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'Space Cube' could be world's smallest PC Electronic Devices / Hardware 13 hours ago \| User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 23 vote(s) \| User comments: 6 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.

Intel Microchip Packs Two Billion Transistors Electronic Devices / Hardware 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 ...

'Face pass' is latest security system for NEC laptops Electronic Devices / Hardware September 04, 2007 \| User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 32 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."

Mitsubishi’s new Blu-ray converts your movies into 3D Electronic Devices / Hardware August 28, 2007 \| User rating: 4 / 5 after 24 vote(s) \| No comments yet Mitsubishi recently revealed a new Blu-ray player that can convert existing 2D movies into 3D in real time. The company showed off the technology to a few tech journalists at the Barclay’s PGA Tour at Westchester Country ...

Miniaturized Full Color Laser Projector at the LASER 2007 show Electronic Devices / Hardware 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 ...

Stealth Inkjet Printer Startup Could Rock Industry Electronic Devices / Hardware 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' Electronic Devices / Hardware 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 ...

Intel Producing First Processor Prototypes With New, Tiny 45 Nanometer Transistors Electronic Devices / Hardware 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 ...

World's fastest transistor approaches goal of terahertz device Electronic Devices / Hardware December 11, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 47 vote(s) \| No comments yet Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have again broken their own speed record for the world’s fastest transistor. With a frequency of 845 gigahertz, their latest device is approximately ...

Engineers building first space supercomputer Electronic Devices / Hardware 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 ...

The Multimedia Dome: Look, Listen and be Amazed Electronic Devices / Hardware September 01, 2006 \| User rating: 2.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s) \| No comments yet Making its first public appearance at the IFA international consumer electronics fair in Berlin, the Multimedia Dome is the first digital dome theater to feature natural spatial sound: it envelops visitors ...

Researchers Set Speed Record for Silicon-Based Chips Electronic Devices / Hardware June 20, 2006 \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 46 vote(s) \| No comments yet A research team from IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology has demonstrated the first silicon-germanium transistor able to operate at frequencies above 500 GHz. Though the record performance was attained ...

Two DVDs per second: a tiny chip processes data at extremely high speed Electronic Devices / Hardware May 12, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 47 vote(s) \| No comments yet Siemens researchers working in collaboration with specialists from Infineon have developed a receiver that converts Internet data from fiber-optic cables into electrical signals at breathtaking speed. At present, ...

Iowa State To Have The Most Realistic Virtual Reality Room in the World Electronic Devices / Hardware May 09, 2006 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s) \| No comments yet More than $4 million in equipment upgrades will shine 100 million pixels on Iowa State University’s six-sided virtual reality room. That’s twice the number of pixels lighting up any virtual reality room in ...

Longer battery life for wireless devices? Electronic Devices / Hardware May 04, 2006 \| User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 20 vote(s) \| No comments yet Those worries about what happens when you need to make that urgent phone call on a dying cell phone, or having your laptop go blank mid-document could soon be lessened. Researchers at the University of Rochester say they've ...

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'Space Cube' could be world's smallest PC Electronic Devices / Hardware 13 hours ago \| User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 23 vote(s) \| User comments: 6 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.

Intel Microchip Packs Two Billion Transistors Electronic Devices / Hardware 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 ...

'Face pass' is latest security system for NEC laptops Electronic Devices / Hardware September 04, 2007 \| User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 32 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."

Mitsubishi’s new Blu-ray converts your movies into 3D Electronic Devices / Hardware August 28, 2007 \| User rating: 4 / 5 after 24 vote(s) \| No comments yet Mitsubishi recently revealed a new Blu-ray player that can convert existing 2D movies into 3D in real time. The company showed off the technology to a few tech journalists at the Barclay’s PGA Tour at Westchester Country ...

Miniaturized Full Color Laser Projector at the LASER 2007 show Electronic Devices / Hardware 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 ...

Stealth Inkjet Printer Startup Could Rock Industry Electronic Devices / Hardware 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' Electronic Devices / Hardware 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 ...

Intel Producing First Processor Prototypes With New, Tiny 45 Nanometer Transistors Electronic Devices / Hardware 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 ...

World's fastest transistor approaches goal of terahertz device Electronic Devices / Hardware December 11, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 47 vote(s) \| No comments yet Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have again broken their own speed record for the world’s fastest transistor. With a frequency of 845 gigahertz, their latest device is approximately ...

Engineers building first space supercomputer Electronic Devices / Hardware 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 ...

The Multimedia Dome: Look, Listen and be Amazed Electronic Devices / Hardware September 01, 2006 \| User rating: 2.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s) \| No comments yet Making its first public appearance at the IFA international consumer electronics fair in Berlin, the Multimedia Dome is the first digital dome theater to feature natural spatial sound: it envelops visitors ...

Researchers Set Speed Record for Silicon-Based Chips Electronic Devices / Hardware June 20, 2006 \| User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 46 vote(s) \| No comments yet A research team from IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology has demonstrated the first silicon-germanium transistor able to operate at frequencies above 500 GHz. Though the record performance was attained ...

Two DVDs per second: a tiny chip processes data at extremely high speed Electronic Devices / Hardware May 12, 2006 \| User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 47 vote(s) \| No comments yet Siemens researchers working in collaboration with specialists from Infineon have developed a receiver that converts Internet data from fiber-optic cables into electrical signals at breathtaking speed. At present, ...

Iowa State To Have The Most Realistic Virtual Reality Room in the World Electronic Devices / Hardware May 09, 2006 \| User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 14 vote(s) \| No comments yet More than $4 million in equipment upgrades will shine 100 million pixels on Iowa State University’s six-sided virtual reality room. That’s twice the number of pixels lighting up any virtual reality room in ...

Longer battery life for wireless devices? Electronic Devices / Hardware May 04, 2006 \| User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 20 vote(s) \| No comments yet Those worries about what happens when you need to make that urgent phone call on a dying cell phone, or having your laptop go blank mid-document could soon be lessened. Researchers at the University of Rochester say they've ...

'Space Cube' could be world's smallest PC

Intel Microchip Packs Two Billion Transistors

'Face pass' is latest security system for NEC laptops

Mitsubishi’s new Blu-ray converts your movies into 3D

Miniaturized Full Color Laser Projector at the LASER 2007 show

Stealth Inkjet Printer Startup Could Rock Industry

Intel Research Chip Advances 'Era Of Tera'

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

World's fastest transistor approaches goal of terahertz device

Engineers building first space supercomputer

The Multimedia Dome: Look, Listen and be Amazed

Researchers Set Speed Record for Silicon-Based Chips

Two DVDs per second: a tiny chip processes data at extremely high speed

Iowa State To Have The Most Realistic Virtual Reality Room in the World

Longer battery life for wireless devices?

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