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Here comes the Linus told you so on WAN show moment: BMW seems to be taking the first real step towards "cars as a service" by making safety and comfort features optional to buy for a limited/permanent time period. Jup, "next-level gouging" seems pretty to be pretty much on point Is this really the group of people that needs to save money? Seems like a lazy excuse to make more money in the end. Also "vehicle as a platform" seems to be the industry term instead of "cars as a service"? I feel like there are already way too many options on cars, especially from German brands (though I myself am from Germany so I might not look at this subjectively). As we have seen with Tesla already. First time posting here, so I'm not experienced with how to summarise the article, sorry for that. My thoughts Well, Linus told everyone and I personally don't see cars as a service not happening in the future. Still this is a terrible move for consumers, as BMW is basically just pulling the EA move here and putting micro transactions into their product. Sources https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/bmw-vehicle-as-a-platform/

Nick named the 'Mechanical Pixels’ , unlike regular LED pixels which takes in electricity & it it self emit varying range of color , with the help of LED backlighting, this display surface does it without needing a electrical source to start working, it works under a whole new principle , principle of takes advantage of Graphene bubbles(doing the job of representing pixels)under certain conditions alter their balloon-like structures which acts like pixels to emit visible color range , it currently it works only on reflected light (light source isis indirectly ) Lemme list some cons i saw the color changes have only been observed under a microscope resulting pixels are too small (10nm), that hundreds of thousands would be needed to create even a tiny image expensive to manufacture graphene samples at a greater size you cannot get clean colors like pure red or pure blue yet Method to control pressure inorder to achieve the image is still under works Light source dependent , cannot be viewed on a dark environment Now the Pros New display technology pixel size is really small , meaning seriously fine details can be brought up with high clarity Power consumption reduction New ergonomic designs for adaptive display tech , maybe restrictive but consistent image display non reliable on electricity & artificial backlighting , far smoother image transmission as in real life like if used with temperature/pressure instead of electricity (possible death of refresh rates if properly implied??) Research was done in collaborative effort from researchers at TU Delft, Netherlands, and Graphenea, Spain, as part of the Graphene Flagship have found a new way to create mechanical pixels using tiny balloon-like structures which do not emit light themselves but are visible in sunlight, could lead to energy-efficient colour displays that can be used in devices such as e-books and smart watches hopefully in e-papers . Video (virtual demo) The production of color can be influenced by pressure , By applying a pressure difference across the graphene membranes, the perceived/produced color of the graphene can be shifted continuously manipulated. This effect can be exploited in order to create different colored pixels imagine picture frame not requiring any/very few power to be visible (cort: some HarryPotter gif i thought would be relative) How it works, The above shown image(to your left) are cavities that are of the size of 1/1000th diameter of a human hair(these are spread over a mirror like surface like a pixel arrangement parallel & organized), these are covered with 2 layers of graphene (suspended membrane) & due to pressure difference the top one is exhibiting visible color change just due to pressure difference alone, this can be amplified & changed & dampened according to your liking , mind you these color changed after a while under the same pressure, this was later identified caused due to pressure difference inside & outside those cavity being shifted due to regular conditions & Light interference assisted the color change constructively & destructively (resulting in varying range of color) Each of these pixels (mechanical pixels) could be moved (shifting image boundary) by using pressure or temperature , The researchers hope to have a screen prototype for the Mobile World Conference 2017 in Barcelona. This seems promising for me, if they actually make this thing work in a real world environment Sources: http://www.tudelft.nl/en/current/latest-news/article/detail/delftse-onderzoekers-creeren-bij-toeval-nieuwe-energie-efficiente-mechanische-pixels/ http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/24/13740946/dutch-scientists-use-color-changing-graphene-bubbles-to-create-mechanical-pixels

With the Industry quickly running into it's physical limits of miniaturization, and hence the limits of clock speed, I am becoming curios about the lack of attention paid to the obvious path forward. Once upon a time we had 8 bit processors, then 32 bit, then 64 bit, then.... nothing... 128 bit or even better, 256 bit processors would be a big jump in CPU power.... or would it? These theoretical chips would certainly be much larger, the PCI bus would have to be expanded, and the number of pins.... Gulp.... ya, that would be a scary sight. But wouldn't the advantages be more than worth it? On the other hand, Intel and AMD are putting more CPU's onto a single chip. AMD has up to 16?!?!?! Yet the upgrade in performance is somehow far less than what you would expect. Could it possibly make more sense to somehow place these "cores" in series and thus effectively have a 128, 256 , or even a 512 bit (or bigger) single processor? And... if we want to talk about simply expanding processing cores.... how about allowing for multiple chips reside on a single board? How about stacking boards? Then one could buy multiple cheap processors and create a nerds dream! Just throwing thoughts out there, I am not a computer engineer by any stretch of the imagination. But I am very curious to see how any experts out there think about these (possibly absurd) ideas of mine.

