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The old radio waves' supremacy in the communication technology field is drawing to its end, as the newly-discovered replacing technology offers increased speed and security via light.The threat to the radio wave communication comes from using visible light. Researchers from Boston University's College of En... |
8 October 2008
11:23 GMT |
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They say that some of the simplest ideas are among the best; and looking at the Tykho radio designed by Lexon I just wonder whether we all are really going the right way, technologically speaking. I assume that the mere word “simple” is not powerful enough to describe the striking simplicity and the minim... |
29 September 2008
09:10 GMT |
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The same day it announced that MySpace, Microsoft Live Search and Ticketmaster were all coming to the Blackberry platform, Canada's RIM also unveiled the future availability of a Slacker Personal Radio application for its smartphone users. Following the agreement between RIM and Slacker, Inc., BlackBerry ow... |
12 September 2008
15:41 GMT |
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There are people out there who really believe that the radio, the plain old common radio, is living its last days before becoming completely obsolete and disappearing for good from our new media world. Despite such ideas, designers like the Aussie John Van Den Nieuwenhuizen keep on delivering projects that are simply... |
30 August 2008
07:11 GMT |
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Skinners has released a cool TV and Radio streaming app for Max OS X simply called Livestation. The application is free to download and install on your Intel-based Mac. As soon as you've fired it up, just create an account (e-mail address required) and you're good to go.The Livestation player can receive a ... |
29 August 2008
09:48 GMT |
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One of the latest-released entry-level Sony Ericsson handsets, the R300, is now available in India, the second largest mobile market in the world. The new R300 is said to be the first Sony Ericsson phone made "in India and for India." Announced by Sony Ericsson in January 2008, together with the R306 clamshell, th... |
25 August 2008
04:55 GMT |
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After the May FCC approval of Sony Ericsson R300, the Federal Communications Commission has now cleared another Radio phone manufactured by the Swedish-Japanese company, namely the R306a. Being the American version of R306, Sony Ericsson R306a comes with 850 / 1800 / 1900 MHz GSM connectivity, hence it's ready ... |
1 August 2008
04:51 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson has removed the "coming soon" sign from the official presentation page of its R300 handset, which means that in the next few days the phone should be available for purchase, probably in India and Europe at first. The R300 was unveiled by the Swedish-Japanese company back in January, at the same time as... |
9 July 2008
06:39 GMT |
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Communications with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, relaying data from the Phoenix Mars Lander to Earth, were restored after a slight glitch that delayed the mission of the lander for one day. Thus, on Wednesday mission controllers gave Phoenix the 'go ahead' to unfold the 2.4 meter long robotic arm it wil... |
29 May 2008
03:01 GMT |
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It seems that NASA has hit the jackpot with the successful landing of the Phoenix Mars Lander on the Red Planet and is planning to make the best of it. After it revealed on Monday that the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was able to photograph the spacecraft while descending to the surface, NASA has now released an image... |
28 May 2008
02:55 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson R300 was recently approved by FCC, hence it's ready to be commercialized in the US, much to the joy (I guess) of mobile users who need a basic handset with advanced radio features. First presented at the beginning of 2008, together with the R306 model, the R300 comes in a candybar form factor and... |
13 May 2008
03:40 GMT |
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Well, it took a while, but now we can finally say good-bye to those pesky wire antennas on our cellular phones, cars and even airplanes, due to a new device developed at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and the Pohang University of Science and Technology in the Republic of Korea. The smart-sk... |
25 April 2008
04:30 GMT |
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Oscillators are extremely important for both electronic and mechanical devices. Quartz watches, computers, radios, clocks would be rendered inoperable without the help of oscillators. The basic idea is that oscillators are required to provide with a constant clock at a given moment. The clock of an oscillator is meas... |
12 April 2008
04:50 GMT |
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If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, every morning as of last week must have stung your ear with something that seemed off somehow, but you couldn't quite figure out what it was. How about Yahoo! ads on the radio, that doesn't really sound right for an Internet company, or at least it leaves listen... |
21 March 2008
04:06 GMT |
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This so-called plasmaspheric hiss or low-frequency radio waves which have been baffling the scientific community for over four centuries originate in the Van Allen radiation belts surrounding the Earth, and may pose grave danger to the operation of satellites in orbit around our planet or to astronauts during spacewa... |
6 March 2008
05:27 GMT |
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Say you have problems with your Mac. What do you do? Hit Apple Discussions of course, or any other Mac-dedicated forum, blog etc. But say you're in a higher position than mom's-basement-couch-potato. I don't know... the host of a TV show. Do you ask Steve Jobs himself for a solution to your Mac problem... |
14 February 2008
08:51 GMT |
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These are the questions astrophysicists are approaching at the Sound of Silence conference at the Arizona State University, after about five decades of listening to radio signals coming from outer space. Either extraterrestrials don't exists, are to far away and can't hear us, not intelligent enough to hold... |
