Emerging Technologies
Date: 08/7/06
The Terrafugia Transition - the first viable flying car?
July 26, 2006 An interesting new flying car is being launched this week at Oshkosh. The Transition is a Personal Air Vehicle (PAV) designed to make general aviation more practical for personal transportation.
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Claro Holographic TV
The CLARO represents the latest innovation in TV and display technology combined with a visual design aesthetic to introduce the TV system of the future - a transparent glass TV and media system utilising holographic technology.
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The Flying Carpet
July 3, 2005 Digital imaging offers the ability to create fantastic images and use them in new ways by creating spaces to transform perceptions and indeed create whole new environments.
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Equation Marchante M.Y.S. - the sun meets its match
August 7, 2006 For two centuries, perhaps the rarest of watchmaking complications has been the equation of time. Measuring the difference between the length of the solar day which constantly varies over the course of the year and the length of the standard 24 hour civil day, an equation of time display has graced only the most exclusive watches and clocks.
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Functional redesign of the wall electrical outlet
Don’tya just love a simple and clever solution. One of the legacy items in every home that just never seems to get updated is the electrical wall outlet or power socket or whatever you call it.
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Date: 07/27/06
Ray gun to reveal crime-scene drug traces
An ultraviolet ray gun could soon be telling detectives if a crime scene is tainted with traces of the highly addictive drug methamphetamine, widely known as crystal meth...
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Tracking system hits tumours with big blast
Sophisticated software that follows the rise and fall of a patient’s chest is transforming radio-surgery for lung cancer, allowing tumours to be zapped with much bigger doses of X-rays...
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Invention: In-flight rearming
The US Air Force's research lab in New York is developing a system will allow fighter planes to be rearmed, as well as refuelled, in mid-flight.
A supply plane, such as a C-141 or C-17 would incorporate a telescopic boom that extends from its rear. This boom would boast its own miniature wings, to give it stability and lift while deployed. And mounted on top would be a looped conveyor belt to move bombs and missiles from the supply plane to the boom's end...
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Robo-scallop could carry drugs through the body
A device that mimics a sea scallop - propelling itself by alternately sucking and blowing - could one day carry drugs to hard-to-reach parts of the human body...
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Date: 07/24/06
Virtual cockpit view promises safer air travel
FARNBOROUGH, England - Nail-biting blind landings in foul weather may soon be a lot less perilous, thanks to a new corporate jet technology that could also find its way into airliner cockpits...
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CodeInvaders Challenge
A Java-based game of space conquest, based on the Eclipse platform....
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IBM Secure Shell Library for Java
A lightweight implementation of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Secure Shell (SSH-2) protocol....
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RFID Device Development Kit
A set of tools and techniques for interfacing RFID readers and other related hardware into IBM's RFID middleware solution. (This is an ETTK technology.)...
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Date: 07/22/06
Magma Releases Reference Methodology for Arm Cortex-R4 Processor
Magma Design Automation, a provider of semiconductor design software, announced the release of a Reference Methodology (RM) for RTL-to-GDSII implementation of the new ARM Cortex-R4 embedded processor in systems on chips (SoCs)...
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IBM Cell Broadband Engine Software Development Kit
A complete Cell BE development environment, including Linux kernel for Cell BE blades, Linux support libraries, tool chains, system simulator, source code for libraries and samples, and a new, fully-integrated installation....
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decNumber++
A high-performance decimal arithmetic library for C++...
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Date: 07/18/06
Minister plugs outsourcing to India
San Jose Mercury News
By John Boudreau
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Dayanidhi Maran is as passionate as any Silicon Valley entrepreneur pitching his company. His business plan, though, happens to be his country -- India. Maran is India's cabinet-level minister of communications and information technology whose mission is to sell India Corp. ...
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Microsoft Bets on Robotics
Business Week Online
By Alex Halperin
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
For many, robots remain a far-off phenomenon. They're the stuff of 1950s B movies, those octopus-like monsters that manufacture automobiles and other heavy machinery. Or they're clunky, impractical kids' toys that break down after moments of use. Software maker Microsoft wants to change all that.
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Fiber broadband costumers register high demand for HDTV, other devices
Broadcast Engineering
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
The demand for high-definition televisions, wireless equipment, computers and other consumer devices is growing as a result of fiber optic broadband service now becoming available in the United States, according to a new survey.
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Microsoft files 26 U.S. piracy lawsuits
Associated Press (AP)
By ALLISON LINN (AP Business Writer)
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 (Originally Published: 7/17/2006)
SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. has filed 26 lawsuits accusing U.S. companies of selling pirated software, the latest move in its ramped-up efforts to boost sales by cracking down on illegal copies.
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Amino Technologies in collaboration with Texas Instruments
AFX News Limited
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
LONDON (AFX) - Amino Technologies PLC, the Cambridge-based broadband network software and systems company, said its software business unit IntAct has entered into a collaboration agreement with Texas Instruments Inc ("TI") to produce a full reference design based on the AmiNET124 IPTV set-top box ("STB").
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Intel chip debut not a big deal for many
Contra Costa Times
By Dean Takahashi
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
It's make-or-break time for Itanium, one of the most expensive and complex families of computer chips ever made by the world's biggest chip maker, Intel.
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Date: 07/15/06
Broadcom Samples HSDPA Chipset; Signs VOIP Deal With Vonage
Broadcom said Wednesday that it had won a design win with Vonage for future generations of VOIP phones and adapters. Separately, the chip company also announced a 7.2-Mbit/s chipset supporting the next-generation HSDPA standard.......
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Motorola Invests In Portable Fuel-Cell Maker
Motorola has made an undisclosed investment into Tekion, a portable fuel-cell manufacturer whose products are powered by the same substance that gives the bite of a fire ant its sting.......
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Prseident calls for Nano Technology
President Bush called for basic research into alternative energy solutions and nanotech in his State of the Union speech delivered Wednesday night. ......
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Itty-Bitty Humanoid Robot
The 5-foot tall HRP-2 Promet that wowed us almost two years ago with its ability to lie down, get back up and carry objects has a tiny little brother, the HPR-2m Choromet........
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RFID: Security Risk?
Critics of radio frequency identification technologies are just making noise, and technology executives shouldn't fear RFID's capabilities, a Symbol Technologies executive said late last week.........
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Instant Messanger Attacks
Attacks aimed at lightly protected instant messaging systems and spam that replaces text with images in an effort to dupe filtering software are growing in popularity, according to new research released by Postini..........
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