OLPC XO-2 to include multitouch and possibly haptic screen from PixelQi
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Filed under: Displays, Laptops
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Microsoft shows off "snippet" of Windows 7 at D6, reveals multi-touch support
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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Update: Video added after the break. Enjoy! [Thanks, Dan Z.]
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Japanese scientist claims breakthrough with cold fusion experiment
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/298477798/
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
While recent attempts to create a perpetual motion machine somehow, inexplicably didn't pan out, a physics professor from Osaka University now claims to have made a scientific breakthrough of another sort, with him now touting nothing less than a supposedly successful demonstration of cold fusion. That was apparently done by forcing deuterium gas under pressure into an evacuated cell containing a sample of palladium dispersed in zirconium oxide, which caused the deuterium to be absorbed by the palladium sample, resulting in a denser, or "pynco" deuterium, with deuterium nuclei that are close enough together to fuse. That process also supposedly resulted in a rise in temperature to about 70° Celsius, and a temperature in the center of the cell that remained "significantly warmer" than the cell wall for 50 hours after the test. Of course, there doesn't appear to be any other scientists ready to back up the experiment just yet, so you'll have to rely on your own armchair science expertise to get your hopes up or down accordingly on this one.
[Via Slashdot, thanks One]
[Via Slashdot, thanks One]
Rumored dual-core Atom details get fleshed out
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/298546347/
Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops
We'd already heard that Intel planned to trot out some dual-core Atom processors sooner or later, and the Fudzilla website has now turned up a few more details on 'em courtesy of a supposedly legitimate leak. According to it, the first dual-core processor will be dubbed the Atom 330, and will clock in at the same 1.6GHz as the current single-core Atom 230 (no word on that 1.87GHz version we heard about previously). What's more, the processor will supposedly pack 1MB cache memory (twice the amount of the current single-core processor), and boast a TDP rating of just 8W, which is a good deal more than the 2W rating the current Atom 230 has, but still far less than any of Intel's other low-voltage processors. Still no word on a price for it, unfortunately, but it's said to be on track for a release sometime in the third quarter of this year.[Via Electronista]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Earth Trek touts "world's smallest" projector
Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/298575864/
Filed under: Displays
While it likely won't hold onto the (slightly dubious) title for long at the rate mini-projectors are cropping up these days, Hong Kong-based Earth Trek has nonetheless gone out and proclaimed its new 90-805R projector to be the "world's smallest" and, indeed, it is small. Measuring about 4 by 2 inches, the projector can apparently pump out a 22-inch diagonal image (no word from what distance), with an SD card slot and an A/V input provided via a 3.5 mm jack, not to mention a built-in speaker. No word on a price or release date just yet, but we'd assume they'd want to get it out relatively soon in order to beat the inevitable cellphone projector rush.
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