After all the rumours, great expectations and admist a lot of fanfare. Steve Jobs launched Apple’s new Tablet called the “iPad”. Interesting name, probably Apply is superstitious about using “ip” as first two letters, as so far ipods and iphones... (Continue reading)
It’s not every day that an Indian company makes waves at an international tech show. And while software has long been an Indian strength, designing and making a device has almost never been. Hyderabad-based Notion Ink displayed a prototype of... (Continue reading)
On Sunday (the first of November) the European Space Agency launched a new satellite from a Russian rocket. This one, named the European Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite has a few very important jobs to... (Continue reading)
At the beginning of this year, you may have heard about the Sixth Sense system by MIT’s Indian Student Pranav Mistry. This system is a camera and projector that you wear around your neck. The camera records everything that... (Continue reading)
Apple dropped a hardware update bomb Tuesday morning with a brand-new desktop mouse, new iMacs, new low-end MacBooks, and a new Mac mini. All of the above had been rumored for some time, but a new mouse was the first... (Continue reading)
Researchers at the University of Missouri have unveiled tiny nuclear batteries that produce power from the decay of radioisotopes. Although such batteries are currently used in devices such as pacemakers and satellites, they are costly, large and heavy – something... (Continue reading)
Sony is working on a power system that can send enough electricity to power a television set wirelessly over a short distance. So far the company was successful to send a conventional 100 volt electricity supply over a distance of... (Continue reading)
Sony has shown off a new single-lens camera able to capture 3D images. The majority of existing 3D set-ups use two-camera systems to record images tailored specifically for the left and right eye of the viewer. The new camera takes a... (Continue reading)
Big doesn’t necessarily mean heavy, while thin doesn’t necessarily imply small. Case in point: the Dell Latitude Z, one of the thinnest, lightest, most intriguing business laptops come out in a while. Dell has released its latest high end, ultra thin... (Continue reading)
Here is a step by step representation of the making of a computer chip. Courtesy:Intel. Sand has high percentages of Silicon in the form of Silicon dioxide and is the base ingredient for semiconductor manufacturing. Melted silicon. It’s purified in multiple steps to... (Continue reading)