Few weeks ago, Imation launched Apollo series of 2.5” portable HDDs. It consisted of three capacities, 160GB, 250GB and 320GB. On Wednesday, Imation announced and addition of 500 GB HDD to the line up. Apollo hard disk drives are pretty sleek at...
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A microscope has been developed by Hitachi that doesn't use lens and instead, makes use of an irradiated electronic beam. The beam from the scanning electronic microscope helps analyze the diffraction pattern of the light, which is scattered. Not...
Asus President Jerry Shen has revealed that they intend to launch high-end Eee PCs in the Pro Fashion and Ultimate category. Asus is also launching close to 23 new Eee PCs this year and the ProFashion category might contain PCs with the 1000HV, 1002SA,...
DJ MoCAP has developed a camera based controller for his TRAKTOR Scrath DJ system. With this one, DJs can literally 'sketch' the controls with simple pencil or marker on any surface including paper, wood or plastic and then just rub their fingers...
Hitachi has unveiled it's 1TB hard drive for it's CinemaStar line. The CinemaStar 7K1000.B can store 247 hours of MPEG-4 HD video and has been designed for continuous usage. The silent-seek acoustics make it possible to have a near-silent operation....
It is ‘Chips’ that today hold the ability of altering the way we live drastically with their amazing power packed technology in tiny packets of magic. It would have been hard to believe that something like this would indeed happen if you were...
Herman Miller® - Sense™ Desk is an ergonomically designed piece of furniture that comes with the advantage of being future-proof. Though the desk looks simple and uncomplicated, you could add desktop storage or a media cabinet later and let it...
According to Wall Street Journal, Dell has been testing a portable media player since few months now and if everything goes according to plan then we’ll see one from computer giant by this September. Dell can be named against other giants like Sony...
In an age where bigger is quintessentially better, it comes as no surprise that the medium-format camera range is also witnessing a stampede towards higher pixel levels. In the recent past, we have seen the 50 Mega pixel Hasselblad H3DII-50 and the 60...
Talk about being perfectly in-sync with everything around you and maintaining appointments with extraordinary precision. The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science have developed an atomic clock that corrects any time errors on its own. The...
While many across the planet view the iPod Nano as the music machine that has transformed the world of mobile music, the Zune still has a long way to go to catch up with the reputation of the iPod. It is almost as if the Zune is not known and...
At the first sight, you could mistake these orange checkered pants for a clown’s piece of apparel. Although they look little funny, but they have some serious functionality stashed inside. A bunch of guys at Virginia Tech have come up with these...
Communication in a never-before-seen manner! A playful breath on your neck can send a tinge down the whole body but what if this act was to be extended across a coffee table? The Breathe Table purports to transform each one of our breaths into means...
Ancient technology continues to impress and amaze us. What we do with wonders of electronic computers, people in ancient Greece could do with mechanic assemblage of cogs, gears, dials and cranks. Antikythera Mechanism was a grime covered relic...
Japan Iron and Steel Federation celebrated it's 150th anniversary calling the event 'Iron Stars Festival'. Many iron sculptures and robot like figures made of steel have been displayed and that might amuse both adults and children. One of the...
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