8 February 2008
04:41 GMT |
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A remote control can do more than turning on/off a TV; it could control human fertility. An Australian team is working on a device that, located inside the vas deferens (the duct transporting the sperm from testicles to the penis), could stop or release the sperm flow via a remote control. The technology, published i... |
29 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Nanotube technology is finally showing its true power by creating the first nanotube radio out of carbon nanotube materials. This represents an important step for the introduction of carbon nanotube structures into the world of analog electronics and applications that derive directly from this branch. The claim is de... |
29 January 2008
09:56 GMT |
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We are in the middle of a vivid debate regarding how the wireless technology could affect our health."In the long term - 10, 20 and 30 years out - we have a lot less information about potential effects from these types of wireless devices", warns Frank Barnes, a distinguished professor in the electrical and computer ... |
22 January 2008
04:04 GMT |
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We are obsessed with the wireless technology. We would like to stay in bed 24/24, 7/7, just to lazily push some buttons and all the information and needs to be provided to us. But a new National Research Council report, carried out at the University of Colorado at Boulder, warns that more research is required to asse... |
21 January 2008
04:54 GMT |
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Electromagnetic observations of the visible universe represent the most important and powerful tool while studying large structures lying in the near vicinity of our galaxy, regardless of the wavelength domain used in the process - optical, radio or X-ray and infrared. The HI Nearby Galaxy Survey, or THINGS for short... |
16 January 2008
04:44 GMT |
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The experiment conducted by the Naval Research Laboratory, in collaboration with a few other U.S. governmental institution, was mainly designed in order to make detailed measurements on the surface of the Moon, and the Earth's upper layer of the atmosphere, the ionosphere. The team of scientists successfully sen... |
9 January 2008
09:36 GMT |
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The radio waves are a form of electromagnetic radiation. This theory was first emitted by the British James Clark Maxwell in 1864 and later confirmed by the German Heinrich Hertz in 1880. In 1887, Hertz showed in public the transmission and reception of radio waves. His emitter produced an electric current discharged... |
9 January 2008
06:25 GMT |
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Hormones come with unwanted secondary effects, while the knife dreads anyone. The new contraceptive method destined to women involves none of these and lasts just 15 minutes. The procedure has the role of impeding women getting pregnant and implies the use of radio waves for making a lesion at the level of the fallop... |
7 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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You know how sometimes somebody talks to you, but they're saying so much boring stuff that you eventually start to ignore them? The truth is that we have been unintentionally sending radio signals into space for the last century, out of which seven decades of television transmissions, meaning that we have covere... |
19 December 2007
03:14 GMT |
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And now, geeks, your favorite theme of the day... boobies! They are everywhere, on TVs, on the Internet, in books, magazines, and now, they took over the radios. I don't even want to imagine what would Marconi say about this.Fellas, the boob radio is not a joke. Of course, you have to pinch them to see you'... |
13 December 2007
12:41 GMT |
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Don't you think the new PC12 radio from LG looks like a little dinosaur egg? Well, it might, but some say its annoyingly oval shape looks rather futuristic. So, I suppose you could kill that prehistoric idea and think of it as a device coming from the future, or given by the aliens as a Thanksgiving gift. Eithe... |
10 December 2007
14:46 GMT |
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Get to work, put on your headphones and tune in to your favorite radio station. Does that sound right? It's what more than 40% of the people who have an office job do every working morning according to a research conducted a couple of months ago. We'll just hope that the "favorite station" I mentioned isn&#... |
29 November 2007
06:57 GMT |
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When I look at this, I have to say that the fellows from Daily Mail.com were right. It is only the neck and shoulders that prove there is a human being in there somewhere.And this isn't any Star Trek or Final Fantasy kind of trick, but the next generation of RAF fighter pilots' look, which kinda makes you w... |
10 November 2007
10:56 GMT |
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After releasing a bunch of cool items for just about every radio fan out there, Pure is targeting car owners and releases a black new shiny DAB digital radio easy-to-fit and which looks really good.The Pure radio is powered from the in-car power socket and can be easily attached to your windscreen with the use of a r... |
2 November 2007
03:29 GMT |
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Meet Robi Roberts, a tiny and cute DAB and FM radio which was exclusively designed to work with your iPods (or Nano). The device is powered straight from the iPod and comes packed in a small round cornered remote control shape, which gives not only flexibility, but also more charm to the device itself.When it comes t... |
31 October 2007
06:47 GMT |
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Purple is the star color of this winter, no doubt about that. Therefore, Intempo couldn't have chosen a better color version for its latest DAB radio line. The devices come hidden in glossy resistant plastic casings. Dubbed TRS, the new slimline series is simple to use, it can automatically tune and search for y... |
17 October 2007
05:22 GMT |
