Apple files 100s of patents each year, but most of them never appear in the consumer devices. But 4 recent patents are relate closely to macbook cooling technology which could appear in the devices sometime soon. The new patents, over the last week, deal with cooling and heat control in laptops. Heat dissipation has always been a big challenge for both chip and Laptop/notebook manufacturers. Out of the 4, the most important patent Read further »

Microsoft is demoing some cool prototypes on this year’s annual Research Event TechFest 2010. Let’s have a sneak peak at the Top Three  ones. The first one, Mobile Surface, was made public but later pulled offline, but its still available in the cache: 1. Mobile Surface: Microsoft finally realized the concept of Read further »

How innovative displays can get? Can it go to an extent where the actual pixels fly-up in the air to build up a visual display? MIT Research SENSEable City Laboratory in collaboration with ARES Lab (Aerospace Robotics and Embedded Systems Laboratory) had been working to “transform any ordinary space into a highly immersive and interactive display environment.” In its first implementation, the Flyfire project sets out to explore the capabilities of this display system by using a large number of Read further »

Gordon Moore might not have thought that this day would come when his popular “Moore’s law” will see some serious irrelevance. “number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years” Over the years scientists and chip industry evangelists have argued that Moore’s law is still valid as we enter the era of Multi-core processors. But, the latest revelation from IBM can give the the Moore’s law a permanent backseat. Read further »

We may have been to Moon and back, but we still use those pencil size AA batteries which have poor life and are large in size. Cost of manufacture of these batteries is estimated to be several billion $s every year, and the environment pollution caused is almost irreversible. To counter this problem, conducting polymers have long been thought to be a solution in developing lightweight, flexible, nonmetal batteries. But up until now, these polymers have had been impractical because regular paper can’t hold enough of them work effectively. Thanks to the new research by ppsala researcher Maria Stromme and her team surrounding the use of Read further »

The Rate of usage of the fossil fuels is sky high. New powerful vehicles, industries have replaced the older ones but the efficiency, overall, has reduced, demand has risen exponentially. Day by day Global warming is becoming an issue which no one has permanent  solutions to. CO2 is the primary reason for creating the greenhouse effect, one major building block for survival, but excess of everything is bad. To tackle the increasing demand of fossil fuels, and put CO2 to safer levels, Researchers at SNL, Sandia National Laboratories have built a machine that uses the Solar Energy to convert carbon dioxide waste from power plants into Read further »

Probably you have already seen one of those Geeky ads by Intel. Intel geeks often do something strange all the time. Those ads ain’t vague, Intel wants us to know that what they are researching on, and what they can make possible in the near future. As per the latest publication Intel’s Pittsburgh lab aims to develop brain implants that can control all sorts of gadgets directly via brain waves by 2020. The purpose is to eliminate and out-date the usage of keyboard and Read further »

After all, God made Humans with more processing power than SuperComputers, holds more memory than Terabyte clusters, and the only machinery that doesn’t oudate coz it learns to adapt with time. Related: DIY: Build a Supercomputer Better than the one your Government has. To get an idea of how powerful human brain is, Kwabena Boahen, a computer scientist/ Read further »

Microsoft has decided not to settle with Windows 7 or even Windows 8. Now, Microsoft Research is busy researching new horizons of operating systems. Last week heard of BarrelFish, a “multikernel” system which treats a multicore system as a network of independent cores, using ideas from distributed systems. Now, we have another research, and it’s called Read further »

I read an article in the U.K.’s Daily Mail, which talked about a Strange new discovery coming from a teenager from Nepal. The News Claims that a boy had managed to create a working Solar Panel without actually using any silicon semiconductors (the basic ingredient of SolarPanel). Instead, he used the the thing that is available for free –Human Hair. He claims that he was able to achieve 9v, 18W solar panel. The silicon semiconductor is what that makes the price go high, and hence difficult for developing countries to adopt. ‘I’m trying to produce Read further »