French try plane technology in artificial heart. In the race to build a better artificial heart, French scientists have turned to technology from satellites and airplanes to create a heart that they say responds better to the human body. So far, the new device, shown at a news conference in Paris on Monday, has only [...]
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123people search engine
October 25, 2008 – 6:03 pm
123people.com, a free search engine which scours the Internet and gathers and displays information about people, has expanded to the United States.
“After months of private beta tweaking and adding new features to improve the high powered people search, 123 People launches to the US public,” the European-based website announced in a blog posting at 123people.com.
123 [...]
Google Gi Phone Review
October 16, 2008 – 6:31 am
Google Gi Phone Review from yahoo: Given Google Inc.’s reputation as a trend setter on the Web, I expected great things from its first mobile phone — especially since it is emerging more than a year after Apple Inc. launched the enormously popular iPhone.
And while it’s far from perfect, the G1 powered by Google’s Android [...]
Flexible OLEDs
October 11, 2008 – 3:27 pm
The size of a semitrailer, it coats an 8-inch wide plastic film with chemicals, then seals them with a layer of metal foil. Apply electric current to the resulting sheet, and it lights up with a blue-white glow.
You could tack that sheet to a wall, wrap it around a pillar or even take a translucent [...]
T3’s gadget of the year
October 10, 2008 – 12:38 am
Apple has swept the board at Britain’s T3 technology magazine’s annual awards, winning four top prizes, including gadget of the year for its iPod Touch.
The touch-screen music and video player beat the Asus Eee Pc budget laptop, TomTom’s GO 920 car navigation system, Sony’s HDR-TG3 compact camcorder and six other devices.
T3 Editor Michael Brook said [...]