Tag Archive for 'research'
Sony’s XEL-1 OLED TV is undeniably awesome, despite being only 11-inches, but owners may have less time to coo and weep over its beauty than they originally thought. According to a report from DisplaySearch, which goes into even more surgical detail than at the Embedded Systems Conference, Sony’s lifespan estimate of around 30,000 hours for [...]
Research firm IDC have spotted the current trend for budget ultraportable notebooks, but unlike the rest of us aren’t entirely convinced. Despite vast sales of the ASUS Eee - and multiple rivals with new notebooks landing every week - IDC don’t believe most mainstream customers will ever see the usually-Linux based devices as “proper” computers. [...]
MIT PhD student Pravan Mistry is the latest person to try to recreate Post-It notes for the digital age. His ‘Stickies’ project relies on both a digital pen - similar to Nokia’s - and sticky notes with embedded RFID tags allowing them to be located at a later point. Handwritten notes are automatically converted into text when [...]
In the clamour to encourage us all to upgrade to high-definition BluRay players, manufacturers and disc producers themselves are touting the extra functionality above and beyond improved picture quality. Interactive web-connected games, messaging and “behind the scenes” extras all promise to enhance the movie experience. However, recent research suggest that, far from being [...]
A team at Microsoft Research have developed a prototype interface [pdf link] for mobile devices that responds to twisting, squeezing, flexing and stretching to control and on-screen GUI. The system, called Force Sensing, relies on very small manipulations of a handheld device - in this case a modified Samsung UMPC - with different gestures [...]
Splashpower, one of the many companies striving to bring us all wireless charging in our gadgets, has sadly had to end its run. It never even really produced an actual product, but they did do a lot of research and development which hopefully someone will pick up the pieces from.
ECOS is a consulting firm that tasked themselves with the goal of creating a new PC that could yield a 284kWh reduction in energy usage. They accomplished this goal with funding from PIER, AMD, VIA, and Intel.
It seems that in the long run the MacBook Air hit the exact niche that Apple was aiming for, an executive notebook. The reason for this is largely due to the high price, people are still very interested and intrigued by the notebook, so the desire for it is still up, but demand is down [...]
This little glider can power itself for months on end, well, at least its movement could be powered by itself. It still needs battery power for all the electronics inside that make it useful, but it can use the oceans warm upper layer and cool lower layer to move.
You know all those jokes you used to poke at the Internet illiterate about downloading the Internet, because you thought that you knew it was impossible? Yeah, well, that’s come back to bite you in the ass because the one company with the power to do so, IBM, looks to be making plans to do [...]
