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+-   e-readers get flexible screens-> on Thursday November 26, @04:45PM nadiskafadi

Submitted by nadiskafadi on Thursday November 26, @04:45PM
displays
nadiskafadi writes "Taiwanese researchers have shown off several flexible display technologies in an endeavour to promote e-readers and e-paper. One of the newest technologies from Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) was a flexible 4.1-inch color OLED (organic light emitting diode) display, which it claims is for the next era of portable devices."
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+-   Robo-chefs and fashion-bots on show in Tokyo on Thursday November 26, @03:39PM avishere

Submitted by avishere on Thursday November 26, @03:39PM
robot
avishere writes "The International Robot Exhibition kicked off this week in Tokyo, unveiling the latest whirring and buzzing inventions from 192 companies and 64 organizations from at home and abroad — an bringing humanity another step closer to irrelevancy. Among the humanoid cavalcade was a prototype robo-chef, showing off its cooking and cutting skills, along with robots to play with your children, model clothes and search for disaster victims. There was also one made almost exclusively of cardboard. The exhibition — which opened with a human-like robot called Nextage cutting the ribbon — runs until Saturday."
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+-   Zombie Nukes-> on Thursday November 26, @09:11AM mdsolar

Submitted by mdsolar on Thursday November 26, @09:11AM
hardware
mdsolar writes "In the Dec 7 edition of The Nation, Christian Parenti details what he considers to be the real problem with nuclear power as a solution to carbon emissions in the US: Not the high cost of new nuclear power http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Library/E09-01_NuclearPowerClimateFixOrFolly but rather the irresponsible relicensing of existing nuclear power plants by the NRC. The claim is that the relicensed plants operate like zombies beyond their design lifetimes only because of lax regulation spurred by concern over carbon dioxide emissions but these plants are actually failing as demonstrated by a rash of accidents. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091207/parenti There is a video interview with Parenti here: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/25/as_us_probes_radiation_at_three"
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+-   Tokyo students design a new robotic muscle suit-> on Wednesday November 25, @06:52PM angry tapir

Submitted by angry tapir on Wednesday November 25, @06:52PM
hardware
angry tapir writes "Students at Tokyo's University of Science have developed a new version of their muscle suit, a wearable robotic suit that assists the muscles when carrying out strenuous tasks. The original version of the suit, which has been in production for several years, provides assistance to the arms and back but the new version provides assistance to the back only. That means it is lighter and more compact than the original model. Article includes entertaining pictures."
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+-   Researchers Build Machine That Turns CO2 to Fuel-> on Wednesday November 25, @02:10PM MikeChino

Submitted by MikeChino on Wednesday November 25, @02:10PM
earth
MikeChino writes "Researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories have created a device that successfully converts carbon dioxide from power plants into fuels like gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. Dubbed the Counter-Rotating-Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator, the machine uses a solar concentrator to superheat iron oxide, which forms the basic building blocks for syngas (a combustible fuel) when CO2 is added. While CR5 is still in its infancy, researchers hope that the machine will be used as an alternative to carbon sequestration, a method of capturing carbon dioxide from power plants and injecting it underground."
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+-   Unflattening Touch Screen Buttons-> on Tuesday November 24, @09:47AM blee37

Submitted by blee37 on Tuesday November 24, @09:47AM
hardware
blee37 writes "Researchers at Carnegie Mellon demonstrate "popping out" touch screen buttons to become physical buttons using pneumatics. The idea is to combine the dynamic reconfigurability of touch screen buttons with the tactile feedback of real buttons. The technology could be applied where tactile feedback is currently lacking, such as in car navigation systems, ATMs, or cell phones."
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+-   GAKKEN Japanino spotted at Tokyo MAKE Meeting 04-> on Tuesday November 24, @12:10AM Modellismo

Submitted by Modellismo on Tuesday November 24, @12:10AM
hardware
Modellismo writes "During the Tokyo MAKE:Meeting 04 Gakken displayed the prototype of the JAPANINO (Arduino clone). It will be released next spring in the Otona no Kagaku (in Japanese it means "Science toys for adults") magazine series with a Persistence of Vision plastic Toy with color LEDs. The price tag will be less than 3500 yen (ca$35) and it will make the Japanese Arduino scene the biggest in the World as in a couple of months the magazine will probably sell what the original Arduino sold worldwide in the last years."
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+-   Solar-Powered Plane Makes Runway Debut-> on Monday November 23, @12:48PM MikeChino

Submitted by MikeChino on Monday November 23, @12:48PM
power
MikeChino writes "The much-hyped Solar Impulse airplane just completed its first runway test, paving the way for a 20 to 25 day trip around the world next year. Conceived by Bertrand Piccard, the single-pilot plane successfully used its four solar powered motors to taxi around the runway. If all goes according to plan the plane will be able to fly day and night without fuel, signaling a bright future for solar powered flight."
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+-   CSIRO To Launch CPU-GPU Supercomputer on Monday November 23, @03:50AM bennyboy64