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I know we all have ideas about what the best display is for now but we also have ideas about displays we want but can't find. So I ask what is your dream display? Is it the one you have in front of you, one you can buy, is it the bigger the better or is it more important that it goes fast? What qualities make up the perfect display that for some reason or another manufacturers haven't come to market with yet? My Thoughts: I've been fantasizing about a 4k OLED display for probably a couple years now but recently I've shifted towards desiring ultrawide freesync displays which are hard to come by, all the while wondering what happened to the glorious 16:10 resolution. For me it's a balance of upgrades where I can't justify an upgrade unless every detail is improved upon. So I need something 27" or bigger, with response times in the >2ms range, less than 1 frame of input lag, preferably over the 120hz range though I'm currently sitting at half of that, a vesa mount with portrait mode, As much as I like my TN panel I'd like a little more color like an IPS though with what I've heard OLED is always right around the corner so I roll my eyes and wait another year, I almost jumped on the curved bandwagon and mocked the 3d push while now I'm obsessed with freesync and g sync and the hard push on 4k even though I argue true 4k should be over 4,000 not this 3840 nonsense, give me 4096 and I'll call it 4k. Then I worked on someone's computer that had an ultra wide screen and couldn't help but think about what gaming would be like on a beast of a screen. I remembered when I'd hook my original xbox to my projector and have a ball on the wall of my living room. Then I get back to my main display and realize the glory of having that extra little vertical space in my 16:10 for all the time I spend editing film and working in different production programs. My Rant: Then I remember all those fancy tech demos at events like CES with paper thin displays and no bezel and all kinds of wondrous displays and find myself asking how they haven't come to market yet? why can't I find any newer high end consumer projectors? It goes straight from 1080p 60hz at home to ones designed for theaters with no prosumer or middle ground of any kind. Meanwhile ergotronics is charging an arm a leg and your grandmothers soul for a few mounting arms I can get at 30$ a piece all day on ebay. On an unrelated-ish side note, AMD needs to get their act together in supporting multiple displays on multiple crossfire cards or their card vendors need to start including more ports per card, NVidia is the same boat but not quite as bad. In the end I'm left feeling underwhelmed by the lackluster market saturation where only a handful of overpriced displays are even worth considering and they still leave me wanting more. If you could convince a display manufacturer to design and build your ultimate fantasy display or display setup (multiple displays?) what would you ask for?

I wanted to post some Ideas I have had and see what people thought of them and hear about other peoples ideas. This is not tech news no one is working on these things! I Got interested in PC hardware will working on something else this is just a post to settle some curiosity. Idea #1 I a rig with IGPU like some like something with AMD's APU or a mobile processor, With a dedicated GPU. Is it possible to still leverage the power of the IGPU I don't mean like dual graphics because that would cause the dedicated GPU to run at lower specs. I mean like to take a load off the CPU for anything or maybe even post processing Anti-aliasing. Just doing other tasks instead of trying to work in tandem with the GPU and just slowing it down. Idea #2(a) A APU over PCi in the future as a step towards HSA do you think there will be a APU card. kind of like a xeon Phi. CPU used to use a similar slot interface. these could be used to better AI in game and lots of other thing since the dependence on the on board CPU would be much less. In the future when the performance reaches up this could improve supercomputing allowing one server to have multiple APU, each able to have the speed of fewer cores and the parallel processing power of a GPU working together off the same RAM. lower power consumption sense its all in one and you don't have do CPU processing send it over to a different machine for parallel processing, to do that you would need twice as much ram and storage. Idea #2(b Ideas for feature of this type of card. (I)ram slot on the back of the card. (II)If Gddr was used m.2 port on the back (III) inter changeable APU use a standard socket on the front. Idea #3(a) cooling I know vapor chambers are more expensive then heat pipes and should have better performance but Cooler master has started to integrate them into the CPU coolers but they don't seem to outperform what's already out there. there newest one seems to be the worst with it appearing that the vapor chambers are onto of the heat pipes where they would not do as well. Could you do the opposite have a two vertical heat pipes running across in one direction then up to fins and then have the pipes on top of that in the other orientation. #3(b are vapor chambers more effective than water cooling in general not talking about design that currently exist. Could you use both © is it ridiculous to have a cooler that has fins on it and pipes running through it that carry "water" for a combination liquid cooling wouldn't the sooner you get rid of heat the more efficient right or is it moving quick enough where that does not matter. (d) peltier cooling seems like it could become more efficient i understand that if it is used to cool below room temp (over simplified) that it would cause condensation. Could it or other tech like compressed freon like in ac be used in insulated pipes to cool. the higher the delta T the more efficient the heat transfer. Do CPU or GPU even produce enough heat where this would be useful. Would this extreme cooling allow them to run much faster or there other hardware limitation that would kick in first.

