Milan Šurkala

Author has a long-term experience with computers, digital cameras and programming. His job as a journalist began in 2002 and was focused on computer technologies since 2005 at Svethardware.cz. Since 2008 he started to review digital cameras and lenses at Digimanie.cz. Later he started to review printers, scanners, memory cards and other products. Nowadays he also works as a programmer at technical university on projects for automotive industry. His specialization is the digital image analysis.

U.S. Air Force broke maglev speed record at 633 MPH

Maglev technology is the transportation of the future. U.S. Air Force tested its special maglev sled and has broken the speed record at 633 mph. That is about 120 mph faster than the previous one.

4/29/2016, Milan Šurkala

Lytro Cinema camera captures 755 MPx RAW video

Lytro cameras were not very successful. On the other hand, the company sees a high potential in a professional market of 3D cameras for virtual reality. New Lytro Cinema camera can capture up to 755 MPx resolution.

4/28/2016, Milan Šurkala

SpaceX lands on ocean droneship for the first time

SpaceX has successfully landed its first stage of Falcon 9 rocket on the ground only once. Now, the company managed to land on the ocean droneship for the first time after four unsuccessful attempts.

4/27/2016, Milan Šurkala

Seagate Innov8, 8 TB desktop HDD powered by USB-C

Seagate is trying to keep hard drives alive and his new Innov8 is interesting attempt. Innov8 is an external hard drive with an aluminium case that has a huge 8 TB capacity and it is powered by only one USB-C cable.

4/26/2016, Milan Šurkala

AMD FirePro S9300 x2: extreme 1TB/s memory bandwidth

AMD company has revealed a new server GPU FirePro S9300 x2. It is able to achieve unbelievable performance of 13.9 TFLOPS. Moreover, it is equipped with HBM memory and this accelerator provides 1TB/s memory bandwidth.

4/25/2016, Milan Šurkala

New Intel Xeon E5-2600 V4 CPUs with the 22-core behemoth

The number of cores in CPUs is still increasing and the new Xeon E5-2600 Broadwell-EP line includes 22-core behemoth E5-2699 V4. The range of the new processors covers everything from 50W low-energy CPUs to 160W versions.

4/22/2016, Milan Šurkala

Acer Predator Z850 projector: gaming with 120-inch image

The new Acer Predator Z840 gaming projector brings some very interesting features. It provides 24:9 aspect ration and it is able to project a 120-inch image onto a wall. Z850 supports a wireless communication.

4/21/2016, Milan Šurkala

Jaguar to build nine classic XKSS cars from 1950s

Jaguar company is going to build 9 extraordinary XKSS supercars that will be manufactured according to the 1957 specifications. They will replace nine cars that were damaged by Browns Lane fire and were never finished.

4/20/2016, Milan Šurkala

New plug-in hybrid Toyota Prius Prime: ultra-low 120 MPGe consumption

Toyota is well known for its popular hybrids. The new generation of plug-in hybrid version of Prius was revealed as Prius Prime. It promises 120 MPGe consumption and the electric range was doubled to 22 miles (35 km).

4/19/2016, Milan Šurkala

Western Digital PiDrive: 314GB HDD for Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi computer are extremely popular but storage functions can be very limited. MicroSD card with OS may be slow and insufficient. Therefore, WD presents PiDrive, a small USB hard drive with 314GB capacity for just $31.

4/18/2016, Milan Šurkala

NVIDIA doubles Quadro M6000's memory to 24 GB GDDR5

Professional graphic market may be pleased by the new NVIDIA's Quadro M6000 graphic card. In comparison with preceding M6000 model with 12GB memory, the new version is equipped with the enormous 24 GB GDDR5 memory.

4/15/2016, Milan Šurkala

Razer Core, external GPU dock solution for your laptop

If you laptop is not powerful enough, you can use the new GPU dock solution Razer Core. This station may contain very powerful GPU and may provide very high gaming performance when using Thunderbolt 3 interface.

4/14/2016, Milan Šurkala

CRACUNS: New underwater drone for aerial missions

Development of new technologies cannot be stopped. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory developed the new underwater drone called CRACUNS. It can wait under water, surface and soar into the air.

4/13/2016, Milan Šurkala

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