Personal digital assistants, cell phones, smartphones–whatever you want to call them–keep getting smaller, thinner, and lighter. Congrats to the engineers who keep coming up with this stuff, but I’m going blind trying to keep up with them.
My tired eyes could use a break, though I know this is the equivalent of tilting at […]
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It used to be that if you wanted to get a good look at microscopic bits of matter, you had to have to use, well, a microscope. You’d smoosh a drop of liquid between two small glass plates, slip them under the lens, and then fiddle with the focus until the mitochondria — hopefully […]
The robotic stars of last year’s DARPA Urban Grand Challenge, an autonomous car race, will have a rematch at the Toyota Grand Prix in Long Beach, Calif., later this month.
This time, their competition will be solely about speed.
“Boss,” an autonomous Chevy Tahoe from Carnegie Mellon University and winner of the $2 million Urban Grand […]
I guess these have been around for quite a while now since the Spiderman 3 movie has long ended its run at the cinemas, but they’re still cool enough to warrant a mention here.
Two realistic Spiderman masks with an intercom duplex system that allows you to talk and listen to your partner at the same […]
LG Electronics announced its smartphone line-up for the CTIA 2008 show in Las Vegas. If the touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard boasting smartphone are not sexy enough for you, the new LG models sure will.
LG will show this week at the CTIA 2008 the LG-CU920, LG-VX9100, LG-VX9900, LG-AX830, LG-KF700 and LG-KF510.Of course LG will also still […]
The Apple brand has the biggest impact on the world’s consumers, while Microsoft and the United States nation brand are those considered most in need of a remake, a survey showed on Monday.
The poll by online magazine brandchannel.com asked its readers to identify the brands with the greatest impact on their lives, and say how […]
Philippine PC manufacturer Neo and multinational computer processor maker Intel have jointly launched a new 16,999-peso (406-dollar) mini laptop, spokesmen said Saturday.
The Neo Explore is a “ruggedized and shock-proof” laptop with a keyboard that will not be damaged by spillages of liquids, said Neo spokeswoman Mariel Que.
It weighs 0.66 kilograms (1.45 pounds) and is the […]
There’s hope for those of us suffering from chronic imbalance as a result of staring too long at periodic tables and 20-sided dice. It’s an implant developed by neuroscientists at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.
The implant looks to off-set balance irregularities in the human vestibular system caused by trauma or disease affecting the gyroscopic […]
Publish2, an online news aggregation service for journalists, said Monday that it raised $2.75 million in a series A round of financing from Velocity Interactive Group. As part of the deal, former Fox Interactive President Ross Levinsohn and former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller have joined the company’s board.
Publish2, which launched in a private beta […]
The VIA Isaiah was originally scheduled for a launch during the first quarter of this year, and although the processor is already sampling, the release of the CPU is still a tad late and expected to make it to market sometime during next quarter. The obvious target for the low-power CPU is of […]