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Panasonic announces electronics recycling program

By Brenda Stokes on Friday, Oct 31st 2008 No Comments

It seems everyone is getting a little bit greener these days. And that’s a good thing, especially when it comes to electronics, which are known to produce harmful toxins and are made from plastics that don’t biodegrade. But now, Panasonic has come up with a new recycling program to put a stop to the waste.

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Keys can now be duplicated from photos

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Oct 30th 2008 1 Comment

Uhho! This sounds scary! Apparently, a group of computer scientists at UC San Diego have come up with a computer program that makes it so a key can be duplicated just by analyzing a photo of one.

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Epson to develop 3.5-inch ultra wide viewing angle LCD screen for mobile devices

By Daniel Lim on Monday, Oct 27th 2008 No Comments

epson 3.5 inch LCD screen A sub 4-inch viewing screen is about the perfect size for mobile devices, the 3.5-inch Iphone rides just right in my pocket and has plenty of real estate for casual gaming and browsing though emails. If I were to wish for an improvement, the viewing angle could have done better; something like the Epson 3.5-inch aTFT LCD with company’s Photo Fine Vistarich Neo wide viewing angle Technology that can deliver up to 80 degrees viewing angles.

The Epson 3.5-inch display has a HVGA resolution (320×480) and 164ppi like the Iphone, but unlike conventional mobiles LCD screens, the display is capable of 1000:1 high contrast and measures up to 460 of luminance in brightness when viewed directly with minimum color shift. The contrast drops to 650:1 as viewing angles tilt at ± 30 Degrees and up to 100:1 at ± 80 Degrees.

Epson Imaging Devices will exhibit this new LCD at the Epson Group booth at FPD International 2008, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan. Shipping of the new a-TFT LCD samples will start in February 2009.

[via Epson via Impress]

DARPA’s DBAC device uses sound to stop bleeding

By Brenda Stokes on Friday, Oct 24th 2008 No Comments

DARPA is always coming up with interesting new military technology that we just can’t help but talk about. For instance, their new DBAC device could be used to save lives in the field. That’s definitely pretty cool by us.

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New writing tech could bring 10x smaller processor chips

By Brenda Stokes on Friday, Oct 24th 2008 No Comments

plasmoniclens Technology keeps getting smaller and smaller and now researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have happened onto a new way to write data that could result in chips that are 10 times smaller than what’s currently available.

It works by using a writing arm that’s incredibly small. This arm would use lenses with plasmons to write data in a very compact fashion. With all of the data much more closely spaced together, more data can fit on a single chip, meaning chip size can be reduced dramatically.

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Intel demonstrates new cooling process

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Oct 23rd 2008 No Comments

intellaminarjet Intel showed off a brand new cooling process today that could put an end to burnt laps from horribly hot notebook computers. In fact, the idea is to make the outside of the notebook cool.

This process is very similar to that used in cooling a jet engine. The laminar jet airflow system pushes away any hot air from the bottom of the case, which is what typically leads to the hot exterior. This way, the laptop could actually stay cool enough to sit in your lap. And you won’t need one of those USB fan things, either.

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Scotch tape can be used for X-rays

By Brenda Stokes on Thursday, Oct 23rd 2008 1 Comment

Science never fails to amaze me. Let alone how people figure things like this out. But that’s beside the point. Apparently, Scotch tape can be used to develop X-rays. Would’ve thunk it?

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Stantum “True Multitouch” offers 10-finger gestures

By Brenda Stokes on Wednesday, Oct 22nd 2008 4 Comments

Multitouch is everywhere these days and it’s not just Apple and that has their finger on it. See what I did there?

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Hardcore Computer Reactor is constantly cooled

By Brenda Stokes on Tuesday, Oct 21st 2008 1 Comment

hardcore computer reactor 224 2 Hardcore Computer creates customized computers that are prepped and primed for optimized performance. So it shouldn’t come as a shock that they’ve come up with a new product meant to improve performance while keeping the heat producing components cool.

The Reactor is a a new computer model designed by Hardcore Computer that keeps the motherboard, CPU, memory, video card and power supplies immersed in Core Coolant, a dielectric fluid that’s meant to keep the hot parts cooled off. Not to mention, the Reactor looks like a blue fish tank of sorts, which if you’ll pardon the pun, is cool.

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Samsung shows off new e-paper tech

By Brenda Stokes on Monday, Oct 20th 2008 No Comments

It seems like e-paper technology is popping up all over the place these days. In fact, Samsung just showed off their own version of the tech and it certainly is different, that’s for sure.

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