Author: Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine

The much-talked-about Dell Streak is finally scheduled for release, albeit exclusively to the UK’s O2 network for the time being. The 5-inch touchscreen device is billed as slotting in “between traditional smartphones and larger-screen tablets” and features a 1GHz processor, 2GB of internal memory and runs on Google’s Android operating system…
Continue Reading UK release confirmed for Dell’s Streak tablet

Tags: Android,
Dell,
Smartphone,
Snapdragon,
Tablet,
Wireless

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The “ultimate in road legal quad biking” is how the makers of the Venom Evil describe their creation. If its exclusive designer styling and the splash of shiny chrome on the front crash bars and speedos don’t manage to turn heads, then perhaps the water-cooled 250cc engine, twin exhaust and sporty alloy wheels will. ..
Continue Reading The Venom Evil street legal quad

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Vehicle,
Venom

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We’ve covered some creative bicycle wheel LEDs on Gizmag recently, so when we discovered the amazing Anipov project on display from Suns & Moon Laboratory at Tokyo Make Meeting this past weekend, we couldn’t help but take a closer look…
Continue Reading Amazing bike-wheel LED art at Tokyo Make Meeting

Tags: Art,
Bicycle,
Bike,
Japan,
LED,
Make Magazine

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The most obvious obstacles for the widespread adoption of fuel cell technology are cost and performance. Although they promise benefits over internal combustion engines and batteries in terms of environmental impact, they are still fairly limited in use for these reasons. One of the most expensive elements used in most fuel cells is platinum, but now researchers have created a unique core and shell nanoparticle that uses far less platinum, yet performs more efficiently and lasts longer than commercially available pure-platinum catalysts at the cathode end of fuel cell reactions. ..
Continue Reading Pure platinum alternative promises breakthrough in fuel cell technology

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Nanoparticles,
Nanotechnology,
Platinum

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The damaged Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is a huge environmental disaster that’s said to be gushing anywhere from 5,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil into the ocean per day. BP has deployed a reported 2.5 million feet of oil booms in an effort to contain the slick, as well as bringing in over 1,100 vessels to skim it and even burning some of it off the water’s surface. One need only watch the news, however, to realize that some other ideas are needed. BP has received over 10,000 suggestions for dealing with the disaster and is looking into approximately 700. What follows is a look at some – but by no means all – of those products being touted as a solution, and what they would supposedly do to the oil…
Continue Reading Gulf oil spill disaster: a closer look at the clean-up options

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Ocean,
Oil,
Pollution

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Earlier in the week we covered Microsoft’s agreement with Australia’s Foxtel that will see pay TV content streamed to Xbox 360 consoles. Now Sony has announced that PS3 and PSP owners in the US will now be able to access programming from premium cable TV network HBO on their consoles. Using the PlayStation Network’s (PSN) video delivery service PS3 /PSP owners can now purchase shows from HBO’s popular lineup, including True Blood, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Flight of the Conchords, to name just a few. ..
Continue Reading HBO content arrives on PS3 and PSP

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Playstation Network,
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Audi is offering the option of a factory-installed WLAN hotspot on its new A8. The system will enable front and rear seat passengers to tap into Internet access at up to 7.2 Mbit/s by dropping a data-capable SIM card into the car’s Bluetooth phone or by pairing your existing phone…
Continue Reading Audi first to offer factory-installed WLAN hotspot with new A8

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navigation,
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Remember that montage from Rocky IV where Drago’s high-tech training is contrasted with Rocky’s decidedly more low-tech approach? Well, we can’t help thinking that if the Interactiv’ Boxing punching bag was available in the mid 80’s that Drago would have been pounding away on it. This 21st century take on the punching bag features built-in sensors and LEDs that direct you where to land your fists of fury. ..
Continue Reading A high-tech replacement for a hanging carcass – the Interactiv’ Boxing punching bag

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Exercise,
Sports,
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The era of electric motorcycle racing which began at the Isle of Man in June last year has grown into a world series road race for 2010. On May 16th, history was made as TTXGP North America Round 1 took place at the Infineon Raceway in California. It was the first-ever electric superbike race to take place in that continent…
Continue Reading First North American electric superbike race a (non)roaring success

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iLuv, one of a number of manufacturers of Apple accessories, has added three small and portable speaker options that provide high quality sound while eliminating cable clutter. The three speaker options include a mini clip speaker, a portable speaker bar and a pair of newly designed cube speakers, all powered by USB to reduce cable clutter on the desktop. All three speaker designs work with Mac or PC…
Continue Reading iLuv’s speaker trio for iPad, Mac and PC 

