MECHANICAL KEYBOARDS ARE SO LOUD.

Swan M10's are arriving tomorrow, for the more audio savvy forum users should I look into getting a AMP/DAC, would it make much of a difference?

Need help picking out a new laptop. Been years since I've bought a new one. I don't need anything too powerful, I won't be playing too many games on there or anything like that. Mainly for office use, where photoshop or some video editing is as tough as it gets. Do want something I can watch movies and streams on with decent quality and preferably with better than the usual shit audio that laptops provide.

I guess I'm looking for what the minimum specs I should be looking for on a decent computer without spending too much more than $2000

Need help picking out a new laptop. Been years since I've bought a new one. I don't need anything too powerful, I won't be playing too many games on there or anything like that. Mainly for office use, where photoshop or some video editing is as tough as it gets. Do want something I can watch movies and streams on with decent quality and preferably with better than the usual shit audio that laptops provide.

I guess I'm looking for what the minimum specs I should be looking for on a decent computer without spending too much more than $2000

Futuristic 'tactile' tablet keyboard has buttons that disappear

James Manning
Published: January 15, 2013 - 3:25PM

Without actual keys, typing on a touchscreen can often be slow and cumbersome – leading to many an embarrassing typo.

To combat this, California-based tech company Tactus has developed technology that transforms a flat tablet or mobile phone screen into a keyboard with buttons, eliminating the need to lug around a plug-in keyboard.

The technology, which the company claims to be the world's first "dynamic tactile touchscreen", allows a keyboard to rise from the screen when needed and disappear when typing is completed.



The screens use what is known as microfluidic technology, where a tactile panel replaces the glass or plastic that usually sits above the touch sensors and display on a touchscreen device.

Small channels in the panel are filled with a transparent fluid, which expands upward into the shape of buttons or keys when the pressure is increased on the fluid, and falls back to a flat screen when pressure is decreased. When engaged, the keys are strong enough for users to type with and rest their fingers on, the company says.

The rise and fall of the keys, which takes less than a second, can be controlled by either a proximity sensor or an app on the device.



A study by Japanese tech giant Sony showed using touch is up to five times faster than relying on vision alone. The technology could also revolutionise the limited nature of tablets and smartphone for blind and vision impaired people around the world.

Aside from tablets and smartphones, the technology could also be applied to game controllers, televisions and cars. Used in touchscreen displays in cars, drivers could return more attention back to the road rather than turning away to look at screens, potentially increasing safety, according to Tactus.

Buttons and keys can be designed in various shapes and configurations, with screen size ranging from that of a small phone to a television set.

The company does not manufacture its own devices, but says it will partner with other smartphone and tablet manufacturers. The technology, which was featured at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, is expected to be in production in late 2013 or early 2014.

This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/tablets/futuristic-tactile-tablet-keyboard-has-buttons-that-disappear-20130115-2cr3v.html

Too cluttered for my liking. This cost me about $20 and it works a treat.

Patek Philippe

You better start saving. From about $50,000 to about $250,000 I'm told.

I know I'm a bit late to the watch party but it gives me an excuse to post this -





Saw this a little while ago and my god I want. :lol:

You would be surprised about how particular some people are about precise timing. I had a guy in yesterday with his $10,000 Omega Seamaster (pretty awesome looking watch) and he was telling me how frustrating it is that it loses 1 second per day. So every day he stops the watch for 1 second just so it's more accurate.

This. Time is too subjective for to-the-minute specifics when you're talking about the time of day.

I want a sense of time, the exact time is irrelevant because day to day I don't require that precision. If I have to be somewhere at 9am, I get there at 8:55. If you have a job interview you don't turn up a minute early then argue with the interviewer because they think you're a minute late.

So if you won a baseball game 11-0, would you tell people you won 'about 10-nil'?:-k :p

Actually, if they were up 10-0 then the game would probably be over because of the mercy rule anyway. Jus' sayin'.

It's also Eco Drive which means no battery change (solar power). From what I have been told it's GPS and from what I gather from the add you have to turn the crown to switch the time zone and only than it will automatically set.

It wont be long before we have smart phones on our wrist. What dumb fucks we all are!

So you're saying it has a GPS chip within it and it will adjust the time reading per your meridional position, or the watch stays in sync with the atomic clocks onboard the satellites? If the former I'd prefer to have to manually change the clock rather than have the battery changed every few months. If the latter, no application of a wrist watch requires such precision in time-keeping - nice to know if the watch is spare change to you, though.

I hate digital wrist watches. The analogue face gives you a graphical sense of time rather than knowing the precise time, which I much prefer as I can form a model in my mind with regard to how much time is left in the hour, or how much time has elapsed etc. Something about being told "it's one thirty-two" that creeps me out, I much prefer to be told "it's about one-thirty" or just "one-thirty".

Wow...I'm so glad they invented that in a wrist watch. I was totally tired of my phone doing exactly the same thing.