New Form of Touchscreen Displays Pioneered, Extremely Multi-Touch
You've heard of resistive touchscreens, and hopefully you've been fortunate enough to own a capacitive touchscreen phone. But have you heard of Interpolating Force-Sensitive Resistance, or I.F.S.R touchscreen technology? Touchco hopes you soon will. A bunch of scientists at New York Universit![DIY Moped Runs on Air [Air Powered]](http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2008/04/800_AirPropelVehicle09PlanetMechanics.JPG)
DIY Moped Runs on Air [Air Powered]
This Puch moped only has a range of about 7 miles and with a top speed of only 18 mph, it isn't going to break any land speed records, but there is definitely something special about it: it runs on air. Jim Stansfield, an aeronautics graduate outfitted his Puch with a pair of carbon-fiber air cylind
Broadcom Wi-Fi Chips to Have Skyhook Wi-Fi Positioning Built-In
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Nokia C6 and C7 Touchscreen Phones Have 8MP Camera and New ClearBlack Displays
Describing the C6 as a "premium touchscreen," it has a new ClearBlack Display which they're trying to position as the Pioneer KURO of the phone world—blacker blacks, but also brighter colors. The C7 is an even skinnier version. Both Symbian^3 phones have 8MP cameras and shoot video at 720p reso
CCleaner 2.21.940
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normal
12TB DVDs Could Be On The Way
A storage density of 51MB per square centimeter? Whatever, standard DVDs. Australian scientists developed a new multilayer optical storage medium that can house data at 1.1TB/cm3. Unlike existing DVD technology, the key to this data storage technique is the fact that multiple pieces of data can b
Sign Up Now to Test Google Wave in September
Yesterday we told you that Google Wave was opening to 100,000 regular folk at the end of September, but on closer examination, it looks like Google's already allowing users to get in line for their invite to the limited preview. Just head over to the Google Wave's sign up for updates page, enter i
Dell’s Inspiron Duo Is a 10″ Netbook/Tablet Transformer
Posted by AceNik on Sep 28, 2010•
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What, pray tell, is this? It’s Dell’s new Inspiron Duo, a 10″ tablet that opens up and twirls its screen to transform itself into a netbook. Craziest of all? They’re saying it’ll be available before the end of the year.
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Intel Gives Us the Nitty Gritty On Its New Android-Ready Atom Processors
Posted by AceNik on May 18, 2010• Email This Post | |
Intel mentioned that they had been working on porting Android to the Atom processor set back in April, and now they are formally announcing their latest line of CPUs, which will support Android among other operating systems such as Meego. The
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Samsung N510 Ion Netbook Arriving Next Month for $599
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Mobile Chipsets: WTF Are Atom, Tegra and Snapdragon?
Posted by AceNik on Jul 5, 2009• Email This Post | |
Low-power processors aren’t just for netbooks: These computers-on-a-chip are going to be powering our smartphones and other diminutive gadgets in the forseeable future. So what’s the difference between the Atoms, Snapdragons and Tegras of the world?
Intel Atom
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