September 30, 2009
Written by Gadget Gurus
Researchers from UC San Diego have successfully built integrated circuits that can operate perfectly in 125 degrees Kelvin, about minus 234 degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature as chilly that can be commercially created with liquid hydrogen. The integrated circuits are created with particles called excitons which can operate in extremely cold temperatures, as detailed by the physicists.
Researchers have a motive here to create excitons based devices which can efficiently work in room temperatures that have better of the current devices when it comes to interconnection speeds, owing to the excitons properties to be converted into light. This property gives the excitons based devices a faster and more efficient ability over the electronic devices with optical interfaces. If the UCSD researchers can work these integrated circuits with excitons to work in conditions we use our electronics, we could definitely be inching closer new type of superfast computer.
Kingston has added an increased data transfer speeds to its DataTraveler 410 USB Flash drive. The capacities have been increased comprehensively to 20MB/sec. read and write. Providing with tremendous speeds in file transfer the drives also come with SecureTraveler software allowing password protection to help keep the data secure. With the introduction of the faster read write speeds to the USB Flash Drives available in 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB, the users will find it amazingly simple to transfer high-definition photos, large documents, presentations, music, videos and other kinds of data.
Press Release:
Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the independent world leader in memory products, today announced it is increasing read and write speeds on its DataTraveler 410 USB Flash drive to 20MB/sec. read and write. Shipping in capacities up to 32GB, the speedy DataTraveler 410 allows for faster file transfers and is password protected to help keep data secure.
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It’s not really sensible to trust scoops but as iLounge has it, a reliable source has revealed information on the upcoming Apple Tablet PC, which says Apple is set to unveil its touch-screen tablet computer on or before January 19, 2010. It is, perhaps a 10.7-inch Tablet running iPhone Operating System, while wearing the same looks as of an iPhone 3G complete with a curved back though.
The Tablet will be available in two variants, one with 3G networking, the other without 3G, while the rumor have the Tablet to be with five-times the screen resolution of the iphone, and with about seven-times the touchable surface area, enabling easy reading of full-sized book and magazine pages. The Tablet is being designed to take media concept to its next potential level, in just a light communication device. Aren’t we waiting for this so eagerly?
In the race to produce top-notch smartphones, Samsung seem to have taken a route wrong for all good reason, delivering the SCH-W880, a 3G enabled cameraphone featuring a 12MP camera, with 3x optical zoom. Is it a phone in a camera or a camera in a phone, difficult to understand, but whatever it is, it’s a breathtaking delight there.
Other reckoning features of the cameraphone include720p video recording, WiFi, GPS, dedicated camera controls, and a 800 x 480 3.3-inch AMOLED display. To be made available in Korean markets in October, the phone’s touchscreen makes provisions for touch auto focus, while the camera’s genius offers face detection image stabilization and Smart Auto (selecting scene according to environment automatically). No word on the price and when it is coming overseas, but I need one already.