Toyota’s 3g Prius Has Solar Panels, Remote Control Air Conditioning

“The most energy-efficient Prius yet–50 mpg compared to 46 mpg for the 2009 model–comes with an optional solar panel on the roof to power cabin vent fans. Since the remote control-powered air conditioner is electric, it can run even when the car is off–so a quick trip to the store doesn’t have to mean an [...]

Wolfram Alpha: A Radical New Formula for Web Search ?

‘The product of four years of development, Alpha is an engine for answers. Its ambition is to delve into “all the knowledge in the world,” Wolfram says, to find and calculate information.
Though Alpha’s interface evokes Google ― whose co-founder Sergey Brin once spent a summer interning for Wolfram ― it’s more like the anti-Google.Type [...]

Atom CPU on Credit Card sized Mainboard

“Toradex have begun sampling their latest COM Express module, just 84 x 55mm in size,
which uses Intel’s Z5xx Atom processor range. The Toradex Robin (shown here on the right, to scale – but not actual size – with its Toradex Woodpecker sibling, announced last year) has seven USB 2.0, gigabit ethernet, a microSD [...]

Blue Earth” Solar Powered Cell Phone By Samsung

Could this be the first solar powered phone ever? “In addition there’s an “eco walk” function that lets the user count their steps with an in-built pedometer, calculating how much CO2 emissions have been reduced (and therefore how many trees have been saved) by walking as opposed to taking the car”… Via <pocket-lint>

VUNow: HD VoD for the right Price?

The interface is clunky but it is priced right and you do not need a computer. It will be interesting to see the evolution of this product….”VuNow™ takes just minutes to connect, just plug in the power cord, A/V or HDMI cable, and connect to the network (via Ethernet or the [...]

Palm’s New Mobile OS Nova= Something Huge?

‘m fundamentally convinced we’re onto something huge,” says Mike Bell, a 16-year Apple engineering star who joined Palm last year. “Some of the stuff we’re working on here is mind-blowing—better than anything I’ve seen before

Give a Laptop Get A Laptop

I found the concept really interesting when it originated and to see Amazon bring to the mainstream in time for Christmas is laudable <Amazon.com’s Changing The World>
Technical Details

Dual mode sunlight-readable display screen, 1200×900 resolution
Video and still camera
Rugged water resistant low power laptop, no hard drive
Open Source, Linux OS, encourages community involvement and self-exploration
Standard WiFi as [...]

MIT researchers boost the power of solar energ

“Sunlight has the greatest potential of any power source to solve the world’s energy problems, Daniel Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at MIT, said in an earlier interview. In one hour, enough sunlight strikes the Earth to provide the entire planet’s energy needs for one year, he added.
The problem, however, is how best [...]

Top 10 Semantic Web Products of 2008-Read Write Web

” 8. AdaptiveBlue
Disclosure: AdaptiveBlue’s founder Alex Iskold is a feature writer at RWW.
AdaptiveBlue are makers of the Firefox plugin, BlueOrganizer. As we wrote in January this year, the basic idea behind BlueOrganizer is that it gives you added information about webpages you visit and offers useful links based on the subject matter.
Over the past [...]

Pandora UMPC & The evolution of the Smartphone Platform

“It is designed as an ultra portable open source computer with gaming
controls, it is very small, around about the same size as a DS. It can
easily fit in your pocket. It is by far the most powerful handheld in
the world both in terms of raw CPU power and 3D graphics capability, it
will be able to [...]

INQ’s Web 2.0 Phone

INQ1

“The software – or more exactly the UI – is the key point now in selling any handset and thankfully INQ has listened. So, for what’s its worth the INQ1 has a 2.2in QVGA screen, HSDPA connectivity, a 3.2MP camera, microSD expansion slot to augment just 50MB of internal memory and pocket friendly [...]

Video: Welcome to the White Spaces

“The devices will be able to use only channels 21 to 51, where there are fewer TV stations. The FCC will give preference to devices that use global positioning system technology to determine a user’s location and then avoid TV channels operating there based on a special database, rather than devices [...]

New High-Speed Internet Society with Satellites

JAXA | Overview of the “KIZUNA” (WINDS)

“The “KIZUNA” is a communications satellite that enables super high-speed data communications of up to 1.2 Gbps to develop a society without any information availability disparity, in which everybody can equally enjoy high-speed communications wherever they live.
Using an antenna for South East Asian countries, we are aiming to achieve [...]

Solar Cynergy: LED/Solar Landscape Pavers

SOlar LED lights form Solar Cynergy..you can drive over these! See the product specs below:
” All RSC Solar LED Series are made of Polycarbonite Resin and PC/ABS
Working Temp: -4 degrees to 158 F
- Made in Japan
- NO Battery! (capacitor technology)
- 10 Year Warranty, 25+ year life
- Uses quality Nichia LEDs
- Weather resilient!
- Drive over [...]

CherryPal: A Green PC with No Moving Parts

“utilisation of the online cloud environment provides improved user protection as computer hardware is no longer exposed to attacks from malicious viruses and hackers, which is a feature further bolstered by the company’s industry-exclusive and patent-pending hardware and software encryption.. from $249″…. <More>

Shiro’s SQ Solar Powered Mp3 Player

“Most of the SQ’s specifications are nothing to shout about, including a 1.8-inch color display, FM tuner and up to 16GB of memory. Its main selling point is the solar panel found on the back which fully charges the device in 4 hours when under the sun. If the day is overcast, you can still [...]

SUN :The World’s First Solar Powered Bluetooth Headset

“Looking back over the years at the Bluetooth headsets I’ve purchased for my own use, I soon realized that they too had gone the way of the hands-free car kit for the same reason–another cord to carry and another device to charge. Ugh.
So, it was with great enthusiasm that I ordered the Iqua SUN for [...]

U-Verse IPTV on iPhone

“MacNN | AT&T plans to link iPhone to U-verse services
AT&T’s position as exclusive carrier for the iPhone will contribute to the new technology. Voice mail messages will be accessible from the user’s TV screen, while DVR recordings will be transferable to the phone”…. <More>
apple, uverse, iptv, iphone

Bringing Broadband to Africa Via Satellite

“What caught our attention was a map with a bunch of red lines representing the fiber that runs around the world,” says Mike Fries, chief executive of Liberty Global, the broadband and cable company partly owned by media mogul John Malone. The map showed large areas, primarily in and around Africa, with little or no [...]

Video: Unusual Ways of Using DNA For Every Day Use

Paul Rothemund details DNA folding | Video on TED.com
“This video is extraordinary. Truly opens up your eyes to the vast ocean of possibilities in the not too distant future” :…. via technutnews.com
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