Posted 07/21/08 at 06:42:14 PM by Zack Stern
The shiny, new hatchback you nudge in a street race dents slightly on the driver’s side door. Although you’re playing a PC game, created with beaucoup equations, the bend looks almost real. The 3D renderer sculpts all those numbers into images, with help from the video API (application program interface). However, several completely different rendering techniques can be the source of those images. Currently, the hardware and software industries are debating how to best utilize two graphics-rendering techniques: ray tracing and rasterization.

Hit the jump to see how 3D game rendering is changing with hardware advancements.
Posted 07/08/08 at 02:01:31 PM by Zack Stern
We tend to take things for granted when they work exceptionally well. Take Ethernet, for instance; it’s almost magical: Plug a simple cable into a computer, and it can exchange data with another rig—or many others. Peek behind the curtain and you’ll discover a brilliantly simple yet continually evolving networking system.

But let's make one thing clear: Ethernet technology doesn't actually contain ether.
Posted 05/27/08 at 03:33:29 PM by Gord Goble
RFID: modern marvel or an easy way for Big Brother to keep tabs on us?
Posted 04/29/08 at 03:29:47 PM by Zack Stern
These technological beasties can take on lives of their own—much like their biological namesakes
Posted 03/03/08 at 02:38:24 PM by Zack Stern
It's finally time to put that old rig down, but what happens to your PC in the afterlife?
Posted 02/26/08 at 11:58:31 AM by Will Smith
Touch-screen technology - How new displays put the world at your fingertips.
Posted 02/11/08 at 01:17:53 PM by Lee Hamrick
Once dismissed as hokum, this LAN technology is finally coming into its own.
Posted 02/05/08 at 04:26:14 PM by Gord Goble
The computer industry has tapped this exotic technology for a host of everyday applications. Sadly, no one has yet devised a means of equipping sharks with lasers beams.