Submitted by bennyboy64 on Monday November 23, @03:50AM
supercomputing
bennyboy64 writes "The CSIRO will this week launch a new supercomputer which uses a cluster of GPUs [pictures] to gain a processing capacity that competes with supercomputers over twice its size. The supercomputer is one of the world's first to combine traditional CPUs with the more powerful GPUs. It features 100 Intel Xeon CPU chips and 50 Tesla GPU chips, connected to an 80 Terabyte Hitachi Data Systems network attached storage unit. CSIRO science applications have already seen 10-100x speedups on NVIDIA GPUs."
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+-   UX490 UMPC represents years of community mods-> on Sunday November 22, @09:16PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 22, @09:16PM
hardware
An anonymous reader writes "The community at www.MicroPCTalk.com have spent the last few years devising all sorts of mods and tweaks for the Sony VAIO UX-series UMPC. Now they've thrown nearly all of their major breakthroughs into one machine. Using the latest UX model (UX490) as the base, the original SSD has been swapped for a speedy 128GB SSD, the CPU has been unsoldered from the mobo and replaced with a Core 2 Duo U7700 (making this probably the smallest computer to use said CPU). The original EDGE module has been removed and carefully put in it's place is an E169 Huawei terminal which provides up to 7.2mbps 3G (HSDPA), voice, and texting. On top of this, the unit quad-boots Mac OSX, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP (and the Huawei terminal works under Mac OSX as well)."
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+-   Colossus 3.5-in SSD Combines Quad Controllers-> on Saturday November 21, @11:38AM Vigile

Submitted by Vigile on Saturday November 21, @11:38AM
storage
Vigile writes "The new Colossus SSD comes in capacities starting at 256GB and going all the way up to 1TB in a standard 3.5-in hard drive form factor. This larger size was required because the drive actually integrates not one but FOUR Indilinx SSD controllers and THREE total RAID controllers in a nested RAID-0 array. All of this goodness combines to create an incredibly fast drive that beats most other options in terms of write speeds and is competitive in read tests as well. Using some custom "garbage collection" firmware, the drive works around the fact that TRIM commands aren't supported in RAID configurations to maintain high speeds through the life of the SSD."
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+-   First Wireless USB External Hard Drive-> on Thursday November 19, @01:56PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19, @01:56PM
wireless
An anonymous reader writes "Imation announced its Pro WX Wireless USB hard drive that provides 1.5TB of storage. It offers an innovative one-to-one connection that limits the possibility of signal interception and securely backs up data whenever it is in range up to 30 feet, similar to a direct attached storage device."
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+-   Building a 32-bit One Instruction Computer on Wednesday November 18, @11:18PM Hugh Pickens

Submitted by Hugh Pickens on Wednesday November 18, @11:18PM
programming
Hugh Pickens writes "The advantages of RISC are well known — simplifying the CPU core by reducing the complexity of the instruction set allows faster speeds, more registers, and pipelining to provide the appearance of single cycle execution. Al Williams writes in Dr Dobbs about taking RISC to it's logical conclusion by designing a functional computer called One-Der with only a single simple instruction — a 32-bit Transfer Triggered Architecture (TTA) CPU that operates at roughly 10 MIPS. "When I tell this story in person, people are usually squirming with the inevitable question: What's the one instruction?" writes Williams. "It turns out there's several ways to construct a single instruction CPU, but the method I had stumbled on does everything via a move instruction (hence the name, "Transfer Triggered Architecture")." The CPU is implemented on a a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device and the prototype works on a "Spartan 3 Starter Board" with an XS3C1000 device available from Digilent that has the equivalent of about 1,000,000 logic gates costing between $100 and $200. "Applications that can benefit from custom instruction in hardware — things like digital signal processing, for example — are ideal for One-Der since you can implement parts of your algorithm in hardware and then easily integrate those parts with the CPU.""
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+-   A Power Monitor on Android-based Mobile Platforms-> on Wednesday November 18, @04:58PM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18, @04:58PM
power
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed an application for
Google phones that displays the energy consumed by major system components
such as CPU, WiFi, LCD, and GPS. The application, which is called
PowerTutor, allows software developers to see the impact of design changes on
power efficiency. Application users can also use it to determine how their
actions are impacting battery life. PowerTutor uses a power consumption
model built by direct measurements during careful control of device power
management states. This model generally provides power consumption estimates
within 5% of actual values. A configurable display for power consumption
history is provided. It also provides users with a text-file based output
containing detailed results. You can use PowerTutor to monitor the power
consumption of any application. Full disclosure: I am one of the students
who designed PowerTutor."
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+-   New AMD HD 5970 GPU peaks power and performance-> on Wednesday November 18, @12:10AM Vigile

Submitted by Vigile on Wednesday November 18, @12:10AM
amd
Vigile writes "The AMD GPU team has definitely been dominating NVIDIA lately with both the release of the Radeon HD 4000-series and the Radeon HD 5000-series that was the first to include DX11 support and new Eyefinity multi-monitor gaming technology. AMD's latest addition is a dual-GPU variant called the HD 5970 that basically runs a pair of 5800 cards in permanent CrossFire mode on a single PCB. The gaming performance is incredible but might be overshadowed by the significant amount of overclocking headroom AMD left on the card for users that want to get 15-20% more out of their rig at the cost of 33% additional power consumption. If 400 watt GPUs and $599 price tags are something you can deal with, this card will impress just about any gamer."
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+-   GE's Sodium Fast Reactor Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste-> on Tuesday November 17, @11:46AM mattnyc99

