for such boxes and a lot of talk on the Internet of similar requirements. Hopefully the introduction of Intel's new Atom CPUs with the Ion2 chipsets will mean machines with enough grunt to handle all the media related tasks, but still be up to the task of Internet browsing, Youtube watching etc. etc.

Add to that the rise of the ebooks, the supposed tablets (including Nvidia Tegra based devices), the advance of micro projectors the mobile technology gadget market for 2010 looks like it will be a good one.