Archive for February, 2008
Hi-Tech Cameras Which Count Persons In A Car
At the Loughborough University, U.K., Professor John Tyrer is developing a new camera which has the ability to count the passengers in a car. This new technology aims to play the key role in the reduction of traffic congestion on UK’s roads. It can count how many passengers are in car by detecting water and [...]
26Feb2008 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
The Second Fastest SuperComputer Announced
Scientists from Sandia and Oak Ridge national laboratories have developed a supercomputer which can handle an unbelievable number of calculations. Our standard computers are gigascale and currently are trying “to be” terascale, but the scientists are going exascale.
The latest supercomputer, Ranger, was announced by TACC and it can handle 504 teraflops which makes him the second most [...]
Smallest 1seg Tuner Unveiled By Sharp
How small do you think world’s smallest TV Tuner is ? Just look at the picture above to view Sharp’s latest, that’s even smaller than a ¥1 coin. The VA3A5JZ922 is 35% smaller than it’s competitors, with 5.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 mm. Also the 1seg tuner isn’t extremely pricy, at $185, but you have [...]
25Feb2008 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
NVIDIA Preparing To Update It’s GeForce 9 Series Lineup
NVIDIA is preparing to update it’s GeForce 9 series lineup with seven budget graphic cards, due to be released from may to July. The graphic cards will be priced at less than $599, some much cheaper and include the GeForce 9800GX2, GeForce 9800GTX, GeForce 9800GT, GeForce 9600GT, GeForce 9600GS, GeForce 9500GT, GeForce 9500GS.
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Momenta Necklace Records What You See, Stores Heart Beat Jump Moments
Maybe you are thinking where the blogging can head. Now there’s a necklace that records everything in front of your face and logs everything that happened 5 minutes before it notices a jump in heart rate that can redefine the video life blogging. The Momenta necklace could turn a bit scary, recording probably unpleasant things [...]
25Feb2008 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Hypersonic Airplane To Be Ready In 25 Years
Reaction Engines, a British company located in Oxfordshire, is the happy designer of the A2 aircraft which could transport passenger with a hypersonic speed. They say that the plane will fly from Europe to Australia in less than five hours and that it will transport about 300 people at a top speed of 3,800 [...]
25Feb2008 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Digital Tattoo Implanted Under The Skin
This is one of the coolest inventions in the world ever discovered. A Bluetooth device implanted under human skin which looks like a tattoo. It was developed and designed by Jim Mielke and it has many advantages - you can answer your phone by pushing a button on your arm and while your speaking, a [...]
25Feb2008 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
The Largest Wireless Network In The World
The Duke University is set to become the home of the biggest 802.11n Wireless Network. It will feature 2,500 access points and the previous record was held by the Ohio State University with 1,700 access points. Tracy Futhey, Duke’s chief information officer, says that “Wireless on our campus is absolutely critical to our 24-by-7 population. [...]
21Feb2008 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Intel Renames The Skulltrail
Intel made an official announcement that they have changed Skulltrail’s name into the Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform. Not a very wide decision I think, but they probably know better. The gaming platform is based on the D5400XS and on the 3.2GHz QX9775 Core 2 Extreme chips, priced at $649 and $1,499 respectively.
The test results show [...]
Tunnel Vision Inspired By Tesla
LED-Art is a company which creates light objects and installations and it was founded by Paul Klotz an applied art engineer and light designer. His latest creation is the Tunnel Vision and it was inspired from Nicolas Tesla, the “the patron saint of modern electricity”.
The interactive [...]
Rumor: HP UMPC To Feature VIA Chips
Latest reports suggest that the HP UMPC 2133 will feature VIA Inside, not Intel’s Penryn as previous reports were saying. If this is true, than it’s incredible news for VIA because this is the first time they could succeed with one of the big companies. The good news don’t stop here. It seems like the [...]
21Feb2008 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
MyRacer MF101 Plays Games, Music And Videos For Cheap
South Korea Readers, now you can enjoy a new portable console / media player available exclusively for you. The MyRacer MF101 has a friendly design and is especially designed for gaming, playing at least Flash lite files ( we are not sure if any flash ). If features a 1GB internal memory expandable via the [...]
21Feb2008 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Microsoft Released Windows XP SP3 Release Candidate 2 via Windows Update
It seems like all the anti-Vista campaigns and “save XP” petitions came to a results and Microsoft has just released a new service pack, the third version Release Candidate 2. The XP SP3 is now available through Windows Update for all users, but you have to download a registry key that will delete other SP3 [...]
21Feb2008 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Sony’s Chip Production Facility Sold To Toshiba For $835 Million
Sony is preparing to sell it’s chip production facilities from Japan to Toshiba in order to focus on their core business, as they’ve stated. Toshiba has paid $835 million and is going to make high performance Cell chips and TSX graphic chips, that are both used in Sony Playstation 3.
We already knew since October that [...]
Universal And Paramount To Sell Movies On Blu-Ray
It was the time for Paramount and Universal to publish their movies on a HD disk drive and now it seems they took action. Well, now it’s obvious what formate they have chosen once with HD DVD’s death. Yes, you guessed, Blu-ray is the winner.
Craig Kornblau, Universal’s President made a statement: “While Universal values the [...]