High Tech Gifts For The Constant Upgrader - NY1.com

High Tech Gifts For The Constant Upgrader - NY1.com: "We see it every winter holiday season: New tech devices that are really just higher tech versions of something you likely already own. Take a new Motorola watch for example. Called the ACTV, chances are it does way more than what's on your wrist right now. Developers say the wearable digital music player is really designed for the fitness buff. Among the ACTV's features, it will learn which songs help you perform best while working out and then serve up those songs at the perfect time."

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10 Nightmares When Travelling With Tech--and How to Prevent Them | PCWorld Business Center

10 Nightmares When Travelling With Tech--and How to Prevent Them | PCWorld Business Center: "As a business traveler, you typically can’t do your job without functional smartphones, laptops, power adapters and charging accessories. Add to this the stress of getting materials ready for meetings and deadlines and you can find yourself disconnected, offline, and frustrated. If you have to travel for work this holiday season, you can relate to these following issues with tech and travel."

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G Form Encased Ipad Falls From Plane With Skydiver Video - Video Vault - Portfolio.com

G Form Encased Ipad Falls From Plane With Skydiver Video - Video Vault - Portfolio.com: "-Form's polymer technology was originally developed to protect skateboarders and BMX racers, but it has found a whole new market as military/tactical gear, and as—demonstrated in this video—as a protector of the beloved iPad."

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You can thank 1940s sex symbol Hedy Lamarr for today's Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices | MNN - Mother Nature Network

You can thank 1940s sex symbol Hedy Lamarr for today's Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices | MNN - Mother Nature Network: "Whenever you use your cellphone, Wi-Fi or a Bluetooth headset, you have actress Hedy Lamarr to thank."

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Scientists create "the world's smallest steam engine"

Scientists create "the world's smallest steam engine": "It sounds implausible, yet scientists have managed to create a functioning engine, analogous to a Stirling engine, just three micrometers wide and made of a single particle. The minuscule engine was created by Clemens Bechinger and Valentin Blickle at the University of Stuttgart, and though it has its quirks, the pair have apparently demonstrated the engine's ability to do work."

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Researchers claim new data transfer rate world record

Researchers claim new data transfer rate world record: "An international team is claiming a data transfer record that puts any home broadband connection to shame. At last month's SuperComputing 2011 (SC11) conference in Seattle, researchers reached transfer rates of 98 gigabits per second (Gbps) between the University of Victoria Computing Centre located in Victoria, British Columbia, and the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle"

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Treated cotton cleans itself when exposed to sunlight

Treated cotton cleans itself when exposed to sunlight: "For some time now, we've been hearing about the benefits of drying our laundry outside on the clothesline. We save money and energy by not running the dryer, the sunlight kills germs, and we don't run the risk of generating harmful dryer emissions. In the future, however, we might also end up washing our clothes by hanging them outside - scientists in China have successfully used sunlight to remove orange dye stains from cotton fabric, that was treated with a special coating."

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North Sails unfurls game-changing new sail technology

North Sails unfurls game-changing new sail technology: "Sail technology has come a long way since the days tall ships were carried along by billowing clouds of canvas. In fact, new aerodynamic discoveries coupled with exotic materials have turned modern sails into veritable works of high tech art."

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The Rotauf MRK5 combines beacon and avalanche airbag functions

The Rotauf MRK5 combines beacon and avalanche airbag functions: "Fifteen minutes. That's how long the American Avalanche Center gives you for a good chance at survival if you become buried in an avalanche. At that point, you are essentially helpless and entirely reliant on the other members of your group."

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The smartphone controlled Aquabotix Hydroview underwater vehicle

The smartphone controlled Aquabotix Hydroview underwater vehicle: "Smartphones can already be used to remotely control a variety of vehicles, including flying toy helicopters and airplanes, or even starting your car. Now remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) can be added to the list with New England-based company Aquabotix rolling out its Hydroview vehicle."

