The Age of Touch Computing: A Complete Guide
Touch computing—which started with the iPhone and is now making its way to your desktop—will change computing paradigms, at least for the most common read more
Hot technologies to watch for in 2009
Every technologist, marketer, industry analyst and reporter on a hunt for the next big thing is bracing for the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show schedu read more
EDA tools for FPGAs running out of gas
The field-programmable gate array (FPGA) market has experienced lackluster and flat growth in recent times. But now, the sector faces a set of new ch read more
Nano-magnetic sensors could pave the way for massive data storage capacity
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have created nanoscopic magnetic sensors. Comprised of carbon nanotubes embedded with bundles o read more
IBM and Harvard search for organic solar power using cloud computing
Researchers from IBM and Harvard will team up to create the World Community Grid (WCG) project. This project will be comprised of over 413,000 member read more
Intel breaks record with optical CMOS device
Researchers from Intel Corp. have demonstrated a photo detector built in CMOS that the company claims is the highest performance optical component of read more
First superconducting transistor promises PC revolution
THE world's first superconducting transistor, a long-standing goal for applied physicists, could lead to dramatically faster microchips. read more
IEEE says Multicore Is Bad News For Supercomputers
With no other way to improve the performance of processors further, chip makers have staked their future on putting more and more processor cores on read more
Talk-powered cell phones? Nanoscale piezoelectrics could make it real!
It's possible that in the future your voice conversations on your cell phone could generate enough electrical power to run the phone, without batteri read more
Apple Hints At Future Liquid-Cooled Laptops
The latest Apple patent to surface points out that the upcoming mobile round of Intel's Nehalem chips may require more cooling mojo than the current read more
Intel and Microsoft launch parallel lab
Researchers officially christened the Parallel Computing Lab here Monday (Dec. 1) in a newly renovated space at the University of California, Berkele read more
Hitachi and Intel to develop breakthrough enterprise-class SSDs by early 2010
In a joint press release, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) and Intel Corporation announced today they've signed a joint development agreemen read more
Happy Accident Opens Door to Cheaper, Higher-Resolution Cameras
Scientific accidents have brought some of the most groundbreaking discoveries — vulcanized rubber, X-rays, penicillin — and now scientists at UCLA ha read more
Nokia calls home to save on energy
Nokia has started developing a wireless platform to control functions such as heating and security in homes. read more
Micron to launch hyperfast SSD, touts 1GB/sec. throughput
Within the next year, Micron Technology Inc. expects to bring to market a high-end solid-state disk drive that could achieve 1GB/sec. throughput, acc read more
Blue OLEDs and foldable displays on tap
A team of Korean scientists, however, claim to have made a breakthrough in building power-efficient blue OLEDs. Details on the supposed breakthrough read more
Household bot makes theatrical debut
Tuesday marked the theatrical debut for the bot, which appeared onstage alongside real-life actors in a play that's being hailed as a first in robot- read more
Memristors Make Chips Cheaper
Researchers at HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA, are betting that a new fundamental electronic component--the memristor--will keep computer power increasing read more
Scientists add emotions to robotic head
Claiming that service-class robots will one day be pervasive, researchers at the University of the West of England’s Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL read more