So, technically this is two questions not one - but they are, in a way, closely related: Do you think there will ever be a time when computers get to the level where their processing-speed-to-power-consumption-rate allows for the feasible combining of computers with our physical bodies/brains? I think most people are generally aware that our brains have processing capabilities that even today far outstrip anything we can produce, yet they only use power on the micro-watt and micro-voltage level in comparison to our computers using hundreds of watts of power. It's a topic than more than one sci-fi movie has touched upon - supplementing your own brain's processing capabilities with built-in computers and increasing your own memory abilities with artificial RAM and Hard Drive space (or even renting out your brains natural available memory space to private companies etc) - as well as providing interesting new ways to interact with, and control, your computer. However all that is only possible once computers reach the point where they are using roughly the same amount of electrical power as our bodies (important for good data flow rates between processor and brain - and to stop electrocution!) and the processors get closer to the comparative processing level of our brains (although that isn't strictly necessary as our brains have already shown a remarkable ability to work around such issues) I ask because I've noticed a curious trend lately of shrinking the processing technology (we're now down to 22nm levels), increasing their power-consumption efficiency to decrease total power usage - yet oddly as each new generation of processors and GPUs are released the total power demands of our computers are going UP. 10-15 years ago a 250-500W supply seemed way over the top, yet now 800W to even 1500W power units are commonplace. If processors are getting better at using LESS power to do MORE, and the same for GPUs - why is the general power demands of our computers increasing not decreasing? And does this hurt the overall idea that one day we'll have computers implanted inside us in some way? Sorry for such a long post, it's I'd be fascinated to see what your opinions are on this topic. :)

ARRGGHHH just deleted all this information, here we go again. As much as smart watches are awesome they have thier limits. since the wan show the smartwatch idea was first propositioned, ive been thinking theres a better option. Im calling it the gauntlet, As you can imagine its like a gauntlet worn on the forearm, unlike a smart watch you can browse the web, watch youtube/videos, read and reply to text and because of the extra battery you get compared to a watch theres minimal battery life penalty. heres my proposed specs of a guantlet. cpu dual cortex a7@800mhz ram-512mb dual channel. touch screen-slightly curved 3.5inch diagonal 16:9 480x854 (1.72inch tall, 3.05in long) 4in version available battery-1500mah, 3.7v 5mp camera storage-4gb built in+sd card slot Seeing how most people use laptops at home now and people use tablets out and about instead, with phones getting bigger and more powerful they will likely wipe out tablets, why carry a 7in tablet in your bag when you 5-5.5inch smartphone can do everything just as well in your pocket. you can then do your demanding tasks such as pre-youtube video edits and gaming while waiting for a train on your phablet. but rather than using up your phablets battery life to do your light tasks like texting and browsing use your gauntlet instead which is synced with your android phone. "but i need 2 arms to browse", no you need 1 arm to hold your phone and one to use it, with the gantlet you could write a reply text or change the song playing while still having a hand free (for driving, holding shopping etc) with screen rotate it is ambidextrous and is secured using breathable elastic (with holes to promote airflow and prevent arm sweat) and secured with velcro to accommodate various arm sizes (if you work out for instance) and there is a 4 inch 720p version for those with REALLY big arms or who might like more screen real-estate. heres my idea. forgive my white arms, I'm a gamer... not a clue on pricing, i'm no manufacturer

I've always wondered how GPUs and CPUs will end up in 20 years or so, but there's only so much you can do with the CPUs and GPUs before you have to increase their size or change the way they compute for a faster and more compact method. What will be the next step for both CPUs and GPUs?