Archives for October, 2007
28 Oct
NEC has thrown down the world’s most powerful supercomputer, called the SX-9, which is intended for pioneering scientific research. The beast of a machine can pull out an astonishing 839 trillion floating point operations / second (839 teraflops). The computing giant will go on display in Reno, Nevada, later this month. Why Nevada?
Sony Ericsson has launched its new Bluetooth enabled watch, dubbed the MBW-150. It is pretty obvious that this new stylish and techy watches need to be sync with the Sony Ericsson’s Bluetooth-enables mobile phones.
Featuring an OLED display, the Sony Ericsson MBW-150 Watch has the ability to work as:
# A wireless remote
# Caller ID
# Vibration alert for incoming calls
# SMS notification
In addition, the OLED display also shows the current song being played in your mobile phone. A controller helps to turn volume up/down or skip tracks as per the user’s requirement.
Sony offers these Bluetooth watches in three different models, namely the classic, music and executive. Sony Ericsson MBW-150 Bluetooth Watch is available for a suggested cost of $ 200.
23 Oct
A 24-year-old undergraduate from Nigeria is building helicopters out of old car and bike parts. Mubarak Muhammed Abdullahi, a physics student, spent eight months building the yellow model seen here, using the money he makes from repairing cellphones and computers. While some of the parts have been sourced from a crashed 747, the chopper contains all sorts of surprises.
The 12-meter-long aircraft, which has never flown above a height of seven feet, is powered by a secondhand 133 horsepower engine from a Honda Civic. In the basic cockpit there are two Toyota car seats, with a couple more in the cabin behind. Controls are simple, with an ignition button, an accelerator lever to control vertical thrust and a joystick that provides balance and bearing. A camera beneath the chopper connected to a small screen on the dash gives the pilot ground vision, and he communicates via a small transmitter. Read more… »
22 Oct
Samsung is to unveil a bunch of new screens in Japan at the end of this week, including the 40-inch beauty you see here, with a thickness of just 1 cm. The first of the Korean electronics giant’s next wave of large-screen TVs, the 40-incher is as thick as a ten- to 20-inch LCD desktop monitor, and has a bezel of just 14.6 mm, reduced from 30 mm. LED backlighting reduces power consumption to around 90 watts. Another pic, and info on what to keep your eyes peeled for in Yokohama this week below. Read more… »
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