Exactly how small can ferromagnetic storage be? According to IBM, one bit of memory storage in current mediums requires the work of 1  million atoms.  IBM has just upped the ante and created a storage mechanism capable of recording a single bit of data on 12. No, that’s not 12 million, just 12.  12 single [...]

You get what you pay for, right? Then why would anyone go to Newegg and grab an HDMI cable for three bucks when Best Buy’s selling three feet of Direct-Silver-plated perfection for a cool $1095.99? Got your attention now big guy? Well sorry chief, they’re sold out! [...]

Hey there, it’s Albert again. I haven’t posted an entry in a little bit because I’ve been pretty busy lately, but I thought I’d like to write again and shed some light on a spectacular YouTube video I watched around a week ago. For some of you that haven’t been there, one of the only [...]

Handset manufacturers have a great deal to do with your mobile communications experience, especially on Android handsets where these guys are essentially designing your included UI.  We’ve seen a great deal of different handset manufacturers enter the fray but there are a few that stick out as primaries in the growing age of smartphones, while [...]

Cellphone use in India is so cheap that there have been stories that even beggars have cellphone. I did not see any beggars with cellphones on my recent trip but I have seen some maids and day laborers who make less than $10 per day afford a cellphone.  Let me outline the costs. (All costs [...]

One thing our reader yss won’t let me get away with is suggesting that Android phones, in contrast to WP, get the best hardware, most recently attacking me for suggesting these multicore processors which have been popping up left and right are a good thing in general for consumers (and therefore another selling point for [...]

Example? Samsung’s Galaxy S II. Dual-core 1.2GHz, formidable GPU (either 8 core GeForce ULP or ARM Mali-400 MP GT-i9100), gig o’ ram, 4.27” Super AMOLED Plus, 2mp front, 8mp rear,1080p recording, MHL/HDMI at 1080, HSPA+/HSUPA, Gingerbread and packs 1650mAh in the tank. Sounds like this monster is thick and heavy as a mother, right? Negative [...]

I was scanning Engadget today and noticed that yesterday was the Osborne 1’s 30th birthday. It brought back a flood of memories from my early computing experiences with this 24 pounder. As MD is a site about mobility, and the Osborne 1 was disputably the first portable/mobile computer in the World, I thought a piece [...]

I’ve been looking for this since the day this phone came out.  I’m growing impatient.  After I saw news of an Otterbox for the most bad ass hardware spec’d phone that WP software has seen Here, I was a little more than disappointed.  I was somewhat pissed off.  I haven’t seen a single worthy accessory [...]

This one has three feed horns and two local oscillators. I removed the cover off of one of the feed horn sections exposing two antennas with the left and right polarization and the DRO oscillator. On the backside of the board you can see that there are two rigid coax connections between the DRO and [...]