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Roadrunner supercomputer puts research at a new scale

June 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 22 vote(s) | User comments: 1

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) | No comments yet

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) | No comments yet

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) | No comments yet

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) | User comments: 1

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) | No comments yet

(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) | No comments yet

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) | No comments yet

(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) | No comments yet

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) | No comments yet

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) | User comments: 19

(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) | User comments: 1

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) | No comments yet

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) | No comments yet

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) | User comments: 1

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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