Archive for April, 2009
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Solar Power Satellites
Solar Power Satellites
The new world is demanding more and more renewable energy sources. The rapid increase in population led to many global issues like global warming, green house effect, pollution, depletion of fuel resources etc. The demand of electric energy is also increasing in a fast phase due to industrialization and the new [...]
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
Watch TV or Work, All on the Same Computer Monitor
A bit of entertainment can enliven long computer sessions, especially when the computer is grinding away at downloading or some other task. So quite a few computer monitors now include TV tuners that can switch between a full-screen TV picture and a small picture-in-picture (PiP) window at one corner of the screen.The Samsung SyncMaster 940MW [...]
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Samsung INNOV8 Based on Symbian OS-Nokia N96 Killer is Born!
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd and Symbian Limited announced the Samsung INNOV8, equipped with high-end features and multimedia including an 8-megapixel camera, internet browsing and ergonomics.
INNOV8 is based on Symbian OS v9.3, bringing the highest level of power efficiency, platform security and phone performance. It includes demand paging, an OS component which enables shorter [...]
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
Nintendo Considers Holographic Storage
The Next Generation than video games, but Nintendo is apparently looking into the growing field of holographic storage to solve the Wii storage issue.
Holographic storage is a new way of storing data in which that data is contained in a 3-D space, as opposed to on the surface of a disk, as is the case [...]
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
A Cool Fuel Cell
A new electrolyte for solid-oxide fuel cells, made by researchers in Spain, operates at temperatures hundreds of degrees lower than those of conventional electrolytes, which could help make such fuel cells more practical.
Jacobo Santamaria, of the applied-physics department at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, in Spain, and his colleagues have modified a yttria-stabilized zirconia electrolyte, [...]
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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Magnets Capture Cancer Cells
Magnetic nanoparticles coated with a specialized targeting molecule were able to latch on to cancer cells in mice and drag them out of the body. The results are described in a study published online this month in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. The study’s authors, researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology, hope that [...]
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Here Comes an ECG-on-a-chip Solution!
Freescale Semiconductor and Monebo Technologies announced a partnership to deliver a comprehensive platform solution for medical equipment using electrocardiogram (ECG) technology.
The “ECG-on-a-chip” solution combines Monebo’s Kinetic ECG software with Freescale’s embedded processing technology to enable medical equipment manufacturers to develop easy-to-use ECG monitoring tools.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cardiovascular disease is the [...]
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
IBM Unveils Human Memory Booster
Researchers at IBM have developed a new set of software applications designed to improve human memory.
The Pensieve software is designed to run on a smartphone or mobile handset, and analyses collected pieces of data.
The data is then used to help the user better remember faces and other information such as conversations.
Pensieve is designed to function [...]
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Monday, April 13th, 2009
Learn to play Guitar
Playing Guitar is very interesting. Learning how to play Guitar is a challenge to many people. Many people says it is very difficult to become a master guitarist. Some people says that special talent is needed to do that. But if you have a will, you can do that. You have to start from [...]
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Sunday, April 12th, 2009
Nanosensors for Medical Monitoring
Physicians often test the levels of a few telltale blood proteins in seriously injured or ill patients to detect organ failure and other problems. Now Vista Therapeutics, a startup based in Santa Fe, NM, hopes to improve the care of these patients with sensitive devices for continuous bedside monitoring of such blood biomarkers. Instead [...]