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SCiB Super Charge ion Battery (Lithium ion)

SCiB the Super Charge ion Battery from Toshiba stables is battery that is primarily meant for industrial applications. The battery can be charged to 90% of its capacity in 5 minutes and can last upto 10 years or 5000 recharge and discharge cycles. The present lithium ion batteries that we use for day today use […]

Robots: Robophilo Humanoid Robot for $500

Robophilo offers you a humanoid robot for around USD $500 which can do many complex movements that includes walking. This robot has got 20 servo motors can be programmed by PC or the included remote control. The robot weighs 1.2 kg that includes battery weight and measures 13 inches in height.
Specifications of Robophilo:
Height: 13″ ( […]

Intel Soon to Introduce Refrigerated Laptop Docking Station

Intel and Embraco recently demonstrated Refrigerated Laptop Docking Station in IDF 2007 which is a Laptop Stand cum refrigerated docking station.This refrigerated laptop docking station features three cylindrical compressors, each 2cm in diameter and 10cm long that drive the coolant around the unit and thereby pulling heat away from the laptop. They claim this […]

Integrated Wi-Fi Capabilities coming to SD Flash Memory Cards

Eye-Fi would soon be introducing 2 GB SD memory card which has Wi-Fi 802.11b/g capabilities. If you happen to use this card then you can forget using data cables and memory card readers as this card would directly upload photos to your PC from your digital camera via Wi-Fi interface.
How does this SD flash […]

Lightning Alarm Clock

If you want to get up from your slumber with a jolt then you lightning alarm clock is just right for you. This alarm clock has a glass tube that fills with high voltage electric charges that make buzzing noises to wake you up.
Features of Lightning Alarm Clock:

Beautiful neo-classic alarm clock with white lightning effects.
Wakes […]

FreeCom USB Flash Drive in Thin Credit Card Form Factor

Freecom has has launched thin USB flash drive that sport credit card form factor and claims that this is the slimmest flash drive. The flash drives comes in 256MB to 4GB capacities.
Specifications of Freecom USB Flash Drive:

Description
Specification

Data Capacity
256MB to 4GB

Transfer Rate
Read Speed: 8MB/s Write Speed: 7MB/s

Weight
10 grams

Dimensions
2 mm x 85.5 mm x 54 mm

If […]

Connect USB Devices Wirelessly to Computer using Wireless USB (WUSB) Technology

Dlink would introduce UWB Wireless USB ktis (DUB-9240) which would allow you connect all your USB devices to your computer wirelessly. Dlink takes advantage of the ultra wide band wireless technology to make this possible.
What is ultra wide band (UWB) wireless USB (WUSB) technology?
Wireless USB is based on the WiMedia Alliance’s Ultra-WideBand (UWB) common radio […]

JVC to Introduce 8.5GB Double Layer DVD-RW Media in August 07

Come August we can expect 8.5GB double layer DVD rewritable media (DVD-RW) from JVC. The specifications of the disc are:

The discs would be 1.2mm thick, with two 0.6mm polycarbonate substrates bonded together.
They can store data worth 8.5GB.
Would be available upto 2X (22.16 Mbits/s) writing speeds.
These discs are based on DVD-RW for DL Version 2.0 […]