Submitted by mattnyc99 on Tuesday November 17, @11:46AM
power
mattnyc99 writes "No matter what you think of Esquire's Augmented Reality issue, inside it are the magazine's always illuminating Best and Brightest profiles, including this extra-illuminating story on Eric Loewen, the average-geek GE engineer whose nuclear-waste transformation process might provide the world with a plan for when the oil reserves dry up. At least one Republican seems to tentatively support the fourth-generation "PRISM" reactor, and while Bill Clinton shut it down and Obama has yet to approve, Steven Chu might push liberals behind a suddenly advanced version of what was once a McCain-campaign agenda. From the article: "I was intrigued because from [Dr. James] Hansen's description, it sounded like we must be nuts for not pursuing this. If you discovered a machine that turned lead into gold, you'd think the government would exploit the machine for the good of the country.""
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+-   CERN Physicist Warns About Uranium Shortage-> on Tuesday November 17, @09:37AM eldavojohn

Submitted by eldavojohn on Tuesday November 17, @09:37AM
power
eldavojohn writes "Uranium mines provide us with 40,000 tons of uranium each year. Sounds like that ought to be enough for anyone but it comes up about 25,000 tons short of what we consume yearly in our nuclear power plants. The difference is made up by stockpiles, reprocessed fuel and re-enriched uranium--which should be completely used up by 2013. And the problem with just opening more uranium mines is that nobody really knows where to go for the next big uranium lode. Dr. Michael Dittmar has been warning us for sometime about the coming shortage and has recently uploaded a four part comprehensive report on the future of nuclear energy and how socioeconomic change is exacerbating the effect this coming shortage will have on our power consumption. Although not quite on par with zombie apocalypse, Dr. Dittmar's final conclusions paint a dire picture stating that options like large-scale commercial fission breeder reactors are not an option by 2013 and "no matter how far into the future we may look, nuclear fusion as an energy source is even less probable than large-scale breeder reactors, for the accumulated knowledge on this subject is already sufficient to say that commercial fusion power will never become a reality." (Chapter One: Nuclear Fission Energy Today, Chapter II: What is known about Secondary Uranium Resources?, Chapter III: How (un)reliable are the Red Book Uranium Resource Data? and Chapter IV: Energy from Breeder Reactors and from Fusion?)"
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Comments: 1 +-   Most Security Products Fail to Perform-> on Monday November 16, @06:53AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 16, @06:53AM
security
An anonymous reader writes "Nearly 80 percent of security products fail to perform as intended when first tested and generally require two or more cycles of testing before achieving certification, according to a new ICSA Labs report that details lessons gleaned from testing thousands of security products over 20 years. Across seven product categories core product functionality accounted for 78 percent of initial test failures. For example, an anti-virus product failing to prevent infection and for firewalls or an IPS product not filtering malicious traffic. Rounding out the top three is the startling finding that 44 percent of security products had inherent security problems. Security testing issues range from vulnerabilities that compromise the confidentiality or integrity of the system to random behavior that affects product availability."
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+-   Intel allows release of full 4004 chip-set details-> on Sunday November 15, @11:44PM mcpublic

Submitted by mcpublic on Sunday November 15, @11:44PM
intel
mcpublic writes "When a small team of reverse engineers receives the blessing of a big corporate legal department, it is cause for celebration. For the 38th anniversary of Intel's groundbreaking 4004 microprocessor, the company is allowing us to release new details of their historic MCS-4 chip family announced on November 15, 1971. For the first time, the complete set of schematics and artwork for the 4001 ROM, 4002 RAM, 4003 I/O Expander, and 4004 Microprocessor is available to teachers, students, historians, and other non-commercial users. To their credit, the Intel Corporate Archives gave us access to the original 4004 schematics, along with the 4002, 4003, and 4004 mask proofs, but the rest of the schematics and the elusive 4001 masks were lost until just weeks ago when Lajos Kintli finished reverse-engineering the 4001 ROM from photomicrographs and improving the circuit-extraction software that helped him draw and verify the missing schematics. His interactive software can simulate an ensemble of 400x chips, and even lets you trace a wire or click on a transistor in the chip artwork window and see exactly where it is on the circuit diagram (and vice-versa)."
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+-   Diabetic Mood Tattoos Measure Blood Sugar Levels-> on Friday November 13, @07:58PM mbstone

Submitted by mbstone on Friday November 13, @07:58PM
displays
mbstone writes "Aside from ending painful daily fingerpricking for millions,the invention of the color-changing blood sugar tattoo should also reduce the vast amount spent on glucose test strips ($1/test). Next, I want to see artistic diabetic tattoos that morph according to the wearer's blood sugar."
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