Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader.
This week we saw everything from an update to Lenovo’s ThinkStation, an interview with Dieter Rams’ protégé, the exhaustive hand-assembly process behind the Porsche 918 Spyder and more…
So lay back, relax and take a load off while reading the top ten stories on SolidSmack this past week.
Oh and uh…don’t forget to shed some much-needed sunlight on your face, too.
It rains, and the thunder collapses. Wiry threads of grass, crumple across its back, small actuators and the glow from multiple lenses glistening with the light of dawn. They use to be covered in fur, whiskers twitching, but… well, they learned, adapted, changed their paws, their bodies, their eyes, waiting for something to pass by,…
Like most teenagers, Simon Morris dreamt of owning his own hoverboard. Naturally, this led to an obsession with magnetic levitation and he soon began building his own hoverboard prototypes with magnets – much to the amusement of his friends and family. With a working magnetic hoverboard prototype under his arm (which actually worked but wasn’t…
“How many CPUs you runnin?” That’s not usually such a common phrase you hear. It’s more likely to be seen on a forum or heard as a pick-up line at your local IT meet-up. The HP Workstation division is making that phrase a tad more ubiquitous however, as their Zx40 line adds a mid and high range option to help you slip on an extra processor and crank those cores to kingdom come. We’ll be looking at the Z640 Workstation today, their mid-range monster that sits between the Z440 entry system and the Z840 high-end system.
Despite the underwhelming release of the Apple Watch – particularly due to a lack of initial stock and an overly-hyped, adjective-heavy marketing campaign – it still managed to sell in the millions when pre-orders went on sale less than two weeks ago and hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down. In addition to being a…