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There must be something you will like from this selection of flash based websites. (via Robert-John) Washable Keyboard - join the scrub-a-dub club
As well as being fully washable, this sparkling peripheral features Silver Seal™ Antimicrobial Protection to resist microbial growth and combat the spread of whiff-causing bacteria. We’re not entirely sure how this works but boffins tell us it’s got something to do with the silver ions embedded in the keyboard’s plastic. And that’s just as well because most keyboards contain nearly 400 times as many yucky microbes as the average toilet. Blurgh! PNG compressor makes your images teeny
PNGGauntlet is a .NET program that uses Ken Silverman’s PNGOUT to optimize PNG files. Many PNG files output by popular graphics software packages like Photoshop or even Fireworks are not as small as they could be - PNGGauntlet squeezes the last bit of size out of them. Furthermore, no information is lost during this process - the only thing that changes is the file size. Just select the files you want to optimize (or drag them onto the window), select where you want them to go, and click the button. PNGauntlet can also be used to convert JPG, GIF, TGA, PCX, and BMP files to PNG. I-O Data Fills DVD Burner Hole In Netbooks
The I-O Data DVRP-U8XLE2 connects to your device through a high-speed USB 2.0 connection and can burn DVDs with speeds up to 8X and CDRs up to 24X. The whole drive only weighs 28 ounces, and it is small enough to fit in what ever bag or sleeve you might be carrying your mini laptop in. The drive runs $95, which might be too expensive considering you can find netbooks for a little more than twice that nowadays. None-the-less, if data burning is your need, then This I-O data drive might be your best bet. via UberGizmo Functional Notebooks
“Arwey will be your new accessory that you don"t want to leave. At Arwey, where our international design team that not only masters all global developments and trends but also likes to create one of those, works with a great enthusiasm, concepts at stage-base, through deep researches and sketches, come into being as designs. All the stages of the recent technologies, professional craftsmanship"s and the materials from the most qualified producers of the world are brought together and designed diligently within the concept of Arwey. Besides its unique design, the collection, with its motto "Functional Notebooks", also embodies the feature of being the most functional notebook thanks to its special information"s included and its different ease of uses. Arwey, with its design and functionality, will be your most beloved partner for your daily use, your office works and your travels.” Fujitsu ST6012 Tablet PC
The Fujitsu ST6012 is a large and beautiful 12 inch tablet PC that has the muscles necessary to get some heavy lifting done. Under the hood, there is an Ultra-low Voltage SU9400 Intel Core 2 Duo processor, integrated webcam, active digitizer, and 1GB DDR3 RAM, 80GB hard drive. The specs may not stand out, but the device is staggeringly beautiful. It is both sturdy and sleek - exactly what you are looking for in a tablet. Fujitsu is prepared to charge you $1999 for the base configuration, but if you move up to a SSD hard drive, and 4GB of RAM, be prepared to spend up to $2580. The ST6012 is out now. via Gottabemobile LG KP500- Yet another Affordable and Shiny Smartphone
Not much is known about the device but the LG KP500 will come with a 3 inch display, a 3 megapixel camera, motion sensor and it will be operated via a stylus. It will come in black, brown, silver and gold colors and it will be launched initially in Europe and then globally. More coming on this soon..... Source: Engadget Mobile Good looking camera carry-all from Acme Made
Via Boing Boing Gadgets. Image: Acme Made TrekStor Matches Two of My Passions - Data and Beer
The TrekStor USB stick CO comes in a rugged (I hope) brushed aluminum casing and features a sturdy Guiness beverage opener. It features high-speed USB 2.0 data transfer rates, it is bootable, and it is pre-formated and ready for use. It should be both Mac and Windows friendly, and it will support Linux (Kernel 2.6 or later). The bottle opener is one-size-fits-all, but the USB flash capacity comes in 1GB, 2,GB, 4GB, and 8GB, and 16GB. They will range from $10 to $71 depending on size, and will be available in late October. Cheers! Source. RMI updates the Digital Picture Frame
This is what RMI is doing as their new application offers video streaming, wireless connectivity, as well as increased on-demand content to any digital photo frame. This application is possible through the use of the RMI Alchemy Au1200 series of connected media processors. So, what is already a booming market is going to boom like an atomic bomb. No word when these new applications will be implemented, but you can expect a price increase on these new and improved digital frames. Source First beam for Large Hadron Collider
The researchers also accelerated a second beam of protons through the path in the opposite direction, the goal being head-on collisions of protons that can offer clues to the origin of mass and new forces and particles in the universe. The second beam made one turn around the LHC. Celebrations across the United States and around the world mark the LHC's first circulating beams, an occasion more than 15 years in the making. An estimated 10,000 people from 60 countries have helped design and build the accelerator and its massive particle detectors, including more than 1,700 scientists, engineers, students and technicians from 94 U.S. universities and laboratories supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and the National Science Foundation. UCR faculty Robert Clare, John Ellison, J. William Gary, Gail Hanson and Stephen Wimpenny, along with postdoctoral researchers and graduate students are involved in the LHC's Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment, a large particle-capturing detector whose discoveries are expected to help answer questions such as: Are there undiscovered principles of nature? What is the origin of mass? Do extra dimensions exist? What is dark matter? How can we solve the mystery of dark energy? And how did the universe come to be?........ UC Santa Barbara has key role in Large Hadron Collider project
Engineer Dean White holds one of the detectors assembled at UCSB.
A contingent of more than 40 faculty members, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, engineers, technicians, and undergraduates from UC Santa Barbara have worked for eight years to help construct the experimental apparatus. The UCSB group is part of an international effort that is now embarking on a 15-year quest to try to answer fundamental questions about the universe. The startup of the LHC marked a milestone for the UCSB particle physics program. The group has played a key role in constructing one of four major experiments now in place the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS), a complex array of instruments for detecting subatomic particles. The device weighs more than 12,000 tons and is as tall as a four-story building. UCSB's team is led by four members of its experimental high-energy physics faculty. Professor Joseph Incandela has been in Switzerland for the past year, shepherding the CMS experiment as deputy physics coordinator. Shuttling back and forth between Santa Barbara and Switzerland have been professors Claudio Campagnari, Jeffrey Richman, and David Stuart. The faculty members are unanimous in their praise for CERN's monumental effort in building the LHC, the world's largest particle accelerator......... Google Android SDK 0.9 released
Google has recently released the version 0.9 of its Android SDK and also published the Developer Roadmap for rest of this year. This certainly means that things are gearing up for the release of the final version of the Android SDK and the launch of first ever Android device (HTC Dream) by the end of this year. The new version 0.9 comes with a number of bug fixes, a number of new API's, an improved UI and some new features including a widget based home screen, a pull up applications tab, a camera and a media player. Please click here for a detailed screenshot gallery of the new SDK. Here is the video of the new SDK that is brought to you courtesy of viddler.com Read more of "Google Android SDK 0.9 released, FCC approves and T-Mobile confirms the HTC Dream" Mobile microwave for your car
You power it through your 12V cigarette lighter socket (produces 175W of power) or directly from your car battery (produces 660W). This little novelty appliance is now on sale at UK store Maplin for 80GBP, (about $149). Via Kitchen Contraptions. China's Dangerous Web Domains
In an article on the report, Associated Press Technology Writer Jordan Robertson this:McAfee found the most dangerous domains to navigate to are ".hk" (Hong Kong), ".cn" (China) and ".info" (information). Of all ".hk" sites McAfee tested, it flagged 19.2 percent as dangerous or potentially dangerous to visitors; it flagged 11.8 percent of ".cn" sites and 11.7 percent of ".info" sites that way.While the "cn" and "hk" domains get registered in China, the servers using them can be anywhere. The "ro" (Romania) and "ru" (Russia) domains were also rated as high risk. Porous Nanostructures For Better Fuel Cells
Computer simulation, left, shows how platinum nanoparticles will fuse into a structure with tiny pores after the polymers that guide them into position are removed. Right, electron microscope photo of the actual structure.
Now, Cornell scientists have developed a method to self-assemble metals into complex nanostructures. Applications include making more efficient and cheaper catalysts for fuel cells and industrial processes and creating microstructured surfaces to make new types of conductors that would carry more information across microchips than conventional wires do. The method involves coating metal nanoparticles -- about 2 nanometers (nm) in diameter -- with an organic material known as a ligand that allows the particles to be dissolved in a liquid, then mixed with a block co-polymer (a material made up of two different chemicals whose molecules link together to solidify in a predictable pattern). When the polymer and ligand are removed, the metal particles fuse into a solid metal structure. "The polymer community has tried to do this for 20 years," said Ulrich Wiesner, Cornell professor of materials science and engineering, who, with colleagues, reports on the new method in the June 27 issue of the journal Science. "But metals have a tendency to cluster into uncontrolled structures. The new thing we have added is the ligand, which creates high solubility in an organic solvent and allows the particles to flow even at high density"......... Standards Set for Energy-Conserving LED Lighting
These solid-state lights are powered by energy-efficient light emitting diodes and are among the first ones of a new generation expected to cut energy needed for lighting by 50 percent by 2027.
Standards are important to ensure that products will have high quality and their performance will be specified uniformly for commerce and trade. These standards-the most recent of which published last month-detail the color specifications of LED lamps and LED light fixtures, and the test methods that manufacturers should use when testing these solid-state lighting products for total light output, energy consumption and chromaticity, or color quality. Solid-state lighting is expected to significantly reduce the amount of energy needed for general lighting, including residential, commercial and street lighting. "Lighting," explains NIST scientist Yoshi Ohno, "uses 22 percent of the electricity and 8 percent of the total energy spent in the country, so the energy savings in lighting will have a huge impact". Solid-state lighting is expected to be twice as energy efficient as fluorescent lamps and 10 times more efficient than incandescent lamps, eventhough the current products are still at their early stages. Ohno chaired the task groups that developed these new standards......... Discovery could enable development of faster computers
Sketch of a ferromagnet/semiconductor structure. When the MgO interface is very thin, spin up electrons, represented in this image with an arrow to the right, are reflected back to the semiconductor. At an intermediate thickness of the interface, spin down electrons are reflected back to the semiconductor, resulting in a "spin reversal" that can be used to control current flow.
Credit: Kawakami lab, UC Riverside The researchers were experimenting with ferromagnet/semiconductor (FM/SC) structures, which are key building blocks for semiconductor spintronic devices (microelectronic devices that perform logic operations using the spin of electrons). The FM/SC structure is sandwich-like in appearance, with the ferromagnet and semiconductor serving as microscopically thin slices between which lies a thinner still insulator made of a few atomic layers of magnesium oxide (MgO). The researchers found that by simply altering the thickness of the MgO interface they were able to control which kinds of electrons, identified by spin, traveled from the semiconductor, through the interface, to the ferromagnet. Study results appear in the June 13 issue of Physical Review Letters Experimental results: The spin of an electron is represented by a vector, pointing up for an Earth-like west-to-east spin; and down for an east-to-west spin......... Tiny refrigerator taking shape to cool future computers
Miniature refrigeration system
Unlike conventional cooling systems, which use a fan to circulate air through finned devices called heat sinks attached to computer chips, miniature refrigeration would dramatically increase how much heat could be removed, said Suresh Garimella, the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Mechanical Engineering. The Purdue research focuses on learning how to design miniature components called compressors and evaporators, which are critical for refrigeration systems. The researchers developed an analytical model for designing tiny compressors that pump refrigerants using penny-size diaphragms and validated the model with experimental data. The elastic membranes are made of ultra-thin sheets of a plastic called polyimide and coated with an electrically conducting metallic layer. The metal layer allows the diaphragm to be moved back and forth to produce a pumping action using electrical charges, or "electrostatic diaphragm compression". In related research, the engineers are among the first to precisely measure how a refrigerant boils and vaporizes inside tiny "microchannels" in an evaporator and determine how to vary this boiling rate for maximum chip cooling......... |
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