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Browsing Posts published in August, 2007

Huge void in space found

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Sources: BBCNews , Dailytech Astronomers have found an enormous void in space that measures nearly a billion light-years across. It is empty of both normal matter – such as galaxies and stars – and the mysterious “dark matter” that cannot be seen directly with telescopes. Scientists claim that a galactic void this large is far [...]

Miniature Bluetooth Receiver

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Source: Dailytech   Princeton notes that the PTM-UBT3S is compatible with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Mac OS X. The tiny device will be available in Japan this September for 2,480 yen ($22 USD)   

Source: Reuters   TOKYO (Reuters) – Sony has developed an environmentally-friendly prototype battery that runs on sugars and that can generate enough electricity to power a music player and a pair of speakers, the Japanese company said.  

Real money disappearing in Japan

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Interesting article from Kirainet   At the beginning of 2001 Suica IC card started to work in Japan, it is an e-money card based on IC technology exploited by JR (Japan Railways). At the beginning it was used only to pay train travles, but nowadays you can use it in many traditional shops, convenience stores [...]

32GB SDHC

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Toshiba just released a 16 GB SD card in Japan, and very soon a 32 GB model for 520 euro.  

Source: Dailytech   Scientists use pulses of light to dramatically accelerate quantum computers  

Rare dead star found near Earth

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Source: BBC News Neutron star artwork, Image: Casey Reed/Penn State Neutron stars form when massive stars exhaust their fuel Astronomers have spotted a space oddity in Earth’s neighbourhood – a dead star with some unusual characteristics.

Source: Dailynews   The TILE64 processor contains 64 full-featured, programmable cores and, according to Tilera, delivers 10 times the performance and 30 times the performance-per-watt of the Intel dual-core Xeon; and 40 times the performance of the leading Texas Instruments DSP. Initial target markets for the TILE64 processor include the embedded networking and digital multimedia [...]

Sourc: Dailynews   The researchers were able to construct a method of turning body heat into electricity using the same principal as thermoelectric generators (TEG) made from semi-conductor elements. TEGs extract electricity from the temperature difference between a hot and cold environment.  

Scientists break the speed of light

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Source: Dailymail Travelling faster than light also, in theory, turns back time. According to conventional physics, an astronaut moving beyond light speed would arrive at his destination before leaving. But two German physicists claim to have forced light to overcome its own speed limit using the strange phenomenon of quantum tunnelling, in which particles summon [...]

NTT DoCoMo Mobile Future

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2010 according to DoCoMo (Japanese mobile network)   Part 2 Part 3

This is a project from Shimuzu corp. to build a megacity on the sea in tokyo bay.

The Energy Saving Adapters

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Source: Akihabaranews It’s pretty simple, when a plugged in device doesn’t need energy for over 3 minutes, then its power will be cut, as a result,the more things you plug in, the more energy you save and this is automatic, just plug your things in and let it roll!

Source A team of physicists has teleported data over a distance of 89 miles from the Canary Island of La Palma to the neighbouring island of Tenerife, which is 10 times further than the previous attempt at teleportation through free space.

Source: Dailytech