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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.


Intel Research Chip Advances 'Era Of Tera'

February 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 171 vote(s) | No comments yet

Intel researchers have developed the world's first programmable processor that delivers supercomputer-like performance from a single, 80-core chip not much larger than the size of a finger nail while using ...


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.


No Power Use in Standby: New Zero-Watt Monitor

April 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 33 vote(s) | User comments: 4

Computer monitors in standby mode will soon save far more energy. Fujitsu Siemens Computers has developed the world’s first monitor that requires no electricity at all in idle mode.


'Face pass' is latest security system for NEC laptops

September 04, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 33 vote(s) | No comments yet

NEC has launched two new series of laptops with a unique security feature called "face pass" -- or, in Japanese, "kao pass."


Engineers building first space supercomputer

October 26, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 48 vote(s) | No comments yet

HAL may soon be getting some company. But unlike the famous computer companion in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the first space-based supercomputer — so described because it will be by far the most powerful computer ...


World's first teraflop supercomputer decommissioned

June 30, 2006 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 55 vote(s) | No comments yet

The world's first teraflop computer has been decommissioned by the U.S. government despite still being among the world's 500 fastest supercomputers.


Intel Outlines Processor Roadmap

March 29, 2007 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 24 vote(s) | No comments yet

The world's largest chip maker plans on manufacturing its 45-nanometer Penryn processors later this year and its next-generation architecture, called Nehalem, will appear in 2008.


'Space Cube' could be world's smallest PC

August 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 50 vote(s) | User comments: 14

Measuring just 2 inches by 2 inches, the Space Cube is roughly the size of a large die. However, the cube is actually a tiny PC, developed by the Shimafuji Corporation in Japan.


Supercomputer Sets New Performance Record

June 23, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 46 vote(s) | No comments yet

The world’s fastest supercomputer, BlueGene/L, set a new performance standard on June 22, 2006. Housed at Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, ...


HP Adding HD-DVD/Blu-ray Hybrid Drives to PCs

May 08, 2007 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s) | No comments yet

Hewlett-Packard said it will be beefing up select high-end PCs this week with options including a dual format HD DVD/Blu-ray optical drive by LG, digital cable tuners, Intel Core 2 Quad Processors, and Nvidia's GeForce 8800 ...


Intel Microchip Packs Two Billion Transistors

February 04, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 63 vote(s) | User comments: 1

Intel has just announced the first microchip that contains more than two billion transistors - tiny switches that together perform the calculations in computers. The chip, known as Tukwila, marks a milestone ...


Intel Producing First Processor Prototypes With New, Tiny 45 Nanometer Transistors

January 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 52 vote(s) | No comments yet

In one of the biggest advancements in fundamental transistor design, Intel Corporation today revealed that it is using two dramatically new materials to build the insulating walls and switching gates of its ...


Miniaturized Full Color Laser Projector at the LASER 2007 show

May 30, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 31 vote(s) | No comments yet

Fraunhofer IPMS shows a full color laser projection system based on its own two dimensional micro scanning mirror. The system contains an ultra compact projection head and a separate laser and signal processing ...


Epson Develops A6-Size Electronic Paper with World's Highest Resolution Using Plastic Substrate

June 12, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 30 vote(s) | No comments yet

Seiko Epson Corp. has successfully developed A6-size (7.1 inches on the diagonal) electronic paper using a plastic substrate. Drawing on Epson's original SUFTLA technology, the new electronic paper achieves ...


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