Review: Orb Audio Booster and speaker system

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Quality audio is often the missing component that can elevate our enjoyment of digital experiences from average to awesome. Audio, movies, games and other immersive types of content benefit greatly from well-defined, balanced and powerful audio. Orb Audio's Booster audio and speaker system aims to provide this high level of sound primarily for mobile devices, notebooks and desktops.

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SourceCode: China and Taiwan’s hardware manufacturers are dominating in design and innovation

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Some of the most daring and innovative PC, tablet and smartphone designs to come out of CES 2013 were from Taiwanese and Chinese multinationals. In terms of form, function and materials, many of these devices seem to offer customers more that competing products from North America. Is this the new normal?

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CES 2013: Kingston Technology launches 1 Terabyte Flash Drive at CES

It is amazing what we can carry in our pockets these days. Kingston Technology showed off a new USB flash drive that can handle 1 Terabyte of data. Aptly named the Kingston DataTraveler Hyper X Predator, the drive is covered in Zinc-Metal Alloy. Using USB 3.0 and featuring  speeds up to 240MB per second and 160MB per second depending on the model. Kingston isn't the first to market with a 1 Terabyte drive, Victorinox showed one at CES last year but that cost $3,000. The DataTraveler Hyper X Predator starts at 512GB  and that model costs $1,750 and is available now. The big 1 Terabyte variant ships later on but no price has been announced.

Video: CNN feature on Raspberry Pi

Titled "Credit Card computer Enhances Learning," this CNN feature looks at the amazing story of the Raspberry Pi, the tiny computer conceptualized to teach schoolchildren how to program but which has seen unbelievable demand in various countries and by everyone from geek hobbyists to users looking at a very versatile, low cost computer. I received my Raspberry Pi over the holidays and look forward to documenting my experiences with this cool and potentially game changing PC.