2006 July

Imagine a computer instantly working when it was turned on because it didn’t need power to reload its memory and get it working. Leeds physicists are leading a new £2.3m project to make new materials which would allow computer memory and other components to use magnetism rather than conventional electrical charges, paving the way for […]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
Gone are the days when if someone hit your car they would leave you a note (at least, a lot of people won’t do this any longer). TruScene aims to keep your insurance rates low by monitoring your car. You attach the device to your rearview mirror, and it films events […]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
Well, it’s really to download it, not to use it. But the Office 2007 Beta has proved so popular that it has been downloaded three million times, and Microsoft says it needs to recoup its costs.
Consumers who download the 2007 Microsoft Office system Beta 2 will be charged $1.50 per download, […]

For all of you suffering out there, melting in your beds from the summer heat, the SoothSoft Chillow just might be the device for you. The Chillow is slipped into your pillow case (or, for the super hot, you can just lay right on top of it) after preparation, and keeps your head cool for […]

The price of gas not withstanding, it’s the summer driving season. It is time to start planning the annual vacation, where you want to go, how you want to get there, and most important, what are you going to do after you get there. If the latter is on your mind, then today’s Warped site […]

Samy Sadaka reached into a garbage bag, picked up a mixture of cow manure and corn stalks, let it run through his fingers and invited a visitor to do the same.
It wasn’t that bad.
That mix of manure and corn stalks had spent 27 days breaking down in a special drying process. The end result looked […]

Jimmy Daniels of RealTechNews writes:
When IE 7 becomes available later this year, Microsoft is planning on pushing it out to users, although you will get a chance to say no. It will be delivered as a high priority update.
IE 7 will be delivered in the fourth quarter as a “high priority” update via Automatic Updates […]

Google is adding Open Source project hosting to its menu of services, said Greg Stein, a Google engineer and chairman of the Apache Software Foundation. Stein was scheduled to announce the launch in a talk Thursday at O’Reilly Media’s Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon. The new service, to be located at code.google.com, competes with […]

I’ve spent a few weeks thinking about Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail, the premise of his popular new book and his suggested implications for business in the future. Finally, a few days ago I read Lee Gomes’ terrific column in the Wall Street Journal where he debunks some of Anderson’s statistical analysis, which really helped […]

Everyone needs a cause to believe in. Many people have adopted scientific causes for the eradication of any number of diseases. Or the plight of hungry and homeless children. Barney of The Simpsons TV show believes he’ll have another. Today’s Warped site is one that you have to see to believe.
The Center for Prevention of […]

Jessamy Hawley of RealTechNews writes:
Samsung has teamed up with Versus, Gianni Versace’s youthful, free-spirited, and daring line, to bring us the E500 mobile phone…
Well, not ‘us’ exactly. The chic clamshell goes on sale in Italy in August in three colourways: white and gold, white and antique pink, and black and silver.
The E500 Versus totes a […]

Injecting sulfur into the atmosphere to slow down global warming is worthy of serious consideration, according to Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego. His thought-provoking paper is published in the August issue of the Springer […]

With the tap of a single finger, computer users soon may be drawn deeper into the virtual world using a new device developed in the University at Buffalo’s Virtual Reality Lab.
UB researchers say their “Fingertip Digitizer,” which users wear on the tip of the index finger, can transfer to the virtual world the meaning and […]

Performing what a team of dedicated and bleary-eyed newspaper librarians would need months to do, scientists at UC Irvine have used an up-and-coming technology to complete in hours a complex topic analysis of 330,000 stories published primarily by The New York Times.
The demonstration is significant because it is one of the earliest showing that an […]

Sometimes the Internet gives birth to a site that is totally worthless, except as a form of entertainment. Several pop to mind, but nothing like today’s Warped site. In its own way, it is what makes the world go ’round in a circle.
The site is called Courtesy Flush, and, yes, it is what you think […]

Jimmy Daniels of RealTechNews writes:
Okay, the title is an edited quote from a Futurama episode because I really didn’t know what to call this as I was trying to keep it clean. Apparently, our friends from Zango, 180Solutions, or ZangoBar, whatever you want to call it, are at it again. Serving up porn videos on […]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
CRN, citing a source close to the company, has reported that Dell knew about several incidents of laptop charring, burning, you name it, well before last year’s recall, which centered around batteries.
The source allowed CRN to review documentation of investigations into the notebook problems, and the source said that documentation was […]

The Fhybrid scooter can be powered by hydrogen. Apart from being environmentally friendly, it also performs better than conventional petrol-powered scooters.
An Industrial Design Engineering graduate from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has designed and built a working prototype of a scooter, which can be powered by hydrogen. Crijn Bouman, who graduated for his […]

In a first-of-its-kind achievement, scientists at the University of Iowa, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Princeton University have directly imaged the magnetic interactions between two magnetic atoms less than one nanometer apart (one billionth of a meter) and embedded in a semiconductor chip.
The findings, scheduled for publication as the cover story of the […]

Americans are, without a doubt, some of the most unique people in the world. Each of us has our own set of beliefs, morals, interests, and passions that give us that unique character. Collectively, it makes us the greatest nation on Earth. Individually it makes us, well, the subject of today’s Warped site.
Show Us Your […]