https://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. When you're deep in a video game, the last thing you want to do is leave home. If only you could take the game with you for your commute to work or your bus ride to school, or to liven up your lunch hour. https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nintendo-games.html Consumer & Gadgets Wed, 01 Mar 2017 09:14:58 EST news407582087 Thought your Internet speeds were slow? Try being a space scientist for a day. https://phys.org/news/2017-02-lasers-space-broadband-moment.html Space Exploration Wed, 15 Feb 2017 06:36:55 EST news406362998 As New Horizons flew by Pluto, it recorded spectacular images of the icy world's surface using the LORRI and MVIC cameras. It recorded the plasma and dust environments with the PEPSSI, SWAP, and SDC instruments. But one instrument, designed to measure the composition of Pluto and Charon's surfaces, did something you might not expect: it recorded the first movies from the edge of our solar system. https://phys.org/news/2015-12-pluto-glass-window-movie-edge.html Space Exploration Sun, 27 Dec 2015 11:07:55 EST news370436855 (Phys.org) —A new system at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's X-ray laser narrows a rainbow spectrum of X-ray colors to a more intense band of light, creating a much more powerful way to view fine details in samples at the scale of atoms and molecules. https://phys.org/news/2014-03-tune-x-ray-laser-pulses.html General Physics Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:20:02 EDT news313748913 A virtual-reality headset from Sony almost puts you inside a video by allowing you to widen your view when you turn your head up, down or side to side. https://phys.org/news/2014-01-gadget-sony-video-headset.html Consumer & Gadgets Fri, 10 Jan 2014 06:14:44 EST news308556872 Videogames are moving further into the Internet cloud with new devices and services unveiled at the big Consumer Electronics Show this week. https://phys.org/news/2013-01-videogames-cloud.html Software Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:50:02 EST news276798109 (Phys.org)—Japanese firm Ortus Technology Co., Ltd. has revealed its development of what the company is calling the world's smallest LCD display panel that meets the 4K standard. At just 9.6 inches with a resolution of 3,840 x 2,160 pixels, the new display will be small enough for use in handheld devices. https://phys.org/news/2012-10-japanese-company-inch-4k-2k.html Hardware Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:30:01 EDT news270459139 (Phys.org)—Microsoft knows how to play games. They have proven themselves worthy of growing a customer base of gaming enthusiasts with their Xbox and Kinect. Now Microsoft watchers are talking about the company's recent filing of a patent that takes the Microsoft vision of gaming to the all-pervasive level. Patently Apple has posted details about a Microsoft patent recently published by the US Trademark and Patent Office. The patent shows Microsoft has ambitions to transform entire rooms into game environments. The patent shows plans for game-playing in immersive display settings where users get to work with images projected onto realtime surfaces of their room. https://phys.org/news/2012-09-microsoft-patent-ambitions-immersive-gaming.html Hi Tech & Innovation Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:20:01 EDT news266641142 (Phys.org) -- LG Display is getting ready to showcase a five-inch smartphone display that turns out to be a full HD LCD panel supporting up to 1080p video, something like having a high-quality TV in your hand. The display will allow smartphone users to view full HD content with ideal viewing as seen on TVs and monitors and will set a high bar for other manufacturers as a result. The Seoul, Korea-based company has announced the new display with 1920x1080 resolution and impressive pixel density of 440ppi. https://phys.org/news/2012-05-lg-hd-panel-smartphones.html Hardware Tue, 29 May 2012 05:20:02 EDT news257482156 (Phys.org) -- NHK this week placed on exhibit a shoulder-mount camera, developed in cooperation with Hitachi, capable of shooting what NHK calls super high vision (SHV) video in 7680×4320 resolution. Super Hi-Vision is NHK's preferred name for ultra high definition television (UHDTV). The powerful prototype was part of NHK Scientific & Technology Research Laboratories (STRL) Open House event in Japan earlier this week. The camera is an innovative development, as a compact Ultra High Definition camera using a single-chip color imaging sensor to produce “closest to being there” video. NHK says that the compact head is compatible with commercially-offered still camera lenses. https://phys.org/news/2012-05-nhk-downsized-super-hi-vision-video.html Hardware Mon, 28 May 2012 05:20:01 EDT news257396706 Satellite data gives forecasters a leg up on severe weather. NASA has just released an animation of visible and infrared satellite data showing the development and movement of the Great Plains tornado outbreak, using data from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite. There were more than 135 reports of tornadoes and 124 different warnings over April 14-15, 2012. https://phys.org/news/2012-04-nasa-satellite-movie-great-plains.html Earth Sciences Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:57:01 EDT news253900611 Apple released a preview version of its new Macintosh operating system on Thursday, bringing some features of the iPad to the personal computer. https://phys.org/news/2012-02-apple-previews-mac-os-mountain.html Software Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:02:11 EST news248608918 (PhysOrg.com) -- Stream TV Networks plans to introduce a line of products that feature 3-D viewing without glasses. What’s so special about its announcement, on top of scores of 3-D-without-glasses announcements? The company says it has special technology in the name of Ultra-D, which can do nothing less than shift the way people will view media, according to its CEO. https://phys.org/news/2011-12-no-glasses-d-technology-showcase-ces.html Hi Tech & Innovation Mon, 26 Dec 2011 06:30:01 EST news244101301 An energy-harvesting shock absorber that can be installed in a vehicle’s suspension system to absorb the energy from bumps in the road, convert the energy into electricity, and improve fuel efficiency by 1-8% has recently won the R&D 100 award. Nicknamed the “Oscar of Invention,” the annual award is given out by R&D Magazine to recognize the top 100 innovative technologies introduced during the previous year. Previous winners have included the ATM (1973), liquid crystal display (1980), Nicoderm anti-smoking patch (1992), lab on a chip (1996), and HDTV (1998). https://phys.org/news/2011-07-energy-harvesting-absorber-fuel-efficiency-award.html