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Cool Automatic door.

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 06:44:08 GMT

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1980: HARD-DISK for sale

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:28:52 GMT

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Death of the cell phone charger

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:29:04 GMT

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A Pennsylvania entrepreneur has developed technology that gives you all the battery juice you need directly from the air. Business 2.0 reports.

How much money could you make from a technology that replaces electrical wires? A startup called Powercast, along with the more than 100 companies that have inked agreements with it, is about to start finding out. Powercast and its first major partner, electronics giant Philips, are set to launch their first device powered by electricity broadcast through the air.

t may sound futuristic, but Powercast's platform uses nothing more complex than a radio--and is cheap enough for just about any company to incorporate into a product. A transmitter plugs into the wall, and a dime-size receiver (the real innovation, costing about $5 to make) can be embedded into any low-voltage device. The receiver turns radio waves into DC electricity, recharging the device's battery at a distance of up to 3 feet.

The sky's the limit

says John Shearer

Powercast's founder

Tags: technology, news, science, cellphone, electricity

CYBORG PEGIONS

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 08:04:41 GMT

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Scientists with the Robot Engineering Technology Research Center of east China's Shandong University of Science and Technology say they implanted micro electrodes in the brain of a pigeon so they can command it to fly right or left or up or down.

The implants stimulated different areas of the pigeon's brain according to signals sent by the scientists via computer, and forced the bird to comply with their commands.

"It's the first such successful experiment on a pigeon in the world," said the lead researcher, who hopes the work will have "practical use" in the future.

In the United States, similar work on animals has been of interest to the military. For example, the pigeon news follows the equally amusing animal tale about the Pentagon's attempts at creating remote controlled shark spies. Like the Chinese pigeon experiment, the sharks had brain implants used to control their movements.

Tags: news

The A2DP profile Explained

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:43:32 GMT

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Bluetooth is a ubiquitous wireless technology that has gained a lot of followers because it does its job with minimal fuss. Between its popularity and the demand for wireless headphones, Bluetooth is about to be extended to carry high quality stereo audio signals with the introduction of A2DP -- Advanced Audio Distribution Profile.

Low quality audio was necessary in the first version of Bluetooth for reliable transmission to mobile phone headsets, because that market was rightly picked to drive the uptake of the technology. Now, consumer demand for wireless everything has meant high quality wireless audio has to be provided, and because you can’t change the reliable, low quality handset profile in Bluetooth, the A2DP profile has been created to compliment it by providing the bandwidth to send high quality audio.

This is what will power the next wave of Bluetooth headphones, and is being called Stereo Bluetooth by Motorola to avoid consumer confusion. In essence, Bluetooth’s available bandwidth is divided between two layers, a data layer and a voice layer. Mobile phone headsets use the voice layer -- a small amount of dedicated bandwidth. All other Bluetooth communication happens through the much wider data layer. A2DP sets aside a section of the data layer and sends high quality audio through it.

Bluetooth has high expectations to live up to due the accessorisation it has brought to technology. Consumers are demanding wireless music playback from MP3 players, and since the voice profile won’t let headsets deliver it to them, A2DP has fudged the underlying rules of Bluetooth audio transmission to let them.

Tags: mobile, a2dp, technology, latest, bluetooth