Remember the spy satellite that has to be destroyed? It seemed to be a solved problem by the Pentagon, they only had to launch their rockets to destroy the satellite, but they omitted to tell the price. The hole operation will cost from $40 million up to $60 million. Pentagon officials say that it worths the expense because the 1,000 pound of unused toxic fuel could land on a populated area. A team of 200 industry experts and scientists has been working to modify the sea-based Aegis missile defense system …

 Onkyo, a company known for producing HD audio PCs has just finished a new version, named the APX-2 and built in partnership with SOTEC. The APX-2 features a 1.66Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo T5500, a 500GB HDD, 1GB of RAM and a digital audio amplifier. Also, being made especially for sound, it’s extremely silent, with the HDD stored in a Super Floating HDD unit that ensures an excellent noise cancellation of up to 22dB.
Onkyo doesn’t use Vista’s volume mixer, due to it’s poor HD audio support, but comes with Pure …

Everybody likes having an email notifier so they won’t have to check their mail all the time, so they can buy one. For your Gmail you could buy a plastic cube that lights up when you’ve got a message in your inbox, or if you have a little imagination you could create one for yourself. You could start building your notifier by using only a LED to something more complicated like a robot for example.
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 If you are missing a pet in your home, then you should seriously think about this dog-shaped lamp that always listens you, if plugged in. Or better said, it will always turn on if you pet his metal head and illuminate your home. It’s touch sensitive surface will turn it on and scale through different lightning levels then turn off. Also it’s good looking and could be a nice accessory in your home, but it’s $150 price is it’s only inconvenience.

It seems like ClickFree considered it’s one-touch backup HDD wasn’t simple enough, so it even removed the touch you needed to backup your files. Their new HD700 backup drive sports a 120GB 5400RPM SATA drive and is 4.52 x 0.67 x 2.99 inches big, being USB 2.0 compatible. So you just have to plug it into the PC and it starts to backup your files, without even needing an additional power source. Unfortunately it’s only compatible with Windows and it’s priced at $169.

Scientists got a new job for robots: they will replace the animals used for testing chemicals. This was the idea of the National Institute of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency, which think that by using robots they will reduce the number of animals used for tests, costs and time. According to Dr Francis Collins, the Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, the robots will test the chemicals on individual cells of some animal or even human organisms. He also said that the tests done on animals are …

Many analysts have said that NVIDIA might buy AMD, because lately they feel threatened by Intel and AMD, after their roadmap of integration of the CPU and GPU and now Doug Friedman, from the American Technology Research also affirms that. Now, if NVIDIA is really going to buy AMD, it’s Intel’s time to feel threatened because they might become a much powerful competitor on the market, than they are alone. Also, Intel and AMD have an agreement to not transfer any of Intel’s technologies to a third party that could …

Well it seems like the problem of the spy satellite of which U.S. lost control will be solved. The president of United States George W. Bush has given specific orders to the Pentagon to destroy the satellite. This decision was taken because of the toxic that could harm the population in the area where it will crash. The impact will leave behind only space junk and it will remain forever in the galaxy. Well that’s just fine, “pollute” the space. We hope this will not affect any other planet.

A new luxury complex is being built in Jakarta, Indonesia, on the Java Sea coast and should include 11 buildings, along with an Aqua Park. The preview looks more than amazing, much interesting than Dubai is.
The new complex is called Regatta and should be finished in the next few years, including an aerodynamically-shaped hotel, 10 apartment towers and a 2.4-hectare Aqua Park, all build in a futuristic architecture, probably inspired from the Science Fiction movies. The building will be named from the other port cities like Monte Carlo, Tokyo, Acapulco, …

A team from the Leeds University has design a concept to help people with heart problems live longer, without drugs. The device doesn’t damage the body’s immunity or cells, like an artificial heart, being a less invasive alternative. It is built from a biocompatible material that no body will reject, so there won’t be any problems.
It is in a web form and it wraps around the heart, without coming in contact with the blood stream. It features sensor that recognize when the heart wants to beat and then it’s miniature …

Well another bad news for HD-DVD. Toshiba is expected to cut down this format in the coming weeks although Jodi Sally, VP of marketing for Toshiba America Consumer Products, thinks that HD DVD is the best option for consumers due to its provided quality.
According to Jodi Toshiba will watch how things go for now given the fact that HD DVD’s price decreased over the past month. Everybody seems to know what is going to happen, but it looks like HD-DVD format gets a chance for the moment.

Solid State Disks or SSDs are being tested by “developers” in order to make them cheaper and to increase the capacity. The latest idea is to use a flash to SATA adapter. The usually price for this storage would be between $600 and $1000, but they managed to reduce the cost to an unbelievable $100. The results say that the DIY SSD are faster than the traditional drive available for MacBook Air, even faster than the Vaio Tz 64GB.
The tests were taken with the help of a 7200 rpm 2.5-inch drive and …

Niveus announced their latest in storage technology: an update of the 2TB Storage Server and a new 4TB Storage Server Pro. With this two new Storage Servers, Niveus also increased the security of the server, so it can only be accessed by one of its users. If your not at home you could also access the server from any other place, like your office for example. The two servers also sport automatic backup, uPnP Media Server for playback of media content, RAID 0 or …

If you are fond of music and you want to create your own rhythms, now you can do it by building you personal harp out of lasers. The creator of this techno-harp is Stephen Hobley and he creates music by breaking the beams of light sent by the source to the mirror arrays.
I really like this idea! Now I can have fun and I can fool around undisturbed!

Damian Savio, a 23-year-old industrial design student from the University of Western Sydney has designed a lightning system for the window space, inspired from the Breezway window louver system. The Lightway uses OLEDs, with an advanced transparent Photovoltaic Nanoscale technology, that allows your home to be lighted by sunlight during daytime and lights it during the night.
The invention seems to be both useful and stylish, offering a unique style to your home. Those might be the stained-glass of the future.
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