Rainy day here in Brisbane today. Perfect weather for lounging around. Bit of a quiet week on the tech front this week.
The really interesting device is the truck. Trucks sell for a very different set of reasons to a car. Running costs, reliability and safety are much bigger concerns for your average truck buyer. This thing needs to be able to hit the road, and make it’s owner more money than the model its replacing. It’s that simple. There was little talk of the upfront cost (although, again, transport companies usually care about the cost per month than the upfront cost), but there was a mention that recharging the truck would be fairly fast. This isn’t going to be a viable option if the truck needs to be off the road for 6 hours charging every day.
A swap-able battery might have been a good choice here.
Many phones have tried to tackle this premise, and none have really had any success. Personally I’d love to see they day where my desk at home or a work is just a dock with some screens that I can pop my phone into, and everything of mine is there ready to go. Phones today certainly have the processing power to do the job.
New Firefox released
The team over at Mozilla have released their latest version of Firefox. Long story short is that the underlying engine that Firefox runs on has been completely overhauled, and now runs very fast. Details of the new browser can be found over at Mashable. Might be worth a look, especially for laptop users, as Chrome can be a bit of a battery hog at the best of times. I’ll be giving it a go over the new few weeks and reporting back.Tesla announces a truck and a new roadster.
Tesla has shown off their latest inventions, a new All electric truck, and a new roadster sports car. The roadster is typical Tesla awesomeness (eg, stupid fast off the line) but also features the best range of a Tesla so far.The really interesting device is the truck. Trucks sell for a very different set of reasons to a car. Running costs, reliability and safety are much bigger concerns for your average truck buyer. This thing needs to be able to hit the road, and make it’s owner more money than the model its replacing. It’s that simple. There was little talk of the upfront cost (although, again, transport companies usually care about the cost per month than the upfront cost), but there was a mention that recharging the truck would be fairly fast. This isn’t going to be a viable option if the truck needs to be off the road for 6 hours charging every day.
A swap-able battery might have been a good choice here.
Phone as a computer
This is a bit of old news, but Samsung has annouced they plan to be able to run full linux desktops on their latest Galaxy phones shortly. You’ll need their special dock, which lets you connect a monitor, keyboard and mouse to the phone, and already lets you use a desktop like version of Android.Many phones have tried to tackle this premise, and none have really had any success. Personally I’d love to see they day where my desk at home or a work is just a dock with some screens that I can pop my phone into, and everything of mine is there ready to go. Phones today certainly have the processing power to do the job.
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