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Review: OtterBox Impact and Defender Series cases for the BlackBerry Bold

I picked up a RIM BlackBerry Bold a couple of weeks ago and was extremely happy with the device. The inability to sync with my Exchange account forced me to return it though. If you own a BlackBerry Bold then you may want to check out one of these two...

Tags: RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Bold, Handhelds, Hardware, Matthew Miller, Membrane, Holster, OtterBox Impact Series, OtterBox Impact Series Case, Defender Series

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Why flu virus prefers to strike in winter

Why flu virus prefers to strike in winterFlu in winterI don't totally agree with attacking the membrane as an effective way to fight the virus. The reason the flu is so hard to beat is because it mutates so much. If tropical areas have people affected by the...

Tags: SECURITY, winter, cell, flu virus, membrane, virus, infection

Discussion threads 2008-03-10

Plastic to help water and gas industries

Researchers have lots of imagination. After developing plastic as solid as steel, other scientists from in Australia, Korea and in the U.S. have created a plastic which could cut CO2 emissions and purify water. Their new material mimics pores found in plants and is exceptionally efficient. As said one of...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Membrane, Molecule, Polymer, Researcher, Roland Piquepaille, Separation

Blog posts 2007-10-15

Photos: Fujitsu unveils king-size fuel cell

Electronics giant inaugurates 200-kilowatt hydrogen fuel cell that will provide electricity as well as heat to buildings on its Sunnyvale campus.A proton exchange membrane PEM hydrogen fuel cell, king-size. Fujitsu inaugurated this fuel cell at its Sunnyvale, Calif., campus on Friday. The fuel cell sits in the parking lot...

Tags: Fuel cells, photograph, fuel cell, hydrogen, Fujitsu Ltd., membrane, Amdahl, Fujitsu LifeBook, steam, chair, electron, carbon dioxide, carbon, Sunnyvale, natural gas, electronics company, data center, electronics, Japan, laptop computer

Image galleries 2007-08-17

A very robust 50-atom-thick nanosheet

A team of U.S. scientists has discovered that by tightly packing molecules, they could obtain nanothin sheets of materials showing surprising strength. As one enthusiast researcher says, "It's an amazing little marvel." The team adds that "even when suspended over a tiny hole and poked with an ultrafine tip, the...

Tags: Science &, Nature, Nanotechnology, Engineering &, Innovation

Blog posts 2007-07-30

Membrane Button for Cocoa 1.0 (Mac)

Membrane Button is a user interface control that emulates the appearance of membrane buttons for use in third-party apps on Mac OS X 10.3.9 or newer. Similar button controls are found in Garageband and parts of Mac OS X 10.4, both from Apple. All aspects of the control are drawn...

Tags: Membrane, Apple Macintosh, Button Control, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2007-02-12

Carbon nanotubes speed up fluids

According to a University of Kentucky news release, researchers have shown that carbon nanotube CNT membranes with pores measuring 7 nanometers in diameter "permit a fluid flow nearly 10,000 to 100,000 times faster than conventional fluid flow theory would predict because of the nanotubes' nearly friction-free surface." As the fabrication...

Tags: membrane

Blog posts 2005-11-13

Additional Resources

Adesso WKB-3100UB wireless keyboard with trackball

The $80 Adesso WKB-3100UB wireless keyboard is a good mini keyboard for surfing the Web from your sofa, but it's a nightmare to use as an everyday keyboard and trackball. The keyboard is usable most of the time, but its inaccurate trackball, poor button press recognition, sticking keys, lack of...

Tags: Keyboards, wireless keyboard, wireless, keyboard-and-mouse, keyboard, Adesso, trackball

Product reviews 2009-10-29

Killer keyboards

Bleach water is one answer.Can't remember the exact formula, but it ought to be easy to find. I think it's a quarter-cup bleach per gallon of water, not sure. Just wipe the keyboards and mice with a cleaning rag dipped and wrung out. To be effective, it...

Tags: Keyboards, Lysol, keyboard, Killer keyboard

Discussion threads 2009-09-03

One example of "smarter planet"

The smart grid for electricity has become so mainstream Congress wrote it into the stimulus law enacted earlier this year. IBM's marketing of "smarter planet" goes way beyond electricity and networked grid. I recently spoke with Drew Clark, director of strategy of IBM Venture Capital Group. And...

