Portable wireless backpack takes pictues and keeps you stylish 9. May 2008
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The PORTA2030 from 2006 is a mobile data sensing storage transmission unit that consists of a wireless hard drive (the WL-HDD2.5), a 1 GB flashcard and an open source backend. The device functions as a portable data sensing storage transmission system that can stream images to function as a simple communications device. Interesting design but we wonder how different it is from what a typical cell phone can do these days.
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Så mycket förlorade Microsoft på Yahoofloppen
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Computer Sweden , add a commentNär Yahooaffären gick i stöpet förlorade Steve Ballmer inte bara en viktig strategisk investering. Microsoft har också tappat över en tiondel av sitt börsvärde. Yahoo har däremot ökat sitt börsvärde enormt.
Iubi Blue personal media player
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Computer Sweden , add a commentNot a bad box of tricks
Review Anyone after a portable 30GB media player is quite possibly going to end up with either a Cowon A3 or the Archos 605, both of which we liked. Many might argue, however, that list should also include the Iubi Blue.
Fujitsu develops world’s first hi-def train simulator
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Computer Sweden , add a commentGoing loco - virtually
Writing down the serial number of the 10.47 to Chichester in a notepad while standing on a cold platform is all well and good, but now you can pretend to be the actual train driver, thanks to Fujitsu, which has developed the world’s first HD virtual railway.
Toshiba to ship laptops with Cell-based GPUs this year
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Toshiba has pledged to begin selling notebooks equipped with its oddly named SpursEngine graphics chip this year. SpursEngine is based on the technology that powers the PlayStation 3’s Cell processor.
Swiss ponder the ‘dignity of plants’
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A Swiss government ethics committee has issued guidelines on the thorny issue of the “dignity of plants” in relation to biotech research after the country’s 2004 Gene Technology Law declared that “the dignity of creatures” should be considered in any grant-funded research.
Rowling ruling bolsters privacy chief’s view of data protection
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The Court of Appeal’s ruling in JK Rowling’s privacy case confirms that a breach of other laws can result in an automatic breach of the Data Protection Act, an expert has said.
EDF circles British nuclear powerplant sites
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French nuclear energy colossus EDF, which also operates various types of non-nuclear generation in the UK, has been buying up farmland close to existing British nuke plants.
Google ser stor potential i annonsallians med Yahoo
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Computer Sweden , add a commentGoogles toppchefer ser stora framtida affärsmöjligheter med en potentiell allians kring annonser med Yahoo. Enligt en av Googles grundare, Sergey Brin är företaget starkt intresserat av att arbeta ihop med Yahoo.
Samarbeider om supermaskin
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Computer Sweden , add a commentNASA, Intel og SGI samarbeider om en superdatamaskin med en ytelse på 10 petaflops.
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Phone-theft hotspots named and shamed
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Computer Sweden , add a commentCambridge boozers top of the list
If you’ve lost your mobile phone recently, have you tried trawling Cambridge’s pubs? Because the city’s boozers are the most likely spot for handsets to ‘go missing’, according to new research.
- OLED brenner ut etter 1000 timer
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Computer Sweden , add a commentNye skjermer ikke så gode som Sony sier?
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Street Fighter Movie Writer Explains Focus on Chun-Li 8. May 2008
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MEPs deny sports ‘intellectual property’ landgrab
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Updated MEPs today voted against* a bigger role for intellectual property in sports, stoking a copyright head-to-head between the powerful governing bodies of world sport and the media organisations that seek to report it.
Weird sound generator will make you ask for more
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The wood version of the “Weird Sound Generator” (pictured above), is one of a series of home built synths by Sascha Neudek. Really nice construction on all of the synths and he even sells them from his site which is pretty cool since they have a one-of-a-kind type look and feel.
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Grönt är inne bland it-cheferna
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Trådlösa nätverk och grön it är några av de absolut starkaste trenderna som svenska it-chefer satsar på under 2008. Det visar en skandinavisk undersökning som marknadsundersökningsföretaget Synovate MMI genomfört på uppdrag av Steria.
PIC based countdown timer makes you early
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This PIC based countdown timer was used to control lighting for the Ultra-Violet exposure of photosensitive PCB material, although it would come in handy for many other applications, such as cooking, or even exercising. It also includes an audible alarm when the counter finishes and relays control to turn on or off the lights.
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Dette er en media-server
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Computer Sweden , add a commentNy design-serie fra Sony.
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Här visas mobilens eget blixtbredband
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Computer Sweden , add a commentNästa generations mobila bredband, lte, lovar hastigheter högre än vad som finns i de flesta hem i dag. Här visar Nokia Siemens Networks upp hur det fungerar i praktiken.
Best Buy puts $2.1 billion into European cell phone retailer (AP)
Posted by Nerdmaster in : Computer Sweden , add a commentAP - Best Buy Co. Inc., the biggest U.S. electronics retailer, is paying $2.1 billion for a 50 percent stake in Europe's largest cell phone retailer, the companies announced Thursday.
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