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]
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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
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CCleaner 2.21.940
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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
LaCie d2 External Blu-ray Burner Joins the 8x Crew
Posted by AceNik on Feb 14, 2009•
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Even though 8x media is still hard if not impossible to come by here in the States, Lacie’s new d2 external burner will be ready for it when it’s here. It’s $450, available now.
LaCie Doubles the Burn Speed of Its High-Capacity Blu-ray Drive
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Samsung BD-P3600/P4600: Super-Slim, Wall-Friendly Blu-ray Decks
Posted by AceNik on Jan 13, 2009• Email This Post | |
Samsung’s latest two BD-Live Blu-ray decks are design conscious to the max—one is a wall-mountable 1.5-inches thin (BD-P4600) and the other is a low-profile, sleek tabletop deck (BD-P3600), and both stream Netflix and Pandora.
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World’s First Single-Sided Blu-ray/DVD Hybrid Disc Unveiled
Posted by AceNik on Dec 25, 2008• Email This Post | |
Infinity Storage Media has a hybrid disc with both Blu-ray and DVD data layers. This means that it’ll play on your ancient budget DVD player but it’ll also play in high-def in a Blu-ray player.
This is done by stacking the DVD layers
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