Researchers have made a new material that can be used to guide waves of light, a breakthrough that could lead to ultra-fast computing.
Georgia Tech scientists are using specially designed organic dyes that can process and redirect light without the need to be converted to electricity first.
Traditional computing equipment, such as network routers, can receive light [...]
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(PhysOrg.com) — One-terabyte (TB) solid state drives (SSDs) are expected to be released in a couple of years, and they will be about the size of the average postage stamp.
A team of Japanese researchers from Toshiba and the Keio University in Tokyo, led by Professor Tadahiro Kuroda, claims to have developed a technique that will [...]
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A radical new approach to the design of communications networks, called “network coding,” promises to make Internet file sharing faster, streaming video more reliable, and cell-phone reception better — among other improvements.
MIT is in the thick of these new developments. Last year, MIT researchers shared in two awards from IEEE, formerly the Institute of Electrical [...]
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Recently, slashdot posted a link to a NY Times OPED piece by Dick Brass, a former Microsoft vice president. ZD Net’s Mary Jo Foley was quick to follow with Microsoft’s challenge: Innovation, innovation, innovation, offering some comments and a few more links.
Dick Brass tells us, “Microsoft, America’s most famous and prosperous technology company, no longer [...]
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Yesterday, Steve Jobs worked his charm, attempting to wow the world with the Apple iPad, a new, super-slim computer he touted as the missing link between iPhones and laptops. It’s an undeniably beautiful device, but it also represents some serious problems.
Note: This subjective post gets rather long winded, so if you don’t have time for [...]
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A 3-way conversation with the brilliant and controversial inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil needs little or no introduction to most h+ readers. Principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating [...]
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iPhone development can be intimidating, especially to someone who’s unfamiliar with Macs, or the way iPhone apps work.
But with currently more than 100,000 apps officially available from the App Store, it’s kind of hard for a developer to ignore the potential market the iPhone provides.
And there are apps for virtually anything you could think of, [...]
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Peter Diamandis, CEO of the X Prize Foundation, wants to use our competitive instincts to make the world a better place. After handing out $10 million to the first private team to achieve suborbital space flight, he’s extended his X-prize concept into earthly realms such as automotive engineering, genomics and health care. And while he [...]
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Today we launched PicTranslator, a free Picture Translator for the iPhone. Building it was quite an adventure. I wanted to share some of the technologies we used, you may be surprised.
via CodeBetter.Com
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