Toyota have released a new model of a Night-View equipped car, dubbed the ‘Crown Hybrid’. The Night-View system uses a combination of low-light cameras and a database of pre-defined pedestrian shapes. The software then compares the images that the cameras pick up against this database and any time a match is made, a yellow box […]
Sony’s latest OLED offering, the XEL-1, has been tested by research firm DisplaySearch. After 1000 hours of constant playback they found the display had its overall luminance reduce between 7-13% - the blue luminance being the worst. Considering this is new technology that probably doesnt come as much of a surprise but when Sony claim […]
Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, has invented a device that could potentially save a lot of lives. Dubbed the ‘Slingshot’, the machine is powered by cow-manure and is able to purify absolutely any water source into clean drinking water, while generating enough energy to power 70 energy saving light bulbs to boot. Priced […]
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The Sarcos XOS exoskeleton is a thing of beauty, terror and every little boys dreams. Sarcos have been developing exoskeleton’s for the military for seven years now and since Raytheon bought them up in November things seem to have gone full speed ahead […]
Western Digital, the creators of the slightly dated 3.5″ 10,000rpm Raptor drives have now moved on to produce the VelociRaptor. Based on a 2.5″ hard disk design, with a speed of 10,000rpm and weighing in at 300Gb the VelociRaptor outperforms its predecessor by up to 30% and when it hits the stores will cost […]
The SunView portable media player is the first commercially available ‘pico-projector’ available in the world. Pico-projectors are the next big thing for mobile devices, capable of beaming a display onto areas much larger than a standard mobile lcd display. Currently the SunView, developed by Sunlink International and iView, comes with a 3.5″ lcd display and […]
Engadget have just reportde that Sony have demonstrated a 3.5inch 0.2mm thick OLED display alongside a larger 11inch 0.3mm thick display. Currently the resolutions are lacking slightly with the 11inch coming in at 960 x 540 pixels although both Sony and Samsung demonstrated a 27inch and 31inch display at CES 2008 (video below). […]
BBC News have an article on how IBM are looking to create the next generation of storage devices, by manipulating the magnetic fields generated by the spin of electrons. With the potential to store hundreds of times more data per area compared to existing devices this could mean future handheld devices and computers alike could […]
Toshiba have now released their SpursEngine SE1000 processor for sampling. The processor, based on the PS3’s Cell technology, contains 4 cores as opposed to the Cell’s 8, runs at 1.5Ghz and is capable of 48 Trillion floating point operations per second (48Gflops). Current plans are to integrate the chip with future Graphics Cards and set-top […]
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Researchers at Taiwan University have come up with a novel way to get children to brush their teeth by trying to inject some ‘fun’ into the equation. By using a camera and toothbrush with an array of LEDs attached to the handle they are […]