Hubert Nguyen

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.

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Ubergizmo’s Best of CES 2020

01/10/2020, Our Best of CES, the products and tech that made an impression for their design, ingenuity, value, or all of the above. So many things to see, so little time, but our 15th CES almost boils down to this.

With Perfitt You Never Get The Wrong Shoe Size

01/09/2020, Shopping for shoes is not something that I particularly enjoy: different brands’ sizes don’t match, and the shoe style sometimes calls for unexpectedly wide or narrow width, so there’s only one way to know: try.

Dot incorporation Improves The Lives Of Visually Impaired People

01/09/2020, Dot incorporation is one of the most interesting companies we have looked at during CES 2020, and we listed it as one of the Ubergizmo’s Best of CES award recipients because their technology can vastly improve the life of visually impaired people.

LG 2020 OLED TVs + G-Sync = Living Room Gaming Nirvana

01/09/2020, Back in September, LG started to roll out support for NVIDIA’s G-Sync on select OLED televisions. But at CES 2020, LG not only extended that support for additional televisions, but also made it work at a maximum of 240Hz, welcome to living-room...

Netgear Nighthawk Mesh WiFi System

01/08/2020, With WiFi-6 rollout in full swing, industry leaders like Netgear are launching new hardware at CES to cover several use cases.As you may have seen from our previous reporting, we think that mesh networking and WiFi 6 are the two most important things that...

Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold Laptop, Coming in 2020

01/06/2020, Lenovo’s Foldable ThinkPad now has an official product name and release date, it’s the ThinkPad X1 Fold. Lenovo says that it will hit the market in “mid-2020” for $2499+, depending on the configuration.

Lenovo Yoga 5G: The World’s First 5G Computer

01/06/2020, At Computex last year, we first had our hands on a prototype laptop called “Project Limitless,” which was capable of connecting to all 5G protocols (sub-6, mmWave), an unprecedented feat in a world where laptops are just transiting to WiFi-6...

HP ENVY 32 All-in-One: Beauty & Beast

01/05/2020, Thanks to technological advances driven by laptops and mobiles, All-in-One PCs have become better designed and much more streamlined than just a few years ago (check our HP ENVY 32 AiO 2017 Review).

NEC LAVIE Pro Mobile: Incredibly Light 1.8 Lbs 13.3-inch Laptop

01/03/2020, The NEC LAVIE series of ultralight laptops dated back at least from 2010 and evolved with the technology of the day, including an Ultrabook version,  but 2015 was a particular year because NEC started to partner with Lenovo to commercialize the LaVie...

Samsung Galaxy Book Flex α Thin & Light Laptop

01/02/2020, Samsung has been building laptops for a while but has been more active (in the U.S market) in the past couple of years, and the new Samsung Galaxy Book Flex α (alpha) is an expansion in the Thin & light (sub 4 Lbs) market, at an $830 price where...

New Dell XPS 13 Gets Incredible Screen, All Metal Design

01/02/2020, Like clockwork, Dell is updating its flagship thin & light laptop right on time for CES, which starts this Sunday as far as media coverage is concerned. Two years ago, Dell broke new ground with this XPS 13 redesign, and a significant refresh has...