A new kind of electronic-book reader has been making its way into the market. Based on the most recent electronic-paper technology from E Ink, it boasts an extremely fast page-flip speed and several unique features. But how does it compare ...

Several interesting ultra mobile PCs (UMPC) were launched at the recent Cebit 2008 show. As more and more companies enter this field, there is a steady improvement in the ultra mobile PC’s processing power, features, and battery life. Here are ...

If scientific research programs were movies, computers would always be cast as the sidekick: essential to the plot’s progress, but always serving the main character’s goals and motivations. Created by scientists and engineers, computers labor tirelessly to perform all the ...

For many years now, the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) held in Las Vegas, Nevada, has been the main place to hear about the next generation of consumer electronic technology. In recent years, the endless stream of product announcements at the ...

The U.S. based company “Fulton Innovation” has developed a technology that enables wirelessly charging electrical devices. The company demonstrated a series of products powered by “eCoupled Intelligent Wireless Power” at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las-Vegas. The engineers ...

2007 is approaching its finish line, bringing us one step closer to the future. This was a year packed with new technologies, new applications, important (and not-so-important, but certainly nonetheless interesting) discoveries and inventions. Here we present some of the ...

The Idaho based Company Motion 2 Energy has recently developed a system capable of channeling the energy created by movement into electric energy. The motion required for generating the energy can be either human or vehicular, and the electric energy ...

Humans are better than machines. However, the advantages of humans over machines have been in steady retreat – we gave up on physical strength first, then on some mental capacities such as computation, and now we’re in the process of ...

In the George Lucas classic Star Wars, hero Luke Skywalker’s arm is severed and amputated during a lightsaber fight and consequently fitted with a bionic arm that he can use as if it were his own limb. At the time ...

A team of American scientists are developing the “StupidFilter” – an open-source filter software that will be able to detect “rampant stupidity” of web-content in written English. Similarly to the way spam recognizing software detects suspicious e-mails, the “StupidFilter” will ...