The Geek Review Rotating Header Image

Posts under ‘Technology’

Apple’s Mystery Product

applequestionmark.jpg

So tomorrow is the day that Apple and Steve Jobs will announce something new. What will that new thing be? Well a lot of speculation has gone on and most of the crystal ball gazers agree that Jobs will unveil the long rumored Apple tablet. And while that may be true the real mystery is [...]

My first week with an iPhone

iphoneotterbox.jpg

So last Monday me and my brother drove to the nearest AT&T company store plunked down the cash and got us some iPhones. We both went because I added him to my account so we could get a family plan and pay a little less per person. I ended up pay the bucks and got [...]

Lock Geek

locks.jpg

There are all kinds of geeks in the world. There the comic geek, the SciFi geek, the car geek, and the sports geek. Then there is they guy who’s thing is locks. There is not any security lock that Marc Weber Tobias doesn’t know how to get past, and if he don’t he’ll figure it [...]

Kindle DX

kindelDX.jpg

All the major tech/news sites like Wired, C|Net, and Engadget are all a buzz about the new Kindel DX. For those of you who’ve been in the Mountains of Peru for the last two years. The Kindel is a electronic book reader from Amazon.com that has the potential to do to/for books what the iPod [...]

Space Flight

11_VirginGalacticLL_500x437.jpg

Well we are getting closer and closer to have commercial space flight. Virign Galactic has had several successful flights of their White Knight 2 carrier vehicle. The White Knight 2 will have it’s first public display next month at the groundbreaking for Virgin Galactic’s Spaceport America terminal. Now the funny shape of the WK2, it [...]

Holograms: Storage media of the future

TheDoctor.jpg

Well the smart folks over at GE are getting closer to being able to use Holograms as a storage medium. While theoretical holographic storage has been around for quite some time the technical problems have keep it off the road map. The GE boys and girls however, have had a breakthrough.
The challenge has been to [...]

PG&E in Spaceeeee

solar2.jpg

Sorry about the Muppet Show gag but the running joke in California is that PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric) stand for Pigs Goats & Elephants. But, anyway PG&E is looking to invest in Solaren Corp., a start-up trying to produce solar power in space, by pre-purchasing 200 MW of electricity. The proposal still needs to [...]