A tiny identity chip could have massive implications for security - and also for your privacy.
Hitachi has developed a chip that could be woven into paper money to help identify counterfeits, and which could also have wide ramifications for identification and surveillance technologies.
In a move that could pave the way for faster and less power-hungry networking chips, IBM
announced Monday that it has developed the world's fastest silicon transistor.
IBM has refined its silicon-germanium chip-manufacturing technology to produce transistors that
are far thinner than others. As a result, information can travel faster or at the same speed using far
less power.
I'm sure you can all recall a time when one of your important electronic tech toys decide to call it quits in the middle of a very important task. The low battery indicator is flashing, and there is no outlet in sight. What do you do? The answer, ironically, comes from the military. You see, they've been using things called "Fuel Cells" in the field to charge up their electronic equipment, or keep it running in case they aren't able to plug it into a stable electrical power sources.
Open Cola stands for OPEN Collaborative Object Lookup Architecture; it is a completely open framework for the new Internet, promising solutions to the biggest information problems. It?s been referred to as an all in one: Seti@home, Napster and Gnutella. Open Cola, Inc. is an open source software company that is going to solve the biggest problems on the Internet and networked computers. Futurelooks has snagged themselves an interview with Open Cola, Inc.'s "Chief Evangelist" himself, Cory Doctorow, and explore the inner deaths of this new technology.
SAN FRANCISCO--Her name is Ulala. She sashays as she walks, her tiny waist pivoting, her pencil-thin arms swinging like a runway model's. She lives in the 16-bit color screen of J-Phone's new J-SHO7 cell phone.
Ulala is the animated and pixel-perfect star attraction of the world's first phone capable of displaying 3D images, which was introduced this week and should start hitting store shelves in Japan by the end of June.
E.T. may not be able to phone home anytime soon, but the lovable alien may be able to send e-mail--if a draft proposal released this week for an interplanetary Internet takes flight.
Described as a "work in progress," the proposal to the Internet Engineering Task Force--the group that sets standards for the Net--calls for terrestrial testing of interplanetary Internet protocols later this year, with a live test onboard the NASA Mars mission in 2003.
Ken Segler likes to fiddle with electronic gadgets in his
spare time. So when the i-opener promised Internet access without a
full-powered computer, he grabbed one and tinkered away.
Soon enough, he figured out how to add a hard drive for storage, turning the
$99 Internet appliance into a low-end computer that normally costs $1,000.
IBM will unveil a new innovation in hard drive technology Monday that breaks what many in the industry saw as a glass ceiling. In each of the past five years, hard drive capacities have doubled, keeping storage costs low and allowing technophiles and PC users to sock away more data. However, storage buffs believed the rate of growth could continue for only so long, and many asserted that the storage industry was about to hit the physical limit for higher capacities. But according to IBM, a new innovation will push back that limit.
The new Vaio Digital Studio PCV-RX490TV includes digital video recorder technology and a DVD-rewritable drive. These features will allow people to watch shows on a PC monitor or a TV set and record them to a hard drive or DVD-RW disc as if they were recording to a VCR tape.
IDC analyst Roger Kay said the new unit targets PC enthusiasts and is typical of Sony's strategy to address the PC market with high-end features, which has worked well for the company in the past.
Combining quantum mechanics and laser technology, scientists have constructed a lightning-fast computer that could render conventional supercomputers obsolete.
The new processor is said to be capable of conducting myriad computations simultaneously, unlike traditional electron-powered ones that must trudge through number-crunching tasks in sequence.
Researchers say that by using light instead of electrons to drive the processing, the quantum computer can break encryption codes or search huge databases billions of times faster than its contemporaries.
