Japanese supercomputer unseats chinese supercomputer, is now the world’s fastest
Posted by admin in Computers, Hi-tech on 21. Jun, 2011 | 0 Comments
A Japanese supercomputer is now the world’s fastest, unseating the previous record-holder by nearly a factor of four. The K Computer, based at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe, can perform 8 petaflops — that’s 8 quadrillion calculations per second. The next-best computer is China’s Tianhe-1A , which set a record [...]
SolarFold and SolarFan Make Portable Charging Convenient and Fashionable
Posted by admin in Concept on 12. Mar, 2010 | 0 Comments
Leave it to Japanese designers to turn technology into something both stylish and functional — and then keep it all to themselves. The SolarFold and SolarFan portable solar chargers unfold into surface-area-utilizing solar collectors when needed, supplying enough power to make a three-minute iPhone call after just ten minutes in the sun. Even better, they’re [...]
Eyeball-tracking earbuds let you control your MP3 player with a glance
Posted by admin in Design, Electronics on 20. Feb, 2010 | 0 Comments
How the heck does it do that? Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo has used the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to demo a very cool new handsfree interface you can use to control an MP3 player using gestures you make with your eyeballs. Sensors in the earbuds themselves measure changes in electrical potential to convert [...]
Wearable wireless health sensor for remote bio-monitoring
Posted by admin in Wearable electronics on 03. Feb, 2010 | 4 Comments
WIN Human Recorder Co Ltd, a Japan-based venture firm, launched a health monitoring service that uses a sensor network. In the service, Health-related information is collected and analyzed by a small sensor attached to a human body, and it is viewed and managed on a mobile phone or a PC. The company commercialized the health [...]
