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This cell phone has a 3.2 inch screen with a resolution of 480×854, a contrast ratio of 2000:1, and support for up to 26 million colors.
On top of that there is a 1Seg tuner, SD-MMC slots, Bluetooth with A2DP, a 3.2MP camera, HSDPA support, IR and GSM support. That’s a whole lot of phone right there, and it will be available in Japan only, one of the places lucky enough to have 1Seg.
Source: Dailytech
Hitachi develops new hard drive head technology that will increase storage capacity to 4TB by 2011
Hitachi recently announced that it has achieved a breakthrough in hard drive read-head design.
This breakthrough has produced read-heads in the 30-50 nanometer range, approximately 2,000 times smaller than the width of an average human hair. This new technology is called current perpendicular-to-the-plane giant magnetoresistive heads.
Source: Dailytech
Semiconductor can trap, detect and manipulate electron spin at 20 kelvins
Quantum computing is still out of reach for most mainstream industries, but continuing research in the field is making the technology more accessible. A team of engineers at the University at Buffalo have developed a semiconductor that can trap, detect and manipulate the single spin of an electron.
Source: BBCNews
A device developed for a mission to Mars could help spot signs of life closer to home – by identifying the bacterium that causes TB.
The Open University and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine project will use a tiny detection kit made for the Beagle 2 project.
Source: BBCNews
A computer model of the early Universe indicates the first stars could have formed in spectacular, long filaments.
These structures, which may have been thousands of light-years across, would have been shaped by “dark matter”.
Source: Dailytech
NTT Communications plans to launch a study to see howfeasible it would be to distribute digital signs that are able toemit different aromas. The NTT Kaori Tsushin, a combination betweenthe Spot Media digital signage and Kaori Tsushin fragrance system, can be giveninstructions via the Internet.
Source: Dailytech
Samsung announced that it will have a new thin-film-transistor (TFT), LCD on display at FPD International 2007 in Yokohama, Japan this week. The new LCD panel has the thinnest profile ever for a full-size HDTV. The 40-inch diagonal Full HD LCD TV panel is a mere 10mm thick.
Source: Dailytech
The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life.
Funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the finished array will have 350 six-metre antennas and will be one of the world’s largest.
Source: TGDaily
San Diego (CA) – At its Fall 2007 member meeting, the Internet 2 consortium announced that its updated infrastructure is ready to go online and provide an initial capacity of 100 Gb/s to researchers and educators.
Source: http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/index.php?page=post&id=536
Scientists of Radbout University Nijmegen made a true marvelous invention. Usually, need a magnet to change the magnetic polarity of a metal. That’s how modern hard discs work. But scientists thought of a way to change polarity with laser impulses. Each laser impulse makes the information layer on the disk surface to change its value, from 0 to 1 and vice versa. This invention increased speed of hard disc in about hundred times
Source: Dailytech
The Pentagon seeks to eliminate U.S. dependence on foreign oil, including imports that come from the conflict laden Middle East — something which it sees as a critical “strategic energy vulnerability.” In order to eliminate this dependence, it proposes a radical alternative energy strategy.
The Pentagon’s National Security Space Office (NSSO) proposed collecting solar rays in space and beaming it back to Earth. It stated in the report that it feels that this is a “near-term” solution, which could be realized very quickly.
Source: CNN
A Florida scientist has developed a “brain” in a glass dish that is capable of flying a virtual fighter plane and could enhance medical understanding of neural disorders such as epilepsy.
The “living computer” was grown from 25,000 neurons extracted from a rat’s brain and arranged over a grid of 60 electrodes in a Petri dish.
Source: Dailytech
Capable of protecting parts of North America from surprise attack, the U.S. finally realizes “Star Wars”
It took nearly 25 years, but President Reagan’s vision of a ballistic missile defense to safeguard the U.S. has finally come to fruition. After a final successful test last week, the system’s tracking radars and interceptor rockets are now ready for use and capable of responding to an unannounced attack on North America.
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