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Toshiba launches portable fuel-cell for mobiles

Toshiba launches portable fuel-cell for mobiles

Technology / Energy

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- For people fed up with their mobile telephone or iPod batteries running out, Japan's Toshiba Corp. announced Thursday the launch of a portable fuel-cell that can power up digital gadgets on ...


Microscopic version of the CT scan reveals secrets of bone formation

Microscopic version of the CT scan reveals secrets of bone formation

Chemistry /

created Sep 29, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A new version of the computerized tomography (CT) scan, which revolutionized medical imaging during the last 25 years, is giving scientists precious new information about how Mother Nature forms shells, bones, ...


Oh Baby! First photograph of early modern computer

Oh Baby! First photograph of early modern computer

Technology / Other

created Jun 17, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (31) | comments 4

Here is the first known photograph of the great grandfather of modern digital computers – but you couldn’t use it on the train or take it jogging with you.


Compact, wavelength-on-demand Quantum Cascade Laser chip created

Compact, wavelength-on-demand Quantum Cascade Laser chip created

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 06, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 2

Engineers at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have demonstrated a highly versatile, compact and portable Quantum Cascade Laser sensor for the fast detection of a large number of chemicals, ...


Compact, wavelength-on-demand Quantum Cascade Laser chip offers ultra-sensitive chemical sensing

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 03, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (20) | comments 0

Engineers from Harvard University have demonstrated a highly versatile, compact and portable Quantum Cascade Laser sensor for the fast detection of a large number of chemicals, ranging from infinitesimal traces of gases to ...


There's History and Money in Obsolete Computers

Technology / Other

created Apr 12, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

In the first purchase of his collection, Sellam Ismail loaded the trunk of his car with old computers he stumbled upon at a flea market for $5 apiece. Soon he had filled his three-car garage with what others would consider ...


Panasonic Develops Coin-size Low-Power Bidirectional Wireless Module

Panasonic Develops Coin-size Low-Power Bidirectional Wireless Module

Technology /

created May 19, 2005 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Panasonic, the leading brand by which Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. is known, today unveiled its ultra-small low-power wireless module by incorporating a radio circuit and a microcomputer onto a ...


Renesas Releases Single-Chip TFT Controller/Driver for Mobile Phone QVGA-Size TFT Color Liquid Crystal Displays

Technology /

created May 10, 2005 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the R61505 controller/driver, providing QVGA (240 x 320-pixel) resolution screen drive and 260k-color display capability plus nonvolatile memory in a single chip, as a driver for amorphous ...


Renesas Technology Releases SH7206, First SuperH™ Microcomputer Incorporating New SH-2A CPU Core

Technology /

created Aug 26, 2004 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the release of the SH7206, the first product incorporating the new SH-2A CPU core from the SuperH™ family of 32-bit RISC (reduced instruction set computer) microcomputers. The SH ...


NEC - 78KOS Microcontroller

NEC Electronics Expands 8-Bit Microcontroller Series to Enable Compact, Economical and Advanced-Function Sensor Systems

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created Jul 23, 2004 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NEC Electronics Corporation (TSE: 6723) and its subsidiary in Europe, NEC Electronics (Europe) GmbH, announced the development of two new series of microcontrollers (MCUs), the µPD789863 and the µPD789864, desi ...


Japan's Toppan Printing Chooses ARM for Next Generation IC Card

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created Jul 07, 2004 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

TOKYO, JAPAN and CAMBRIDGE, UK - July 7, 2004 - Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. the world's second largest printing company, and ARM, today announced that Toppan has developed an IC card with high-speed cryptographic processing ...