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The Digital World Is Embracing Cell Phone Technology

After the introduction of the first generation of analog cell phones, the underlying technology has advanced significantly through subsequent generations. With the second generation of mobile technology, known as 2G, mobile users were introduced to digital networks, text messaging and pre-paid phone plans. It was only a few years after this that 3G mobile technology was introduced. This gave users access to broadband internet connections and prompted them to scour through cell phone reviews in order to find the hardware to fully exploit the new functionality.

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Intel’s Thunderbolt to be made available in April 2012

Intel has finally announced that it will be make the Thunderbolt range of technology available in April next year. This technology has been in the news for a variety of reasons. A good number of OEMs have already started using the Thunderbolt technology in their products, and when Intel announces the technology in April, it is expected that the announcement and the release will be accompanied by motherboards, notebooks, and netbooks all based on the Thunderbolt technology.

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SIM-based NFC might soon become a GSM standard

We have been reading news about NFC becoming so popular that even Intel plans to put NFC on its ultrabooks. Lately, the GSM Association has been planning to take this a step forward and embed the NFC chip into the SIM card so that all mobile phones around the wold will have NFC support by default. This is good news, right? And 45 of world’s wireless carriers have signed in favor of this.

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Share your phone’s screen with the person you are talking to using a pico projector

I dont remember the time when phones were used only for talking. Each day, we are seeing new and awesome features being added to smartphones, making them even smarter. Today, we have some news from Germany, where a few people have managed to bring data sharing between two phones to the next level.

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Control iPhone’s Siri with your mind using Project Black Mirror

Siri is cool, there is no doubt about it. But I guess its not great enough to a bunch of creative minds who have made up their minds to make it even more cooler. If you think about it, however great an app or a product or a device might be, people are always finding ways to make it even better, right? So, I introduce you to Project Black Mirror.

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Nano-SIM cards ready to take over micro-SIM cards

If you were thinking that the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S, among others, was a bit weird for using the unusual micro-SIM for making the phone slimmer and lighter, then you will be surprised to know that SIM cards can actually get smaller than the Micro-SIM card, a full third smaller to be precise, and they are called nano-SIM cards. The company that first invented the current SIM card and the micro-SIM card has come out of its labs with an even smaller SIM card now, 30% smaller than the micro-SIM card.

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Touch and play with 3D objects using Microsoft’s new “HoloDesk” Project

3D has been the new thing on the tech world for some time that there are enough consumer goods out there to make it an old technology. But till now, we were only able to see 3D stuffs. But now, thanks to Microsoft (I guess), we will soon be able to touch and play with 3D technology.

Motion Control Technologies for Robotics Design

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Motion Control Technologies for Robotics Design

You will most probably not be able to make your mechanical or electromechanical project or even a simple robot without motion sensors. Motion sensors play a major role in all robotic applications. Where there is motion sensor, there also has to be a mechanism to control the sensors, so, motion control technologies also play a [...]

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Beware, your PC is a magnet!!

Brian Lambson and his team of scientists at the University of California are in the process of building such computers. In an effort to cut down the huge consumption of power by silicon based chips in PCs, scientists are now designing PCs which run on magnet based processors which consume far lesser power.

Your itchy fingers can produce electricity!!

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Your itchy fingers can produce electricity!!

What if you could charge mobile phones, laptops, and other electronic devices just by key strokes using the piezoelectric effect? Dr. Madhu Bhaskaran and her team at the RMIT University in Melbourne have now been able to measure the voltage and current generation for nanoscale piezo-electric thin films.