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Tiny Music Player Made from Wire Bridge

Tiny Music Player Made from Wire Bridge (w/ Video)

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (18) | comments 1 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2008, scientists built a loudspeaker made of carbon nanotubes that produced sound and music based on the thermoacoustic effect. Now, a different team of scientists has built a loudspeaker ...


Will carbon nanotubes replace indium tin oxide?

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2 feature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Up until now, George Grüner tells PhysOrg.com, most of the studies regarding the properties - and uses - of carbon nanotubes have been restricted to the visible spectral range. “We, however, were interested in the ...


Futuristic Intel Chip

Futuristic 48-Core Intel Chip Could Reshape How Computers are Built (w/ Video)

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (31) | comments 19

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or "single-chip cloud computer," that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, ...


24-carat gold 'snowflakes' improve graphene's electrical properties

Graphene Used As Floating-Molecular Carpet To Ornament It With 24-Carat Gold 'Snowflakes'

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to make graphene more useful in electronics applications, Kansas State University engineers made a golden discovery -- gold "snowflakes" on graphene.


Silk-based optical waveguides meet biomedical needs

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

There is a growing need for biocompatible photonic components for biomedical applications - from in vivo glucose monitoring to detecting harmful viruses or the telltale markers of Alzheimer's. Optical waveguides are of ...


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Windows 7 Virtual XP Mode

Technology / Software

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (11) | comments 3 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft has decided to give Windows 7 users a tool that will allow them to run Windows XP applications in a virtual machine. The tool is free with Windows 7 but will only be available to ...


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Boom times ahead for mobile Web access

Technology / Internet

created Apr 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

After a slow start, mobile Web access has finally taken off, thanks in large part to better technology, and it will drive growth in Internet use in the future, industry leaders say.


'Buckyballs' to treat multiple sclerosis

'Buckyballs' to treat multiple sclerosis

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

If you're of a certain age, you'll remember Buckminster Fuller's distinctive "geodesic domes" - soccer-ball-shaped structures that the late futurist envisioned as ideal human domiciles. Tel Aviv University ...


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Google Hold'em Poker: Does Google Have An OS Up Their Sleeve?

Technology / Internet

created Dec 19, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 5 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google card shark watchers have been placing side bets on the possibility that Google may be holding back some news on a new OS. The search giant has been the subject of rumors in Forbes, ...


Review: $100 Palm Pixi is stylish but sluggish (AP)

Review: $100 Palm Pixi is stylish but sluggish

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Palm Inc. is fighting harder than ever to snag a chunk of the smart phone market, and just six months after releasing the stylish Pre it's back with a lighter, more petite and affordable version called ...


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.


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Amazon, Apple, Google, Yahoo! targeted in patent case

Technology / Business

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 7

A US technology company which won a patent case against software giant Microsoft filed suit on Tuesday against nearly two dozen other high-profile firms accusing them of violating the same patent.


The self-managing, 'unbreakable' internet?

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- High-powered internet applications typically need teams of experts to maintain them. Not any more, say European researchers who have built a system to create applications that manage and fix themselves.


Laser processes promise better artificial joints, arterial stents

Laser processes promise better artificial joints, arterial stents

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers are developing technologies that use lasers to create arterial stents and longer-lasting medical implants that could be manufactured 10 times faster and also less expensively than is now possible.


Nvidia's New GeForce GPU's

Nvidia Adds Five New GPU's to Their Mobile Line

Electronics / Hardware

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 weblog

Nvidia adds five new GPU's to their mobile GeForce lineup. These new chips have up to twice the performance and half the power consumption of previous chips.