Practicality outweighs possibility when you consider that the smaller the scale, the better for computing mobility.  Who wants to lug around a two-ton machine for a computer?  No one wants that.  Not all too long ago, the laptop computer was just a dream.  Then, the laptop becomes a reality.  You might have a half-pound laptop [...]

Tags: computer, design, graphene, molecule, nanotechnology, piezoelectricity, silicon, Stanford

Science is back to normal.  You can move along now.  There’s nothing to see here.  Science has a way of proving itself right.  Nope, you just cannot fool science.  Just when we think we have seen something incredible, we learn it was just that – incredible.  The laws of physics and the ideas of the [...]

Tags: Albert Einstein, CERN, fast, Geneva, ICARUS, Isaac Newton, Italy, light, neutrino, OPERA, speed, Switzerland

The SpeechJammer jams speech.       Some people can just go on and on and on talking endlessly on and on and on.  The seemingly mindless chatter can really be quite an annoyance.  A person can either accept such noise or walk away.  Maybe it has come to a point where people want a [...]

Tags: annoying, chatter, Japan, silence, speaking, speech, stutter

Scientists and researchers and drillers are now presenting the cleanest water on the planet.  It is crystal clear water found in a lake in Antarctica – where it is really cold, ice cold.  Let it be known that this lake is not some ordinary, run of the mill lake you would find tens of thousands [...]

Tags: Antarctica, prehistoric, water

Just imagine looking at your window and seeing the temperature displayed right on it.  Then, you click on that and out shows the temperature for the rest of the week.  No imagine even further, if you will, operating that window like a functioning television or computer.  It seems that Samsung has brought us the world [...]

Tags: LCD, Samsung, television, Tom Cruise, video

Look very closely.  The world of tiny computers has made a huge leap forward.  In short, IBM has successfully stored electronic data on a “hard drive” that is only twelve atoms large.  That’s all!  It only took twelve atoms to store and retrieve electronic data.  Albeit ones and zeros, it is digital and it is [...]

Tags: IBM, nanotechnology

Just imagine a device that can steer you away from troublesome locations.  That is exactly what Microsoft is working on right now.  Microsoft has apparently filed a patent for a GPS device that will aid the pedestrian with getting to their destination.  GPS service has dominated in the automotive world.  It is about time that [...]

Tags: GPS, Microsoft

The world of internet browsing feels a little different nowadays.  What is the reason for such a revamped surfing sensation?  Well, there is one less browser out there.  Microsoft has announced that the sixth installment of their Internet Explorer web browser has officially gone the way of the dodo.  There is even a countdown site [...]

Tags: Chrome, Firefox, IE6, Internet Explorer

Something as mundane and familiar as an internet browser seems to be a rather personal institution for most people.  Which method or format a person takes and uses to surf the internet becomes a regular task for cruising.  It may be similar to what mode of transportation you choose to get to your destination.  This [...]

Tags: browser, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer

The Google networking service Google+ could be on its way up and up, and fast.  As of only a couple of months ago, the service was at around 40 million users.  Paul B. Allen, who is the founder of Ancestry.com, suggests that within a year, Google+ will have ten times that number of users: 400million! [...]

Tags: Facebook, Google, social networking