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Light Peak Module

Intel's Light Peak Will Replace Copper Wires

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (34) | comments 18

(PhysOrg.com) -- At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco Wednesday, the company announced a new optical cable that will be able to transfer data, between electrical devices, starting at speeds of 10 ...


Super-thin flexible OLED from Sony

Super-thin flexible OLED from Sony

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (29) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sony is showing off prototypes incorporating its super-thin, flexible OLED technology at the CREATEC JAPAN 2009 IT and electronics trade show in Makuhari Messe (Chiba) in Japan.


Organic light-emitting diode screens ready to go mainstream

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 6

It's not yet lights-out for LCD and plasma, but OLED displays are finally ready to begin pushing those technologies out of the limelight.


LG to Launch 15-inch OLED TV

LG to Launch 15-inch OLED TV

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Korean company, LG Electronics, the second largest television manufacturer in the world, has announced it will launch a 15-inch organic display TV set in early September. The announcement, ...


Sony 3D display

Sony Unveils 360-Degree 3D Display (w/ Video)

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (20) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today at the DC Expo in Tokyo, Sony has introduced a new 3D display that can be viewed from any direction. Unlike many 3D displays, the new display does not require glasses to view the 3D ...


The Asus New Folding E-Book Reader

The Asus New Folding E-Book Reader

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Asus has demonstrated a prototype of an e-book reader it is developing. Unlike its competitors, the device resembles a normal book, having two touch screens that will fold up.


Active Shutter 3D Technology for HDTV

Active Shutter 3D Technology for HDTV

Technology / Hi Tech

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (14) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sony and Panasonic have recently announced a new technology, called "active shutter" for producing the experience of 3D on high definition TVs. The first models are expected to be available ...


Sony develops highly efficient wireless power transfer system based on magnetic resonance

Sony develops highly efficient wireless power transfer system based on magnetic resonance

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (13) | comments 7

Sony Corp. today announced the development of a highly efficient wireless power transfer system that eliminates the use of power cables from electronic products such as television sets. Using this system, ...


Review: Dazzling Palm software beats the iPhone (AP)

Review: Dazzling Palm software beats the iPhone

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (16) | comments 12

(AP) -- Move over, iPhone. You've had two years on top of the smart phone world. Now there's a touch-screen phone with better software: the Palm Pre.


Science at the petascale: Roadrunner supercomputer results unveiled

Electronics / Hardware

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

The world's fastest supercomputer, Roadrunner, at Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed its initial "shakedown" phase doing accelerated petascale computer modeling and simulations of a variety of unclassified, fundamental ...


Review: Barnes & Noble reader is dual-screen mess (AP)

Review: Barnes & Noble reader is dual-screen mess

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (18) | comments 4

(AP) -- The e-book reading device is the gadget gift of the season. Both Sony and Barnes & Noble have sold out of their new models, and new buyers will have to wait until January for delivery. So why are ...


Organic electronics a two-way street, thanks to new plastic semiconductor

Organic electronics a two-way street, thanks to new plastic semiconductor

Technology / Semiconductors

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Plastic that conducts electricity holds promise for cheaper, thinner and more flexible electronics. This technology is already available in some gadgets -- the new Sony walkman that was introduced ...


Google to reincarnate digital books as paperbacks (AP)

Google to reincarnate digital books as paperbacks

Technology / Internet

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(AP) -- Google Inc. is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks.


L-R: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet and John Cusack at the premiere of "2012"

NASA on crusade to debunk 2012 apocalypse myths

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 4

The world is not coming to an end on December 21, 2012, the US space agency insisted Monday in a rare campaign to dispel widespread rumors fueled by the Internet and a new Hollywood movie.


A Samsung 1.19-inch thick, 55-inch LED 8000 edge-lit television

SKorean TV giants tout differing technologies

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 06, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 2

The world's top two makers of flat-panel televisions are stressing the energy-saving virtues of different display technologies in their race to dominate a huge global market.