Energy & Green Tech Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:10:01 EDT news229872796 (PhysOrg.com) -- Microsoft Research has announced plans to demonstrate a service/product it calls Prodcast at next month’s Knowledge Discovery and Data mining conference, along with a paper titled "Ameliorating Buyer’s Remorse." Its purpose, the company says, is to offer consumers a means of avoiding the remorse felt when purchasing a product, only to see the price fall almost immediately thereafter. https://phys.org/news/2011-07-microsoft-demo-prodcast-future.html Software Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:59:03 EDT news229849112 NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) and Sharp Corporation have jointly developed an 85-inch LCD compatible with Super Hi-Vision, a next-generation television broadcast format. This is a world first for a direct-view display. https://phys.org/news/2011-05-sharp-nhk-inch-direct-view-lcd.html Hardware Thu, 19 May 2011 06:50:07 EDT news225006229 (PhysOrg.com) -- Pioneer has announced the creation of its new WWS-DT101, it is a touch screen table PC that has an area of 52". The screen, which gratefully can support multitouch input, is based on a Full HDTV, and runs of proprietary software that Pioneer has developed in house, though the systems PC component is based on the Windows 7 64Bit operating system. This makes it not too far off the mark of the similar table developed by Microsoft itself earlier this year. https://phys.org/news/2011-05-inch-wws-dt101-multitouch-table.html Consumer & Gadgets Wed, 11 May 2011 14:19:25 EDT news224342335 (PhysOrg.com) -- In what many are describing as a game-changer, Tabula Inc. has closed on $108 million in investment funds from Greylock, NEA, Benchmark Capital and others, to bring to market its 3PLD ABAX programmable chips that have thus far proven to be both faster and less costly than competitors, Xilinx and Altera, makers of the larger, more cumbersome, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). https://phys.org/news/2011-04-tabula-garners-million-virtual-d.html Electronics & Semiconductors Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:06:37 EDT news222343565 This month, technology lovers from around the world descended on Las Vegas for the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, an annual gathering of geekdom that features the latest in personal gadgetry. https://phys.org/news/2011-01-future-d-glasses.html Hi Tech & Innovation Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:36:59 EST news215098580 It's that time of year again - time to start thinking about holiday gifts. https://phys.org/news/2010-11-gift-tech-fiends.html Consumer & Gadgets Fri, 26 Nov 2010 08:00:01 EST news209915906 When Nintendo unveiled the Wii four years ago, few game industry pundits gave it much of a chance. https://phys.org/news/2010-10-sony-playstation-wii.html Consumer & Gadgets Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:30:01 EDT news205149455 Trying out an Android phone from Verizon is quickly becoming the same old song, but it's a genuine classic that never gets dull. This time it's the Droid X, released July 15, from Motorola, which has built a beautiful beast of a smart phone screaming with speed, style and size. It sells for $199 after a $100 rebate and a two-year contract. https://phys.org/news/2010-07-droid.html Consumer & Gadgets Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:00:03 EDT news199627013 (AP) -- Hulu, the popular website with TV shows, now comes as a subscription-based application for iPhones and iPads. Although it isn't perfect, it works well enough that it may make you wonder if the TV's reign as the center of family life is coming to an end. https://phys.org/news/2010-07-hulu-television-pocket.html Internet Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:23:28 EDT news199596191 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have created a new, relatively low-cost virtual reality device that allows users not only to see a 3D image, but 'feel' it, too. https://phys.org/news/2010-07-heads-up-virtual-reality-huvr-bridges.html Engineering Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:00:58 EDT news198752426 (PhysOrg.com) -- Californian company Prysm has unveiled a high definition television with a "laser phosphor display" based on their patented method of using lasers reflected off a bank of mirrors to excite pixels on the television screen in a similar way to cathode ray tubes. https://phys.org/news/2010-06-laser-phosphor-lpd-television-.html Hi Tech & Innovation Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:00:02 EDT news196574334 Traditional surveillance cameras can be of great assistance to law enforcement officers for a range of scenarios -- canvassing a crowd for criminal activity, searching for who left a suitcase beneath a bench, or trying to pick out a suspect who has fled a crime scene and blended into a teeming throng in the subway. https://phys.org/news/2010-06-degree-video-surveillance-image-technology.html Engineering Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:10:04 EDT news195155368 Envisioning a data traffic jam looming as consumers shuttle increasing amounts of information among their home PCs, televisions and other gadgets, Intel plans to introduce new technology in a few months that could keep everything racing along for years. https://phys.org/news/2010-04-intel-fiber-optic-cables-boost.html Telecom Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:30:03 EDT news189877082 (PhysOrg.com) -- Haier America Digital Products Group (Chinese company) demonstrated the first completely wireless 32 inch LCD TV that is powered wirelessly up to a distance of 1 meter (3.28 feet). https://phys.org/news/2010-01-haier-wireless-hdtv-video-ces.html Consumer & Gadgets Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:42:34 EST news182608923 (AP) -- Skype's voice and video calling technology will be embedded in upcoming high-definition televisions with Internet capabilities. https://phys.org/news/2010-01-skype-hd-video-tvs.html Internet Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:30:04 EST news181939387 (PhysOrg.com) -- U.S. households consumed approximately 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008, according to the "How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers," released today by the University of California, San Diego. One zettabyte is 1,000,000,000 trillion bytes, and total bytes consumed last year were the equivalent of the information in thick paperback novels stacked seven feet high over the entire United States, including Alaska. https://phys.org/news/2009-12-ucsd-experts-americans-consume.html Social Sciences Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:48:16 EST news180028010