I still owe you a lot of blogposts. Well. At least I promised to write about a lot of stuff that I didn't get to yet, so I'll have to go back in time a few more times I guess.
I wrote in my article Computex Products that I had more stuff to cover, so that will be what's up today. If you didn't read about Computex already, it's the worlds second biggest computer & technology convention. If you focus only on the exhibitions and leave out conferences, it beats CeBit in Germany and thus is the biggest computer/technology expo in the world.
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I'll start out with something not so technical technology now. What's on display here is a computer fan with air channeling technology. It's supposed to make the air circulation more effective by smoothing the airflow. See how the balloon to the right is hovering above the fan while the balloon to the left is just moving randomly around the older model? We will probably see a revolution in cooling technology over the next year when various new products are rolled out. This booth is displaying some cooling fans for computers amongst other things related to that, and it was not quite the only place you could see cooling fans. Remember The Waterproof Fan in my other Post on Computex?
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The same company (SilverStone) makes computer chassis for gamers, as it's obvious from the picture above. These also put emphasis on airflow as is demonstrated above. Inside the chassis, there's a vaporizer so that convention-goers can see all the places air can come out.
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They also have more stylish cabinets for those who don't want too fancy but still likes lots of cooling that they'll need if they've bought some of all that overclocking gear you can also get in this place.
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It's some mighty big towers they have. How would you fit that below your desk anyway?
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This photo is taken elsewhere, at Boyees booth (their website is broken so I wont link)
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They deal in cabinets that can monitor the weather inside the computer. Not that I would need it. You can do that with software too, but it might just be useful in some server environments.
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They also had this wall of other stuff, so it's obviously a more industry-oriented company than a company dealing in gaming gear.
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Geil was playing muscles with their Thortech on this big figure that attracted a lot of attention even though it was located in a far corner of the exhibition hall.
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They make high-performance RAM cards with little dragon heads on with LED-lights as eyes. Very gamer-focused. But hey: For people with computers cabinet that can be seen into who goes to a lot of LAN-parties, this is probably attractive enough. (They can afford to set up such a special booth, so they obviously can sell this kind of stuff.)
LED-lights (and the red ones especially) are not high on power consumption, but it wouldn't be the reason I bought a RAM card. Also: The competition in this field is enormeous this year. It's hard to use up more than 4GB of RAM in a personal computer and now that flash memory is marching in, these people are having a hard time. There's now more focus on speed and reliability and that's what this promotion is all about, the booth attendant there told me. Inside this cabinet, the cards are being tested. It's called burn-in, and is not something that only Geil does, but they did make the cabinet look like an oven, don't you think?
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If you don't have enough slots for additional RAM cards, they also sell Quad Channel kits.
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A growing storage business could be seen at Computex this year as well. There was most focus on cheaper and smaller high-capacity USB sticks and the new, faster USB 3.0, but there were also some development in mass storage as used in serverfarms and scientific research settings.
Need a device capable of putting 24 SATA2 harddisks in RAID? AXUS has what you need.
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This is not exactly a new breakthrough, but you could also find a few booths with duplicators there. Here's just for CD, DVD and Blu-ray Discs. They had some more futuristic looking USB duplicators with at least 60 tiny sticks plugged in and blinking but I can't find a photo of them amongst the ones I took.
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Kingbox had some fancy machines on display, but they're just selling RAM cards as well. They even have LED like Geil, but no dragons.
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If you've taken a long education in electronics or if you're Taiwanese and thus inherit certain abilities genetically, you can go about and play a bit with these machines. They're programming and testing modules. Lot's of electronics like this can be found in retail shops around Taipei City for general consumption. You can even buy single diodes and transistors or simple chips if you like to make your own devices from scratch. These of course, are probably sold for industrial purposes. Or to people that are completely taken over by "hardcore gaming".
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Here's some girls showing USB flash drives and similar memory stuff.
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One of the really big things that's been rolling out recently is Intel's new Atom processor series. Atom processors are a number of new processors that are smaller and less powerful than most processors in general purpose computers. While they are not really strong enough to run on computers for gaming or watching movies and such, they are perfect for netbooks and embedded systems. They're cheaper in production and have very low power consumption. I think there's a revolution in embedded systems on the way here.
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Now, the machine I showed before is running on an Atom processor, (I don't remember the specifics,) and is controlling the platform that balances this metal stick. That's just what Intel used to display one of the possible use of the processor.
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And here's some more high-performance motherboards that are designed with overclocking in mind. I've showed you a bunch of those already. Look close and you'll see there's an i7 processor stuck into one of them. Those are not actually part of the product on display here, but those have been coming out and about just recently too and they're really powerfull. The strongest as far as I know for sure is a processor with 6 cores on a 3.33 GHz Base Clock Speed and 12 threads. Sure beats my puny 2.2 GHz processor with two cores by a few factors.
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More cooling fans. Here's a wall explaining MSI's new Twin Frozr.
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And more waterproof devices. Waterproof was a big theme in this years Computex. This booth is displaying waterproof solutions for digital ordering. That's why the booth shows similarities to a cafe.
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See? They still have non-computer game related stuff on display here.
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And here, a company called iBase is displaying computers for installation in vehicles.
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And then, after that, I didn't take anymore photos of products.
There sure was a lot of stuff that I didn't get to look much at which I found out later.
Actually I didn't even cover all the 3D-stuff they had there very much. Honestly, I don't think it's a very interesting thing. It flopped before, but this year it seems to have finally gotten through, probably because of the big success in Avatar. But still, 3D just means games that suck more processing power to me, so yeah. You'll see lots of that kind of stuff already now in the electronics and technology-related shops.
I hope you enjoyed reading and got a few hints on possible upcoming new devices and major changes in what we have already. Now I'll have to hurry and buy some supplies before the danish supermarkets close.