Yes, Apple TV officially debuted in 2007. And yes, Pippin was the failed Apple/Bandai gaming console from the early '90s. But did you know there was a set-top box Apple was working on in the late '90s named Pippen? More »
We are all extremely excited about the new user interface in Windows 8. I love Metro so very much. But looking at Microsoft's past history, perhaps we should keep the fireworks in the box until it gets released. [Thanks Karl!] More »
Apple Mail is a pretty decent email client, but it saves all your attachments in a folder deep within your user library, sucking up disk space without ever really letting you know. Fortunately, this is an easy problem to solve if you know where to look. Sort of, anyway. Apple made removing your attachments very simple, but if you want to actually save and archive them it can be a bit more complicated—especially if you're running Lion. But not to worry, we'll walk you through the whole thing. The process can be a little tedious, but it's not too tough. More »
In this week's app roundup: music, discovered; 9/11, remembered with photographs; the Invisible Universe, seen; languages, translated; boarding passes, re-imagined; NBC, TNT, TBS, iPadded; turntable.FM, iPhoned; browsers, dolphined; and much, much more. More »
A bunch of networks released iPad apps, a touching look back at 9/11, Dolphin Browser finally shows up on the iPad and more this week. More »
In this week's best iPhone apps roundup, we feature Flight Card, a beee-yo-tiful flight tracking app, Vocre, a great translator, Gimme Music, a ridiculously easy way to discover new music and more. More »
In this week's best Android app roundup, you have a better note taking app, an app that lets you see the invisible, a Shazam for TV and much more. More »
Grado Labs' Professional Series headphones are the standard bearer of aural excellence. They're the harmonic gold standard for legions of audiophiles. Only problem: they're too damn expensive. No longer. Enter the Grado PS500. Rejoice. More »
Rolling shutter effect shots are always cool, but usually used to shoot moving objects, like airplane propellers. What if you stuck the camera on the propeller? You'd get a combination of the view from the Cyclone rides at amusement parks and the view from an acid trip. More »
Pandas. Zoos want them, other bears want to be them (maybe?). But are they really worth all the trouble? Let's fight about it: More »
The Galaxy S II we've fawned over has finally arrived on Sprint as the Epic Touch 4G with a bigger, 4.52-inch screen. Long story short: It's the best Android phone you can buy. More »
The 20-year-old UARS satellite has dropped out of orbit—as old satellites are wont to do—and is reentering the atmosphere. Too bad NASA can't pinpoint where—or when—exactly it will land. Could be the middle of the Pacific, could be the middle of Paris—it's a surprise! More »
The biggest obstacle to making use of solar energy has been the excessively high price of solar cells made of inorganic semiconductors. In contrast, solar cells based on semiconducting polymers are affordable, light, thin, and flexible - but their performance has been lacking. A team in Taiwan has now developed a new approach that uses fullerene nanorods to significantly increase the effectiveness of polymer-based solar cells.
Masahiro Yoshimura, a world-renowned expert on ceramics and materials science, has been appointed director of National Cheng Kung University's Promotion Center for Global Materials Research (PCGMR), which will be launched on September 23.
Memristors - the fourth fundamental two-terminal circuit element following the resistor, the capacitor, and the inductor - have attracted intensive attention owing to their potential applications for instance in nanoelectronic memories, computer logic, or neuromorphic computer architectures. Scientists have been able to show that various materials such as metal oxides, chalcogenides, amorphous silicon, carbon, and polymer-nanoparticle composite materials exhibit memristive phenomena. One unanswered question so far has been whether natural biomaterials like proteins can be used for the fabrication of solid-state devices with transport junctions. Researchers in Singapore have now demonstrated that proteins indeed can be used to fabricate bipolar memristive nanodevices.
Advances in understanding molybdenum nanostructures and molecular mechanisms of catalytic reactions to provide improved natural gas processing technologies.
In a new Friends of the Earth report, leading microbiologists have warned that the rapid rise in household antibacterial products containing nano-silver could put more lives at risk.
Bio-conjugated nanoparticles are important analytical tools with emerging biological and medical applications. Especially gold nanoparticles are of increasing interest for nanobiotechnology research and applications because of their high acceptance level in living systems and the fact that they are fairly easily conjugated with functional molecules. Ultrashort pulsed laser ablation represents a powerful tool for the generation of pure gold nanoparticles avoiding chemical precursors, reducing agents, and stabilizing ligands. The bare surface of the charged nanoparticles makes them highly available for functionalization and as a result especially interesting for biomedical applications. Starting today, such conjugates are available commercially for the first time.
Molecule-based memory devices edge closer with the development of supramolecular structures that act as tiny magnets.
A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics and the University of Washington announce that they will join forces to provide shared Silicon Photonics processes as part of the Optoelectronics Systems Integration in Silicon programme (OpSIS). This will help the research and development community significantly reduce the fabrication cost of silicon photonics integrated circuits.
