New Technology / Gadgets news around the web
New craft planned for deep-sea frontier
(MSNBC.com) A new deep-sea research vessel will be able to carry people to 99 percent of the ocean floor, diving deeper than the famed Alvin that pioneered the study of seafloor vents, plate tectonics and deep-ocean creatures over the past 40 years.
Submitted on Aug 10, 2004 by Tormod
Mobiles for air travellers
(Norway Post) GSM mobiles which can be used while you are travelling in plane are coming shortly...
Submitted on Jun 23, 2004 by alps
Thought control tech tried on humans
(CNN) Scientists who trained a monkey to move a mechanical arm using thought alone said on Tuesday that experiments in Parkinson's disease patients show the technique may work in humans, too.
Submitted on Mar 25, 2004 by tormod
Hi. I am your browser. What can I do for you?
(CNN) Talkative browsers are jumping into market shortly. It seems that now its turn of Voice Browser after the grand success of Web Browsers.
Submitted on Mar 24, 2004 by alps
New net domains are going to be added by 2005
(BBC) Many organizations are demanding new net domains to its riling body the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Now you may see .travel to .jobs kind of domain names shortly ( by 2005)
Submitted on Mar 24, 2004 by alps
War of words between Anti-virus experts and virus experts
(REUTERS) Recently there are a lot of viruses are spreading rapidly.MyDoom is one of them. Now creator of this virus and anti-virus experts are starting a war of words.
Submitted on Mar 4, 2004 by alps
Military tool helps make classier wines
(CNN) Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley are using ground penetrating radar (GPR), a tool better known for its military uses, to help winemakers create tastier, more uniform wines.
Submitted on Nov 2, 2003 by tormod
Origami helps cellphone cameras to focus
(New Scientist) Picture-messaging phones may be about to get a whole lot more intrusive. Thanks to a novel and ultra-cheap micromotor technology, cellphone cameras should soon be able to zoom and focus with the same precision as the autofocusing lenses used in expensive stills cameras.
Submitted on Sep 1, 2003 by tormod
Could DNA power new generation of computers?
(CNN) It almost sounds too fantastic to be true, but a growing amount of research supports the idea that DNA, the basic building block of life, could also be the basis of a staggeringly powerful new generation of computers.
Submitted on Aug 18, 2003 by tormod
Hackers turn to Google to find weakest links
(New Scientist) Computer hackers have adopted a startling strategy in their attempts to break into websites. By using the popular search engine Google, they do not have to visit a site to plan an attack. Instead, they can get all the information they need from Google's cached versions of web pages, say experts in the US.
Submitted on Aug 2, 2003 by tormod
