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 [...]
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
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 [...]
Supercomputer reads the news to successfully forecast world events
Posted by admin in Computers on 14. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
Graph of media sentiment towards Egypt january 1979 – March 2011 Nipping at the heels of yesterday’s story about the software that automatically writes news articles comes another technological innovation changing the shape of journalism: software that reads news articles. Kalev Leetaru of the University of Illinois determined that using the Nautilus SGI supercomputer to [...]
IBM experimental chips emulate the human brain
Posted by admin in Computers, Hi-tech on 19. Aug, 2011 | 0 Comments
In April, the University of Southern California made the headlines when it announced that researchers there had created a functioning synthetic synapse circuit using carbon nanotubes. Well, today IBM unveiled a new class of experimental computer chips that are designed to emulate the human brain’s abilities for perception, action and cognition. According to the company, [...]
