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A newly-developed material made of optical fibers could soon lead to constructing laser devices operating at more different frequencies simultaneously.The newly-created material (cesium zirconium phosphorus selenium - CsZrPSe6) is able to add, subtract or double laser beam wavelengths, thus allowing for the deve... |
3 October 2008
09:05 GMT |
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You can be fooled. But your hand surely cannot be. A new study published in the journal "Psychological Science" shows that our brain works with the images in two different pathways. The team led by psychologist Tzvi Ganel, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, tested the subjects with the "Ponzo" illusion, that make... |
11 March 2008
04:42 GMT |
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It is surreal, as in Not Real, OK? Forget about it! Not gonna happen! If You're asking "where can I preorder this?" (as "bump" wrote on flickr.com) the answer is God! Ask God and maybe, just maybe, He can squeeze an optical drive in that delicious, slick, streamlined, sharp piece of fake Apple device.Don't ... |
19 February 2008
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As long as there is no Hello Kitty involved, animal-shaped electronics are always a nice addition to your gadget kit.This rather silly Massage Mouse is nothing super complicated. It gets powered by 9V battery and can double as a relaxing massage instrument. All the devices from its series were developed by the Chines... |
15 January 2008
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Sony Electronics just announced the launch of the second generation of Blu-ray compatible DVD burning optical drive unit that is aimed at the enthusiast market segment. This new Sony optical drive is able to handle the writing of Blu-ray discs at speeds up to 4X while going as far as 16x for normal DVD discs.Named BW... |
9 October 2007
10:22 GMT |
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Samsung just announced the launch of an entire new line of optical disc drives that are able to read and write various disc formats starting with the old and venerable CD-ROM and finishing with the latest DVD formats that are so popular nowadays. Among the newly launched drives there are both desktop and mobile compu... |
2 October 2007
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Imation just announced the launch of a new plug and play compatible optical computer mouse which comes with both USB and PS/2 interfaces, being presented as the ideal solution for home and office use as it is well suited for viewing digital photos, scrolling through documents, spreadsheets and Power Point presentatio... |
26 September 2007
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Aopen, a company that focuses on optical disc drive manufacture, announced today the official launch of a new optical drive that reaches speeds up to 20x while offering support for several of the most popular disc formats that are in use now. Coming as an internal DVD RW drive, the new Aopen product is also featuring... |
12 September 2007
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At the IFA trade show from Berlin Toshiba presented a new HD DVD-Writer which also integrates support for the most popular optical disc formats out there. Coming as a combo drive and featuring HD DVD-Writer and HD DVD Super-Multi properties the latest Toshiba optical drive unit is personal computer compatible.The new... |
3 September 2007
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Plextor announced that it officially transferred its optical drives manufacturing business to its parent company, the Japanese industrial group Shinano Kenshi and while the sales of Plextor branded products and devices will continue for the time being, the looming reorganization is expected to pose a series of delays... |
1 September 2007
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Asus announced the launch of a new line of high performance optical drives which features the DRW-2014 L1T internal DVD and CD rewriter. This new internal disc burner computer hardware part also is fully compliant with the latest specifications of the LightScribe technology allowing users to select and draw their own... |
30 August 2007
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Atmel Corporation, a hardware manufacturing company that is specialized in microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency components, announced the launch of two new front monitoring diode integrated circuits for use in slim and ultra slim HD-DVD and Blu-ray drives that are typ... |
29 August 2007
10:12 GMT |
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LG Electronics announced the release of a new optical drive that is intended for external operation and comes packed in a slim and easily portable form. The new external optical drive comes in two versions, the simpler GSA-E50N and the LightScribe capable GSA-E50L and it is specially created for use with laptops and ... |
29 August 2007
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Buffalo Japan announced the launch of an external optical drive that can play both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs as well as other older formats. The external version of the multi format reader drive from Buffalo is connectible to a host computer system via a high speed USB version 2.0 port and the unit is able to burn BD-... |
27 August 2007
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SteelSeries is one of the best known manufacturers and suppliers of gaming gear and the company just announced the launch of two new professional gaming mice that are aimed at top level gamers: the SteelSeries Ikari Optical and SteelSeries Ikari Laser mice. The new mice are aimed at complementing the already existing... |
25 August 2007
05:27 GMT |
