Category Archives: Technology

First solar/coal hybrid power station up and running

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Ahmad Amirali

The world’s first hybrid solar/coal power plant has been built near Palisade in Colorado. Xcel Energy and Abengoa Solar are partnering on the demonstration project which uses solar parabolic trough technology to supplement the use of coal. Initially, it’s expected … Continue reading →

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Sleek ‘HTC 1’ mobile phone design concept

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Ahmad Amirali

What do get when you combine a Leica M8, a universal shelving system and a Braun radio designed by Dieter Rams, some Illy ground coffee tins and an Ikepod Solaris watch? Probably not much but thankfully 18-year-old Andrew Seunghyun Kim … Continue reading →

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Samsung Galaxy Beam Smart Projector Phone release

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Ahmad Amirali

Samsung’s Galaxy Beam Smart Projector Phone will be available in Singapore to StarHub customers from July 17. The unit will feature a built-in Texas Instruments DLP Pico Projector which will enable you to project from your phone onto a wall. … Continue reading →

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Roving mobile processing plants to produce biofuels

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Ahmad Amirali

Biofuels are seen as a more environmentally friendly fuel source than petroleum-based fuels, but transporting the bulky biomass used to produce them is expensive because of their volume. It’s much more economical to transport the liquid fuel after it has … Continue reading →

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Carbon nanotube ‘tattoo’ to measure blood glucose levels in diabetics

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Ahmad Amirali

Diabetes is an enormous global problem… and it is on the rise. Despite decades of research and advances in technology, the methods of accurately measuring glucose in the body are still quite primitive. A new type of blood glucose monitor … Continue reading →

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Panasonic to release world’s largest Full HD 3D plasma TV

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Ahmad Amirali

When it comes to TVs, size really does matter. Panasonic is taking this theory to extremes by announcing the release of the world’s biggest Full HD 3D plasma display. The Japanese manufacturer showed a prototype of the 152-inch behemoth at … Continue reading →

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Review: HTC Desire vs Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

Posted on April 26, 2010 by Ahmad Amirali

It wasn’t too long ago that choosing an Android phone came down to whether you wanted a physical keyboard (HTC G1/Dream) or not (HTC Magic). With increasing Android adoption from carriers and handset manufacturers, making the same decision in 2010 … Continue reading →

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AMD goes 12-core with Opteron 6000 server platform

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Ahmad Amirali

AMD says that it has redefined the server market with the release of its Opteron 6000 series server platform. The company’s gauntlet (of the throwing down variety) consists of eight and 12 core x86 processors giving twice the performance of … Continue reading →

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Hiperwall software video wall uses normal PCs and monitors

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Ahmad Amirali

Video walls – a wall of monitors displaying large quantities of information at a single glance – have traditionally been the domain of air-traffic control, NASA, television stations, and big budget marketers, but no longer. Hiperwall’s high-performance, low-cost video wall … Continue reading →

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Britain’s first amphibious bus nearly becomes a submarine

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Ahmad Amirali

Great Britain’s first amphibious bus service has hit a slight snag in testing – a component failure halting the Stagecoach Amphibious Bus in its third crossing of the river Clyde between Renfrew and Yoker in Scotland. Proposed as a replacement … Continue reading →

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Build your own electric car with Trexa

Posted on January 31, 2010 by Ahmad Amirali

Trexa has revealed details of a lithium-powered, all-wheel vehicle development platform that will enable engineers and developers to create custom “vehicle apps”, doing for builders of electric vehicles what the iPhone did for application developers. Modular and scalable, the standard … Continue reading →

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Free turn-by-turn navigation coming to all Nokia smartphones

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Ahmad Amirali

Nokia has announced the upcoming release of a new, free version of Ovi Maps for all its smartphones, which includes turn-by-turn voice navigation for 74 countries in 46 languages, real-time traffic updates for 10 countries, and maps for over 180 … Continue reading →

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Mobile: USD160,000 Diamond-encrusted Nokia Supreme

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Ahmad Amirali

The folks at Goldstriker International – courtesy of designer Stuart Hughes – have unveiled their latest precious metal-laden creation. Not content to rest on his laurels after crafting the limited edition gold plated Wii Supreme, the English engineer of excess … Continue reading →

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Hubble sees further than ever before

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Ahmad Amirali

NASA’s recently upgraded Hubble Space Telescope has made the deepest near-infrared image of the universe ever taken. Taken using a newly installed camera, the image shows deep space objects such as galaxies that formed only 600 million years after the … Continue reading →

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Going 3D for more powerful and environmentally-friendly microchips

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Ahmad Amirali

We’ve seen vertically oriented transistors, now it’s time for entire chips to explore the z-axis. Collaborating with Swiss research institutes EPFL and ETH Zurich, IBM has made another important step toward creating faster, higher-efficiency “3D” processors stacking their cores vertically … Continue reading →

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Gestural interfaces make touch screens look so ‘last year’

Posted on December 14, 2009 by Ahmad Amirali

The gestural interface used by Tom Cruise in the movie Minority Report was based on work by MIT Media Lab’s Hiroshi Ishii, who has already commercialized similar large-scale gestural interface systems. However, such systems comprise many expensive cameras or require … Continue reading →

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Touch Bionics launches world’s first bionic finger

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Ahmad Amirali

The fact that the hand is such a debilitating body part to lose has spurred researchers to develop a functional and aesthetically pleasing bionic replacement. While seemingly not as severe as the loss of an entire hand, the loss of … Continue reading →

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