Owen Castellanos

Hardware & Gaming Reporter

Owen Castellanos is the Hardware & Gaming Reporter at TrendinTech, where he tests graphics cards, processors, consoles and peripherals and follows the games industry, from the major publishers to independent studios. He previously wrote reviews and benchmarks for Tom's Hardware and contributed features to PC Gamer, covering everything from laptop testing to the economics of game development. Owen holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and attends CES in Las Vegas, Computex in Taipei and the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco each year to meet chipmakers and developers. He writes for readers who want to know whether a product is worth the money, and he is not shy about saying when it is not.

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Date	Story	Desk	Type	Read
2 Dec 2016	10 Key Observations About Augmented Reality Although Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) are usually easily mistaken for each other, there are quite different. VR devices block off user’s perception of the real...	GME	News	2 min
24 Nov 2016	Smart Power Gets A Re-Design Thanks to Totem Smart technologies are constantly getting better, and not just in the way they function, but also in the way they look as well and Totem is one fine...	HW	News	2 min
17 Nov 2016	Designing a Medical 3D Printer For the NASA’s Mars Mission Not ones to shy away from a mission, the team at NASA have launched another 3D printing challenge, this time one that’s aimed at K-12 students. It’s a...	HW	News	2 min
12 Nov 2016	Capturing Solar Power in Space, Then Send it Down to Earth It’s a concept that’s been around for quite some time now but has never really taken form. But now, with the help of the advancement of technologies such...	HW	News	3 min
26 Oct 2016	Mercedes-Benz Plan to Win the Electric Cars Game They may not be the first car manufacturer that springs to mind when thinking about electric vehicles, but Mercedes are quickly coming up the ranks, ready to give...	HW	News	2 min
18 Oct 2016	How to Reduce Your Household Energy Bills There are various ways in which to save money these days, but one way that we can all do it without cutting down on too much of the...	HW	Guide	2 min
16 Oct 2016	A New Way To Watch Animation Movies With Virtual Reality Tom Sanocki is a Princeton scholar and former Pixar character artist having worked on the famous Finding Nemo and Toy Story movies amongst various others. He started his...	GME	News	2 min
15 Oct 2016	Solar Parking Brings More Business to Parking Lots There are lots of electric vehicles appearing on the roads today, but there are still three main problems with them: their short driving range, their high purchase costs,...	HW	News	2 min
15 Oct 2016	Virtual Reality Will Take Cancer Patients To A Trip For Better Hospital Experience A partnership has been formed between the University of Southern California (USC) Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Springbok Cares that looks to bring a Virtual Reality initiative for...	GME	News	2 min
9 Oct 2016	Adding Fluorine Atoms to The Solar Cells Could Help To Improve Its Performance Solar energy gets a boost this week as RIKEN researchers have now discovered that adding fluorine atoms to light harvesting polymers improves their efficiency. This is a breakthrough...	HW	News	2 min
2 Oct 2016	First Ever Hydrogen Train Coming to Germany As early as December 2017, we will see Germany become the first country ever to offer passengers the chance to ride on a hydrogen-powered train. This is part...	HW	News	2 min
25 Sep 2016	Sony’s PS4 and the Growing World of VR Content When Sony launched PlayStation VR for the PS4 in October 2016, it brought virtual reality to a console that millions of people already owned. Until then, high-quality VR...	GME	News	3 min

10 Key Observations About Augmented Reality

Smart Power Gets A Re-Design Thanks to Totem

Designing a Medical 3D Printer For the NASA’s Mars Mission

Capturing Solar Power in Space, Then Send it Down to Earth

Mercedes-Benz Plan to Win the Electric Cars Game

How to Reduce Your Household Energy Bills

A New Way To Watch Animation Movies With Virtual Reality

Solar Parking Brings More Business to Parking Lots

Virtual Reality Will Take Cancer Patients To A Trip For Better Hospital Experience

Adding Fluorine Atoms to The Solar Cells Could Help To Improve Its Performance

First Ever Hydrogen Train Coming to Germany

Sony’s PS4 and the Growing World of VR Content