Light bulb networks could be the next WiFi (68)
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Filed under: Networking If researchers at Boston University's College of Engineering have their way, light bulbs of the future may be the highway your data gets carried along. A team at the school is working on low-power LEDs which could utilize an optical communication system to carry data wirelessly. Using a technique which rapidly switches the LEDs on and off data transmissions could be made via imperceptible -- yet undoubtedly brain-scrambling -- flickering patterns, and ...
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Hao said:
Awesome! No more streaming horror movies in the dark though. :)
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Icefreez said:
Interesting but so far I am not seeing the major benefits of this for the average household.
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Umang Saini said:
I doubt 1-10Mbps throughput. If it gets that in low-power and reliable way then way to go! Lots of promise :-)
CERN Officially Unveils Its Grid: 100,000 Processors, 15 Petabytes a Year - ReadWriteWeb (46)
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CERN today officially unveiled the massive computer network that will crunch the enormous amount of data coming from CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). CERN expects that the LHC will produce around 15 petabytes of data every year. While the LHC was in its planning stages, CERN's IT department decided that the only realistic way to handle this amount of data would be by relying on the then still novel idea of grid computing. CERN's grid ...
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Steve M. said:
this is amazing. can't wait til the combine comes through the portal that's going to open. LOL
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Devlin D said:
Now that's a grid!
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Donnie Berkholz said:
Wouldn't it have been a lot cooler to use cloud computing?
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colladude said:
cern petabyte
Nintendo Pedometer for ‘Your Life Rhythm’ DSi walking game (1)
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Nintendo’s DSi and DSi Shop aren’t the only new things coming for avid gamers; they’re also looking to bring some Wii-style “get off your fat cheeks and do some exercise” action courtesy of the new DSi Pedometer. Confirming the information gleaned from a trade document earlier this week, the Nintendo Pedometer will connect wirelessly with the DSi and be used initially with a new game title, “Your Life Rhythm”. “Your Life Rhythm” seems basically to ...
ثروت ایرانی – مردم ایران هر روز 6.5 میلیارد تومان خودرو خارجی می خرند (26)
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ثروت ایرانی – مردم ایران هر روز 6.5 میلیارد تومان خودرو خارجی می خرند در خیابونهای تهران ماشینهای مدل بالا زیاد می بینید. اما واقعا مردم ایران چه قدر پول برای ماشین خارجی خرج می کنند؟ آمار رسمی می گه در پنج ماه اول امسال ارزش ماشینهای وارداتی 528 میلیون دلار بوده. یادتون نره که تقریبا به اندازه ارزش ماشین عوارض تعلق می گیره. پس یعنی مردم ایران 528 + 528 میلیون دلار یا 1 ...
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somayeh said:
به توسعه یافتگی خودمون احتمالا افتخار می کنیم :(
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Esmail said:
بعد از میلیارد به فارسی می شه تریلیون. من هم تا امروز نمی دونستم
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Ali said:
WoW...
Researchers Re-Examine Second Law of Thermodynamics (7)
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Many readers have written to tell us that researchers are examining the possibility of using Brownian ratchets to help combat the problem of heat dissipation in miniaturized electronics. "Currently, devices are engineered to operate near thermal equilibrium, in accordance with the Second Law of Thermodynamics which states that heat tends to transfer from a hotter unit to a cooler one. However, using the concept of Brownian ratchets, which are systems that convert non-equilibrium energy to ...
TDK Crams 260GB into 1.8-inch HDD, Sets A New Density Benchmark [Storage] (2)
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TDK has announced a new hard drive at CEATEC that manages to fit 260GB of data into a 1.8-inch form factor. Using their prototype TMR head, TDK is able to attain a surface recording density of 803 gigabits per square inch, besting Toshiba's previous 378 gigabits per square inch. The leap was made possible by combining the TMR head with recent perpendicular magnetic recording techniques, and TDK personnel still think it's possible to reach 1 ...
Slashdot | MI6 Terror Photos, Data Accidentally Sold On Ebay (4)
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Barence writes "In what's turning out to be a bad week for security in the UK, confidential MI6 documents, fingerprints and photos relating to suspected Al-Qaeda terrorists have been found in the memory of the second-hand Nikon Coolpix camera, which was bought on eBay for only £17. The buyer immediately went to the police, who initially treated it as a joke; when they realised he was serious, they swooped on his home and seized his ...
KDDI au concept phones invade CEATEC (1)
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Filed under: Cellphones We already caught sight of KDDI au's cellphone as musical instrument concept devices last month, but it looks like the company's fanciful design group had plenty more than those to show off at CEATEC, as evidenced by Akihabara News' slew of pictures from the show. Those include the satellite-like device pictured above, as well as a neat little minimalist number pictured after the break and another folding contraption (also after the break) ...
Nintendo getting into the pedometer game? This will all end in tears. (4)
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Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals, Wearables Bad / good news, folks: Nintendo is / isn't working on a pedometer peripheral that will / won't integrate with its Wii / DS console. The company has famously stated that it doesn't plan to release "a whole lot more" accessories for the Wii, which means we've got at least one or two to look forward to, and this could be one of 'em. The images surfaced on a European ...
Hubble Stops Sending Data, Mission On Hold (5)
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mknewman writes to tell us that NASA is no longer receiving data from the Hubble Space Telescope, which could possibly delay the shuttle launch planned just two weeks from now. There is a backup system installed which may be used instead of training the astronauts on the installation of the new component, but that would itself leave no fallback option. "NASA is reviewing whether the mission should be delayed a couple of months so that ...
Financial Crisis, Faculty Perspectives: Part 2 (1)
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On the afternoon of September 25, President Drew Faust hosted a discussion on “Understanding the Crisis in the Markets: A Panel of Harvard Experts,” before a full house in Sanders Theatre and a webcast audience. (An archive of the webcast is available here.) Faust noted the “unsettling news” of disappearing financial institutions and the assumption of huge new responsibilities by the federal government, and introduced the panelists. The first and last, Harvard Business School (HBS) ...
Financial Crisis, Faculty Perspectives: Part 1 (1)
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Harvard faculty members participated in two panel discussions this week focused on the roiling crisis in the nation’s financial markets, the proposal to inject up to $700 billion of public funding to strengthen weakened institutions, and the wider implications for the economy. They concurred that regulation of financial institutions will be changed significantly; worried that the proposed intervention and forthcoming regulatory changes could themselves have unintended and adverse consequences; and pointed to even more severe ...
The Scannable World, Part 3: Barcode Scanning In The Real World (31)
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This is the third part in a multi-part series about integrating the internet with the real world through barcode scanning technology. In the first two articles we looked at the history of scanning barcodes with your mobile phone, newspaper print ads, and a new effort to bring barcodes to web printouts. Now we'll look at other uses of the technology including scanning products in store, scanning broadcast media, and even exchanging contact information with others ...
Essential Math for Games Programmers (3)
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TEDTalks : Come play with Pleo the dinosaur - Caleb Chung (2007) (1)
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Pleo the robot dinosaur acts like a living pet -- exploring, cuddling, playing, reacting and learning. Inventor Caleb Chung talks about Pleo and his wild toy career at EG07, on the week that Pleo shipped to stores for the first time.
TEDTalks : How ordinary people become monsters ... or heroes - Philip Zimbardo (2008) (1)
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Philip Zimbardo knows how easy it is for nice people to turn bad. In this talk, he shares insights and graphic unseen photos from the Abu Ghraib trials. Then he talks about the flip side: how easy it is to be a hero, and how we can rise to the challenge.
