ultra-portable Vostro

Dell had introduced an ultra-portable Vostro 13 last December. The company has now unveiled a new ultra-slim Latitude 13. With similar form factor, Latitude 13 appears to be a re-branded Vostro 13 notebook. Its close resemblance to Adamo laptop makes Latitude 13 thin and light laptop for business users. No details about the price and availability of this device are out as yet.
Dell Latitude 13 laptop has 13.3 inch (33.7 cm) Widescreen WXGA LED Backlit TFT Display with True Life technology delivering 1366 x 768 pixels screen resolution powered by integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator GMA 4500MHD graphics chipset with upto 512 MB shared video RAM. The True Life display technology allows higher contrast ratio than standard anti-glare displays for brighter images .Other features of Dell Latitude 13 includes WiFi 802.11 a/b/g mini-card, Dell wirelss 360 bluetooth 2.1 module with EDR, high-speed WWAN, solid-state storage (SSD) of maximum 64-GB capacity, optional webcam with integrated microphone, and there is provision for installing an integrated UMTS module. Optionally it also offers an external Blue-ray drive for high-definition multimedia playback.
The new Dell Latitude 13 laptop also has enterprise-friendly features such as a long battery life and better security through a trusted platform module (TPM) and optional full-disk encryption using a hard drive with built-in encryption hardware, support for Broadcom TruManage technology and 3G mobile broadband.

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An employee of the Japanese subsidiary of US hearing instruments giant Starkey’s displays a pair of glasses equipped with a new digital ‘acouphone’ on its bows. The F229D glasses have bone-conduction speakers that enables the user to listen to clear sounds vibrated through his or her skull. Starkey Japan started selling the new device with a price of 4,20,000 yen (Rs 1,60,000 approx) for a pair of dual ‘acouphone’ glasses and 2,20,000 yen (Rs 84,000 approx) for the one side ‘acouphone’ model

May I take your order?

Robot No 1 and No 2 are displayed at a restaurant called Robot Kitchen in Hong Kong. Robot No 1 is designed to take orders from customers while Robot No 2 is designed as a female robot and is supposed to deliver dishes. The owners say that this is the first such restaurant in the world

A wallet is something most guys would have gone through many times throughout their lifetime, but this time round instead of choosing the traditional black color leather version, why not carry the ogon wallet with you? Not only does it offer added peace of mind with special protection against RFID technology from picking up information stored within, it will also come in a slew of refreshing colors to spice up your otherwise boring wardrobe.
The aluminium casing protects your cards from being read by radio-frequency-identification (RFID) technology. Your cards will also be protected from electro-magnetic radiation. The brushed aluminum gives the Ogon Wallet a modern techno look. Compact and lightweight, it holds up to 15 cards in its seven sleeves, which protect the cards’ magnetic strips. Slips easily into your shirt pocket or purse.

Remember the the professional pen tablets–the Bamboo series–released by Wacom some time ago? Well, this recent Intuos4 tablet from Wacom is just like that Bamboo series, albeit this one has controls on the side rather than on top of the screen. Don’t expect though that the Intuos4 has a multitouch capacity (like the upgraded Bamboo series) because it has none.
It, however, has user-defined ExpressKeys as well as multifunction Touch Ring that makes it easy to use functions like zooming, panning and other shortcuts. It is especially designed for artists since the pen is designed in such a way that it feels like writing on a real paper.

nuclear battery

nuclear battery

Are you tired of your short laptop battery life with only a few hours? Would you like the charge of your mobile phone to last a couple of months? Well, the answer to your “prayers” might be the nuclear batteries, which are been developed at the University of Missouri. They are designed especially for providing a lasting source of energy. And some people think these batteries could replace the current ones, including those used by the electrical cars. According to the creators, a nuclear battery has a very enormous capacity to generate electricity when compared to a regular one.
The batteries have always been the Achilles’ heel of the mobile devices. Usually, the designers of electronic devices for mass consumption (like laptops or media players) use small displays or screens that are not very bright in order to save the scarce energy resources that are provided from the regular batteries. But the new nuclear battery would bring a solution based on a liquid semiconductor (rather than a solid semiconductor) that will produce a much longer lifetime for the battery. The reason is the solid semiconductors are attacked constantly by some radioactive elements used by other types of batteries, while the liquid semiconductor is quite resistant to these attacks. Although the term “nuclear” can be a little perturbing, the fact is that these batteries are not very different from those batteries used in, for example, medical pacemakers.

The new radioisotope battery has the size of a penny and provides much more power than the traditional ones because, according to the researches, its capacity is very superior. Jae Kwon, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Missouri, said that the radioisotope battery “can provide power density that is six orders of magnitude higher than chemical batteries”. That is to say, it provides no less than a million times more charge than any “normal” battery.
Kwon and his research team have spent enough time working to solve many problems that they have encountered when developing this type of battery. One important thing is the batteries need to be small and thin in order to be practical and useful; this way, they could be used to power watches and small electronic devices. As mentioned before, the prototype (which you can see in the picture below) has the size and thickness of a penny, but the researchers think they can achieve a thinner battery. In order to do this, Kwon has required the collaboration of another professor: J. David Robertson (chemistry professor and associate director of the MU Research Reactor). Together, they hope to maximize the power of the nuclear batteries as well as reduce the size and test other materials to make additional improvements. Kwon thinks that the final battery, which would be used in commercial gadgets, could be thinner than a human hair. For the moment, the research team have required a provisional patent in order to protect the exclusive right to use this invention.

memristor a microscopic component

The Next Big thing? The memristor, a microscopic component that can "remember" electrical states even when turned off. It's expected to be far cheaper and faster than flash storage. A theoretical concept since 1971, it has now been built in labs and is already starting to revolutionize everything we know about computing, possibly making flash memory, RAM, and even hard drives obsolete within a decade.
The memristor is just one of the incredible technological advances sending shock waves through the world of computing. Other innovations in the works are more down-to-earth, but they also carry watershed significance. From the technologies that finally make paperless offices a reality to those that deliver wireless power, these advances should make your humble PC a far different beast come the turn of the decade.