http://www.turksa.com Your daily connection to science & technology Thu, 28 May 2009 15:04:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Redmond based company Microvision is in the last stages of developing and releasing a portable, laser-based projector, code-named 'Show WV.' The projector has a resolution of 848 by 400 pixels (WVGA) and, since it uses laser-scanning rather than LCD to form the images, it does not require a lens to ... http://www.turksa.com/?p=98 Here are the latest videos of NVIDIA Tegra... NVIDIA Tegra 3D UI Demo - Watch video NVIDIA Tegra HD Video Demo - Watch video NVIDIA Tegra 3D Gaming Demo - Watch Video http://www.turksa.com/?p=97 "Audeo has just demonstrated their subvocal speech input device in a new context; a neckband that translates thought into speech by interpreting signals sent from the brain to the vocal chords. Audeo used it in their Thinking Man's Wheelchair for quadraplegics demonstrated last September." watch video via livescience http://www.turksa.com/?p=94 Watch the video http://www.turksa.com/?p=92 "Researchers have created the world’s thinnest sheet - a single atom thick - and used it to create the world’s smallest transistor, marking a breakthrough that could spark the development of super-fast computer chips. This innovation will allow ultra small electronics to take over when the current silicon-based technology runs out ... http://www.turksa.com/?p=90 Boston Dynamics keeps working on their BigDog quadruped robot, which will probably grow to be the future AT-AT of the Pentagon. The new version of the robot can now carry 340 pounds, which is almost triple the previous weight. It looks to me that that $10 million funding they got from ... http://www.turksa.com/?p=89 "Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept developed by Nokia Research Center and the University of Cambridge, has gone on display as part of the "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. The concept demonstrates how future mobile devices might be stretchable and flexible, allowing ... http://www.turksa.com/?p=86 Samsung is readying not one, but two separate Android-based phones, one of which is due in September, with another model following around Christmas. These phones will not be labeled Samsung, rather they will be released as Google-branded gPhones. The model released in the Fall will be a "higher-end" model which ... http://www.turksa.com/?p=85 "Ubuntu Mobile is an Ubuntu edition that targets an exciting new class of computers called Mobile Internet Devices. Ubuntu Mobile, based on the world's most popular Linux distribution, and MID hardware from OEMs and ODMs, are redefining what can be done in mobile computing. Ubuntu Mobile, a fully open source project, gives ... http://www.turksa.com/?p=82 Modeling Surprise - Combining massive quantities of data, insights into human psychology, and machine learning can help humans manage surprising events, says Eric Horvitz. Much of modern life depends on forecasts: where the next hurricane will make landfall, how the stock market will react to falling home prices, who will ... http://www.turksa.com/?p=78