If a Tweet is posted on the Web and nobody sees it, is it worth the bother? That’s essentially the question social media analytics company Sysomos posed in a survey of 1.2 billion posts made over the past 2 months and found that 71% of the posts from the Twitter microblogging site elicited neither a [...]
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Japanese Robot Car Controlled By a Rat's Brain
October 7th, 2010
nrmodh RatCar is a brain-machine interface that uses a rat’s brain signals to control a motorized robot. The rat hangs in the air, and the robot does what the rat’s limbs would do. It’s far from the only brain-robot locomotion contraption, but it’s arguably one of the strangest. Osamu Fukayama and colleagues developed RatCar to study [...]
Sharp Unveils 3-D Screens For Mobile Devices
April 3rd, 2010
nrmodh For all the 3-D aficionados out there, there’s both good and bad news. Japanese electronics giant Sharp Corp showed off its liquid crystal screens today for mobile devices. Its 3-D displays offer bright, clear images without the need for those annoying glasses generally required for such technology. And the bad news: They only work on [...]
Your Hand May Double As Touchpad!
March 3rd, 2010
nrmodh Now your hand could double as a touchpad for your smartphone or mediaplayer. With a system named as ‘Skinput’ developed by Chris Harrison at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and Dan Morris and Desney Tan at Microsoft’s research lab in Redmond, you can now have a keypad on your arm, reports New Scientist.
India's first urban mobile WiMAX service arrives by BSNL
March 1st, 2010
nrmodh BSNL on Saturday launched India’s first mobile 4G broadband Internet access network, the Mobile WiMAX in Kerala. The state has become the first in the country to have the facility and BSNL is now the first operator to launch the service in India. The technology has been provided by AVIAT, formerly Harris Stratex. WiMAX (Worldwide [...]



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