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Matrix-style instant learning could be one step closer

Matrix-style instant learning could be one step closer: "How would you like to have the ability to play the piano downloaded into your brain? You might not end up with the same sense of achievement, but it sure would be a lot quicker and easier than years of lessons and practicing. Well, we're not there yet (and perhaps we never should be), but that sort of scenario is now a little closer to reality, thanks to research conducted at Boston University and ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in Kyoto, Japan."

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New MIT video camera shoots a trillion frames per second

New MIT video camera shoots a trillion frames per second: "We've been hearing about trillions in the news so much lately, it's easy to become desensitized to just what a colossal number that is. Recently, a team of researchers at MIT's Media Lab (ML) built an imaging system capable of making an exposure every picosecond - or one trillionth of a second."

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Varley evR-450 Electric Supercar set for 2012 launch

Varley evR-450 Electric Supercar set for 2012 launch: "Australia has a new home-grown electric supercar. The recently announced Varley evR-540 is handbuilt around an aluminum monocoque chassis and powered by locally developed and engineered twin Carbon ironless core AC motors with Tritium Wavesculptor inverters claimed to be up to 95% efficient."

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Heat adds volume to the carbon fiber production process

Heat adds volume to the carbon fiber production process: "When the Wright Brothers first took to the skies more than hundred years ago they did so with an aircraft made with a fabric skin. Over the years a variety of materials have been used including sheet metals such as aluminum and titanium, and even ceramics."

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Strap-on macro lens works with any smartphone camera

Strap-on macro lens works with any smartphone camera: "The cameras on most smart phones tend to be rather simple affairs so it's not surprising that savvy inventors have dreamed up numerous add-on attachments such as mini-microscopes and wide/telephoto adapters."

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New 3D transistors could mean faster, lighter, cooler computers

New 3D transistors could mean faster, lighter, cooler computers: "Starting next year, computers will be available with three-dimensional transistors - these will incorporate vertical components, unlike the flat chips that we're used to seeing. "

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MIG 675 draws its power from the water

MIG 675 draws its power from the water: "If money is no object to you, but environmental concerns are, then LUXURY's MIG 675 might be your kind of boat. The 22 x 8-foot (6.7 x 2.5-meter) cruiser seats three, has a top speed of 70 mph (113 km/h), and produces emissions consisting of nothing but water vapor - this sucker is hydrogen-powered."

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Coby announces five new Android 4.0 tablets to debut at CES 2012

Coby announces five new Android 4.0 tablets to debut at CES 2012: "The scramble to take the new flavor of Google's Android operating system for a test drive has been pretty intense since the source code was released in the middle of last month. The first commercial hardware products running on Ice Cream Sandwich, though, will not hit the shelves until early in the new year"

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New software dramatically simplifies addition of objects to photos

New software dramatically simplifies addition of objects to photos: "For more than twenty years, the software program Photoshop has been the industry standard for seamlessly manipulating images, especially the removal of unwanted items like blemishes, wires and telephone poles."

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Scientist Creates Cheap, Effective Medical Tools From Old Toys (Video) : TreeHugger

Scientist Creates Cheap, Effective Medical Tools From Old Toys (Video) : TreeHugger: "Old toys rarely get a second chance for a new life. Most of them head to landfill without a second glance. But Jose Gomez-Marquez of MIT has come up with a way to hack old toys into medical devices for dealing with everything from diabetes to dengue fever, providing cheap solutions for developing nations all while reusing existing products."

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50 things killed by technology - Telegraph

50 things killed by technology - Telegraph: "Ringing the cinema to check film times, owning an encyclopaedia and dialling 1471 are among 50 things killed off by modern technology, according to a new poll."

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Tinyest fuel cell generates power from bacteria | KurzweilAI

Tinyest fuel cell generates power from bacteria | KurzweilAI: "A tiny biological fuel cell, the smallest of its kind (0.3 microliters), has been built by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), powered by bacteria."

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