Artificial trees to harvest solar, wind and rain power
February 25, 2009
SolarBotanic is a company that specializes in an emerging tech dubbed biomimicry ( mimics the nature, and use nature-inspired methods to solve human problems).
The company is focusing mainly on energy production, and they have invented the Energy Harvesting Trees. The trees ( modeled on real ones) are composed of Nanoleafs, which use nanotechnology designed to capture the “sun’s energy in photovoltaic Read more
LG’s G910 watchphone
February 24, 2009
Want fancy expensive technology ? We have a sample right here: The new LG’s touch-screen G910 watchphone with HSDPA data will cost £1,000 ( €1,144).
Or we can simply say $1,500 but, as these things generally go, it will go for $1,000 (without tax) when the thing will be available in the States. Prototypes of a watch phone have been shown by several manufacturers in previous years as a concept Read more
Dark Energy: Are we alone in this dark universe?
February 24, 2009
Somewhere in the not so distant future (but distant enough) astronomers will cast their eyes around the cosmos and they will come to the conclusion that our galaxy is alone in the universe.
Using the most sensitive detectors the future scientists will have a hard time or they won’t be able to observe the leftover radiation from the Big Bang explosion or to study the motion of distant galaxies to conclude that space is expanding or even see distant objects.In the future, Read more
Google’s new service: PowerMeter
February 10, 2009
Google just launched a free web service called PowerMeter (in beta of course) that has the ability to let users track the energy consumption wherever they are (home or bussines) if there is a way to upload the data.
It is not entirely up to Google for this thing to work, they are counting on others to build devices to feed data into Read more
World’s first 1-gigabit, 44-nano DRAM chip
February 9, 2009
The guys working at Hynix Semiconductor company announced this Sunday the world’s first 1-gigabit dynamic random access memory chip.
What do we know so far: the 1-gigabit DDR3 DRAM chip uses 44-nanometer technology and they say it will be 50 percent more productive than the previous standard 54-nanometer technology. Read more
Fujitsu : Introducing the world’s first Waterproof cell phone with integrated fingerprint security system
January 20, 2009
From the people of Japan or to be more specific from the guys working at Fujitsu, comes the F-01A cell phone that comes with a brand new and cool feature - the security function utilizing fingerprint biometrics (a fingerprint identification algorithm).
Fujitsu’s fingerprint technology is developed by AutenTec, it also has a nice 3.2-inch VGA display with touchscreen, Read more
The new ultra widescreen Cinema 21:9 LCD TV from Philips
January 16, 2009
And if the 16:9 aspect ratio was not enough for you, Philips is getting ready to launch a new 21:9 LCD super-widescreen TV.
The Cinema 21:9 is said to be the planet’s first cinema-proportioned LCD TV, designed to remove all the letterboxing from your film watching experience and it also comes with Philips’s Ambilight technology which matches the surface of the TV to the colors and lighting of the picture at any time. Read more
Apple denies the iPhone Nano rumors
January 7, 2009
Remember the iPhone Nano, or the rumors around it?
As a result of these rumors, the Far East underground builders started producing replica iPhone Nanos with Apple logo.
An example is Thailand where the first fake Nanos started to appear bearing the Apple logo and there are also reports that they can be found on the European market. Read more
Track your children with the GPS locator watch
January 7, 2009
And if you wanna know exactly where your kids are when they are playing outside or if they are indeed at school you must also know that a British firm is launching a satellite tracking device that will point exactly the child’s location to within 10ft.
It comes in form of a watch (Nu.M8) that uses GPS satellite technology and it can be securely fastened to a child’s wrist and if it is removed it will trigger an alert. Read more
Audioengine: AW2 wireless iPod adapter
December 8, 2008
We loved the universal AW1 wireless audio adapter released earlier this year and I guess it was about time for the second version to come out, named of course AW2:
“It’s exciting to have another wireless product to compliment our already successful AW1 wireless adapter,” said Brady Bargenquast, Audioengine co-founder. ” Read more
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