Fancy refrigerator type cooling for your PC?
Just hope that the researchers at Purdue University are successful in their endeavor and then you’ll be able to keep the temperature levels to a minimum as your PC will try to give out its best for Crysis. They are working on refrigeration cooling based on the concept of compressors and evaporators which helps to [...]
Pioneer’s Optical Disc can store 400GB of data
Pioneer Electronics has announced that they have developed something phenomenal. It’s the world’s first 16-layer optical disc which can store up to 400GB of data. That’s 25GB in each layer which is equivalent to a single layer Blu-Ray Disc (BD). It is still unclear but it seems that the new discs will be compatible with [...]
Eye Controlled Gadgets in the future, courtesy NTT Docomo
Agreed you won’t look cool wearing this but the technology which drives the thing is definitely cool. NTT Docomo has prepared a technology which can help gadgets to accept commands with the user’s eyes. Prototype device showed a music player which skipped tracks when the eyeballs are moved quickly on the side or changes the [...]
Videos show off Tegra’s capabilities
nVidia had announced the Tegra processors for MIDs. And if you thought that they were boasting unnessarily then you may not believe that it can play Quake III at 35fps, HD Video playback, low consumption of power. See it to believe it.
nVidia Tegra processor for mobiles
nVidia today announced Tegra line of processors which will power mobile internet devices (MIDs) in the future. The so-called computer on a chip integrates an ARM CPU, a GeForce GPU and RAM making it an all-in-one solution for the manufacturers. Tegra will help devices which do a lot of internet surfing, gaming and videos. One [...]
Sony’s thinnest OLED display
Sony which was present at the D6 conference unveiled a prototype of an OLED display which is thinner than the credit card. It measures just 0.3mm.
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Video: Windows 7 gets Multi-Touch
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer showed a short preview of the upcoming Windows 7 at the D6 Conference. There’s not much to say about the OS right now other than its Multi-Touch support. Ballmer hinted the probable launch of Windows 7 in 2010.
Samsung’s 2.5-inch 256GB SSD is world’s fastest
Samsung has created another feat. They have developed a 2.5-inch SSD which can clock read/write speeds of 200MB/s and 160MB/s respectively. The SSD is developed on MLC technology supporting SATA II interface and just measures 9.5mm in thickness.
The development of SSD on MLC means same reliability as SLC SSD but at a cheaper cost of [...]
Hydrogen powered phones to come in 2010
Hybrid cars are not the only ones which will save our non-renewable resources. In fact, the mobile phones can do it too and that is why the researchers have developed a hydrogen fuel cell which can be used as another option of power for them.
The hydrogen filled cartridge developed by STMicroelectronics comes into action [...]
Body heat to power your cellphones
Could you imagine a situation where your cellphone would never run out of battery? Even more, the cellphone would be charged by the heat generated by your body. German researchers have concluded that the difference between the body temperature and the normal temperature can help produce electricity. The concept which is based on Thermoelectric [...]