Archive for December, 2007
Communicating Plastic Sheets To Replace Bluetooth
Japanese scientists found a way of replacing the Bluetooth, which is a bad battery-draining technology. They’ve created a plastic sheet gives the gadgets the possibility to exchange data between them, and also to use it as a wireless charger when they are sitting on it. This connection has another advantage then the Bluetooth: it is [...]
15Dec2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
NVIDIAs GeForce 8800 3-Way SLI For Very High Resolution Games
If it comes for very good graphics then the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 3-Way SLI is the best, but there is one problem it will also be the most expensive one. If you want one you will have to spend a lot of money because the cards are expensive (you are restricted to the 8800 GTX [...]
15Dec2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
2012 Might Bring us Scramjet Powered Planes and Missiles
All the world is on a competition to build a working and dependable scramjet, that should fly from New York to Tokyo in just two hours, because of the high speeds it could reach. Especially Australia, China and the United States are doing a hard job for it and finally it seems DARPA is working [...]
15Dec2007 | Martin J. | 2 comments | Continued
Adidas Teamgeist II - The Intelligent Ball
European football or soccer is the most spreaded and beloved sport in the world. Lately the biggest problem in soccer are the referees, even though their mistakes are not made voluntary. Now, Adidas came up with a solution. In colaboration with Cairo Technologies, they are working on a “smart” soccer ball which can determine if [...]
15Dec2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
10.4-inch Flexible Color LCD Unveiled by ITRI
A new flexible display technology has been developed by Taiwan’s ITRI ( Industrial Technology Research Institute ), that includes a flexible LED backlighting unit, called BLU and a 10.4-inch chloresteric LCD, called Ch-LC.
The new technology doesn’t use a glass substrate, as the other LCDs use, but instead uses two plastic substrates for the 10.4-inch color [...]
Intel Z-P140 PATA To Be The Smallest SSD Chips
Intel announced its new SSD chips, the Intel Z-P140 PATA, which seem to be tiny, you can see it yourself. The performance of Z-P140 PATA chips is also very good, having a capacity of 2GB and 4GB. The chips capacity could also be extended at a maximum of 16Gb. Intel didn’t announce the release date, [...]
15Dec2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Hybrid CrossFire Chips The Future of Graphics?
AMD is looking to include in their products integrated graphics which can support hybrid crossfire. AMD showed a demo of this technique to PC Perspective of the new more powerful chips by showing a 2.2 GHz Phenom, with RS780 and RV620 integrated graphics, both unreleased. Frame rates, from games like Unreal Tournament 3 and Call of Duty [...]
14Dec2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
32GB Flash Drive Introduced by Buffalo
Buffalo has introduced a new 32GB flash drive, named SHD-U32GS. This isn’t the only 32GB flash drive on the market, but looks good and has impressive features. It can be connected to a PC via USB 2.0 and it features the Turbo USB technology, that improves transfer rates with up to 16 percent, as the [...]
14Dec2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
The Wind Turbine Named MARS
One of the most argued and interesting subjects is the alternative energy and wind power systems. Everybody wants them and at the same time they don’t. They are very loud, it can’t be used if the wind stops, the windmills kill a lot of passing birds. Then a company named Magenn comes up with a solution - [...]
13Dec2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
A New Underwater Hotel In Dubai
Where can you find all the interesting and luxurious hotels in the world? We can give you the answer: it’s Dubai. The Hydropolis Undersea Resort is an underwater hotel that offers visitors 220 rooms for underwater views. It is located 60 feet underwater in the Arabian Gulf and only its roof is above water, because [...]
13Dec2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Dell Latitude Will Feature Multi Touch, But we Don’t Know When
You’re probably wondering why the Dell Latitude XT’s multi-touch capability is missing from the official launch details, because Michael Dell mentioned it . Well, it seems the laptop does have the hardware part the multi-touch feature needs, but lacks the software and drivers for the capacitive touchscreen.
On one side, that’s good news, because Dell announced [...]
Windows Mobile 7 Multi-Touch
Bad news for for iPhone users. Hilton Locke, test engineers working for Windows Mobile 7, says that Windows Touch Technology will support Multi-Touch, which it’s functional in Vista. This is a step forward because you can give more complex commands using Multi-Touch and it has much more input options, also more elaborated interactions. This is [...]
13Dec2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Illuminated Shower Heads
Chinese inventors respond to Japanese ones with a concept for shower heads. They made four different hues for the heads which react to four different water temperatures: white for temperatures under 32°C, blue and dark blue for 33°C to 41°C, pink and violet for 42°C to 45°C and hot red for temperatures bigger than 45°C. [...]
13Dec2007 | Martin J. | 7 comments | Continued
UK Plans to Only Use Wind Energy by 2020
UK couldn’t stay away from those new efficient ways of power generation, so it unveiled it’s plans to only use wind power by 2020. They are advantaged by the shallow waters that are great places to build wind farms, but there’s a lot of work to do, considering they are currently generating only 2% of [...]
13Dec2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
USB Drive Like a Chocolate
A new simple, but at the same time very efficient, USB Drive who looks just like a chocolate. Each piece of the “chocolate” consists of a modular flash drive. In the center of the hub sits a touchscreen that helps you organize your files. This idea is very good, because it’s practical and it has [...]
13Dec2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued