http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/new-technology-blog.html New technology blog from Blogspan, the place for information. Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:16:25 GMT en-us http://www.Blogspan.org/images/blogs/new-technology-blog.jpg http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/new-technology-blog.html 100 100 http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/will-we-hear-the-light.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/will-we-hear-the-light.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:16:25 GMT University of Utah researchers used invisible infrared light to make rat heart cells contract and toadfish inner-ear cells send signals to the brain. The discovery someday might improve cochlear implants for deafness and lead to devices to restore vision, maintain balance and treat movement disorders like Parkinson's........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/key-to-immune-response.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/key-to-immune-response.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:16:25 GMT Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have identified the key immune cell population responsible for regulating the body's immune response. The finding could have wide-ranging repercussions for the therapy of autoimmune diseases, organ transplantation and cancer, and change how the efficacy of newly developed drugs is measured........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/alcoholic-drinks-to-induce-superconductivity.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/alcoholic-drinks-to-induce-superconductivity.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:16:25 GMT Japanese scientists have been immersing iron-based compounds in hot alcoholic beverages such as red wine, sake and shochu to induce superconductivity. Researchers from the National Institute for Materials Science, Japan, observed that immersing pellets of an iron-based compound in heated alcoholic beverages for 24 hours greatly increase their superconducting ability........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/the-freshest-laptop-designs.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2011/the-freshest-laptop-designs.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:16:25 GMT With aesthetics becoming almost as important a factor in usability and performance when it comes to buying a laptop these days, manufacturers are using teams of consultants to get the design just right for a particular market before they even start putting the parts together. Business users will be looking for something that projects a corporate image of sleek efficiency, often in matt black, whereas teenagers will be more interested in bright colours and funky originality, and there is a whole raft of different requirements in between. Laptop news covers the latest designs in innovative laptops to hit the market in recent months........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/scentscape-brings-smells-to-your-movies.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/1-2011/scentscape-brings-smells-to-your-movies.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:16:25 GMT Have you ever gone to a movie and wanted to feel like you were really there? As if all the smells and sounds were real? This year at CES, ScentSciences released a bread loaf sized product that appeals to your nose�of all things. Movies that have been created with their ScentEditor software can make you smell all the smells that you would imagine to be on screen. It�s kind of a creepy way to put you more into the movie, but hey, smells are a sense we don�t use during a movie other than for popcorn, so why ......... ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/deals-on-electronics-watches.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/12-2010/deals-on-electronics-watches.html Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:34:48 GMT New York (12/10/2010)-For perpetual bargain hunters and other shoppers looking to get a great deal on the latest electronics, brand name watches, wireless accessories, jewelry and more, 1SaleaDay.com is the lowest-priced deal-of-the-day website offering unheard-of exclusive deals on just a single item and only for 24 hours. To keep customers coming back for more, 1SaleaDay.com even offers surprise free products once or twice a week........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/11-2010/taming-thermonuclear-plasma-with-a-snowflake.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/11-2010/taming-thermonuclear-plasma-with-a-snowflake.html Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:34:48 GMT Physicists working on the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory are now one step closer to solving one of the grand challenges of magnetic fusion researchhow to reduce the effect that the hot plasma has on fusion machine walls (or how to tame the plasma-material interface). Some heat from the hot plasma core of a fusion energy device escapes the plasma and can interact with reactor vessel walls. This not only erodes the walls and other components, but also contaminates the plasmaall challenges for practical fusion. One method to protect machine walls involves divertors, chambers outside the plasma into which the plasma heat exhaust (and impurities) flow. A new divertor concept, called the "snowflake," has been shown to significantly reduce the interaction between hot plasma and the cold walls surrounding it........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/10-2010/curving-3d-nanostructures.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/10-2010/curving-3d-nanostructures.html Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:34:48 GMT Twisting spires, concentric rings, and gracefully bending petals are a few of the new three-dimensional shapes that University of Michigan engineers can make from carbon nanotubes using a new manufacturing process. The process is called "capillary forming," and it takes advantage of capillary action, the phenomenon at work when liquids seem to defy gravity and travel up a drinking straw of their own accord........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/8-2010/single-spin-magnetoelectronics.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/8-2010/single-spin-magnetoelectronics.html Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:34:48 GMT The integration of single-spin magnetoelectronics into standard silicon technology may soon be possible, if experiments confirm a new theoretical prediction by physicists at the Naval Research Laboratory and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The scientists predict that a family of well-known silicon surfaces, stabilized by small amounts of gold atoms, is intrinsically magnetic despite having no magnetic elements. None of these surfaces has yet been investigated experimentally for magnetism, but the new predictions are already supported indirectly by existing data. The complete findings of the study are reported in the August 24, 2010, issue of the journal Nature Communications........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/6-2010/new-chemical-method-important-to-drug-design.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/6-2010/new-chemical-method-important-to-drug-design.html Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:34:48 GMT University of Delaware scientist Donald Watson is part of a research team that has discovered an easier method for incorporating fluorine into organic molecules, giving chemists an important new tool in developing materials ranging from new medicines to agricultural chemicals. The research, which is published in the June 25 edition of Science, was led by Stephen Buchwald, the Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/6-2010/thinking-of-getting-another-lcd-tv.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/6-2010/thinking-of-getting-another-lcd-tv.html Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:34:48 GMT I was at the local mall the other day, searching for a replacement for my aging Sanyo ST-21SS1, a 21-inch conventional CRT television that just didn't make the cut on the type of entertainment for a wired home I had been looking ......... ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/5-2010/when-it-comes-to-security-think-natural.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/5-2010/when-it-comes-to-security-think-natural.html Fri, 21 May 2010 13:17:05 GMT Security systems could be more effective if officials looked at how organisms deal with threats in the natural world, University of Arizona scientists suggest in the May 20 edition of the journal Nature The authors are working with security and disaster management officials to help put some of their recommendations such as decentralizing forces and forming alliances into practice........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2010/speed-up-your-digital-photo-post-processing.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/4-2010/speed-up-your-digital-photo-post-processing.html Fri, 21 May 2010 13:17:05 GMT Anything that will increase a computer's overall processing speed is always welcome, and users of digital graphics programs, such as we digital photographers, can always use more computer speed. ......... ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2010/mobile-phone-service-providers-look-to-snare.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2010/mobile-phone-service-providers-look-to-snare.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:42:00 GMT As technology in the mobile phone industry has advanced so rapidly over the last 12 months - particularly with the advent of many new smart phones - and with such a large selection of similar handsets available from different manufacturers offering similar features at equally competitive tariffs, mobile phone service providers are now seeking new marketing angles and unique selling points in order to try and differentiate themselves in a highly competitive and largely saturated marketplace. ....... ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2010/reduce-your-overheads-with-vmware-hosting.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2010/reduce-your-overheads-with-vmware-hosting.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:42:00 GMT Businesses have had a hard time of late with the global recession which has affected all of us in one way or another. Companies are looking for ways to tighten their belts and reduce their overheads and one method that has emerged is the use of VMware hosting solutions for their IT needs........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2010/low-cost-linux-virtual-hosting.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2010/low-cost-linux-virtual-hosting.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:42:00 GMT Linux is a free open source operating system based on the Unix operating system and is a popular alternative to others (such as Microsoft) due to it's versatility. Additionally, Linux servers which most often run a platform of Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python have become very popular with web developers and in turn many businesses have websites and systems run on this software. In fact, IBM has chosen Linux to be the operating system on their Sequioa supercomputer due to be unveiled in 2011........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2010/a-high-tech-handrest.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/3-2010/a-high-tech-handrest.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:42:00 GMT University of Utah engineers developed a computer-controlled, motorized hand and arm support that will let doctors, artists and others precisely control scalpels, brushes and tools over a wider area than otherwise possible, and with less fatigue. "We've invented a new device the Active Handrest that's useful for aiding people in performing precision tasks with their hands such as surgery, painting, electronics repair or other tasks that require precise control of the fingertips," says William Provancher, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/2-2010/different-types-of-headsets.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/2-2010/different-types-of-headsets.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:42:00 GMT Technology is so advanced these days that life is becoming more and more effortless with each passing day. Take for example the recent introduction of G4 Bluetooth by Cardo Systems. These little devices are basically designed for bikers so that they can converse with each other while riding on the same bike or on different bikes. Hence, even bikers also can keep in touch with each other while riding bikes. There are different types of headsets available in the market today. There are user specific headsets and you can choose the one that suits all your requirements. The following list will help you decide which one would be best suited to you and will fulfill all your needs........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/2-2010/hosting-provider-for-your-website.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/2-2010/hosting-provider-for-your-website.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:42:00 GMT One of the reasons why a lot have been setting up their own websites either for personal or for business is that there’s just so many options to choose from these days. But sometimes, the more choices there are, the more confusing it is to actually choose the right provider. If you don’t want to spend much or to spend at all on a hosting provider, then you might be looking for something like a free hosting package. Although, there are a lot of web hosts who offer free hosting, not all of them are quite nice neither for your website nor worth your time. Some web hosts actually put annoying ads, even pop-ups on your site in exchange for the free service they provide. Your site may look very unprofessional and you’re not even going to get any share from it either. And others are just simply not capable enough of providing you a good and reliable hosting........ ]]> http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/2-2010/stitching-together-lab-on-a-chip.html http://www.blogspan.org/blogs/permalinks/2-2010/stitching-together-lab-on-a-chip.html Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:42:00 GMT Researchers in Australia are reporting the first use of ordinary cotton thread and sewing needles to literally stitch together a microfluidic analytical device microscopic technology that can transport fluids for medical tests and other purposes in a lab-on-a-chip. The chips shrink room-sized diagnostic testing equipment down to the size of a postage stamp, and promise revolutionary applications in medicine, environmental sensing, and other areas. Their study is in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, a monthly journal........ ]]>