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iPhone,
iPod,
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USB

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Seagate has revealed a hybrid solid state/hard drive which is claimed to be “the world’s fastest 2.5 inch laptop PC hard drive.” The Momentus XT offers users the price and capacity benefits of a hard disk drive and the speed advantages of solid state memory in one laptop-sized drive…
Continue Reading Seagate Momentus XT hybrid claimed as world’s fastest laptop drive

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Hard Drive,
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Laptops,
Notebook,
Seagate,
SSD

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ExoPC has developed a Windows-based tablet PC which is larger and more powerful than an iPad, is WiFi-enabled and supports Flash. The Slate will be available with 32GB and 64GB SSD storage, benefit from 2GB of memory and has a built-in webcam… but will this be enough to make it a serious contender in the emerging tablet computer market?..
Continue Reading ExoPC Slate – the new Windows multi-touch tablet

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iPad,
Microsoft,
PC,
Tablet

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Computex Taipei 2010 is the biggest IT show in Asia and one of the most important such shows in the world and we’ll be there next week to report on the hundreds of new products. One Computex new release certain to cause a stir is ASROCK’s AIWI, an Apple app which turns your iPhone or iPod Touch into a Nintendo Wii-type motion controller for computer games, and maybe more importantly, using the touch screen as a touch pad for controlling the cursor and keyboard functions of a computer. It’s not just very clever and very cool – it might just have some serious implications for the future of the Computer (and TV) Human Interface. Our esteemed colleagues at Tweaktown.com have released a sneak peak video demonstration which is well worth a look…
Continue Reading AIWI turns your iPhone into a wii-like motion controller … and more

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At the beginning of May digiZoid introduced the Zo personal subwoofer, which claimed to enhance a listener’s sonic experience by offering increasing degrees of bass contouring to any audio fed through it. Over the past week I’ve had the chance to take the Zo for a spin. Has it lived up to the claims of its manufacturer? Read on for a full review…
Continue Reading Review: The Zo Personal Subwoofer

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The satellite-aided search and rescue technology pioneered by NASA is credited with saving more than 27,000 lives worldwide since its inception nearly three decades ago. Now the agency has developed new technology that will more quickly identify the locations of people in distress and reduce the risk to rescuers. ..
Continue Reading NASA hones in on next-gen satellite-aided search and rescue technology

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Want to turn your Mac into a DVR with full access to premium cable or satellite TV content? Elgato says its customers can do just with its EyeTV HD, that lets users watch, record, edit and enjoy cable and satellite TV in high-definition, including all their premium channels, on a Mac. What’s more, the EyeTV HD includes a unique dual-format capture mode that records in iPad and iPhone formats at the same time, allowing users to stream live and recorded TV to an iPhone or iPad using the optional EyeTV app…
Continue Reading Elgato EyeTV HD PVR lets users watch and edit cable and sat TV on a Mac

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Donor corneas are extremely rare, but for 40,000 people in Europe corneal transplantation from donors offer the only hope of addressing blindness in one or both eyes. That was, until Dr. Joachim Storsberg of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam-Golm created the first artificial cornea.
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Continue Reading Synthetic cornea offers hope to thousands

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Intel has introduced new ultra-low voltage (ULV) versions of its Intel Core processors. Based on Intel’s 32 nanometer (nm) technology the Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 processors are destined for the insides of ultraportable laptops – which Intel defines as less than an inch thick and weighing just two to five pounds – without sacrificing performance, connectivity and battery life. ..
Continue Reading Intel’s new ULV Core processors headed for ultraportable laptops

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Among the many sounds emanating from the Tokyo Make Meeting 05 this past weekend was the unusually shaped electronic instrument, the Uda. It’s played with two hands, and looks like it might be a less-flexible cousin of the accordion.Notes are played by pressing different sections of a rope that’s coiled around the device, on both the right and left sides. Exactly where you touch it determines the pitch, and there’s a one octave difference between one row of rope and the adjacent row.
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Continue Reading The Uda makes electronic music with a twist

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Diamonds aren’t just a girl’s best friend – they also boast outstanding physical properties that makes them an ideal material for industrial applications such as cutting and polishing. It is extraordinarily hard, conducts heat well and is practically inert to chemical substances. Ceramics – particularly high-performance ceramics – are likewise able to demonstrate special qualities. They are robust and withstands high temperatures. Researchers have now created a diamond coated ceramics composite material that combines the best of both materials.
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Continue Reading Diamonds combined with ceramics to create super high-wearing material

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