Monthly Archives: January 2011

After boasting last fall that sales of its Galaxy Tab were “faster than expected” and had reached 2 million, Samsung has now admitted to analysts that its figures were only “sell-in” inventory shipped to retailers, and that actual units bought … Continue reading →

As phenomenal as Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processors have turned out to be, nothing in this world is truly perfect. Intel announced earlier this morning that it has discovered a flaw in the 6-series chipsets that accompany the new processor … Continue reading →

Since the launch of HD DVD and Blu-ray there have been two ways to watch HD video on your TV: HDMI, and the lower-quality but much-loved component. Starting this year, Hollywood wants to phase out the latter and force consumers … Continue reading →

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said in an interview that the white iPhone 4 will ship soon, while also confirming camera issues with do-it-yourself white iPhone 4s modified using leaked Foxconn parts. Wozniak told Engadget in an interview Sunday that the … Continue reading →

A report published by China Aviation Journal, China has successfully launched its own space plane prototype, the news came out shortly after the US Air Force announced the successful test of their advanced X37B space plane, which is widely regarded … Continue reading →

The latest gizmo to be adopted by top-secret special forces troops fighting the Wars on Stuff is liquid crystal ballistic sunglasses which can change color automatically much faster than traditional “photochromic” offerings – or at the touch of a button. … Continue reading →

U.S. Navy engineers at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific in San Diego, Calif., have developed a system to use a stream of seawater as a radio antenna. Seawater is pumped through a magnetic probe to receive and transmit … Continue reading →

From The Inquirer: WITHIN FIVE YEARS quantum processors could be capable of simulations more complex than any that can be performed by the most powerful conventional computer today, according to the co-ordinator of a €2.2 million European project researching them. … Continue reading →

There’s something very incongruous about Eric Jacqmain’s video where he demonstrates a solar death-ray with the intensity of 5,000 suns (or so he claims)…backed by plip-plop music you’d normally find in a day-spa. The 19 year old hails from Indiana, … Continue reading →

From Thinq.co.uk When a woman in Newport, Virginia had her laptop stolen, she gave up on ever seeing it again – until she received an e-mail containing a picture of two people she didn’t recognise smiling in front of the … Continue reading →

To use multicore processors effectively the technology industry needs to radically rethink the basic computer architecture it has used over the past 50 years, a University of Maryland researcher argues in the January edition of the Association for Computing Machinery’s … Continue reading →

Fire trucks are cool. With that established, Luoyang City, China’s new $456,000 super-soaker may as well be named Arthur Fonzarelli. This unique fire truck features a jet-powered water cannon with enough grunt to spray four tons of water per minute … Continue reading →

How maternal essential fatty acid deficiency impact on its progeny is poorly understood. Dietary insufficiency in omega-3 fatty acid has been implicated in many disorders. Researchers from Inserm and INRA and their collaborators in Spain collaboration, have studied mice fed … Continue reading →

We had a feeling the Olympus XZ-1 would be a winner, and Digital Photography Review seems to think so, too — it called the 10 megapixel, full-manual point and shoot “the best photographers’ compact currently available” at the end of … Continue reading →

UK-based Cella Energy has developed a synthetic fuel that could lead to US$1.50 per gallon gasoline. Apart from promising a future transportation fuel with a stable price regardless of oil prices, the fuel is hydrogen based and produces no carbon … Continue reading →