Source: Dailytech
The main claim to fame for the SCiB battery is that it can recharge to 90% of total capacity in fewer than five minutes. Toshiba also claims the battery has a life span of over 10-years.
Source: Dailytech
The new technology boasts 200 MB/sec read rates and a 100 MB/sec write rates; current technologies off 40 MB/sec and 20 MB/sec rates of current single level cell NAND. This 5-fold increase in speeds is a least partially due to the new ONFI 2.0 standards which, according to the Open NAND Flash Interface Working Group, reduces the time required to transfer data to and from the data buffer by using Double Data Rate signaling and source synchronous clocks that accurately latch signals enabling higher frequencies to be realized.
Source: Dailytech
NVIDIA announced today the APX 2500 application processor for mobile devices. The new chip features high-definition computing capabilities such as HD 720p video playback and capture.
Source: fareastgizmos
Toyota announced today that it has given its Pre-crash Safety System the ability to determine—as a world’s first —whether a driver’s eyes are properly open. Toyota expects this driver-monitoring breakthrough, along with the system’s current ability to determine the direction of the driver’s face, to play an important role in reducing collision-related damage.
Source: Dailytech
Scientists commonly use baker’s yeast in studies involving aging because it is simple and one of the best understood organisms at a molecular and genetic level. Researchers from the University of Southern California (USC) have created a baker’s yeast that has a lifespan 10-times that of normal baker’s yeast.
http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2008/02/04/2826167.aspx
Very interesting and technical article from Mark (sysinternals)
Source: Dailytech
The SSDs uses ultra-fast, single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash chips to offer sustained transfers of 230MB/sec — burst speeds can reach a maximum of 320MB/sec. In addition to incredible speed, BiTMICRO’s E-Disk Altima Ultra320 SCSI SSD feature BCH Error Correction Code and advanced wear-leveling to alleviate fears of premature data corruption.
Source: Dailytech
Looking towards the future, the European Space Agency is funding research into building a highly-advanced, Mach 5 (roughly 3,800 MPH) passenger jet. The new plane — called the A2 — would carry 300 passengers within its sleek airframe and would be capable of scurrying from Northern Europe to Australia in less than five hours.
Source: Dailytech
Current NOR and NAND flash memory can usually withstand 100,000 and 1,000,000 cycles respectively before the media begins to degrade. But memory products using PCM technology have a much higher endurance with a tolerance of about 100 million cycles before the effects of degradation become evident.
Source: Dailytech
Dr. Kenneth Tapping is worried about the sun. Solar activity comes in regular cycles, but the latest one is refusing to start. Sunspots have all but vanished, and activity is suspiciously quiet. The last time this happened was 400 years ago — and it signaled a solar event known as a “Maunder Minimum,” along with the start of what we now call the “Little Ice Age
Recent Comments