Roads criss-cross the landscape, but while they provide vital transport links, in many ways they represent a huge amount of wasted space. Advances in “smart road” technology could change that, creating roads that can harvest energy from cars, detect speeding, automatically weigh vehicles, and even communicate with smart cars. “Smart city” projects...
Notice (Read Prior to Beginning the Firmware Update Process): Okay so your like many many of other thousands of citizens that was duped by Toshiba into buying their cheap model HDTV LCD TV in the last few years. All the problems with this TV are really due to the software inside. Or more precise the bios that make all the hardware work together...
Big computing has been all in the news lately, what with IBM’s Watson taking on the top contestants in Jeopardy!—and winning. But what about small computing? Well, the University of Michigan reports that its Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has prototyped an implantable eye-pressure monitor for glaucoma patients that...
It's well established that cloud computing provides tremendous economic value to applications with variable demand requirements1. On the flip side, conventional wisdom suggests that applications with steady demand requirements pay a premium for being in the cloud. While that's true if you compare three years of usage of a cloud virtual server to a...
This is going to require you to use your imagine, so just role with it and let’s see if there’s anything useful the be learned from this exercise. Imagine you had a 55026 byte file (which happens to be size of the minified version of jQuery 1.3) that you needed to serve on the web. Beyond that we expect to use exactly 1 terabyte (TB) of...
Want a dedicated server but concerned about its cost? Well, you are not alone. While the benefits of a dedicated server lure many organizations, the perceived high cost and complex management deter them from getting one. In fact, the cost is one of the main reasons we recommend stopover solutions like the semi-dedicated server or the virtual...
ImageThe Virtual Keyboard (VKPC) is a truly innovative and revolutionary product. It presents a projected keyboard on virtually any surface and is essentially damage and maintenance free. Image ImageThis 'pen sort of instrument' produces Both the monitor as well as the keyboard On any flat surfaces from where you can Carry out functions...
Innovative Technology Solves Virtual World Industry Debate; Developers Gain Flexibility to Make Virtual Worlds Available in 2D and 3D - Simultaneously! The Multiverse Network, Inc., a leading provider of virtual world development technology for social worlds, Massively Multiplayer Online Games, educational worlds, and business collaboration...
It may be known by different names - handheld organizer, Palm Pilot, iPac, PDA, and handheld, to name but a few - but no matter what you call it, a personal digital assistant (PDA) is an invaluable tool to help manage your life. PDA’s can help you with everything from writing a novel to storing a client database, capturing and showing photos or...
RegToy is a collection of useful utilities : tweaking, window manager, shell context menu, registry cleaner, file renamer, screen capture, memory cleaner, and disk cleaner. It also is available in some languages. Version 0.7.2 includes Shell Context Menu Extension rewrite and Arabic localization. Power-packed beyond Registry tweaks, RegToy...
Researchers have devised an inexpensive way to produce plastic sheets containing billions of nanoantennas that collect heat energy generated by the sun and other sources. The technology, developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory, is the first step toward a solar energy collector that could be mass-produced on...