Hubert Nguyen is the co-founder and editor of Ubergizmo. He has a passion for technology and enjoys sharing it.
He is a retired computer graphics engineer who programmed special-effects such as real-time fire or hair rendering, for NVIDIA. Hubert also managed the NVIDIA developer education program and edited “GPU Gems 3“, a best-selling 3D programming book.
Before joining NVIDIA, Hubert was at 3dfx interactive. Prior to that, he worked on 3D-Engines in various video games.
Hubert started to program computer graphics in 1991 when he was involved in the underground European DemoScene. In 1994, his “Impact Studios” team won the world’s largest PC demo competition: The Party, in Denmark.
10/14/2026, Honda brought its Avatar Robot technology to CEATEC 2026, offering a live demonstration of how people could one day perform hands-on work without traveling to the job site. Ubergizmo visited the booth in Japan and spoke with Honda representatives about...
10/14/2026, Godzilla is approaching a crowded city, and there is roughly an hour to get people to safety. At CEATEC 2026, Fujitsu turns that fictional emergency into a demonstration of technology that could help planners prepare for real catastrophes. The...
10/13/2026, What happens when a company creates an entire business division staffed by AI agents? NEC is exploring that idea with its Corporate AI & Workforce Division, where agents handle demanding analytical work, manage other agents, and report to human...
10/13/2026, How is Japan preparing for an AI-driven society, and how can people contribute to it? At CEATEC 2026, Japan’s Innovation Platform Agency (IPA) invites visitors to explore those questions through an interactive installation, presentations, and...
10/13/2026, Visiting CEATEC this week? Head to Hall 6, booth 6H002, where JEITA’s Semiconductor Industry Game of Life (PDF) turns a potential career in chips into a walk-through board game. Created with cooperation from Takara Tomy, the activity offers a playful...
09/20/2026, I know some of the designers behind Electronic Materials Office (EMO), so I am not particularly surprised to see the company pushing keyboard engineering this far. I have not had the opportunity to type on the new Altar II, so I cannot comment on how it...
09/20/2026, Grocery shopping or putting food away involves more than memory. You need to recognize objects, decide what to do with them, and coordinate your movements. For someone experiencing cognitive difficulties, those familiar routines can become challenging....
09/19/2026, Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) increasingly move materials around factories and warehouses, but most still rely heavily on cameras and LiDAR to understand where they are. Those systems can struggle in environments filled with dust, fog, excessive light,...
09/07/2026, A wellness product can sound simple until it has to cross a border. The same supplement formula may need a different dose, label claim, price, manufacturing setup, or sales channel depending on where it is sold. Miss one dependency, and a company can...
09/07/2026, Hard water can leave hair feeling dry, skin feeling tight, and soap harder to rinse away. MakeMake believes it has a portable answer: PERLUO, a battery-free tumbler that prepares a small amount of softer water for personal cleansing. PERLUO is NOT a water...
09/07/2026, Datacenters construction have become one of the most controversial topics in the United States (and elsewhere). People are asking whether the ones already arriving will raise electricity costs, overload the local grid, and bring more polluting generators...
09/01/2026, Generative AI has made it much faster to produce a screen, mockup, or visual concept. But it has not solved the part of product design that often takes the longest: getting a team to agree on what to keep, what to change, and why. That is the business...
09/01/2026, Minimap combines game histories across major platforms, then uses opt-in play data for recommendations, community, and publisher campaigns.
08/30/2026, A useful meeting record should do more than produce a transcript. It should let people who do not share a language follow the conversation as it happens, then turn that conversation into something the team can use afterward. That is the promise behind...
Hubert Nguyen is the co-founder and editor of Ubergizmo. He has a passion for technology and enjoys sharing it.