Tags: Sensor, Grid, IBM Corp., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-21

A different 'spin' on flying cars

A company in Australia is developing a flight technology that allows for compact Vertical Take-Off and Landing VTOL using a type of fan system to move air that is commonly found in central heating/cooling systems. [caption id="attachment_1525" align="alignleft" width="245" caption="Entecho's Hoverpod"][/caption] Entecho is using...

Tags: Car, Joystick, Skirt, Entecho Hoverpod, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-05-04

The "Me Too" Kindle 2 Review

Amazon's Kindle 2 is sleek, stylish, and has a crisp and easy-on-the eyes "electronic ink" display. But it only does one thing -- read books. After all the relatively hostile things I have said about Amazon's Kindle e-book reader in the past, I...

Tags: Device, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Amazon Kindle 2, Anathem, Tablets, Handhelds, Smart Phones, Wiki, E-mail, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Medical Device From HemoCleanse Depends on VersaLogic's Reliable Computers

HemoCleanse, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, designs, develops, manufactures and distributes sorbent-based blood treatment systems. Consisting of a portable core machine and a disposable treatment kit, the machine moves fluids by alternating positive and negative pressure applied to a sorbent suspension in the dialyzer. A customized VersaLogic STD 32 Bus...

Tags: Medical Device, Computer, VersaLogic, VersaLogic STD 32 Bus CPU Card, Healthcare, Productivity

Case studies 2009-01-01

Parrot hatches Philippe Starck-designed Wi-Fi speakers with Bluetooth, iPod dock

From Parrot and celebrity designer Philippe Starck come a new pair of wireless speakers that is Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enabled, as well as featuring a built-in iPod/iPhone dock. You'll pay for the convenience and designer name when the Zikmu speakers become available next spring: $1,500, to be exact. ...

Tags: Apple iPod, Speaker, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2008-12-20

Hitachi DZ-BD10HA

Few things work better than convenience for getting consumers to adopt a new technology, and in the case of camcorders, convenience means supporting your preferred format. By that definition, Hitachi's DZ-BD10HA Blu-ray camcorder is certainly convenient. It records full HD video (1,920x1,080) to 3-inch BD-R/RE discs, to a built-in 30GB...

Tags: Hitachi Ltd., Up-Top, camcorder, disc, Hitachi DZ-BD10HA, BD/DVD, hard drive

Product reviews 2008-11-18

New pulseless total artificial heart

New pulseless total artificial heartpulseless artificial heartBack in the '60s, I was a summer intern at Litton in Minneapolis. Under the assumption that the heart must pulse for a reason, we proved in the lab that pulse flow provides more efficient mass transfer across a membrane. (The same...

Tags: total artificial heart, NIH

Discussion threads 2008-10-14

The $200 web tablet ... dream on!

The $200 web tablet ... dream on!Reinventing the wheelIt's been done albeit not quite $200 but the technology has been here--The Nokia N800/810. I've got an 800. The 800 shares the same multi-core TI ARM processor as the 810, except the 810 has a slide out keyboard. ...

Tags: Notebooks, Channel management, Keyboards, Operating systems, OS 2008, web tablet, laptop computer, Web, Nokia Corp., Linux

Discussion threads 2008-07-23

Bugs harmed by nuclear radiation?

Many studies have been conducted about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown of 1986. A large majority of them were focused on the environmental consequences of the radiation release. But, as the San Diego Union-Tribune asks, what happened to bugs? Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, a scientific illustrator from Zurich, Switzerland, has collected...

Tags: Radiation, Bug, Sales Strategy, Web Site Development, Sales, Internet, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-25

P-Lingua: A Programming Language for Membrane Computing

Software development for cellular computing has already been addressed, yielding a first generation of applications. This paper develops a new programming language: P-Lingua. Furthermore, the paper presents a simulator for the class of recognizing P systems with active membranes. The paper illustrates it by giving a solution to the SAT...

Tags: Paper, Programming Language, Computing, Programming, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development

White papers 2008-05-13

'WOA: the SOA that works'

"WOA: the SOA that works." That's how fellow ZDNet blogger and analyst Phil Wainewright described the Web Oriented Architecture phenomenon that has been a topic of hot discussion as of late, at the latest Analyst BriefingsDirect podcast we just wrapped yesterday. The podcast (audio...

Tags: SOA, WOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2008-04-25