AirPower from RCA

While I was at CTIA Wireless 2010, I saw a booth that had something to say about AirPower. AirPower is some new technology developed by RCA, and it is designed to steal the energy from the Wi-Fi signals in the air.  I had no idea that those Wi-Fi signals could actually carry any energy, but apparently it only takes five to six hours...

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Motorola H17txt Bluetooth headset

Motorola does not only make cellphones and smartphones just in case you were wondering and are new to the scene, as they have their fingers dipped in the world of communication devices as well. Their latest device would be the H17txt Bluetooth headset that will offer wireless mobility when communicating with your contacts over a Bluetooth-enabled...

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Microsoft announces KIN

Microsoft has just announced its brand new Windows-powered smartphone known as KIN, where it was specially designed for folks who are actively navigating their social lives wherever they are. This is made possible thanks to their partnership with Verizon Wireless, Vodafone and Sharp Corporation, where KIN is meant to be the ultimate social...

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Samsung AMOLED Beam cellphone in South Korea

We all know that our friends over at South Korea do have a slew of smartphones which are by far and large, much more advanced that what the rest of the world gets (of course they are a close challenger to Japan which has some pretty far out handsets as well). For those who are in the know, the Samsung Haptic Beam (SPH-W7900) which has been...

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Wall Mounted Charger

Sometimes the best solution is the most simple one. This charging station is probably the most plain one you’ll come across, but it hids the cords and it attaches to the wall. All around it will easily simplify charging your smaller gadgets. If you don’t want a charging station that draws attention to itself, then this one would be a great...

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Sony Ericsson Zylo with Walkman cellphone

Sony Ericsson is back with a bang, this time round they have expanded their Walkman line of cellphones (guess the Cybershot fans will have to take a back seat for this time), where the Zylo is the latest model to be introduced. This next generation Walkman phone will not break the bank if you are interested in picking one up, where it not...

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Samsung's Verizon

Do you live in the US, and are currently looking for a new phone? Granted, there are virtually tons of handsets to choose from, and most folks would probably veer towards the smartphone variety, ultimately whittling their choices down to an iPhone or a BlackBerry. For those who want to try something different, why not give other handsets a chance instead of the two mentioned models?Verizon Wireless and Samsung Telecommunications...

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Virtual Typing

Virtual Keyboard is just another example of today’s computer trend of ‘smaller and faster’. It uses sensor technology and artificial intelligence to let users work on any surface as if it were a keyboard.        Virtual Keyboard is a small Java application that lets you easily create multilingual text content...

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Lwip

Over the last few years, the interest for connecting computers and computer supported devices to wireless networks has steadily increased. Computers are becoming more and more seamlessly integrated with everyday equipment and prices are dropping. At the same time wireless networking technologies, such as Bluetooth  and IEEE 802.11b WLAN...

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HP JAVA

The explosion of java over the last year has been driven largely by its in role in bringing a new generation of interactive web pages to World Wide Web. Undoubtedly various features of the languages-compactness, byte code portability, security, and so on—make it particularly attractive as an implementation languages for applets embedded in web pages. But it is clear that the ambition of the Java development team go well beyond...

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Digital Theatre System

Digital Theatre System (Digital cinema, or d-cinema) is perhaps the most significant challenge to the cinema industry since the introduction of sound on film. As with any new technology, there are those who want to do it fast, and those who want to do it right. Both points of view are useful. This new technology will completely replace the conventional theatre system having projectors, film boxes, low quality picture, sound system....

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Bio chip

Most of us won’t like the idea of implanting a biochip in our body that identifies us uniquely and can be used to track our location. That would be a major loss of privacy. But there is a flip side to this! Such biochips could help agencies to locate lost children, downed soldiers and wandering Alzheimer’s patients.    The...

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Autonomic computing

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them." - Alfred North Whitehead     This quote made by the preeminent mathematician Alfred Whitehead holds both the lock and the key to the next era of computing. It implies a threshold moment surpassed only after...

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Animatronics

The first use of Audio-Animatronics was for Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room in Disneyland, which opened in June, 1963. The Tiki birds were operated using digital controls; that is, something that is either on or off. Tones were recorded onto tape, which on playback would cause a metal reed to vibrate. The vibrating reed would close a circuit...

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India Unveils World’s Cheapest $10 Laptop

The ‘world’s cheapest laptop’, developed in India, was unveiled by Union Minister for Human Resources Development Arjun Singh at the Tirupati temple on Tuesday evening.The laptop, jointly developed by several organisations, such as the University Grants Commission, the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, will be priced at around $10 to $20 (about Rs 500 to Rs 1,000), officials...

