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
Broadcom already makes a boatload of the GPS chips found in mobile phones and other location-aware gadgets, and now they're adding Skyhook's Wi-Fi positioning service to most of their mobile Wi-Fi chipsets, spreading the location-based love even without GPS. This is how iPhone regular finds you
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
Toshiba 64GB SDXC Card Is Will Be the World’s Largest, Fastest
Posted by AceNik on Aug 7, 2009•
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On one hand, it’s great to see the SDXC standard—which theoretically tops out at 2TB—flexing its muscles a little bit. On the other, I kinda wish Toshiba wouldn’t announce a record-breaking SD card six months before release.
Toshiba’s upcoming line update stretches from 16GB to 64GB,(…)
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Toshiba 512GB Solid State Laptop Drive: Come to Papa
Posted by AceNik on Dec 18, 2008• Email This Post | |
256GB SSDs were a possibility in my mind as storage in a fantasy rig. But a 512GB 2.5-inch laptop drive is big enough to dream about from the depths of my storage fanboy heart-of-hearts.
TOSHIBA LAUNCHES INDUSTRY’S FIRST 512GB SOLID STATE DRIVE and NEXT-
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Toshiba Pops Out 16GB microSD Card, Ultra-Fast 8GB and 16GB SD Cards
Posted by AceNik on Dec 3, 2008• Email This Post | |
Sandisk may have a 16GB microSDHC card already a little sneakily on the scene, but now Toshiba’s announced it’s joining the game with one of its own. The card is compliant with SD memory standard version 2.00, as are the other two
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Toshiba Beefs Up 5400rpm 1.8-Inch Drives to 160GB [Hdd]
Posted by AceNik on Jun 11, 2008• Email This Post | |
Just a few months ago we reported that Toshiba had turned up the spin-speed on its 1.8-inch hard drives to 5400 rpm. And now Toshiba’s squeezed yet more storage onto those tiny spinning platters, beefing the storage capactity up to 160GB. Apparently it’s the industry’s(…)
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