Samsung jumps onto the green bandwagon with this Blue Earth cell phone, equipped with a solar panel on the back that'll charge it up any time you're out in the sunshine. You do go out in the sunshine, don't you, readers? Inside or out, sunny day or not, we think it's a nice-looking phone, and certainly an improvement over older solar cell phones we've seen.
Samsung's not stopping with just that neato solar panel. The company's gone all-out with its greenatude, making the phone out of recycled plastic, adding a energy efficient charger for those cloudy days or homebody phone talkers, and even stuffing it all into recycled packaging.
Look for the Samsung Blue Earth to ship sometime in the second half of this year, and in the meantime, see if you can find a pair of pants with pockets that somehow let the sun shine onto a cell phone nestled within.
Intel is moving beyond the 45nm chip into denser territory. The company gave a first-ever demo of a 32nm Westmere chip — though no performance benchmarks are available at this time — and rumor has it that the packed processors could make their way into laptops as early as this year. We're inclined to believe that rumor as Intel just sank $7 billion dollars into American factories in Arizona, New Mexico and Oregon, and Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini even got a call from President Obama to commend him.
Otellini said Obama called him last night to congratulate him on company's decision. The president "reminded me that he sees the Intel logo every morning when he opens up his laptop; I was pleased to hear that," he noted.
Intel's move to produce the chips in the US as opposed to overseas will come as a boon to American labor, and its $7 billion is an investment in American infrastructure. The company could have scored incentives by going with foreign plants already geared to produce 32nm chips, which will most likely replace 45nm processors as the most profitable chip configuration to manufacture very soon.
I know that i'm a bit late in posting the trailer here and you may have watched it yourself by now. But still for the ignorants one, This is Angels And Demons trailer for the movie based on the novel by Dan Brown. The book was actually the prequel to The Da Vinci Code, but director Ron Howard has made the movie as the sequel to the earlier movie.
The movie has Tom Hanks reprising the role of Robert Langdon, the Harward professor, who is now on a mission to find out the murderers of a particle physicist Dr. Leonard Vetra and his clashes with the Vatican officials and the mystery of a secret cult known as Illuminati.
Ayelet Zurer plays the role of Vittoria Vetra and Ewan McGregor plays the Camerlengo Carlo Ventresca.
Since I've been fascinated by the book, i just can't wait for the movie to release. Ron Howard has also made some changes in the character of Robert Langdon, like in this movie he's not going to stand and give speeches, but he'll stay on the move while he's talking. Well what effect it will have on his charcter will only be seen after the relaese of the movie.
Fed up with politics? Start your own country at sea, living in your own utopia with its own laws, customs and peculiarities. Sure, it's been tried before with varying degrees of success, but now the nonprofit Seasteading Institute says such a platform can be built safely, and at reasonable cost.
This 160,000 square foot deck, held together by super-strong carbon-fiber cables, was created by offshore oil rig designer Marine Innovation & Technology. It's supported by floating, stabilizing pillars to minimize the effects of huge ocean waves, powered by an auxiliary diesel generator (where are the wind turbines and wave generators?) that can move it along at 2 knots, and includes a desalinization plant for all your water needs.
The 20,000-ton platform is expected to cost $50 million. Hey, that's only $10 million more than the penthouse on the Chicago Spire, the world's tallest apartment building. Get together a gang of a hundred of your closest friends, and this mini-continent will only cost you $500K apiece. Let's go — we'll call it OPERAland.
The creepily accurate technology that is facial recognition is coming to the world of handheld cameras courtesy of the new Lumix FX40 from Panasonic. The compact digital camera will register the initial facial data of a subject and then allow you to tag that data with a specific name and age of the person.
The camera is set to hit the stores in March for 40,000-47,000 yen ($450-$530) here.
A.R. Rehman is on cloud number nine these days. After bagging the Golden Globe Award for the song composition of Jai Ho for the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" he's also been nominated for the Oscars in three categories. Two for the best song and one for best original score and he's being regarded as the favourites to win it....All The Best Rehman.... Here's his song Jai HO----
These powertoys can help you a lot. These include a program known as Tweak UI, a powerful calculator and more. Wonder why microsoft doesn't include these with its OS.
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