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Verizon Wireless Set To Rollout 4G In 2010

Verizon Wireless completed its first successful Long Term Evolution (LTE) Fourth Generation (4G) data call in Boston based on the 3GPP Release 8 standard; the company also announced that it had earlier completed the first LTE 4G data call based on the 3GPP Release 8 standard in Seattle. While Verizon previously disclosed its intentions to test the 4G standard in the two cities, the carrier had not provided details on the trials...

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IBM To Build Next Generation Chips Using DNA

In future DNA wouldn’t just control human evolution but also computing evolution, if IBM succeeds to use DNA in development of next-generation microchips.IBM scientists are using DNA scaffolding to build tiny circuit boards; this image shows high concentrations of triangular DNA origami binding to wide lines on a lithographically patterned...

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Quantum Computing Closer To Reality

The ability to exploit the extraordinary properties of quantum mechanics in novel applications, such as a new generation of super-fast computers, seems to come closer following with recent breakthroughs by an international team led by researchers from the University of New South Wales.A colour-enhanced Scanning Electron Microscope image of a quantum dotIn the two breakthroughs, written up in the international journals Nano Letters...

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Cellonics Technology

For the last 60 years, the way radio receivers are designed and built has undergone amazingly little change. Much of the current approach could be attributed to EH Armstrong, the oft -credited Father of FM, who invented the super heterodyne method in 1918.He further developed it into a complete FM commercial system in 1933 for use in public-radio broadcasting. Today, more than 98% of receivers in radios, television and mobile...

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xMax

xMax developed by xG Technology is a wireless communications technology whose developers claim is low power and provides a high data rate over a distance of about 13 miles. A fundamental paradigm shift in the way radio signals are modulated and demodulated.Developed by xG Technology in Florida Rather than transmitting many RF cycles for each...

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Automated Eye-Pattern Recognition Systems

Privacy of personal data is an illusion in today’s complex society. With only passwords, or Social Security Numbers as identity or security measures every one is vulnerable to invasion of privacy or break of security. Traditional means of identification are easily compromise and enyone can use this information to assume another’s identity....

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Micromechanical System For System-On-Chip Connectivity

Micromechanical systems can be combined with microelectronics, photonics or wireless capabilities new generation of Microsystems can be developed which will offer far reaching efficiency regarding space, accuracy, precision and so forth. Micromechanical systems (MEMS) technology can be used fabricate both application specific devices and the associated micro packaging systems that will allow for the integration of devices or circuits,...

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Virtual Surgery

Rapid change is under way on sever fronts I medicine and surgery. Advance in computing power have enable continued growth in virtual reality, visualization, and simulation technologies. The ideal learning opportunities afforded by simulated and virtual environments have prompted their exploration as learning modalities for surgical education...

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Telemedicine

The increasing awareness about the health and development of advanced telecommunication means and information technology has given rise to telemedicine that allows healthcare when patient and doctor are long distances away from each other. This procedure allows for maximum utilization of limited resources. The increasing population of the world and lack of sufficient no of doctors and the hospitals are the main impediments in...

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Teleportation

Teleportation is the name given by the science fiction writers to the feat of making an object or person disintegrate in one place while the exact replica appears somewhere else. How this is accomplished is usually not explained in detail, but the general idea seems to be that the original object is scanned in such away as to extract all...

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E-Paper Technology

Electronic ink is not intended to diminish or do away with traditional displays. Instead electronic ink will initially co-exist with traditional paper and other display technologies. In the long run, electronic ink may have a multibillion-dollar impact on the publishing industry. Ultimately electronic ink will permit most any surface to become...

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Embedded Systems In Automobiles

Most of the microprocessors in the world are not in PCs, they are embedded in devices which control traffic for highways, airspace, railway tracks, and shipping lanes to manufacturing systems with robots. An embedded system is any device controlled by instructions stored on a chip. These devices are usually controlled by a microprocessor that executes the instructions stored on a Read Only Memory (ROM) chip. Embedded systems can...

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Molecular Electronics

The development of molecular electronics, the foundation for nanomedicine, would not have been possible without the availability of advanced computers; however, the availability of advanced computers seems to depend on the development of molecular electronics. Molecular electronics seems to aid in its own growth. These advances are not limited...

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Carbon Nano Tubes

The carbon nanotubes form a promising tool in the emerging fields of nanotechnology and its reassuring development. The importance lies in the fact that the whole development has been from carbon which forms the basic unit. The future lies in continuous improvement in the required properties of materials by artificially structuring them on...

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BLUE EYES

We communicate with others using visual, audio and sensory information (touch, smell, etc.). This is possible only because the human brain is highly skilled in integrating and interpreting such data. What if a computer can do the same? If computers can understand what we feel and act accordingly, the possibilities are endless!!! Blue Eyes technology being developed by the IBM research center at Alma den to make such "Smart" Computers. In...

