Archive for September, 2009

Panasonic Develops 50-inch Full HD 3D PDP and High-Precision Active Shutter Glasses

Technology.am (Sept. 29, 2009) — Panasonic Corp., has developed a 50-inch Full HD 3D compatible plasma display panel (PDP) and high-precision active shutter glasses.
The 50-inch PDP uses Panasonic’s newly-developed high-speed 3D drive technology that enables rapid illumination of pixels while maintaining brightness.
The high-precision active shutter glasses incorporate Panasonic’s technology that precisely controls the active shutters [...]

Exitons bring New Type of Fast Computers Closer to Reality

Technology.am (Sept. 29, 2009) — Physicists at UC San Diego have successfully created speedy integrated circuits with particles called “excitons” that operate at commercially cold temperatures, bringing the possibility of a new type of extremely fast computer based on excitons closer to reality.
Excitons are pairs of negatively charged electrons and positively charged “holes” [...]

IBM Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Moving Atoms

Technology.am (Sept. 29, 2009) — On 28th September 1989, IBM Fellow Don Eigler became the first person in history to move and control an individual atom.
The same year on Nov. 11, Eigler and his team built the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) in order to visualize and experiment with individual molecules and atoms. He [...]

NASA Seeks Ideas for New Prize Challenges

Technology.am (Sept. 29, 2009) — NASA’s Innovative Partnerships Program is offering an opportunity for the public to help shape the prize challenges the agency offers to America’s future citizen-inventors.
For the next six weeks, ideas for new Centennial Challenge prize competitions may be proposed for NASA’s consideration.
Creative ideas are sought from industry, [...]

Service-Centric Software that gets Reduced, Reused and Recycled

Technology.am (Sept. 29, 2009) — European researchers have developed a platform that offers service-centric software engineering for industrial-strength applications.
The platform defines every action a computer program can take as a service. Want to print a document? That is one service. Type a document? That is another. By combining many services, you can develop [...]

Retina Blood Vessels may help predict risk of heart attack or stroke

Technology.am (Sept. 29, 2009) — Researchers at the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) believe that the eyes may offer vital clues to your risk of heart disease and stroke. They are seeking to confirm that blood vessels in the retina reflect changes in blood vessels in other parts of the body, especially the brain, [...]

Microchip to quickly Detect Type and Severity of Cancer

Technology.am (Sept. 29, 2009) — University of Toronto researchers have used nanomaterials to develop a microchip sensitive enough to quickly determine the type and severity of cancer.
The new device can easily sense the signature biomarkers that indicate the presence of cancer at the cellular level, even though these biomolecules – genes that indicate aggressive [...]

Miruko: Wearable eyeball robot for Game, Surveillance

Technology.am (Sept. 29, 2009) — “Miruko,” a wearable eyeball-shaped camera robot is capable of tracking objects and faces.
Miruko with a built-in camera and wi-fi capabilities is designed to augment human perception by sensing and reacting to objects that are invisible to the human eye.
Miruko camera robot can be used for augmented reality games, security, and [...]

China Unicom to sell Apple iPhones in China from Oct. 1

Technology.am (Sept. 29, 2009) — China Unicom is going to sell Apple Inc’s iPhone in China for 5,000 yuan or $732.50and it will be available from 1st October.
China Unicom has made a three-year deal with Apple last month, to bring the iPhone to China’s 700 million mobile subscribers. A majority of users in china still [...]

Airis Praxis Slim Air Notebook

Technology.am (Sept. 29, 2009) — The Spanish company Airis developed the Slim Praxis Air notebook, gives direct challenge to Apple’s MacBook Air, the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 and Adam Dell notebook.
The ultrathin Praxis Air notebook weighs 1.2kg and of just 25 mm thick. It includes Intel Atom 1.6GHz with an Intel GMA 950 graphics chip [...]