Soon your computer and electronic gadgets could be smaller, faster, cheaper, more relliable and even greener thanks to a new form of computer memory technology called racetrack.
Racetrack memory is currently under development at IBM and will be a vast improvement over today’s leading computer memory technology – hard disk and flash – which each have [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Hardware’
July 15, 2009
Revolutionary “Racetrack” Memory in the Works
July 7, 2009
DIY Nuclear Disarmament
As you are probably aware, the United States and Russia have agreed to cut their nuclear arsenals by about a quarter (click here to read more). Although this still leaves both with at least one (that’s all it takes, no?), we as technology-minded citizens should be willing to use our energies and gifts to help [...]
June 17, 2009
Prototype Nokia phone recharges without wires
FROM YAHOO TECH NEWS
Pardon the cliche, but it’s one of the holiest of Holy Grails of technology: Wireless power. And while early lab experiments have been able to “beam” electricity a few feet to power a light bulb, the day when our laptops and cell phones can charge without having to plug them in to [...]
June 16, 2009
Zeo ’sleep coach’ tracks your ZZZs, wakes you up
FROM CNET CRAVE
It seems like the market for alarm clocks and smart wake-you-up gadgets is getting more competitive than cell phones, MP3 players, and autos. But here’s a new entry worth noting for those who already tried starting the day with the obnoxious Clocky, the Shocking Alarm Clock, the Philips Wake-Up Light, or even the [...]
June 15, 2009
New Xbox 360 coming fall 2010?
FROM CNET CRAVE
Take this one with a grain of salt, but gaming site 1UP is reporting that it’s hearing a new Xbox 360 is in the works and is set to be released next fall in conjunction with the release of Project Natal. That in itself isn’t all that newsworthy since it seems pretty logical [...]
June 11, 2009
Virgin Mobile unveils pre-paid broadband service, wireless USB card
FROM YAHOO TECH BLOGS
Dubbed Broadband2Go, the new 3G broadband service comes without a contract, and it might be the perfect fit for those who don’t need on-the-go 3G data access on a regular basis.
Set to go on sale in “late” June at Best Buy, Virgin’s Broadband2Go service uses a 3G USB dongle (the MC760, if [...]
June 8, 2009
New iPhone Revealed!
FROM CNET NEWS
10:47 a.m.:Scott Forstall comes up to talk iPhone. Less than a year ago we released OS 2.0 and the SDK, he says. There are currently more than 50,000 apps in the App Store.
10:49 a.m.:Apple has sold 40 million iPhones and iPod Touches, Forstall says. He also brings up the familiar 1 billion app [...]
June 5, 2009
CrunchPad Nears Production, Looks Awesome
FROM WIRED GADGET LAB
This is the latest visualization of the CrunchPad, and it’s hot. The touch-tablet is the attempt of internet hype-master Michael Arrington and his TechCrunch team to make a cheap Linux cloud-computer. The machine boots straight into a Webkit browser and is navigated much like you’d navigate the iPhone.
June 4, 2009
What to Expect From Apple at WWDC 2009
FROM WIRED NEWS
Even without Steve Jobs emceeing, this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference sold out in record time. Hopes are running high for products that the secretive corporation will unveil at the conference next week. Rumors about new iPhones, upgraded MacBooks and a highly anticipated touchscreen tablet abound, and there’s even gossip about a possible partnership [...]
May 29, 2009
Lasers, Webcam Make a DIY Multitouch Surface
FROM WIRED.COM BLOG: GADGETLAB
Why wait for Apple to deliver a touchscreen tablet when you can make your own?
That’s the idea behind Berkeley student Yotam Mann’s do-it-yourself multitouch musical instrument, which will be exhibited at this weekend’s Maker Faire in San Mateo. A contraption of optical lasers, a webcam and some custom software, Mann’s homemade multitouch [...]