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Light Pen

A light pen is a computer input device in the form of a light-sensitive wand used in conjunction with the computer's CRT monitor. It allows the user to point to displayed objects, or draw on the screen, in a similar way to a touch screen but with greater positional accuracy. A light pen can work with any CRT-based monitor, but not with LCD...

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Holographic Versatile Disc

Holographic Versatile Disc (HVD) is an optical disc technology still in the research stage which would greatly increase storage over Blu-ray and HD DVD optical disc systems. It employs a technique known as collinear holography, whereby two lasers, one red and one blue-green, are collimated in a single beam. The blue-green laser reads data encoded as laser interference fringes from a holographic layer near the top of the disc while...

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3D-DOCTOR

3D-DOCTOR is an advanced 3D imaging software for researchers doing medical (MRI, CT, Microscopy), engineering, scientific, and industrial 3D imaging applications. 3D-DOCTOR is US FDA-approved for medical imaging applications. 3D-DOCTORcreates 3D surface models and volume rendering from 2D cross-section images (in DICOM, BMP, RAW, TIFF, JPEG,...

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IDMA - Future of Wireless Technology

Direct-sequence code-division multiple access (DS-CDMA) has been adopted in second and third-generation cellular mobile standards. Users are separated in CDMA system by use of different signatures for ach user. In CDMA system, many users share the transmission media so that signals from different users are superimposed causing interference....

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Night Vision Technology

Night vision technology was developed by the US defense department mainly for defense purposes ,but with the development of technology night vision devices are being used in day to day lives. Night Vision can work in two different ways depending on the technology used. 1.Image enhancement- This works by collecting the tiny amounts of light...

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High Speed Data In Mobile Networks

Currently, almost all network operators worldwide are upgrading their GSM networks in order to provide high speed mobile data to their subscribers. The ever increasing growth rate of data applications such as e-mail and the internet is confronting mobile network operators worldwide with the challenge to upgrade their networks to high bandwidth capable "bit pipes" in order to provide for all kinds of mobile data applications. High...

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MPEG 7

As more and more audiovisual information becomes available from many sources around the world, many people would like to use this information for various purposes. This challenging situation led to the need for a solution that quickly and efficiently searches for and/or filters various types of multimedia material that’s interesting to the...

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Future Satellite Communication

The beginning of new millenium sees an important milestone in military aviation communication with the introduction of the first Super-High-Frequency(SHF) airborne satellite communication (Satcom) terminals, which are due to enter service on Nimrod maritime reconnaissance aircraft (MRA4). Satcom terminals using the Ultra-High-Frequency (UHF)...

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CHAMELEON CHIP

It is a reconfigurable processor which provides a design environment that allows customer to convert their algorithms to hardware configuration on the fly.Chameleon Systems Inc, San Jose, California is one of the new breed of reconfigurable processor makers.Chameleon chip is the industry’s first Reconfigurable Communications Processor (RCP)Advantages------------1....

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ISI

Computers are as ubiquitous as automobiles and toasters, but exploiting their capabilities still seems to require the training of a supersonic test pilot. VCR displays blinking a constant 12 noon around the world testify to this conundrum. As interactive television, palmtop diaries and "smart" credit cards proliferate, the gap between millions...

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GRID COMPUTING

The term the Grid was coined in the mid1990s to denote a proposed distributed computing infrastructure for advanced science and engineering. Considerable progress has since been made on the construction of such an infrastructure but the term Grid has also been conflated, at least in popular perception, to embrace everything from advanced...

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SMART QUILL

Lyndsay Williams of Microsoft Research's Cambridge UK lab is the inventor of the Smartquill, a pen that can remember the words that it is used to write, and then transform them into computer text . The idea that "it would be neat to put all of a handheld-PDA type computer in a pen," came to the inventor in her sleep. “It’s the pen for the...

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SYMBIAN OS

Just like PCs have an operating system like Windows, Symbian is the O.S for mobile phones. But unlike PC design, mobile phone put constrains on a suitable O.S. The operating system has to have a low memory footprint, and low dynamic memory usage, and efficient power management framework and real time support for communication and telephony...

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Cellular Neural Network

Cellular Neural Network is a revolutionary concept and an experimentally proven new computing paradigm for analog computers. Looking at the technological advancement in the last 50 years ; we see the first revolution which led to pc industry in 1980’s, second revolution led to internet industry in 1990’s cheap sensors & mems arrays in desired forms of artificial...

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Wireless Internet Security

In the past few years, there has been an explosive growth in the popularity and availability of small, handheld devices (mobile phones, PDAs, pagers), that can wirelessly connect to the Internet. These devices are predicted to soon outnumber traditional Internet hosts like PCs and workstations [1]. With their convenient form factor and falling...

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