AT&T Wireless Unleashes the First and Only Wireless Messaging Device
Sep 30, 2004 |
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All of those messages typically confined to the desktop are about to be unleashed with Ogo™ - a radically new, hip, and affordable mobile messaging device for the masses, particularly teens and young adults. ...
Carbon Nanotubes to Improve Fuel Cells
Sep 30, 2004 |
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc., Motorola, Inc. and Johnson Matthey Fuel Cells, Inc. a $3.6 million grant to develop "free standing" carbon nan ...
SanDisk Introduces World's Fastest Flash Memory - SanDisk Extreme™ III
Sep 30, 2004 |
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SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today introduced the world’s fastest flash memory cards – the SanDisk Extreme™ III line of CompactFlash, SD™ and Memory Stick PRO™ digital film cards. The CompactFlash and ...
Breakthrough Motion Detector 1,000 Times More Sensitive Than Any Known
Sep 30, 2004 |
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Device allows naked eye to see motion of 10 nanometers A new class of very small handheld devices can detect motion a thousand times more subtly than any tool known. "There was nothing in the [optics] literature to predict that this ...
A mysterious change in the wave properties of electrons
Sep 30, 2004 |
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The electrons of a perfect metallic surface move like free waves in a plane. Nevertheless, if atomic barriers are inserted, this may restrict their movement in one dimension, forming stationary waves such as those on the ...
Towards a new, more acceptable face for biometric security
Sep 30, 2004 |
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Biometric security implies different things to different people. For some, applications that identify individuals based on their physical and behavioural characteristics will lead to a safer and more secure world. For others, ...
Intellon Corporation Announces HomePlug 1.0 Compliant 85 Mbps Powerline Networking Chipset
Sep 30, 2004 |
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Intellon Corporation, the world leader in powerline communications, today announced the introduction of its next generation powerline networking chipset. The INT5500CS, an 85Mbps powerline networking chipset, is fully com ...
Stanford's Technology Cools Athletes, Soldiers Inside Out
Sep 30, 2004 |
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When people exercise, their muscles consume energy and generate heat as a byproduct. When enough heat accumulates internally, it can limit exercise performance. Two Stanford biologists have developed a method for cooling ...
IBM Claims Its BlueGene Supercomputer Is the Fastest
Sep 30, 2004 |
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IBM Corp. on Wednesday said it has developed the world's fastest computer – a 16,000-processor version of its BlueGene/L supercomputer. BlueGene was able to achieve a sustained performance of 36.01 TFLOPS, ove ...
Nanotechnology solutions for the post-CMOS era of semiconductor manufacturing
Sep 30, 2004 |
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Using nanotechnologies to replace and/or extend the life of advanced CMOS manufacturing technologies is the goal of a new IMEC program announced today. IMEC's industrial affiliation program (IIAP) will seek alternatives to the current use of scaling to reduce device di ...
South Korean company's technology gift fuels dreams of chip-controlled devices
Sep 30, 2004 |
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Applications include musical synthesizers and tiny biomedical devices The dream of using a computer chip to operate and control tiny devices that can fit in a pocket or even inside the body might be moving one step close ...
Flying into the eye of the storm
Sep 30, 2004 |
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While most of us watched this summer’s violent and destructive storms on TV from the comfort of our sofas, a team of researchers from across the UK, including University of Leeds scientists Alan Blyth, Barbara Brooks and ...
First demonstration of new laser-driven accelerator technology
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Sep 30, 2004 |
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A team of UK scientists has used, for the first time, an extremely short-pulse laser to accelerate high-energy electrons over an incredibly short distance. Current accelerators can be hundreds of metres long, this is just a millimetre long. ...
NASA Salutes SpaceShipOne Team
Sep 30, 2004 |
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NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe congratulated the SpaceShipOne team on the second successful flight of a human on a private spacecraft. Administrator O'Keefe was in the Mojave Desert, Calif., today to watch SpaceShip ...
Study Suggests Spaceflight May Decrease Human Immunity
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A NASA-funded study has found the human body's ability to fight off disease may be decreased by spaceflight. The effect may even linger after an astronaut's return to Earth following long flights. In addition to the conditi ...
