innovation
How the flying car works
The wings fold when in it is in car mode and the car can travel at speeds of up to 90 mph. The wings then unfold for flight mode in which it can cruise at a speed of 115 mph for up to 500 miles on a tank of unleaded gasoline. The “roadable aircraft” is [...]
Electric Contact Lense by Opto-electronic | Technology Bytes | Emagzine.Org
Now we can have a tiny computer display in our eye through the ongoing work with opto-electronic contact lenses taking place at the University of Washington in Seattle.The lab there has been showing off the latest prototype, the handiwork of Dr. Babak Parviz: a semi-transparent array – including an LED – embedded into a contact [...]
Twitter Now Asks “What’s Happening”
Twitter has implemented a small change today, which by comparison to Retweets and UI redesigns isn’t such a huge deal but it’s definitely worth mention. Twitter’s prompting question above the box from which you Tweet from has been “What are you doing” since the microblogging platform launched. Today, it’s been changed to “What’s Happening.” It’s [...]
IBM Researchers Go Way Beyond AI With Cat-Like Cognitive Computing
IBM researchers have developed a cognitive computer simulation that mimics the way a cat brain processes thought, and they expect to be able to mimic human thought processes within a decade. “A cognitive computer could quickly and accurately put together the disparate pieces of any complex data puzzle and help people make good decisions rapidly,” [...]
Google Releases Chrome OS Code
google chromium Google on Thursday released the code for its upcoming Chrome OS, and plans to have a netbook running the operating system available for sale before the 2010 holiday season.Chrome OS has now been open-sourced as part of the Chromium OS project and is open and free to the development community. It includes the [...]
‘Big Bang’ experiment to re-start
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiment could be re-started on Saturday morning at the earliest, officials have said. Engineers are preparing to send a beam of sub-atomic particles all the way round the 27km-long circular tunnel which houses the LHC. The £6bn machine on the French-Swiss border is designed to shed light on fundamental questions [...]
Google Launches New Programming Language: Go
Google introduces a new programming language, known as Go, that is aimed at being fast, productive and fun for developers to use.Google has introduced a new programming language, known as Go, that is aimed at being fast, productive and fun for developers to use.Google officials described Go as an “experimental language” that attempts to combine [...]
Google to buy AdMob in bid to reach mobile users
Google Inc. took another major step in its quest to ensure that wherever consumers go — whether to their laptops to search sports scores or videos or to their phones to find a restaurant — advertisers will be there too. On Monday the search giant said it was buying AdMob Inc., a developer of technology [...]
Steve Jobs Conquers the Decade – Now What?
Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named the chief executive of the decade by Fortune, and it’s hard to call that a bad pick, considering the turnaround Apple has undergone since Jobs returned to the helm in the mid-’90s. What’s next on the list for a tech leader who’s already changed the way we use [...]
Internet addresses set for change
The internet regulator has approved plans to allow non-Latin-script web addresses, in a move that is set to transform the online world. The board of Icann voted at its annual meeting in Seoul to allow domain names in Arabic, Chinese and other characters in what is being described as the biggest change to the way [...]
