We already have flexible displays, so why not flexible circuits?
The first elastic, foldable, integrated silicon circuits could take previously brittle electronics to new locations, including the surface of the human brain.
John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US, and colleagues made flexible silicon and plastic circuits that are just 1.5 micrometres thick.
“Making it […]
Only in high tech can you be sued for risking the end of the world.
The builders of the world’s biggest particle collider are being sued in federal court over fears that the experiment might create globe-gobbling black holes or never-before-seen strains of matter that would destroy the planet.
Representatives at Fermilab in Illinois and at Europe’s […]
Screw the underpowered MacBook Air. Real road hogs will want quad-core laptops.
Intel is planning to launch its first quad-core CPU for notebooks, the Core 2 Extreme QX9300, in the third quarter this year with pricing set at a new high of US$1,038 in thousand-unit tray quantities, according to sources at motherboard makers.
The Core 2 Extreme […]
What? All those years of perfecting my hand-eye coordination for nothing?
Imagine controlling a video game by thought alone. Two weeks ago at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Emotiv Systems showcased a new device, the Epoc, designed to help you do just that.
While Emotiv’s futuristic, dueling-octopus looking headset will initially be developed for video […]
Okay, so it’s not quite telepathy, but it’s certainly a step closer.
A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a “voiceless” phone call for the first time.
With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are […]
[In Europe] the average used car owner will pay more than $5,000 for car energy supply for one year – more than the car is worth.
You can get a fancy cellular phone free with a service subscription, so why can’t you get a fancy electric car free with an energy subscription? While fuel was abundant […]
Imagine a car that folds up for communal use like a shopping cart, and you’ve got the City Car.
The City Car, a design project under way at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is envisioned as a two-seater electric vehicle powered by lithium-ion batteries. It would weigh between 1,000 and 1,200 pounds and could collapse, then […]
See, this is what happens when you screw over your savviest customers. You get pwned.
Apple stores have WiFi. AppSnapp can jailbreak iPhones. AppSnapp is available online at JailBreakMe.com. Customers are pissed. That’s how this Apple Store ended up displaying a jailbroken iPhone.
Now go to your local Apple Store and jailbreak their iPhones before they block […]
The beauty of being a smaller competitor in this time of change, is that you’re not afraid to cannibalize huge antiquated business models. That’s what British mobile carrier 3 is doing with the release of the Skypephone
Perhaps this is the cue for smaller cellcos around the world to start leapfrogging their larger competitors through global […]
Now you see it…
In secret trials last week, the Army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted that an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012.
The new technology uses cameras and projectors to beam images of the surrounding landscape onto a tank.
The biggest weakness is obviously the reliance on […]
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