Saturday, July 11, 2009

Radio chip Entertains human ear

July 11, 2009

MIT engineers have built a fast, ultra- broadband, low-power radio chip, modelled on the human inner ear, that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone, Internet, radio and television signals. Rahul Sarpeshkar, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and his graduate student, Soumyajit Mandal, designed the chip to mimic the inner [...]

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Virtual desktops are going to embed into LCD monitors

July 11, 2009

LG Electronics is going to embed virtualisation technology from US based NComputing into its LCD monitors, enabling up to eleven people to share a single PC. NComputing’s virtualisation technology enables a single PC or server to be virtualised so that many users can tap the unused capacity and share it as if each person had [...]

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usb-adaptor for file transfer without pc

July 11, 2009

Elan Digital Systems has launched matchbox-sized Mobidapter that plugs straight into the SD slot found on Panasonic TVs allowing you to transfer photos and films stored on a standard USB stick in minutes. No PC or laptop connections, no driver software and no power supply are needed. The Panasonic TV’s software simply recognises the SD [...]

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Write in the air with PhonePoint Pen mobile phone

July 11, 2009

You can now write short notes in the air with your phone and have that message automatically sent to mail address. This has been made pos sible by a new cell phone technology called PhonePoint Pen developed by engineering students at Duke University, Durham, USA. To create this application, the students took advantage of the [...]

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Scientists find evidence of high-speed planet smash-up

July 11, 2009

Nasa’s Spitzer Space Telescope has found evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets around a young star, in the form of vaporized rock and massive plumes of hot lava in space. Astronomers say that two rocky bodies, one as least as big as our moon and the other at least as big as [...]

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World’s first pure white LED Light

July 11, 2009

World’s first pure white LED Energy-efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are projected as the predominant lighting source of the future, replacing the incandescent bulbs as well as compact fluorescent lights (CFLs). But, LEDs do not naturally produce white light, and getting them to look like they do adds to their production cost, making them much more [...]

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