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Data transferring speeds inside modern day computer devices is locked at the speed of the electric current that powers those circuits. As the speed of the current can not be easily increased since the circuits become smaller and smaller, another way to increase the data rate would be to use light as a transferring me... |
23 August 2007
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Mempile, an Israeli company that is specialized in technologies related to optical storage and the development of new optical mediums, announced the successful testing of its TeraDisc technology that is capable of storing one terabyte of data on a single and cost effective DVD-like optical medium.One terabyte of data... |
23 August 2007
10:27 GMT |
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A Korean based company named Cellulon is specializing in computer peripheral innovations and their latest product is a keyboard like no other. Forget big keyboards, slim keyboards, forget just about everything about classical keyboards and welcome the laser based optical and virtual keyboard.The virtual keyboard from... |
17 August 2007
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What is this? An image of a big airplane with a smaller one painted on its side? Or is it some weird project designed to confuse the enemy and maybe even birds? Actually, it's none of the above. This is just an optical illusion, one of the many tricks the brain plays on us.The brain's complexity is exactly... |
24 July 2007
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An atom laser is similar to an optical one and is in fact a coherent beam of atoms that behaves like a wave. Though a relatively recent discovery, still in its 'infancy', this technology could soon have many practical applications, like in extremely precise measurements."When doing precise measurements of ... |
19 July 2007
09:44 GMT |
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Magnetic recording are data storage applications that use different patterns of magnetization on a magnetically coated surface to store data and represent non-volatile memory. One or more read and write heads are used to access the information.Now, a group of scientists at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Neth... |
28 June 2007
09:51 GMT |
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A new microscopic imaging technique makes use of the smallest nanoscale applications created by man to take snapshots of incredibly tiny biological structures, like viruses and proteins, smaller than an individual cell.The new method would be able to perform this task with unprecedented resolution with the help of a... |
28 June 2007
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Optical computers are the dream of nanotechnology researchers. These computers would use light instead of electricity to manipulate, store and transmit data. Photons have fundamentally different physical properties than electrons and researchers have attempted to make use of these properties to produce computers wit... |
25 May 2007
07:36 GMT |
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It has been named "far-field hyperlens." This new magnifying glass is designed to increase the human sight abilities by increasing light's own abilities to image and magnify submicroscopic objects such as the components of biological cells. This is no ordinary lens. The interesting thing about it is the fact th... |
9 May 2007
11:03 GMT |
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The retina is one of the most fragile tissues of our organisms. So fragile, that the projects of the bionic eyes try to eschew it. But this is the tissue where images are captured and sent as electrical signals to the brain and in fact, the cause of almost all types of blindness. In order to improve the diagnoses of ... |
7 May 2007
17:21 GMT |
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It seems that nanoscale objects can be controlled with the use of light.Based on the quantum mechanical effects of light, optoelectronics is the study and application of electronic devices that interact with light, and thus is usually considered a sub-field of photonics. In this context, light often includes invisi... |
28 April 2007
04:11 GMT |
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The mouse, a computer peripheral that probably doesn't save your life, but it sure makes it a lot easier, has evolved over the years, much like its biological counterpart, adapting itself (well, humans did the adapting for it, actually) to new "environmental" conditions. It's the survival of the fittest, a... |
25 April 2007
11:07 GMT |
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As the amount of data transmitted over networks continues to grow, researchers have been looking for ways to make the use of optical signals more practical. Optical networking offers the potential to dramatically improve data transfer rates by speeding the flow of data using light pulses, instead of sending electron... |
27 March 2007
03:42 GMT |
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IBM has done it again with a new prototype of optical transceiver, which - according to them - is able to transfer information up to eight times faster than normal optical components available today. This being said, you should be able to do a serious upgrade, maybe to a couple of SCSI hard drives linked in RAID 0 mo... |
27 March 2007
02:44 GMT |
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It seems that the Japanese over at Elecom have a real strong passion for mice in general, and multi-functional mice in particular. Over time, they've launched loads of such devices, each and every one of them having at least one peculiar feature that sets them apart from the rest of the "rodent" family. And the ... |
3 March 2007
02:11 GMT |
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