News tagged with gadgets
India develops 35-dollar 'laptop' for schools
India has come up with a 35-dollar touch-screen "laptop" -- a computing prototype that it aims to make available to students from elementary schools to universities.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jul 23, 2010 |
4.7 / 5 (63) |
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Nanotechnology pushes battery life to eternity
(PhysOrg.com) -- A simple tap from your finger may be enough to charge your portable device thanks to a discovery made at RMIT University and Australian National University.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 21, 2011 |
4.5 / 5 (28) |
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RCA's Airenergy charger converts WiFi energy to electricity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Airenergy is a gadget that can harvest free electricity from WiFi signals such as those from a wireless Internet connection, apparently with enough efficiency to make it practical for recharging ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 13, 2010 |
3.8 / 5 (29) |
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Apple patent application for 3D viewing glasses
(PhysOrg.com) -- Apple has filed a patent application for electronic video spectacles that will allow wearers to watch films in 3D on the inside of the glasses. Fans have already nicknamed the gadget iSpecs.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 16, 2010 |
3.8 / 5 (27) |
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Chameleon magnets: ability to switch magnets 'on' or 'off' could revolutionize computing
(PhysOrg.com) -- What causes a magnet to be a magnet, and how can we control a magnet's behavior? These are the questions that University at Buffalo researcher Igor Zutic, a theoretical physicist, has been ...
May 27, 2011 |
4.7 / 5 (21) |
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3-D Chip Design Challenges
(PhysOrg.com) -- With the increase functionality of electronic gadgets, the need to pack more transistors into a single package is becoming a needed necessity. There’s a big demand, in the consumer market, ...
Feb 21, 2010 |
4.8 / 5 (17) |
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Windows Phone an overlooked worthy alternative to Android, iPhone
There are many smartphone users who are not giving Microsoft's Windows Phone the look it deserves. Together Android and iOS hog more than 80 percent of the U.S. market share. Android's large chunk of the market is split among ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Dec 22, 2011 |
3 / 5 (21) |
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Laser projector, set-top box win gadget awards
A pocket-size laser projector and a set-top box which delivers Web content to your television were named among the best products in an annual competition as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) prepared to ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 10, 2010 |
4.6 / 5 (13) |
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Motorized knee can make you run faster
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the Tsukuba University in Japan have come up with a motorized knee you can attach to your leg to make you run faster and use less muscle power.
Dec 22, 2009 |
4.3 / 5 (12) |
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Consumers to benefit from advances in chip design
Consumers will be able to fix their automobiles while the car gives step-by-step advice, attack their ailments by making computer models of various treatments to find the best one, and duck into virtual fitting rooms to try ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Dec 30, 2009 |
3.5 / 5 (14) |
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Sony shows wearable 3-D personal theater
Sony says it will start selling a head mounted display that provides a 3-D theater of music videos, movies and games, targeting people who prefer solitary entertainment rather than sitting in front of a TV ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 31, 2011 |
4.5 / 5 (11) |
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One in four Germans wants microchip under skin: poll
It sounds like something from a sci-fi film, but one in four Germans would be happy to have a microchip implanted in their body if they derived concrete benefits from it, a poll Monday showed.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 01, 2010 |
3.7 / 5 (13) |
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Leap Motion creates finger-happy gesture control (w/ Video)
(Phys.org) -- Developers and end users both have been indicating they are ready to start saying long goodbyes to mouse and keyboard. In this touchscreen generation of mobile users, the big stir among gadget ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
May 23, 2012 |
4.6 / 5 (9) |
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Displays of the future: Smart, bendy, 3D and more
Talk about gazing into the future. Imagine ultra high-definition TVs not much thicker than a millimeter. How about electronic books made with plastic screens that flex like a magazine? Or perhaps a display that lets you touch ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
May 27, 2010 |
4.9 / 5 (8) |
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Review: Samsung Galaxy Note a too-big phone, too-small tablet
When Samsung unveiled the Galaxy Note in September, the South Korean tech giant pitched the Note as a gadget that offers the best of a smartphone and a tablet in one groundbreaking new category of device.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 03, 2012 |
2.6 / 5 (15) |
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Gadget
A gadget is a small technological object (such as a device or an appliance) that has a particular function, but is often thought of as a novelty. Gadgets are invariably considered to be more unusually or cleverly designed than normal technological objects at the time of their invention. Gadgets are sometimes also referred to as gizmos.
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