Thursday, May 26, 2011

Amazing new material: GRAPHENE

I will start with this: the developers of Graphene won last year's Nobel Prize. There are many men of science out there that belive that this new material means the end of silicone. Also it could be the foundation of a new generation of computers.

Graphene has been named the "miracle material" of the 21st Century.

What is graphene? Watch the following video.



The future applications of Graphene are limitless.



Samsung has been among the largest investors in the graphene research, together with South Korean Sungkyunkwan University. It has already exhibited a 25-inch flexible touchscreen using graphene.



Read more on BBC
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The All-New Nook eReader

Although I like Kindle, it seems that Barns & Noble improved the their first generation of eBook reader. I love the new features that include touchscreen technology, long battery life, lightness and the E-Ink technology features.



The new Nook comes with 2GB of internl memory and feature a support for external SD memory.

Check out more on the official website.
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Monday, May 16, 2011

World's first PDA: The IBM Port-A-Punch


You'll be amazed to hear that the world's first PDA was released in 1958 by IBM. This PDA card is a piece of stiff paper that holds digital data made up by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions.




At present an outdated taping medium, this type of cards were widely applied throughout the 19th century for commanding textile looms and in the late 19th and early 20th century for engaging fairground organs and associated tools. Former digital calculators used punched cards, often developed using keypunch machines, as the basic medium for input of both computer programs and data. Some voting machines use punched cards.

Read more about it on Wikipedia
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USB Typewriter Demo



I don't really see a reason to use this, but it's interesting to see what people can do this days. This USB typewriter was design by Kelsey Halliday Johnson. On their website you'll be able to find a DIY kit.

Find more about USB Typewriter on usbtypewriter.com
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DieHard Gamer


Some people just don't know when to stop! :)
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Water Torch technology



A "water torch" is a portable oxyhydrogen torch that combines a DC power supply and an electrolytic cell with a pressure gauge and flashback arrestor. Water is decomposed on-demand into oxyhydrogen, obviating the need for separate hydrogen and oxygen tanks. The original was designed in 1962 by William Rhodes and Raymond Henes of the Henes Manufacturing Co.[11] (now Arizona Hydrogen Manufacturing, Inc.).

-Wikipedia
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Saturday, May 7, 2011

Robot Play Angry Birds Before (Videos)



This is an amazing demonstration of Man Vs Machine playing a cell phone game. Read full story on techcrunch
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