Alright, here's your annual source of mounting inspiration. Peerless-AV publishes their Winter2013/Spring2014 catalogue with 52 pages of mounting solutions.

From digital signage to video walls, to video conferencing...healthcare to tablets...floor stands to trolleys— and all that is just for starters.

If you are shopping for solutions (aren't we all?), or just checking out the possibilities like menu boards or environmental enclosures, this Peerless-AV catalogue is a good guide.

We like the handy Quick Reference Guide you'll find in the last pages. Read more...

The Internet of Things (IoT), the term covering all non-PC, -tablet or -smartphone connected devices, will grow to 26 billion installed units by 2020 according to Gartner, growth of almost 3000% from 0.9bn in 2009.

The analyst also reports IoT product and service vendors will make revenues exceeding $300bn in 2020, with global economic value-add through sales into diverse end markets worth $1.9 trillion.

The Internet of Things is the network of physical objects carrying embedded technology allowing communication, sensing or interaction with internal states or external environments. It includes hardware (the actual "things"), embedded software and communication/information services associated with the things.

Another material joins the likes of graphene and carbon nanotubes in the silicon-killer arena-- "statene,"  a single layer of tin atoms theoretically able to conduct electricity with 100% efficiency at the temperatures computer chips operate.

The discovery of US, Chinese and German researchers, the properties of statene are detailed in a paper titled "Large-Gap Quantum Spin Hall Insulators in Tin Films." Apparently the material is a "topological insulator," meaning it conducts electricity only along the edges or surfaces of their structure, not through the interior.

Such a property comes into play when the structure is all of 1 atom thick, since it allows for 100% efficient electrical efficiency through "complex interactions between the electrons and nuclei of heavy atoms in the materials."

China retains the title of country housing the most powerful supercomputer-- Tianhe-2, the supercomputer developed by the Chinese National University of Defense Technology remains on top of the Top500 list.

According to the twice-yearly ranking Tianhe-2 reaches performance of up to 33.86 petaflops/sec (quadrillions of calculations per second) on the Linpack benchmark.

Titan, the Cray XK7 machine at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) follows, with performance reaching 17.59 Pflops/s while being the most energy efficient. In 3rd place is Sequoia, the IBM BlueGene/Q system housed at the DOE Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

In 4rd and 5th place are the K Computer, a Fujitsu machine installed at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe, Japan and Mira, a BlueGene/Q system installed at the DOE Argonne National Laboratory.