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nec logoNEC 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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A 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.

mit wearable projector computer prototype

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treasuremapgif gif image 455x400 pixelsTreasure 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.

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sony ps3 homeSony’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.

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Since 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.

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mid appsAccording to the Institute for Mobile Markets Research (IMMR), come Q3 2011, 33-percent of the people who currently own or use a cellphone, smartphone or PC will have bought a MID [pdf link].  That’s quite a statement, considering Mobile Internet Device sales have been less than impressive up until now.  However, this is another example of abbreviation confusion, with IMMR defining a MID as:

“MIDs, or Mobile Internet Devices, are a new class of devices/PC’s that offer many of the features of a PC, but at 1-3lbs. are lightweight and portable enough to easily carry and use virtually anyplace, at any time.”

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UK 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.

i ball grenade cam

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funai logoIf 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.

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iphone 3gMore 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.

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nokia mappingNokia 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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