Inkless 'Zink' Printer Fits in Your Pocket
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Jan 29, 2008 |
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If you've ever wished you could print photos directly from your cell phone, a new mobile photo printer from Polaroid is coming that can do just that. Perhaps even more intriguing is the technology the printer ...
The New Laptops
Jan 25, 2006 |
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It’s not your parent’s laptop: new models offer a wide range of different configurations for every need and taste.
Researchers develop mobile robot that balances, moves on ball instead of wheels or legs
Aug 09, 2006 |
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new type of mobile robot that balances on a ball instead of legs or wheels. "Ballbot" is a self-contained, battery-operated, omnidirectional robot that ...
Intel Microchip Packs Two Billion Transistors
Feb 04, 2008 |
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Intel has just announced the first microchip that contains more than two billion transistors - tiny switches that together perform the calculations in computers. The chip, known as Tukwila, marks a milestone ...
'WildCharger' leads wireless power revolution
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Nov 30, 2007 |
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WildCharge Inc.'s new wireless charging pad has recently won several awards and sparked the interest from the electronics, automobile, and furniture industries as one of the first wireless charging devices.
Hitachi Achieves Nanotechnology Milestone for Quadrupling Terabyte Hard Drive
Oct 15, 2007 |
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Hitachi, Ltd. announced today they have developed the world’s smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives, which is expected to quadruple current storage capacity limits to four terabytes (TB) on a desktop hard drive ...
Scientists Write Guide to Build Supercomputer from Sony Playstation 3
Dec 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UMass Dartmouth Physics Professor Gaurav Khanna and UMass Dartmouth Principal Investigator Chris Poulin have created a step-by-step guide to building a home-brewed supercomputer that can reduce the cost of ...
Intel Producing First Processor Prototypes With New, Tiny 45 Nanometer Transistors
Jan 27, 2007 |
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In one of the biggest advancements in fundamental transistor design, Intel Corporation today revealed that it is using two dramatically new materials to build the insulating walls and switching gates of its ...
Bug Labs lets consumers build their own gadgets
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Nov 05, 2007 |
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A New York company called Bug Labs has recently released information about their new product called BUG. A collection of various open source hardware modules, BUG allows consumers to build their own gadgets, ...
Fujitsu's 'Laptop4Life' program gives you a new laptop every 3 years
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Dec 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Buy any LifeBook laptop from Fujitsu Siemens, and the company will provide you with a new laptop every three years until you die. The only requirements are that you need to buy a three-year ...
Researchers Set Speed Record for Silicon-Based Chips
Jun 20, 2006 |
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A research team from IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology has demonstrated the first silicon-germanium transistor able to operate at frequencies above 500 GHz. Though the record performance was attained ...
Ground-breaking holographic technology will power a new generation of pocket-sized digital video projectors
Dec 28, 2004 |
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Nic Lawrence, Edward Buckley, Adrian Cable and Peter Mash, researchers within the Photonics and Sensors Group at the University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering are developing ground-breaking holographic ...
World's fastest transistor approaches goal of terahertz device
Dec 11, 2006 |
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Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have again broken their own speed record for the world’s fastest transistor. With a frequency of 845 gigahertz, their latest device is approximately ...
InPhase Demos 515 Gigabits Per Square Inch Data Density
Mar 27, 2006 |
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InPhase Technologies announced today that it has demonstrated the highest data density of any commercial technology by recording 515 gigabits of data per square inch. Holographic storage is a revolutionary ...
'Space Cube' could be world's smallest PC
Aug 28, 2008 |
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Measuring just 2 inches by 2 inches, the Space Cube is roughly the size of a large die. However, the cube is actually a tiny PC, developed by the Shimafuji Corporation in Japan.
