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NEC have developed a 32Mb MRAM chip that, thanks to the company’s efforts to miniturize the control circuits, allows 73-percent of a memory macro’s area to be allocated to memory cells. The MRAM chip, which is intended for SoC (System-on-Chip) products such as those found in embedded and mobile devices, is also compatible with asynchronous SRAM.
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NEC 32Mb MRAM chip with super-high memory density
By Chris Davies on Thursday, Feb 12th 2009 No CommentsWearable projection computer project: Internet ’sixth sense’
By Chris Davies on Friday, Feb 6th 2009 No CommentsA group of MIT students have developed a wearable computer that projects its display onto any nearby surface, and is controlled by hand gestures and voice-recognition. A prototype was demonstrated at TED this week, capable of projecting a watch face onto the user’s wrist after they trace a circle over it, capturing images framed by their fingers, and pulling up information about an individual and projecting it onto them during conversation.
Video demos after the cut
Shipwrecked treasure allegedly found via Google Maps
By Staff Editor on Friday, Jan 2nd 2009 No Comments
Treasure hunter Nathan Smith testifies that he used Google maps to find buried treasure in South Texas. Smith also monitored the treasures location with updated satellite images to ensure that no one was poking around long enough to gain legal rights to his findings.
The 39-year-old musician from Los Angeles located a 19h century boat, which has a supposed cargo of gold and silver off the Texas Gulf coast. Smith is attempting to gain rights to dig at the location where he believes the missing ship is. He believes this to be the location because of written accounts found on Google and the readings of gold and silver from metal detectors at the site.
Microsoft using Sony PS3 Home for virtual meetings
By Chris Davies on Friday, Jan 2nd 2009 10 Comments
Sony’s PS3 Home service has come in for its fair share of criticism since it launched last month, not least because of early connectivity issues, but it looks like more than one big name has a positive view of its worth. Microsoft are a surprise inclusion in a study by researchers at Portsmouth University, examining the potential of virtual worlds to facilitate business meetings and reduce unnecessary travel. They’ll seemingly be trying out Home to reduce their carbon footprint.
Octopuses love HDTV but lack personality, claims Australian researcher
By Chris Davies on Monday, Dec 22nd 2008 No CommentsSince 18-percent of HDTV owners are apparently unable to tell the difference between high and standard definition content, it looks like octopuses have human-kind beat. An Australian researcher, the curiously named Renata Pronk, enlisted the help of 32 octopuses to examine why they have so little response to recorded video. She discovered that the octopuses’ advanced eyes see standard 25fps PAL video as a series of still images, rather than a moving picture. So instead she wrapped her HDTV with saran wrap and dropped that in the tank.
I-Ball 360-degree camera fired from grenade launcher
By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 18th 2008 No CommentsUK based Dreampact is developing a grenade-launcher-deployed 360-degree camera intended to give the armed forces a better idea of what territory they’re entering. Dubbed I-Ball, the compact camera has two fish-eye lenses that transmit images back wirelessly to a remote operator. As well as being fired from a grenade-launcher, the I-Ball can be tossed or rolled into rooms.
Funai LCD technology requires no backlight
By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 18th 2008 2 Comments
If OLED and AMOLED researchers thought that the established display technologies would lie down and die without a fight, they’ve a surprise coming. Funai’s Electric Advanced Applied Technology Research Institute has developed an LCD display that requires no active backlighting, no thin-film transistors (TFTs) and requires just 1-percent of the power per square centimeter than traditional LCD panels.
iPhone 3G beats RAZR in sales & BlackBerry in failure rates
By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Nov 11th 2008 No Comments
More champagne corks likely popping in Cupertino this week, as Apple’s iPhone 3G is again heaped with praise. After the news last Thursday that J.D. Power’s smartphone survey had tipped the iPhone 3G as most satisfying handset among business users, now comes word that the other business mainstay, the BlackBerry, is in fact less reliable than Apple’s upstart. That said, and with the continuing success of the handset, it comes as little surprise that the iPhone 3G has now overtaken the Motorola RAZR as the device most purchased by adult customers in Q3 2008.
Nokia Mobile Millennium GPS traffic monitoring project seeking volunteers
By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 10th 2008 1 Comment
Nokia is preparing to begin a large-scale traffic monitoring project called Mobile Millennium, for which it will invite up to 10,000 members of the public to provide anonymous GPS tracking data through their cellphones. The first stage of a plan to provide real-time traffic information throughout cities rather than just on main routes, Mobile Millennium is being partly sponsored by the US Department of Transportation; it relies on a small Java app that both anonymously submits GPS data as well as receives amalgamated congestion updates.
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