Innovation at the search major Yahoo continues with recent unveiling of a mashup for news on a 3D map of earth as it happens around the globe. Dubbed NewsGlobe, the new feature that allows users to watch news on a three dimensional model of earth. An excerpt from the PC Advisor on NewsGlobe “For each … Continue reading Yahoo NewsGlobe Links News With 3D Earth Map
Month: February 2008
Nanochip Brings 100GB to a Single Chip
Memory has been getting more power efficient and faster with more bits for the buck. Nanochip, a start-up from Silicon Valley is developing a prototype based on IBM’s Millipede project. An excerpt from ZDNet The Nanochip design is a Micro-Electro-Mechanical System, or MEMS, device. A descendent of IBM’s Millipede device, it uses polarization instead of … Continue reading Nanochip Brings 100GB to a Single Chip
Harnessing Muscle Power for Portable Devices
Generating energy to power devices from muscle movements may just be the next big thing to make wireless mobility truly mobile. On one side there is the efforts on in the field of increasing the power capacity of batteries. At the same time there is immense research going on in powering devices by converting the … Continue reading Harnessing Muscle Power for Portable Devices
Technology of Tomorrow Lies in Today’s Chipsets
For the innovations that have driven usability across the web and the proliferation of computing devices, the innovations on the silicon front have been critical. It is the chipsets of today that showcase and drive the technological innovations on the computing front for tomorrow and Michael Copeland of CNN has brilliantly captured that in his … Continue reading Technology of Tomorrow Lies in Today’s Chipsets
Innovation Quotes: Think Globally
If the flattening of the world is largely (bur not entirely) unstoppable, and if it holds out the potential to be as beneficial to American society in general as past market evolutions have been, how does an individual get the best out of it? What do we tell our kids? My simple answer is this: … Continue reading Innovation Quotes: Think Globally
Trends on the UI and Hardware Side
This past year saw a flurry of activities on the UI side from some of the biggest names in the tech industry. Now, innovation and research is a part of technology but what matters to consumers is how much of the innovation actually makes it to products. Technology review has a great up write-up on … Continue reading Trends on the UI and Hardware Side