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Sony Ericsson ST18i and CK15i blurrily leak their way onto message boards
The last time we saw Sony Ericsson’s Azusa , it was only a lonely blue line on a bar graph. Now it kind of feels as though our little mystery handset might’ve actually become an actual smartphone. There weren’t a ton of specs to head off …
GreenChip lighting allows you to flip the switch remotely, thumbs nose at IPv4 depletion
Despite the looming IPv4 apocalypse , a brand new lighting system popping out of NXP Semiconductors promises an “IP address for each light bulb.” The GreenChip “smart lighting solution” incorporates NXP chipsets into both LED and compact flourescents …
Philips EnduraLED A21 bulb offers bright light for giant bucks
If the predicted price ticket for Philips’ latest LED light bulb is any indication, a brighter tomorrow won’t come cheap. The “75W replacement,” generally known as the EnudraLED A21, apparently reduces energy by 80 percent, lasts 25 percent longer than its conventional counterpart, and is …
ORNL energy harvester turns heat waste into electricity, converts hot machines into cool customers
We’ve heard of turning yesterday’s lunch into tomorrow’s electricity , but a brand new energy converter popping out of Oak Ridge National Laboratory harnesses the facility of one more kind of hot waste. The as-of-yet unnamed thermal waste-heat converter has the capability …
Brainchild Kineo joins Kindle, iPad in digital reformation; ships to colleges in ten states
Be careful, parents — if you happen to live in a single of a handful of states, your prodigious student-of-the-month could be bringing home something a chunk heftier than a tacky bumper sticker. We’re the Brainchild Kineo, a 7-inch, 800MHz Android tablet, locked down for education-only use. No …
Barnes & Noble logs 1 million Nook app downloads in first week, individuals are probably playing Angry Birds in place of reading
We were pretty stoked when Barnes & Noble finally made Android apps a legit feature at the Nook Color (loss of Market access be damned) and, unsurprisingly, a lot of you were, too — the corporate reports that within per week …
Canadian copyright group pushes for levy on memory cards
As even non-Canadians may recall, there has been a huge issue within the country a few years back over a so-called ” iPod tax ” (something that cropped up again within the recent election) and, while it still hasn’t come to pass, …
Samsung, RealD announce licensing agreement for brand new LCD-based 3D panels
Keep in mind that 3D display technology that Samsung and RealD were engaged on at CES? Today, the 2 companies announced that they have struck a licensing deal for the panels, which promise …
Adafruit’s Internet of factors Printer combines your love of data, receiptsLove staying connected and using excess paper? Adafruit's got your back with its latest project. The net of items (IoT) printer goes online via an Ethernet jack, printing up data on 2.5 inch wide receipt paper. You may print such things as Twitter feeds, news briefs or sports scores using its open source software. Putting the box together requires some soldering and an Arduino, but
SanDisk makes 128-gigabit flash chip, crams three bits per cell, takes afternoon offSanDisk has developed a chip that earns it membership within the exclusive 128-gigabit club . Not content with simply matching the Micron / Intel effort, SanDisk and its partner Toshiba claim their new memory uses 19- rather then 20-nanometer cells within the production process. Shrinking the dimensions is something, but SanDisk's new chips also use its X3 / three-bit technology.