Nine mechanical engineering majors from Yale developed a prototype model for a spokeless bike last semester. As you’ll notice in the photo, only the back wheel lacks its spokes. This is because the group had limited time and money. The students said, seeing the back wheel was a success, they could easily install a spokeless [...]
Microsoft unveiled Windows Mobile 7 at the 2010 Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, Spain on Monday. The new Windows Mobile 7 has several new features — including Zune and Xbox Live integration, a dedicated Bing search button, and a new “Hubs” concept for organizing and using mobile content and services. Microsoft will be calling the [...]
Apple just announced their 10 billion song downloads contest on iTunes — they’re giving away a $10,000 iTunes gift card to whoever downloads the 10 billionth song on iTunes. If you visit the contest page, you’ll notice the countdown is moving preeetty quickly. Currently, the countdown is nearing 9.9 billion, so if you want to [...]
Lenovo, Thursday, announced a few new computers — including the C315 desktop. Lenovo’s C315 packs a 20-inch multitouch display, along with an unspecified AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 4GB of RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon graphics (of some sort), and of course plenty of pre-loaded apps to take advantage of that big multitouch screen. The C315 also [...]
Puma just launched a teaser site for their solar powered sports-centric phone that will be announced next week. Its been known that Puma has been making plans for a branded phone with Sagem since October, but nothing about the phone has really been known until now. If you pull up the page source from Puma’s [...]
Researchers at the University of Michigan developed the smallest solar sensor ever created–the dimensions are 2.5 x 3.5 x 1 millimeters. The sensor can run nearly perpetually if periodically exposed to reasonable lighting conditions as its only limiting factor is battery wear-out. The sensor’s solar cells, processor, and battery are all compacted into a tiny [...]
Tuesday, Google launched their latest web service, Google Buzz. Google Buzz is Google’s approach to the social media stream. Google played it smart by simply implementing Google Buzz into Gmail–instead of building up a new product completely from scratch.
Cade Metz, from The Register writes: “Some date the dawn of the net to September 12, 1969, when a team of engineers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) connected the first two machines on the first node of ARPAnet, the US Department of Defense-funded network that eventually morphed into the modern interwebs. But [...]
It’s been two months since Hulu began partnership with ABC. Finally, today, Hulu posted 5 episodes from Season 5 of ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy.
So, most of you have heard about Microsoft’s Bing by now. If not, you won’t regret checking it out. Anyway, Google may have a good competition on their hands. Bing is definitely going up in traffic, but Google might still be okay… for now, that is.
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The internet allows us to send and receive messages and data instantly, but for that, we must be at the pc. INFO Live offers the possibility to find our when you receive something, by noticing you through an image that represents what you’ve received. INFO Live is bracelet-shaped and you can use it all the [...]
There is no doubt that in the next years the Internet will only become faster and faster and the first step is going to be made by the city of St. Paul, Minnesota. They will begin to provide a bandwidth of about 160Mbps for download and 120Mbps for upload. This generation of fast cable Internet [...]
The need of information has always concerned people and the best way to keep yourself informed is the Internet. But then people wanted more, they need the information faster and faster therefore the Internet improved its speed very much. According to CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research with its headquarters in Switzerland, the Internet [...]
What would you do if you would have the fastest internet connection in the world? Well, here is what Sigbritt Löthberg (photo), the Swedish that actually has it, uses it for: drying her laundry. With the 40Gbps speed you can download a full DVD in just a second and browse the web like your computer’s [...]