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Hey, everybody! Meet the YOM, aka your conventional clock radio, packed with a futuristic USB dock, specially designed to juice up your MP3 player. The MP3 player alarm clocks are nothing new under the sun. The man behind this good-looking concept is Philipp Goeder. According to Coroflot, Goeder is also known for its... |
17 October 2007
02:47 GMT |
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Leadtek Research just announced the launch of a new all-in-one TV tuner that is aimed at offering a special digital TV experience and turn a normal personal computer system into a complete multimedia home theater that also supports DVR functions like TV games and shows recording and editing.The newly launched Leadtek... |
8 October 2007
06:02 GMT |
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Some achive information from an Australian radio telescope has come with a surprising discovery: a strong, short-lived burst of radio waves betraying a new class of astronomical phenomenon. "This burst appears to have originated from the distant Universe and may have been produced by an exotic event such as the colli... |
1 October 2007
05:59 GMT |
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Sirius Satellite radio is the second major satellite radio service operating in the US and Canada. The name is derived from Sirius, which is sometimes referred to as the Dog Star, the brightest star in the nigh-time sky.Recently, the company announced the launch of its first portable media player, dubbed "Stiletto". ... |
16 August 2007
03:17 GMT |
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The M82 galaxy is the brightest galaxy in the sky in infrared, as it is much brighter at infrared wavelengths than in the visible part of the spectrum. Part of the M81 group, it is located 12 million light years away.Also known as a "peculiar" galaxy, M82 has long presented a number of unsolved problems to astronome... |
30 July 2007
04:20 GMT |
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Whisky is an alcoholic drink many are familiar to, distilled from fermented grain mash and aged in wooden casks. The name itself comes from Irish Gaelic, as is related to the Latin expression for the "water of life".But what if yours tastes a bit funny, like a Johnny gone terribly wild, that peed in your glass instea... |
27 July 2007
11:02 GMT |
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The Kaito mp3 radio recorder is the perfect combination between a radio recorder and an mp3 player in a single device that fits great in your pocket.The mp3 part of the device is removable and allows the user to record AM, FM, and shortwave radio broadcasts for future playback as digital files. The MP3 part can be ea... |
26 July 2007
02:43 GMT |
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The first Bush transistor radio was designed by Ogle Design and launched in 1959. It is still regarded as an icon of early radio design. Surprisingly, the Bush name disappeared from the British market during the 1980s. However, since the purchase of the brand by Alba electronics in 1986, it has once again become comm... |
18 July 2007
04:05 GMT |
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I don't know why all the major radio manufacturers began to embed their items in wood, but I don't mind that at all. It is true, the wood they're using is top-quality, but still it is wood, so the products are less practical, but more sophisticated. If you're a retro gadgets fan and own a disco ba... |
27 June 2007
05:50 GMT |
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Numerous famous companies, including MTV, Yahoo, Pandora and Rhapsody allied to fight against the "outrageous" rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board in Washington, D.C. If you didn't know, the organization imposed shocking rates, the minimum fee for webcasting being approximately $500. Because there is no way... |
26 June 2007
09:29 GMT |
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Good news for the conservative people who are still fans of the good old radios! Tivoli Radios is well known for its tabletop radios, but the company still focuses on the conservative side when it comes to its main features. So, they changed their design a little and kept the audio capability: AM, FM and CD, plus the... |
25 June 2007
02:45 GMT |
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In case you were wondering, there is nothing wrong with the picture. This funky radio features the simplest design ever to create the best impression.The Lexon Tykho radio should fit perfectly in the Flintstones Bedrock City park somewhere in the United States. Is there any in France?Regarding its capabilities, if yo... |
13 June 2007
03:26 GMT |
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NASA finally seems interested in a scientific proposition that was mainly laughed at in the past: a radio observatory on the Moon. The idea is not new, earlier this year an American astronomer proposing that we build a giant liquid-mirror telescope on the Moon, saying that it will be hundreds of times more accurate ... |
11 June 2007
06:06 GMT |
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Google makes more and more important steps to become a powerful company in the audio market, the most impressive being the recent deal signed with Clear Channel. If you didn't know, Clear Channel is one of the most powerful companies in the audio market, owning a considerable number of radio stations. Using the ... |
25 May 2007
14:21 GMT |
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Just then I thought the iPod dockers completely flooded the speaker market, I stumbled upon this tiny streamer: Noxon 2, well, an iPod docking solution with radio. It comes from Terratec, manufacturer of "clever gear" and it brings something you probably didn't expect: internet radio without the PC intervention.... |
9 May 2007
15:06 GMT |
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You probably remember the Security Camcorder Clock; you know, the alarm clock that comes with a built-in motion-sensitive camera. Well, as you've probably guessed when reading the title, here's a similar "pervert" device that continues the clock-hidden camcorder trend. The snappily named Hidden Camera Spy C... |
7 May 2007
04:34 GMT |
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Pandora, the Music Gnome Project, is now restricted outside the US after the international licensing guidelines forced the producers to allow only local listeners. In an email sent today, Pandora informed me about the new limitation, sustaining UK might be the only country to be allowed to connect to the service. "Du... |
3 May 2007
02:32 GMT |
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