Wake-up call: Draft security pub looks at cell phones, PDAs July 10, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
In recent years cell phones and PDAs—"Personal Digital Assistants"—have exploded in power, performance and features. They now often boast expanded memory, cameras, Global Positioning System receivers and the ability to record ... | |
 New Italian museum offers 3D virtual tour of ancient city July 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Visitors to Herculaneum, destroyed along with Pompeii in the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius, can now take a 3D virtual tour recreating life in the ancient Roman town. | |
 Matsushita Electric Works says it has developed eco-friendly lamp July 08, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
| User comments: 2
Japan's Matsushita Electric Works Ltd. said Tuesday it had developed a fluorescent lamp that does not use mercury or a gas-discharging process. | |
 Canada puts brakes on electric vehicles June 21, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
| User comments: 13
Despite increasing local demand for zero-emissions cars and trucks and robust exports of electric vehicles, Canada will not allow them on its roads, lament manufacturers. | |
 Simple insulation could combat heat, cold and noise July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
| User comments: 4
Around the world, an estimated one billion people--mostly in rural villages and the shanty towns surrounding developing-world cities--live in houses whose roofs are nothing more than thin sheets of corrugated ... | |
 Apple Web service falters on eve of iPhone launch July 11, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Apple Inc.'s new data synching service got off to a rocky start Thursday, as some users were denied access to their accounts just hours before the next-generation iPhone is slated to go on sale. | |
Intel, Dreamworks Animation Form Alliance to Revolutionize 3-D Filmmaking Technology July 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Intel Corporation and DreamWorks Animation SKG today announced they have formed a strategic alliance aimed at revolutionizing 3-D filmmaking technology, beginning with Monsters vs. Aliens, which is slated for a domestic release ... | |
Researchers develop neural implant that learns with the brain June 24, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
| User comments: 2
Devices known as brain-machine interfaces could someday be used routinely to help paralyzed patients and amputees control prosthetic limbs with just their thoughts. Now, University of Florida researchers have taken the concept ... | |
Cooperative system could wipe out car alarm noise June 24, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
| User comments: 1
The persistent, annoying blare of an ignored car alarm may become a sound of the past if a cooperative, mutable and silent network of monitors proposed by Penn State researchers is deployed in automobiles and parking lots. | |
 Bill Gates surrendering Microsoft helm June 22, 2008 | User rating: 2.6 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
| User comments: 5
A Harvard University dropout who ushered in the home computer age and made billions of dollars along the way will have his last official day of work at Microsoft on June 27. | |
 Oh Baby! First photograph of early modern computer June 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
| User comments: 4
Here is the first known photograph of the great grandfather of modern digital computers – but you couldn’t use it on the train or take it jogging with you. | |
Chinese company develops 'UFO': report June 17, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
| User comments: 4
A Chinese company has developed a prototype flying saucer that can hover in the air and be controlled remotely from afar, state press said Tuesday. | |
 Innovative Germans let others make the profits June 15, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
| User comments: 2
Germans are innovative European champions but although they created the MP3 audio encoding format and the fax, it is often foreign groups that have profited from their development. | |
 Making the classroom a playground for learning July 10, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Playing computer games in school may sound like the kids rule the classroom. But European researchers have shown that such games can be used to boost learning.
| |
 Microsoft Surface computers hit Las Vegas party scene June 12, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
| User comments: 2
Microsoft's touch-screen Surface computers have debuted in a Las Vegas casino bar giving Sin City partiers high-tech tools for flirting and concocting cocktails. | |
PhysOrg Video
- Hi-Tech Exhibit Sets Sail - video , July 24
- Raytheon Thumbing Its Way Into Combat - video , July 18
- Main Street Going Green - video , July 17
- How to Remember Dreams - video , July 14
- Cosmonauts Risk Life, Remove Explosive Bolt - video , July 11
- Oil Maverick Pushes Wind Power - video , July 9
- PhysOrg Video »
Most popular stories
-
A dash of lime -- a new twist that may cut CO2 levels back to pre-industrial levels,
July 21, 2008
-
The Pole star comes to life again,
July 21, 2008
-
Game characters get smarter and less predictable,
July 13, 2008
-
Volcanic eruptions wiped out ocean life 93 million years ago,
July 16, 2008
-
Research puts finger on virtual iPhone button,
July 22, 2008
- Most popular »
News Pix
-
Scientists identify cells for spinal-cord repair,
July 23, 2008
-
NIST Membrane Model May Unlock Secrets of Early-Stage Alzheimer's,
July 23, 2008
-
Engineers Prove Graphene is the Strongest Material,
July 22, 2008
-
Researchers offer glimpse of rare mutant cells,
July 22, 2008
- More news pix »
PhysOrg Forum
Video
Editorials
Free Magazines
Free White Papers
PhysOrg Jobs
Newsletter
Goto Archive
Suggest a story idea
Send feedback
