NVIDIA launches all new GeForce 800M notebook graphics
By Chris Wood
March 12, 2014
NVIDIA has announced an update to its entire
range of laptop graphics solutions. Known as the GeForce 800M line, the
new GPUs provide a significant performance boost over the 700M series
cards, and offer a range of new, built-in functionality. Read More
We've recently seen a number of projects aimed at creating Star Trek-like medical tricorders,
that take the form of stand-alone electronic devices built specifically
for the purpose. Now, however, scientists at the University of Houston
are taking an approach that's currently popular in many other areas of
product design – they've asked, "Why build a whole new device, if a
smartphone can provide the electronics?". The result is a proposed phone
lens attachment, that could be used to diagnose diseases in real time.
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People who love music can never quite get enough
of it. They often want to listen to it for most of the day, whether at
home, at work, or traveling between the two. Wireless speakers have
aided this endeavor for listening at home, but they're often ugly
objects you wouldn't want to have on display permanently – a problem
potentially solved by Soundwall. Read More
Crew members of Expedition 38 have safely
returned to Earth, their Soyuz capsule setting down in Kazakhstan on
Mar. 10 at 11:24 p.m. EDT. The astronauts and cosmonauts spent 116 days
in space, carrying out a wide range of experiments and successfully
executing multiple space walks. Read More
Razer has updated its Blade laptop for 2014,
significantly improving upon the specs of last year’s model. The new
system features NVIDIA’s latest notebook graphics solution and what the
company is calling “the highest resolution 14-inch notebook display on
the planet.” Read More
LaCie, which is now part of the Seagate house,
has released a new version of its Little Big Disk storage unit that's
claimed fast enough to enable simultaneous plug-and-play RAW 4K video
editing and display. The device boasts a terabyte of onboard storage,
two Thunderbolt 2 ports, and near silent dual cooling performance. Read More
Influential musician Neil Young says that in the
pursuit of the convenience offered by wireless streaming, or storing
large catalogs of songs on pocket-sized devices, we have sacrificed the
quality of the music, and by extension our overall listening experience.
But a belief that the two need not be mutually exclusive has led Young
to conceive a system called PonoMusic, which he believes will afford
digital music listeners the ease and accessibility of today and the
audio quality of yesteryear. Read More
Standing the test of time, and in conjunction
with rising fuel prices, the traditional teardrop camper has resurfaced
in recent years as an economic alternative to your large clunky caravan
or fully decked out Winnebago. Raising the bar with an intelligent and
modern teardrop design, Canadian company Safari Condo has recently
released the Alto R 1713 and R 1723 recreational campers. Read More
First introduced into rally racing in 1980,
Audi’s AWD Quattro system has become synonymous with all wheel drive
performance. Its AWD activities have since shifted from that of a
rally-only diet to the arena endurance racing in the form of the
championship winning R18 e-tron Quattro. For 2014, the Le Mans champion
is back to defend its title packing more than just new laser headlights – it has a completely redesigned dual-hybrid system in hand. Read More
World's first 3D acoustic cloaking device created
By Darren Quick
March 11, 2014
Metamaterials are already being used to create invisibility cloaks and "temporal cloaks,"
but now engineers from Duke University have turned metamaterials to the
task of creating a 3D acoustic cloak. In the same way that invisibility
cloaks use metamaterials to reroute light around an object, the
acoustic cloaking device interacts with sound waves to make it appear as
if the device and anything hidden beneath it isn't there. Read More
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