What do a poor farmer in a remote village in Africa and a rich business man from Manhattan have in common? Both will benefit from the coming revolution of WiMAX, the fourth generation of wireless technology. The farmer will be ...
Pandora Gaming Console
Pandora is a new device, which combines two distinct functions: an ultra mobile personal computer (UMPC) and a portable gaming console. In order to achieve this, Pandora was designed with a full keyboard and two gaming controls, similar to the ...
2007 In Technology
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 ...
Troubleshooting System for WiFi Networks Developed
Scientists from the University of California in San Diego developed an automated troubleshooting system for wireless access networks. The system was initially designed for the UCSD computer science building, but its success resulted in a paper presented by the researchers ...
Wi-Fi Detector Shirt
Most animated T-shirts currently on the market are not very useful. However, this new Wi-Fi Detector shirt is an exception, helping you detect the all-important hotspots while you walk along the street. If it will ever spread beyond the geek ...
Wireless Power Demonstrated
Researchers from MIT were able to light a 60watt light bulb wirelessly from a distance of about 2 meters. If the MIT scientists have their way, in a few-year’s time we will all be charging our cellular phones, MP3 players ...
Autonet – Car WIFI
Autonet Mobile, a California based company, claims to be the first company that will allow a 24/7 broadband Internet connection in your car. With a small router connected to your car cigarette lighter you will have a Wi-Fi hotspot in ...
Microsoft Surface Computing
After six years of work Microsoft is now preparing to start the commercial launch of a new type of interactive technology called surface computing. The product showcased by Microsoft enables several people to digitally interact and can perform a variety ...
WIFI Sharing Technology Developed
The German company Cuculus released the first details on its upcoming WIFI sharing technology. The company developed a software which splits a single wireless network (found on many homes these days) into two completely separated ones. After installing the software ...
24 Carrot Genius Rabbit
Living in a cave for the last few years? Then you haven’t heard of Nabaztag/tag – the little plastic white rabbit developed by the French company Violet. This new version of the ear-wagging WiFi toy is much more sophisticated than ...