Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Flaw in Internet Explorer
Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web and the director of the standard -setting World Wide Web Consortium (w3c)has pointed out a flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.According to Lee, Internet Explorer is falling behind other browsers in the way it handles an important graphic feature called
scalable vector graphic’ (SVG)-an encoding technology by [...]
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Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Demise of the mouse
Garter analyst Steve Prentice predicts demise of the computer mouse in the next three to five years.Taking over will be so-called gestural computer mechanisms like touch screens and facial recognition devices.
Consumer electronice firms are making products with new interactive interface inspired by the world of gaming. For example, Panasonic has shown forward facing video in [...]
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Microsoft e- mail on Nokia phones
Nokia Oyj, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, has added Microsoft’s emails system to as many as 80 million devices . Microsofts Mail for Exchange e-mail services will run on the third edition of Nokia’s S60 operating software,
currently used on 43 models. The feature will also become available for all future versions of the [...]
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
8- megapixel multimedia phone
LG Electronice is preparing to launch an 8- megapixel multimedia phone with a full touch -screen interface.
The LG KC910 boasts top- of- the-range camera capabilities and the latest multimedia features, all combined with a 7.6cm touch- screen. It is claimed to be the slimmest8-megapixel handset on the market at just 1.4 cm when realised. It [...]
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
mobile battaeries to last ten years
US-based Gainspan Corp. gas come up with a solution for power- hungry, WiFi- enabled mobile devices. The company has developed a system- on-a-chip(SoC),GS1010,which can make an AA-size,3.6V battery last for up to ten years when 100 bytes of data is transmittedfrom the device each minute. The focus of the technology is on doing smart power [...]
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
walk to charge your mobile phone
Every day physical activities like commuting to work, walking the dog and grocery shopping could one day help you keepyour cellphone charged, thanks to an emerging technology that converts regular motion into power.
Startup M2e power in boise, idaho,will start selling a cellphone charger next year that can convert six hours of everyday movement(about two days [...]
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
Recharging for wireless gadgets
soon you would be able to recharge your gadgets wirelessly without having to require power cords. Intel has increased the efficiency of a technique for wirelessly powering consumer gadgets and computers- a development that could allow you to simply place a devices on a desktop or counter-top to power it .
The chipmaker says it can [...]
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Four -legged war robot
A four- legged, petrol-powered robot is out to help the US army in battle.Billed as the most advanced quadruped robot on earth ,Big Dog can carry up to four packs of eqipment on terrain un suitable for wheeled vechicles. It comes equipped with a variety of high-tech gadgets ,including lasergyroscopes, a video camera sensor system [...]
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Ultrasound to form virtual objects
A team of japaness researchers has developed a system that uses focused ultrasound to [produces virtual objects in mid- air This haptic device – demonstrated by professor Takayukilwamoto and colleagues from the University of Tokyo – emplotyes anumber of ultrasonjioc transduces that emit ultrasound .Sound is a pressure wave , meaning that as the inaudible [...]
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Virtual reality
Imagine having a coccoon in your home.connected to the internet . Rather than inputing commands with a keyboard or moving a cursor with amouse , you simply reach out and grab information from arround you.NAU is developing such a virtual-reality, human- sized dome. step inside this immersive cocoon and you’ll be enveloped by a 360 [...]