![]() Roadrunner supercomputer puts research at a new scale June 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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Less than a week after Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roadrunner supercomputer began operating at world-record petaflop/s data-processing speeds, Los Alamos researchers are already using the computer to ... | |
![]() World's First Film Substrate-based Bendable Color Electronic Paper featuring Image Memory Function July 13, 2005 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Fujitsu Frontech Limited, and Fujitsu Limited today announced their joint development of the world's first film substrate-based bendable color electronic paper with an image memory ... | |
![]() University of Utah to help build bionic arm April 24, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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University of Utah researchers will receive up to $10.3 million to help develop a new prosthetic arm that would work, feel and look like a real arm. The Utah work is a key part of a U.S. Department of Defense ... | |
Jaguar upgrade brings ORNL closer to petascale computing May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Upgrades to Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jaguar supercomputer have more than doubled its performance, increasing the system’s ability to deliver far-reaching advances in climate studies, energy research, and a wide range ... | |
![]() Is This The HTC Dream- Android or An Anamorphic Inside Joke September 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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The Dream by HTC seems headed to T-Mobile. Dream will be the first Google Android mobile device to hit the US market and mystery surrounds its actual appearance. Some spy-shots appeared out of nowhere and ... | |
![]() Taming Europe’s robots (Robot Special part 1) September 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Europe is the world leader for industrial robotics, but its leading corporations and research institute’s need to co-operate more closely to ensure that the continent also leads the world ... | |
![]() Renesas Develops Massively Parallel Processor Based on Matrix Architecture February 09, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Renesas Technology Corp. today announced the development of a massively parallel processor based on a matrix architecture suitable for image and audio multimedia data processing. | |
![]() Graphics processing installation to boost Argonne's Blue Gene/P visualization capabilities July 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The IBM Blue Gene/P Intrepid at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF), located at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, will soon have the data analytics ... | |
![]() Researchers develop mobile robot that balances, moves on ball instead of wheels or legs August 09, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 53 vote(s)
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new type of mobile robot that balances on a ball instead of legs or wheels. "Ballbot" is a self-contained, battery-operated, omnidirectional robot that ... | |
Stealth Inkjet Printer Startup Could Rock Industry March 23, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 112 vote(s)
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Silverbrook Research has developed the Memjet, a nanotech-fueled, consumer inkjet printer that can print sixty pages a minute for under $200. And it works. | |
![]() Robotic ants building homes on Mars? October 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 68 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent discoveries of water and Earth-like soil on Mars have set imaginations running wild that human beings may one day colonise the Red Planet. However, the first inhabitants might not be ... | |
Varibel, the glasses that hear April 07, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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Today a new hearing aid in the form of a pair of glasses was unveiled. These hearing-glasses are called 'Varibel' and offer older people the chance to stay active longer - free from the aesthetically unpleasing and technologically ... | |
Hi-tech shirt to monitor vital signs May 04, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Integrated smart textile company Sensatex launched this week a patented SmartShirt System that could remotely monitor human vital signs. | |
![]() Toshiba reports 200 GB laptop hard drive June 05, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Toshiba Monday announced the largest commercially available 2.5-inch hard drive for laptop computers. | |
Hitachi Achieves Nanotechnology Milestone for Quadrupling Terabyte Hard Drive October 15, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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Hitachi, Ltd. announced today they have developed the world’s smallest read-head technology for hard disk drives, which is expected to quadruple current storage capacity limits to four terabytes (TB) on a desktop hard drive ... | |
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