Breakthrough Achievement for One Terabit/Inch² HDD Recording Density

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created Jan 18, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (35) | comments 0

Fujitsu today announced a breakthrough in magnetic recording. Using patterned media technology, Fujitsu was able to achieve a one-dimensional array nanohole pattern with an unprecedented 25 nanometer pitch. This dramatic ...


Samsung SCH-A990

First 3.2 megapixel camera phone for U.S.

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created Jul 06, 2006 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (54) | comments 0

Verizon Wireless and Samsung Thursday introduced the first camera phone in the U.S. market with 3.2 megapixels.


Nokia 6630 Music Edition

Nokia 6630 Music Edition

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created Sep 19, 2005 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (56) | comments 0

Nokia today announced the Nokia 6630 Music Edition, a special music version of the iconic 3G smartphone. The Nokia 6630 Music Edition has been designed with enhanced music functionality to make it convenient ...


Samsung Develops 40-nm 32 Gb NAND Flash

Samsung Develops 40nm 32 Gb NAND Flash

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created Sep 11, 2006 | popularity 1.9 / 5 (77) | comments 0

Samsung Electronics today announced that it has developed the industry’s first 40-nanometer memory device. The new 32 Gigabit (Gb) NAND flash device is the first memory to incorporate a Charge Trap Flash (CTF) ...


Sony DSLR-A900 24.6-megapixel DSLR Camera

Sony Unveils the Worlds first 24.6-megapixel DSLR Camera

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created Sep 11, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (41) | comments 1

Sony's DSLR-A900 will be available in November, along with related accessories; online pre-orders start on September 10. The DSLR-A900 is designed to deliver ultra-fine picture quality with its stunning 24.6 ...


What Comes After Hard Drives?

What Comes After Hard Drives?

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created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (36) | comments 36

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to store and retrieve data is an important component of today's computers, as well as other modern electronic devices such as cell phones, video game consoles, and camcorders. ...


Wafer-Thin Color Displays for Packaging

Wafer-Thin Color Displays for Packaging

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created Oct 07, 2005 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (30) | comments 0

Color displays may one day be used practically everywhere. And this would be possible even where it’s unprofitable today for cost reasons, such as on food cartons, medicine packaging or admission tickets. At ...


Future cars could be fuelled by hydrogen technology

Future cars could be fuelled by hydrogen technology

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created Nov 16, 2005 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (40) | comments 0

A small CSIRO-developed hydrogen device the size of a domestic microwave oven may be all you need to fuel your car in the future. A team at CSIRO Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology has developed a s ...


Epson Develops A6-Size Electronic Paper with World's Highest Resolution Using Plastic Substrate

Epson Develops A6-Size Electronic Paper with World's Highest Resolution Using Plastic Substrate

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created Jun 12, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (30) | comments 0

Seiko Epson Corp. has successfully developed A6-size (7.1 inches on the diagonal) electronic paper using a plastic substrate. Drawing on Epson's original SUFTLA technology, the new electronic paper achieves ...


When robots learn social skills

When robots learn social skills

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created Jun 22, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (33) | comments 0

Learning to communicate and adapting our behaviour to the information we receive has been fundamental to human evolution. If machines could do the same the intelligent talking robots of science fiction could ...


Readius

'Readius' Cell Phone First to Incorporate Foldable E-Display

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created Jan 23, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (30) | comments 0

Polymer Vision, a spin-off company from Philips, has recently announced the first cell phone to offer a roll-up e-display for reading your favorite Web sites. The 5-inch (13-cm)-diagonal display rolls out ...


NEC LaVie laptop

'Face pass' is latest security system for NEC laptops

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created Sep 04, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (33) | comments 0

NEC has launched two new series of laptops with a unique security feature called "face pass" -- or, in Japanese, "kao pass."


Salamander Robot

Robot Salamander May Give Evolution Clues

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created Mar 08, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (33) | comments 0

A group of European researchers has developed a spinal cord model of the salamander and implemented it in a novel amphibious salamander-like robot. The robot changes its speed and gait in response to simple ...


Robots manipulating animal behaviour

Robots manipulating animal behaviour

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created May 08, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (33) | comments 0

A pet dog sits on command, but nobody expects an insect to follow human instructions. So it may come as a surprise to learn that researchers recently succeeded in controlling cockroaches with tiny mobile robots. ...


CSI Stick

Paraben's CSI Stick Copies Data from Cell Phones

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created Sep 01, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (34) | comments 3

Beware the next time someone borrows your cell phone or you leave it unattended. You may become the next victim of having all your cell phone data copied to the CSI Stick.