August 28th, 2003
A very interesting green power solution is the SAM (salt-water, air and magnesium) cell technology. Its almost free electricity from abundantly available sea-water. Read about this cool technology:
Greenvolt and
MagPowerSystems and
press release here with pricing.
What is more interesting it has much higher power density to lead-acid battery and more enviornment friendly as well. A SAM cell 1/10th weight of a typical lead-acid battery can give 100watts of output and can sustain loads upto 35 hours.
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August 28th, 2003
MIT leaps to solution of walking-on-water mystery. Ever wondered if walking of water is possible? Have you seen the insects walking on water and wondered “How?” ?
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August 28th, 2003
Scientific American: CD Player Finds New Use as Molecular Detective This amazing article shows how expensive scientific equipment my be replace by using common appliances innovatively.
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August 25th, 2003
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August 21st, 2003
Check out this cool
pic from space showing the recent blackout in the US and Canada.
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August 21st, 2003
Read this interesting
article at Reason. This is an attempt to understand the technological progress over time. I found the increase in income from the Roman to modern times quite revealing.
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August 21st, 2003
ABCNEWS.com : Ocean Sponge May Be Best for Fiber Optics A humble sea sponge has humbled modern technology. Nature never fails to amaze. Read this article to know more about how nature’s fibre optic technology is far better than the man-made one.
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August 20th, 2003
The Best Defense Is a Good Upgrade Corporates often evaluate potential IT purchases by their ability to coup with the growing needs of business. Tech-savvy consumers buy upgrade-friendly equipment. This story on Wired 11.09 is about how the US wants upgrade-friendly equipment too.
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August 20th, 2003
When Bad Breath Means Bad News This Wired article tells us that bad breath may require more than fresh breath pills it may a sigb of lurking (smelly) disease.
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August 20th, 2003
Putting the GPL on trial This article at CNET talks about the hurdles SCO faces with GPL (Gnu Public Licence).
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August 14th, 2003
Read this article
Wired 11.09: The New Diamond Age. Wired never fails to amaze me. Anyways this very informative article tells about how diamond is the best semiconductor material. If you think that the cost of diamonds will be a dampner on future diamond processors think again. This article has the latest on artifical diamond making / manufacturing process.
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August 7th, 2003
AMD has acquired the Information Appliance business of National Semiconductor. This division primarily makes the Geode series of processors based on the earlier Cyrix MediaGX CPU. This should give AMD instant access to the PDA, thin-client and SoC (System on Chip) market. This would give AMD an interesting mix of solutions for this lucrative market since it already has the Alchemy series of processors.
This news covered at
Yahoo and
eWeek.
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August 5th, 2003
This article will take you straight back to the movie “Fantastic Voyage”. Researchers in Japan have devised tiny machines and robots which are powered by the glucose in the blood. These machines can be inserted into tissue/ bloodstream and no change of batteries are required. More about this
here.
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August 5th, 2003
Low-power, low-cost displays are somewhat of a holy grail for computers. But it looks that the search for better yet cheaper display technologies to replace the 1930’s CRT display technology is about give results. Check out this Inquirer
story.
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August 4th, 2003
The key to crack the Indian market is a clever mix of low-prices and localisation. The Economist tells more in this
article.
In my opinion, the Indian consumers are very demanding and intelligent. No wonder India today has the cheapest mobile communication network in world just 3 or 4 years after it had the most expensive one.
Non-Indian readers may please note that $1= Rs.50 approx.
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