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Nokia's N96 Now Official, Quad-Band and WCDMA

Nokia's N96 Now Official, Quad-Band and WCDMA

After much leaking of information, Nokia's N96 slider cellphone is now official. It's a quad-band, US 3G-enabled (WCDMA) phone with a 2.8-inch screen, 16GB of built-in memory, a 5-megapixel Carl-Zeiss Tessar lens, A-GPS and 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi. The media-player functions of the phone get their own dedi

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Sun Java Runtime Environment 6.0 Update 14

Java software allows you to run applications called "applets" that are written in the Java programming language. These applets allow you to have a much richer experience online than simply interacting with static HTML pages. Java Plug-in technology, included as part of the Java 2 Runtime Environm

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Firefox 3.7 Theme Makes Your Browser Look Awesome

Firefox 3.7 Theme Makes Your Browser Look Awesome

Windows only: Mozilla released their version 3.7 theme mockups only a few days ago, but you don't have to wait for the 3.7 release to enjoy them—a motivated user already created a lookalike theme that you can install now. (Click the image above for a closer look.) Installing this theme isn't q

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New Treatment Filters Bacteria From the Bloodstream with an Electromagnet

New Treatment Filters Bacteria From the Bloodstream with an Electromagnet

This may sound like something out of Iron Man, but it's very real. Don Ingber has developed a machine that uses an electromagnet to suck sepsis-causing bacteria out of the blood. In lab tests, Ingber's team mixed donor blood with the fungus Candida albicans, a common cause of sepsis, and added plast

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Intel Big on 32nm Westmere Processors for Consumers in 2010

Intel Big on 32nm Westmere Processors for Consumers in 2010

At today's San Francisco event, Intel mostly discussed what we know about the upcoming Westmere processor, but revealed they're scrapping the next dual-core 45nm processors, in favor of 32nm Westmere chips in early 2010. The first Westmere chips will be the dual-core Clarkdale and Annendale pr

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New Method of Writing Hard Drives Could Yield 1TB Per Inch Density

New Method of Writing Hard Drives Could Yield 1TB Per Inch Density

Current hard disk drives are up against their ceiling: a few hundred GB per inch. But a combination of two unique writing methods could lead to new HDDs that pack ten times as much data in the same space. A new paper in the journal Nature Photonics outlines the process, which combines TAR (th

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Batteries That Last 10 Years Developed By Hitachi

Doubling the Li-Ion battery life from 5 years, Hitachi reckons its new technology which extends the life of batteries will also cost less too—thanks to reducing the amount of cobalt used. Hitachi hopes to get them onto the production line in the next year. [Akihabara News]

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SunCat Solar Batteries: Well That Was Obvious

Rechargeable batteries can be a bit of a pain—you have to carry around an adapter, find an outlet, and even bend over to plug in the adapter. It’s hell, really.

The SunCat batteries solve all of these issues while giving the environment a firm pat on the butt by wrapping standard NiMH rechargeable batteries (1.8V) in photo voltaic cells (1.5V). Seen in prototype form here, each becomes its own trickle charger, constantly topping off its reserves without ever over charging.

Now if only Duracell, Energizer or some other major manufacturer could swoop in and mass product this idea… [Notes from Knut via OhGizmo!]

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