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Tech TV's:
Fresh Gear |
Beyond The Future |
Cameras
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Kodak
Camera Delivers 14 Megapixels |
new technology provides affordable film-quality digital cameras |
Spyware:
The newest camcorders are so slick and small they'd make James Bond
jealous. A veteran foreign correspondent tells us which ones are
worth taking on the road. (4/5/06: Newsweek)
The Sony DSC-R1
Cyber-shot is the first prosumer digital camera to use a large APS-sized
image sensor (21.5 x 14.4 mm) that
allows the use of high ISOs, up to ISO 3200. It has 10.3MP resolution
and features a pro-quality Carl Zeiss Vario Tessar
5x wide-angle optical zoom. |
Consumer Electronics
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The Gadget as Fashion Statement (5/17/06: Washington Post)
First Look: Sony's Slick New HD Camcorder (5/13/06: Washington Post)
Natural
light 'to reinvent bulbs' (4/13/06: BBC) |
Snap Happy
Smarter
Objects
New type of refrigerator sounds like a good idea
Show
Report: And the Winners of Best of CeBIT America Are… |
Displays
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Roll-up
screens 'moving closer': Roll-up laptop screens and e-newspapers may be
a step closer (9/21/06: BBC News)
Projector
size of sugar cube made (9/19/06: BBC News)
Europe gets
glimpse of HD future (9/11/06: BBC NEWS)
Polymer Vision (Philips
Research)
Flexible Display Forecast (3/10/04: PC Magazine)
Flexible screens: a revolution underway? (2/23/04: Univ. of Toronto)
Philips Steps up Rollable-Display Development (1/26/04)
Extreme Tech: Monitors get very big, very small, very thin, very light —
even very low cost (5/29/04) |
Flexible screen
technology ready to roll (Univ. of Toronto: 1/20/04)
Better Displays with Organic Films
NEC-MITSUBISHI ELECTRONICS DISPLAY INTRODUCES
NEXT GENERATION LCD MONITOR SERIES WITH SEVEN AGGRESSIVELY PRICED
HIGH PERFORMANCE MODELS
LCD Comparison Charts and TechTV Labs Test Results
Plasma or DLP? We help you decide on a killer digital display.
Making Digital Flat Panels Better
Sharp Unveils
'Computer-On-Glass' Display |
DVD
Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD Arrive: We demystify, test, and make
recommendations on the next generation of DVD products. (5/17/06:
Washington Post)
High End Computing
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U.K.'s fastest supercomputer unveiled (1/15/08)
Supercomputer aiming for petaflop (9/7/06: CNN.com)
Scientists Set Internet2 Speed Record (9/2/04)
The
Love Machine: Building computers that care
U.S. to build world's fastest
computer (5/11/04: MSNBC)
On the Edge:
Mesh Computing is the hot new thing
Pushing the Speed Limit: For Researchers, the Internet Just Got Faster |
Seattle
Times:
'Blue Gene' puts IBM into
modeling proteins - Big Blue plans to spend 5 yrs.
building a computer 500 times faster than any computer
existing today.
At the recent
Micro-optical Disks
which hold 500 MB on a writable disk the size of your thumb. |
TOTSE's:
"Ultradense"
server era dawning
IBM computer is fastest ever.
Microsoft opens 64-bit Windows
High
Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) Benefits
8/31/00
Seattle Times:
Revolution in evolution:
Computers bear first offspring |
Laptops, Notebooks & Portables
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Notebooks,
Notebooks, Notebooks... (5/9/03) |
THE most powerful laptop on earth:
AREA-51m |
Sharp
Systems:
Actius RD3D:
Desktop Replacement Notebook with industry-breakthrough 3D screen
Negroponte:
Laptop for Every Kid (MIT's $100.00 Laptop)(11/17/05) - is about the
frog design / MIT Media Lab $100 Laptop
The Next
Big Thing: Megaportables - Also see PC Magazine's:
Large-Screen Notebooks Push the Limits of Portability for a side by
side comparison of HP & Toshiba's competing models. |
Major Pages
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The 100 Best Products of the Year (PC WORLD)
NextFest 2005
NextFest:
The Shape of Things to Come
Microsoft
Research has
Publications
They have
55 separate research efforts underway.
