Concept Fujitsu Lifebook comes with removable smartphone, tablet, and digital camera

Concept Fujitsu Lifebook comes with removable smartphone, tablet, and digital camera

Posted by admin in Computers, Concept on 24. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments

These days, your average tech enthusiast typically has at their disposal a smartphone, a laptop, a tablet, and a digital camera; and that’s listing the bare minimum. That’s quite a bit of processing power and storage space spread out among different gadgets. What if it were possible to link all those devices together into one [...]

Cloud-based quantum computing will allow secure calculation on encrypted bits

Cloud-based quantum computing will allow secure calculation on encrypted bits

Posted by admin in Computers, Hi-tech on 20. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments

When quantum computers eventually reach larger scales, they’ll probably remain pretty precious resources, locked away in research institutions just like our classical supercomputers. So anyone who wants to perform quantum calculations will likely have to do it in the cloud, remotely accessing a quantum server somewhere else. A new double-blind cryptography method would ensure that [...]

40-inch multitouch desk set for CES debut

40-inch multitouch desk set for CES debut

Posted by admin in Computers, Design on 25. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments

Could multi-touch desks be the wave of the future? ExoPC thinks so, and has posted a video of its new 40-inch multitouch desk on YouTube – a desk it plans on officially announcing at the Consumer Electronics Show at the beginning of January.    The teaser video (below) doesn’t offer a ton of information about [...]

PlateMate crowd-sources nutritional analysis of users’ meals

PlateMate crowd-sources nutritional analysis of users’ meals

Posted by admin in Computers, Medicine on 03. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments

While there are a great many people who want to lose weight by dieting, there aren’t too many who can afford to have a nutritionist assess the caloric value of all their food choices. Using the PlateMate system, however, members can get an online community of laypeople to do exactly that – and for considerably [...]

"Gloria" will allow internet astronomers to access worldwide robotic telescope network

"Gloria" will allow internet astronomers to access worldwide robotic telescope network

Posted by admin in Computers, Space on 19. Oct, 2011 | 0 Comments

Amateur astronomers wanting to observe celestial bodies soon won’t be limited to just their own personal telescopes, or visits to the local public observatory. Starting next year, the first in a worldwide network of robotic telescopes will be going online, which users from any location on the planet will be able to operate for free [...]