As promised in February, Microsoft is finally beginning to prepare their first retail stores. Kevin Turner, Microsoft COO, said during Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference that his company plans to open some retail stores “right next door to Apple Stores” this fall.
This year DARPA funded some very interesting and expensive projects, maybe because this year they are celebrating their jubilee. Now, their money are pointed towards Sun Microsystems which are trying to replace the wiring between chips with laser beams. Too hard? Yeah, but with $44 million in their pockets they should be able to complete [...]
Many people that buy PCs are frustrated by its design, but now each buyer can customize its own PC. This design is very similar to the human DNA, so they called it the DNA PC. This personal computer is composed of a projector, the keyboard, the power supply and the core module.
The users can customize the color, [...]
Today we bring good news for the visually impaired people. Jonathan Lucas has developed a PC, called Siafu, made of magneclay a concept material based on magnetized liquid. The computer creates a braille surface and also 3D pictures can pop-up from the device.
Magneclay is a synthetic material based on oil and its morphing ability has [...]
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 [...]
