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Happy New Year! December 31, 2007

December 26, 2007

Wanna keep kids busy for 2-3 hours? DIY paper toys will help.

December 26, 2007

GoogleTalk made online realtime translator. For example you can talk with chinese or japanese or italian. Requires GoogleTalk. In my view – very nice.

December 26, 2007

ImageSorter – interesting and simple program (interface is simple as well). What does it do – sort the pictures. What is so special – it sorts by colors. In some cases very useful feature.

December 26, 2007

Nokia Siemens Networks has completed the world’s first multi-user field
trial in an urban environment using the new Long Term Evolution (LTE)
technology that offers mobile data rates up to 173 Megabits per second.
What is 4G is on horizon? 2.6Ghz

December 26, 2007

Home. Nuclear. Reactor. From Toshiba. Toshiba has developed a new class of micro size Nuclear Reactors that is designed to power individual apartment buildings or city blocks. The new reactor, which is only 20 feet by 6 feet, could change everything for small remote communities, small businesses or even a group of neighbors who are fed up with the power companies and want more control over their energy needs. Wonder how much does it cost ?

December 26, 2007

Another Dual in some sort – Bilinea UMPC. Made on VIA platform with C7-M processor. 7 inches touch screen, resolution 800×480, 1GB memory, 80GB HDD, WiFi, card reader. On the right side – internet phone. In some way competitor to Asus Eee.

December 26, 2007

BenQ Joybook Q41 with double screen. Additional display – 2.5 inches, use it as you want, view photos, control integrated VoIP, music and RSS feed. In other words – lets not open notebook at all . Pretty cool isn’t ?

December 26, 2007

Princeton (NJ) – Researchers at Princeton University have discovered a potentially viable way to use carbon as a replacement substrate material for silicon.  The team has figured out how to build transistors on tiny patches of the substrate, called graphene, just a few atomic layers thick.  The research indicates that switching speeds could be 10x faster than silicon. Sounds cool but still too far from working  examples.

Turn a flashlight into a handheld burning laser December 26, 2007

The toy from category “Burn’em all”. Take the laser from DWD RW drive, put it into led flashlight and… burn the matches or blow up ball. Check it out.