The vast social, cultural and political impacts of new technology are difficult to express. How do you go about illustrating nebulous concepts such as privacy, connectivity and communication? Well, you pay a man to dress in a checkered gimp suit and give him a computer to play with, of course.With that in mind, here are 10 of the most ridiculous Shutterstock images.Happy little boys playing online pc game. Virtual reality concept.
One boy plays with a computer mouse while a red-clad cherub jumps from the monitor holding a red football. Why is there a quasi-Christ figure jumping out of the computer? We¡¯ll never know.Angry furious businesswoman working on computer, screaming with alphabet letter coming out of open mouth. Negative human emotions, facial expressions, feelings, anger management issues concept
Language is a violent force, this picture tells us. If you ingest too much social media, you will vomit letters all over your computer screen. Your body simply cannot handle the glut of sentiment poured out across the internet each and every second.
A man dressed as death sits at a table with a computerThis memento mori serves as a reminder that, although new laptop variants come out every year, you will eventually die.Businessman with a computer monitor head and question marksThe question marks betray the fact that this man, with an outdated computer monitor fixed to his head, is as confused as we are. Perhaps that monitor is his head, in which case he is confused at his very existence. We cannot help you computer man. You have been forgone.Hacker in morph 3d mask stealing password on futuristic backgroundUnder this checkered gimp mask is the heart and soul of a Shakespearian actor. He weeps.He like play and win video games. In blue light of display emotional kid play computer games online.
This boy has contorted his body with so much joy that he has become frozen in a position of unbridled emotion. The game he plays is finished. His happiness has surpassed, and only the sad realisation that he must age and eventually die remains.
Stressed shocked businesswoman sitting at table in front of multiple computers in her office looking stunned wide open mouth. Negative human face expressions, emotion feeling body language reactionThis woman is clearly in shock. Whatever grotesque imagery has found its way on her screen is definitely not what she needs to see. Perhaps more worryingly, there are three identical laptops on her desk. Is she looking at horrible pictures on all three of them? We can only presume that she is.Secretive Couple with Smart Phones in Their Hands - Young adult couple has privacy problems with modern technologyThis young adult couple has privacy problems. Their finely manicured eyebrows and innocuously fashionable clothes cannot save them from the internet. Woe is them.
He is a confident businessman. He goes to work and gets the job done. He has computer parts jutting from the top of his severed skull, but that does not stop him. He gets results.Male immersed in interactive virtual reality video game doing gestures on white background. He is wearing a stereoscopic 3d vr headset
This man may be scared of whatever he is looking at on the virtual-reality headset, but if he were ever to remove the device he would die with fear, for he would be faced with the white, endless void in which he is trapped. Nvidia has announced that its next laptop GPU isn¡¯t a pared-down mobile chip like the 960M, 970M and 980M. Instead, Nvidia has managed to cram a full-sized desktop GTX 980 GPU into the next wave of enthusiast-grade gaming laptops.
No, this isn¡¯t literally a full-size graphics card shoved into a normal laptop ¨C that would be absurdly bulky. Instead, it¡¯s just the desktop GTX 980 chip taking the place of a cut-down 980M chip. Working in tandem with laptop manufacturers and Intel, Nvidia has managed to provide enough cooling to keep even an overclocked GPU and Skylake CPU from melting.If you¡¯re still sceptical about the whole announcement, preferring to believe a laptop can¡¯t possibly match the performance of a desktop PC, prepare to be impressed. Offering 35% more performance than the original GTX 980M, Nvidia claim that the GTX 980 is capable of pushing out a fantastic 61fps average for The Witcher 3 running at 1080p, and 84fps running Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.
In the Unigine Heaven benchmark at the GTX 980 launch event, the demonstration laptop actually slightly outperformed a desktop with the same setup, scoring 2,066 to its 2,044 and hitting 82fps to the desktop PC¡¯s 81.2fps respectively. With such marginal differences, there¡¯s no doubt that this is a full-scaled GTX 980 housed within a portable shell.There¡¯s little in the way of compromise. For those who still want a gung-ho multi-monitor setup when at home, laptops running the new 980 can support three 1080p panels, and there¡¯s support for Nvidia G-Sync ¨C the 980 can also lay claim to being the first Oculus Rift-qualified GPU. If you want to have VR on the road, the 980 is ready and willing.Nvidia has optimised the mobile GTX 980 for laptop usage. For one, the 980 will run at full whack only when plugged into a power supply; Nvidia¡¯s power-saving utility throttles performance when it¡¯s unplugged. Of course, it¡¯s still better to think of these laptops more as portable, compact desktop PCs than go-anywhere gaming rigs: as only 17in gaming laptops will be able to accomodate the power and cooling requirements of the new GPU, and will require a huge power pack, these aren¡¯t the kind of device you¡¯ll want to carry around every day.
Don¡¯t worry about a serious price-hike either as Nvidia has stated many OEMs are simply replacing the existing GTX 980M¡¯s with a GTX 980, meaning it will now replace the top-tier models, with 980M laptops dropping in price.Why did Nvidia cram a GTX 980 into a notebook? While it certainly feels like more of a case of ¡°can we do it?¡±, rather than ¡°should we do it?¡±, Nvidia¡¯s aim was to open the door to better laptops for everyone ¨C not just gaming enthusiasts.In order to allow for an overclocked GPU, Nvidia had to convince OEMs to open up temperature controls to users through bespoke apps that can alter fan speed to compensate for higher overclocks. Naturally this is something OEMs have been very hesitant of, due to the risks it presents around laptop reliability. By communicating with OEMs and convincing them to open up a bit, Nvidia has suddenly opened the floodgates for innovation within laptops, creating parity between desktop and laptop experiences and power.
As Nvidia¡¯s senior product manager Brian Choi summed up to Alphr during the 980¡¯s unveiling, ¡°no-one thought you could break the three-minute mile [sic]. But, as soon as you broke the three-minute mile [sic], everybody was just piling in. No one thought you could build thin a gaming-class notebook until Razer did that. After Razer did it everyone started realising ¡®oh you just move that part¡¯, they just had to try harder.¡°So, in this case, we¡¯re telling the industry to try harder. Build desktop-class notebooks and don¡¯t be shy about it because people want this.¡±Nvidia has announced that its next laptop GPU isn¡¯t a pared-down mobile chip like the 960M, 970M and 980M. Instead, Nvidia has managed to cram a full-sized desktop GTX 980 GPU into the next wave of enthusiast-grade gaming laptops.