MIT's:
Technology
Review
Extreme Tech |
ZDNET's
Product Watch
Radio Shack's:
COOL THINGS
Gizmo Watch
Ovonics
breaks a number of stories
Keelynet
is beyond the cutting and bleeding
edge and has fallen over the cliff; believe less than half of what you
see here; interesting though.
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New Product Releases
Network World Fusion's:
PRODUCT
CENTRAL
News & Featured Articles
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Panoscope 360
Quantum
Teleportation (IBM)
MSNBC.com:
Tech Summit 2004
Magnetic-levitation train makes commercial debut |
Jacket of the future makes its own heat
Virtual Keyboard
allows typing anywhere
Scientists may find space warps in 3 years
Lab Spins Artificial Spider Silk, Paving the Way to New Materials |
Otto Bock Microprocessor Knees (the most advanced artificial knee
available)
With the eSuds system, college students in four states can virtually do
laundry with a click on their computers.
"The US military
is testing a new device
that can help soldiers translate native languages, no matter where in the
world they're deployed. Currently being tested in Afghanistan, the
Phraselator generates translations
for commonly used sayings in various countries. The device can be used for
asking directions and other simple questions, or for giving simple directions
at checkpoints." - created by Voxtec |
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Other Computers
Microsoft's Space-Age Office
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Surface Computing Video (KING5)
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Windows Server 2003
Delivers Improvements All Around |
Sun Fire T1000
Server - Triple your performance, while cutting your power
consumption by 30 percent. |
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Other
PCs, Peripherals and Components
First Look: New nVidia-Based Cards Hit Every Price Range
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First PC
built with the environment in mind
The
Perfect PC
A Media
Center PC We Can Live With |
Best cooling fans?
Turn Your Computer Into a Digital TV
Sub-$500 Gaming PC |
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Quantum Computers
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Frequently
Asked Questions about Quantum Computation
Quantum Information
Science & Technology |
8/15/00:
IBM develops
world's most advanced quantum computer (CNN)
Quantum PCs: Data
in a flash by Kevin Maney (USA
TODAY) |
How cool is that?:
Bose-Einstein condensates are up to some new tricks, scientists report |
Self-Healing Metals Being
Back Engineered at NASA?
COSMIC
CONSIPIRACIES has uncovered
evidence
proving that the US Military is using smart metals similar to those
found at the Roswell Crash In 1947.
Self-Healing Polymers
"It uses microcapsules
containing a healing agent and a special catalyst and begins to repair
the composite as soon as cracking starts. "Once cracks have formed
within typical polymeric materials, the integrity of the structure is
significantly compromised," says
Scott
White, a UI professor of aeronautical and astronautical
engineering." -
self healing polymers
Software
Groove
is a new, peer to peer, application from the creator of Lotus Notes,
Ray
Ozzie, that allows people to collaborate in real time and share a
multitude of different types of data.
Storage
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Tiny
optical disc could store five movies |
CDs may spin into oblivion |
Where to snap up the best mini storage drives--for any price
Upheaval
on the Storage Scene
"The StorCard
looks just like a credit card but can contain anywhere from 100MB to
more than 5GB of data."
Constellation 3D Debuts HDTV Compatible Disc:
HDTV ROM Technology Development Program Yields First Fluorescent
Multilayer Discs (FMD)
Glue for better storage -
Boston College researchers have found a
way to store about 19 times more data on a disc than a common DVD can
hold.
Storage System Glows
Brightly
by Tania Hershman
C3D has unveiled its
three-dimensional optical memory storage devices
utilizing fluorescent chemicals to pack gigabytes and
even terrabytes into every square centimeter of disk
space. |
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Sound
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Buying Guide: PC
Speaker Systems |
Sound
Advice |
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Wired Networking
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Making The
Switch?
Dlink's
new DFE-910 "Network In A Box" kit gives high
speed switching at a very affordable price for the home,
gamer and SOHO. |
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Wireless
Ad hoc nets with mobile P2P
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Compaq taps Psion
for Bluetooth technology
Devices create harmony between PC, stereo
TI
Tech Lets Bluetooth, 802.11 Play Together |
Why
Voice Over Wi-Fi Has Telcos Dialing 911
The Wireless LANscape
Taking
Your Small Business Wireless |
The Cellular Internet: The new form of broadband is going mainstream. Is
it time to consider it? (5/11/06: Washington Post)
Source
Magazine's: Connected: Anytime,
Anywhere,
getting access to the web, away from the desktop/laptop
computer, with all kinds of new devices on the market. |
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