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Latest Posts:Teaching language to robotsFor a project scheduled to end in 2011, Plymouth University researchers will build two robots using software allowing them to interact with each other to exchange learned information like humans. The team will use language-learning techniques designed for children. According ... read more Artificial eyeball does away with distortionMimicking the curves of a human retina has enabled a digital image sensor to take wide-angle pictures without distortion. This is possible thanks to an improved method of transferring silicon sensors onto a curved surface.The electronic eyeball design can allow ... read more Micron preps 256GB solid-state driveMicron Technology recently announced that it will ship a series of solid-state drives next quarter ranging up to 256 gigabytes in capacity, but at one-third the price per gigabyte of existing drives. Micron's RealSSD-branded products are targeted at both the ... read more Freecom rolls out the "world's smallest" 2.5-incher28th July 2008. Freecom introduce the Mobile Drive XXS - the world?s smallest 2.5? USB-2 external hard drive and the latest addition to the mobile storage family. Boasting a massive 27% reduction in size than its closest competitor, the XXS ... read more Building 'The Matrix'If The Matrix really existed, it would probably have to be a quantum simulator. The fictional computer in that story can create virtual worlds indistinguishable from the real one and project them into people?s minds. But the real world includes ... read more Optical storage goes deep: 1TB stored in three dimensionsWhen you drop an optical disk into your computer, gaming console, or player of choice, the machine reads information off the surface of the disc. The density of data is limited by the wavelength of the light used to read ... read more The Jetpack: From Comics to a Liftoff in the YardRecently an inventor from New Zealand unveiled what he calls ?the world?s first practical jetpack? at the EAA AirVenture, the gigantic annual air show here. The inventor, Glenn Martin, 48, who has spent 27 years developing the devices, said he ... read more Biology enters ?The Matrix? through new computer languageA new computer language for modeling biological phenomenon can ?think? like cells and molecular mechanisms think, thereby simulating the dynamics of biological phenomenon. Through incorporating basic principles of engineering, the new language, called Little b, surpasses current biological modeling software ... read more Scientists demonstrate highly directional semiconductor lasersApplied scientists at Harvard University in collaboration with researchers from Hamamatsu Photonics in Hamamatsu City, Japan, have demonstrated, for the first time, highly directional semiconductor lasers with a much smaller beam divergence than conventional ones. The innovation opens the door ... read more Intel launches new Tolapai system-on-a-chip designIntel launched its new embedded x86 system-on-a-chip (SoC) today, and in doing so, moved a small step closer toward eventually competing head-to-head with ARM. Formally, the new SoC platform is known as the Intel EP80579 Integrated Processor Family, but the ... read more The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasherEnough information to fill multiple CDs every second is flowing across the world on a network one thousand times faster than home broadband. Terabytes of data are streaming through dedicated fibre optic links between laboratories and universities globally in preparation for ... read more First paper-based transistorsPortuguese researchers have created the first paper-based transistors. To be more precise, they?ve made the first field effect transistors (FET) with a paper interstrate layer. According to the research team, these new transistors offer the same level of performance as ... read more SenseSurface turns virtual controls physicalWhat happened to traditional knobs for volume controls on computers? Replaced with + and - controls on the keyboard, not so easy to find in a hurry. Imagine a control surface with real knobs, sliders, real switches for your favourite ... read more New "telescopic pixel" displays could outperform LCD, plasmaLiquid crystal displays (LCDs) have become the overwhelming choice for both desktop and mobile computing because they offer the best combination of image quality, price, and power efficiency of the current display technologies. But LCDs still have a lot of ... read more New Generation Of Home Robots Have Gentle TouchWho doesn?t long for household help at times? Service robots will soon be able to relieve us of heavy, dirty, monotonous or irksome tasks. Research scientists have now presented a new generation of household robots, the ?Care-O-bot® 3?. The one-armed robot ... read more UC San Diego Unveils World's Highest-Resolution Scientific Display SystemAs the size of complex scientific data sets grows exponentially, so does the need for scientists to explore the data visually and collaboratively in ultra-high resolution environments. To that end, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) has ... read more Accessing the Internet at 640 Gb/sUniversity of Sydney physicists have developed an optical chip that could potentially improve ?Internet speeds to up to 100 times faster than current Australia?s networks.? According to the Sydney Morning Herald, these chalcogenide glass photonic chips will be very cheap ... read more Mind games: computer headset lets brain control actionEmotiv, a San Francisco-based startup that marries neuroscience and computer engineering, says its EPOC gaming headset offers only a glimpse of what the technology has to offer. The EPOC headset features 16 sensors that press against a user's scalp to ... read more Seagate's Latest Desktop HDD Has 1.5TB CapacitySeagate announced three new consumer-level hard drives recently, which it claims are the "industry's first 1.5-terabyte desktop and half-terabyte notebook hard drives." The company claims that it is able to greatly increase the areal density of its drive substrates by ... read more Artificial DNA Could Power Future ComputersChemists claim to have created the world's first DNA molecule made almost entirely of artificial parts. The finding could lead to improvements in gene therapy, futuristic nano-sized computers, and other high-tech advances, the Japanese researchers say. DNA, popularly illustrated as ... read more |
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