BrickBook Unboxing

Simply, the Best laptop I have met. Ever!

P.S. Yes, I manage to grab one

Tuesday or Wednesday last week, Apple introduces one of the Greatest Piece of Art that the world of Technology has ever (EVER!) seen. This:

Yesterday, the less than a week after, at 235 Regent’s Street they were Sold-Out!!! The guys there said that «it was sold-out almost the same day it went on the market!!!».
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I could start comment this out, but the article itself is interesting enough: I don’t need to add my own juice (and, most important, it doesn’t need it neither).

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We owe our well-crafted democratic form of government with its cleverly designed system of checks and balances, to a weird bunch of policy, technology, and scientific wonks and nerds such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Alexander Hamilton.

These guys and their compatriots were the kind of wonks and nerds, who, when presented with a problem and a complex system to analyze and possibly replicate, threw themselves into learning as much about it as possible. Some were best at policy, and others were best at technology, and some, like Jefferson and Franklin were outstanding contributors to both.
But today - because some of them did not exactly have winning personalities and others had personal morality issues - few would have little chance of getting elected. Which is a shame because not only did they have the desire, education and life experience to deal with such problems, they also had what Walter Lippmann - a premier political journalist of past decades - called “civic virtue.,”
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The wonks and nerds we need to run for political office and take direct control are out there. Some I see working within government advising the politicials, such as engineering nerd and ecomomics wonk Neel Kashkari, the interim assistant secretary in the U.S. Treasury assigned with the responsibilty for managing the financial bailout. Others I meet at the embedded system design, science, and technology meetings I attend and write about.

Many of you are satisfied and busy with the work you trained for. Others may have a complete disdain for politics and politicians. But remember our representative democracy was designed as a “goverment OF the people, BY the people and FOR the people.”
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I would be an interesting perspective, to see real man, with real, proved, good technical skills, drive a country Politically. And, as Bernard Cole itself says, that’s what was in the past. The best men, the once with the skills and the study, drove countries to write their Constitutions.
But nowdays Politicians are, most of them, bunch of wankers with no culture, no civic virtue, no morality, no vision in “science and technology as a the way to improve citizens life”. Just personal interest.

Full article on Embedded.com.

Nvidia today left me wordless! They are jumping in the mobile, smartphone and netbook market in a very “noisy” way.

The NVIDIA® Tegra™ family of computers-on-a-chip, brings the power of advanced visual computing to a broad range of handheld and mobile platforms—from phones, MP3 players, and portable navigation devices (PNDs) to mobile internet devices (MIDs). NVIDIA Tegra enables intuitive user interfaces and advanced multimedia features, all while delivering longer battery life.

This System-On-Chip is a very gigantic breakthrough in the business that involves netbooks, mobile phones, palms, and EeePc-like devices. And Arm11 CPU (implemented by Nvidia itself), with a GoForce graphic chip, plus all the set of hardware needed inside of our current smartphones and handheld devices.

Tegra dimensions comparisons

The size is impressive too and, probably, the more valuable thing. It’s 1/10 of a full system based on Intel Atom (that is only a chip, while this one is a full system). What does it means to be “that small”? It means:

• Ultra-low power consumption
• Ultra-low heating
• Lighter devices
• Cheaper devices
• More space for future innovation

And they did all this with performance (both for quality and speed) that are astonishing. I strongly suggest to take a look to the Nvidia Tegra official YouTube channel.

Curious? Start from the official page.

I strongly suggest to see this documentary. It will help people understand a lot of things about “how” things actually works in the World Economy, why we trade Money and… why USA holds in its hands the balls of the World Economy. Or, doesn’t it?

The documentary is in Dutch with English subtitles.