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10 unusual gadgets and gifts for geeks

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Nerds. Geeks. Fanboys. Whatever you call them, the comics aficionados, movie buffs and videogame enthusiasts who dwell amongst us can be really hard to shop for. But it gets dramatically worse this time of year, when everyone ...


Samsung Develops Advanced Packaging Technology to Achieve a 0.6mm-thick 8-chip Package

Samsung Develops Advanced Packaging Technology to Achieve a 0.6mm-thick 8-chip Package

Technology / Semiconductors

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed the world's thinnest multi-die package, one that measures a mere 0.6mm in height. Designed initially for 32 gigabyte (GB) densities, the new memory ...


Review: Motorola's Droid is a serious smart phone (AP)

Review: Motorola's Droid is a serious smart phone

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(AP) -- Since its debut in 2007, millions of people have gravitated toward Apple's iPhone, wooed by its sleek hardware, simple user interface and abundance of applications.


Amnesia-Like Behavior Returns on Spirit

Amnesia-Like Behavior Returns on Spirit

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 31, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Until Oct. 24, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover had gone more than six months without an episode of amnesia-like symptoms like those that appeared on four occasions earlier this year.


Ericsson developing a 'spider' computer

Ericsson developing a 'spider' computer (w/ Video)

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ericsson has produced a prototype of a portable computer that projects the screen and keyboard, and a mock-up of a "spider" computer that will be small enough to carry in a pocket.


Intel Reports Breakthrough in Stacked, Cross Point Phase Change Memory Technology

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 4

Intel Corp. and Numonyx today announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today's various memory types.


What Comes After Hard Drives?

What Comes After Hard Drives?

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (34) | 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. ...


Papershow is portable whiteboard, presentation, more

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1

It all began with the blackboard that lets you write on a large surface for all to see and that can be easily erased. To this day, blackboards continue to be found mostly in schools. It's how teachers communicate their ideas ...


RIM Introduces the New BlackBerry Bold 9700 Smartphone

RIM Introduces the New BlackBerry Bold 9700 Smartphone

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Research In Motion today announced the sleek and powerful BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone. The new BlackBerry Bold 9700 offers an extensive array of high-end communications and multimedia features in a compact ...


ARM Delivers The Internet Everywhere With Most Power-Efficient and Cost-Effective Multicore Processor

ARM Introduces New Cortex-A5 Power-Efficient and Cost-Effective Multicore Processor

Technology / Semiconductors

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- ARM today announces the launch of the ARM Cortex-A5 MPCore processor, the smallest, lowest power ARM multicore processor capable of delivering the Internet to the widest possible range of ...


Barnes & Noble unveils new e-reader: the 'nook' (w/ Video)

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Barnes & Noble Inc. unveiled a new electronic-book reader Tuesday that will compete with Amazon.com's Kindle in a still-small arena where some see bookselling's future.


SanDisk Ships Flash Memory Cards With 64 Gigabit X4 NAND Technology

SanDisk Ships Flash Memory Cards With 64 Gigabit X4 NAND Technology

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

SanDisk announced it has begun production shipments of flash memory cards based on the company's advanced X4 flash memory technology. This innovative new technology holds four bits of data in each memory cell, ...


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Scientists give flies false memories

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 9

By directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons, scientists have given flies memories of a bad experience they never really had, according to a report in the October 16th issue of the journal Cell.


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HP's new touch Tablet: Windows 7 ultimate remote?

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Hewlett-Packard recently announced a new wireless, touchscreen tablet that's a cross between a wireless photo frame and a super duper remote control.


DOE to explore scientific cloud computing at Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cloud computing is gaining traction in the commercial world, but can such an approach also meet the computing and data storage demands of the nation's scientific community? A new program funded by the American Recovery and ...