Archive for the ‘Future’ Category

Mobile Social Networking Booming

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

The number of people using their mobile phones to access social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo and keep in constant touch with their friends has rocketed this year, according to new research reported by Guardian. Almost all the handset manufacturers like Nokia, Blackberry, Apple releasing new handsets and smart ...

Scientists Extract Images Directly From Brain

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Pink Tentacle reports that researchers at Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed a system that can "reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor." According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while ...

NVIDIA Unveils World’s First Personal Supercomputer

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

The world's first personal supercomputer, which is 250 times faster than the average PC, has been unveiled. The NVIDIA Tesla Personal Supercomputer is based on the revolutionary NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing architecture and powered by up to 960 parallel processing cores. Until now, supercomputers were massive systems made up of thousands ...

NASA Phoenix Mars Lander Confirms Frozen Water

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Scientists relishing confirmation of water ice near the surface beside NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander anticipate even bigger discoveries from the robotic mission in the weeks ahead. Phoenix has spotted the sublimation of probable water ice in a trench excavated by its robotic arm by comparing two photos taken on the 21st ...

Skin-tenna: Antenna That Uses Skin To Transmit Signals

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Researchers at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed a wireless antenna that channels signals along human skin could broadcast signals over your body to connect up medical implants or portable gadgets. The new power-efficient approach could make more of established medical devices like pacemakers or help future implants distributed around ...

Cisco, Intel And Others Join To Form WiMAX Patent Pool

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Six WiMAX firms have teamed together to create the Open Patent Alliance(OPA), to accelerate the widespread adoption and deployment of WiMAX technology and products. The companies involved in the formation of the OPA include Cisco Systems, Intel Corp., Alcatel-Lucent, Clearwire, Sprint and Samsung. The OPA will advance a competitive and open ...

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