Moving towards developing a green car, scientists from University of Sunderland have developed a Hydrogen-powered car. Named 'HyPower Nissan Almera' has been unveiled at the Partners4Automotive 2008 conference in the University campus. The team of scientists was led by Dirk Kok from the Institute ...

In consonance with the holy month of Ramazan, the world's leading consumer electronics company LG Electronics has introduced television in Saudi Arabia that has got the holy Quran built in. These TV sets, thus, can be used for dual purposes - as a general entertainment medium as well as for ...

US firm Plastic Logic has unveiled e-newspaper; measuring 8.5 x 11 inches, the paper will allow readers to annotate documents. The e-newspaper expectedly will offer option of embedded video to users. Currently, it is an un-named device. It would be manufactured in Germany. The device was shown off ...

At a time when internet and consumer electronics companies are vying to match their competence with that of US cable and satellite providers, Amazon has announced its new 'Video On Demand Service' for movie buffs. The internet retailer informed that those who want to avail their new service can ...

Technology manufacturer Intel and Internet giant Yahoo have collaborated to bring the internet to TV screens through the Widget Channel. The Widget Channel is an interactive 'snippet bar' at the bottom of the TV screen that shows weather, news, sports scores, stock prices and Flickr photos among ...

Researchers approach towards developing a zillion times faster computer is to use ultra fast lasers to manipulate arrays of semiconductor quantum dots. These arrays contain one electron each. Accordingly, quantum logic gates are formed by quantum mechanical interactions between the ...

Dell has introduced a new business laptop called Latitude E6400. The special feature of the product is that it can run for as long as 19 hours on a single charge. Margaret Franco who heads notebooks business said that E6400 comes in 14.1-inch (35.8 centimeter) screen, and has a life of 8 hours and ...

Anand based research firm has innovated an electronic school bag (ESB) which promises to be useful for government schools, and will cost Rs 1,200. Group chief of the company Jagdish Bharwad said that they have been working on this project for two years, and finally the device will be made available ...

Google sources confirm that it has launched its upgraded version of the hardware appliance Web search of office documents. Generally, the hardware appliance is bought by companies and governmental organizations. This pizza-size box can store 10 million documents and holds a self-contained search ...

Internets which is in existence for quite long needs new and structural changes in terms of security setup and meeting emerging challenges. Putting these issues in front, US government with the help of two research organizations is trying to renovate internet from starting. So far, $12 million have ...

Based on a telescope design invented by Isaac Newton, US technicians have developed TV displays which would consume less electricity comparatively. Anna Pyayt of the University of Washington, Seattle elucidated that one could build a brighter monitor for the same amount of energy or use less energy ...

Intel has launched its Centrino2 at San Francisco, USA. The new gadget will have high performing processor, and will be a Wi-Fi/ Wimax (optional). The technology which had to be released in Taipei in June this year, due to certain reasons was postponed till now. The new gadget will have better ...

International Business Machine’s Corp. (IBM) recently revealed that they have developed an advanced data masking technology that helps call centres protect critical data without disrupting customer service or business operations. Researchers have developed the technology at IBM’s India ...

Camero, an Israeli firm has co-developed a radar that can see through the wall, making military and rescue operations around the globe much easier. Camero, which developed the technology, has already sold it to several army and police forces. Ameer Beeri, Camero’s technology director remarked ...

IBM researchers are hopeful that using a network of tiny pipes of water to cool next-generation PC chips is possible.  The team of the researchers demonstrated the technology in IBM's 3D chips, where circuits are stacked one on top of the other. The researchers are of the view that water is ...

The combined research of University of Leicester and Northamptonshire Police in the UK has revealed new techniques for identifying fingerprints on metal. The finding is a major breakthrough in crime detection, which could lead to hundreds of cold cases being reopened once again. The ...

What all of us know about plastic is that it takes about a 1000 years or so to decompose, if they do at all. But this was unacceptable to 16 year-old Daniel Burd from Canada, who has come up with a method to decompose plastic within just three months! This 11 grader from Waterloo, Ontario ...

An international team has reached a conclusion that there is a hot spring deposit on mars. Their conclusion is based on the recent finding by Spirit rover. Recent digging by Spirit rover revealed a trench looking bright white which is sulfate mineral, says the expert. According to the researchers, ...

Netflix Inc, that offers DVD-by-mail service, started delivering movies straight off the internet to television sets through a new device, which boosted its stock by as much as 10.9%. This service was started by Netflix from Tuesday.
 
The device costs $99.99 and lets all the subscribers ...

Powerset on Sunday launched Wikipedia search tool which would use common phrases instead of keywords while searching any content. This marks Powerset's initial step to establish internet surf services like Google. The new technology launched by Powerset takes the sense of the sentences and words ...

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on Sunday, May 11, 2008 set up India’s first Helium Extraction pilot plant at Kuthalam near Mayiladuturai, Nagapattinam district. With the inauguration of the Helium extraction plant, India joined the ranks of select groups of countries having the ...

California based Amyris Biotechnologies has mastered the art of developing renewable fuel from sugarcanes. The US biotech company, in collaboration with Brazilian ethanol producers, is planning a joint venture to turn sugarcane into diesel fuel. John Melo, Amyris chief executive revealed that the ...

Specialists at the Orthopedic University Hospital in Heidelberg are presently busy examining a new prosthetic hand that works almost like a natural hand. The specialists state that this prosthetic hand can move each finger individually and holds an amazing range of grip configurations. It was ...

Software giant IBM will soon start a mobile web project which aims to make mobile use easier than personal computers (PCs). On the tenth anniversary of IBM\'s India Research Labs, IBM declared about its mobile web project.
 
The project is named \'The Spoken Web - Voice-Enabled Mobile ...

A team of scientists at the University of Manchester has produced the world’s smallest transistor, which measures little bigger than a molecule. The transistor is the first true electronic nanocomponent, which is one atom thick and ten atoms wide. The development of the small transistor is a ...

Information Technology giant, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has recently introduced two new products having energy saving capabilities - a UNIX server and a water-cooled supercomputer. The IBM press release stated that its two new products, being energy efficient, will help ...

Looking for a mass storage device at a low cost? Then this one surly suits you. IBM has developed a super fast memory storage device, which can not only store a large a mount of data, but is also cost effective. The memory is known as Racetrack memory and it uses spinning electrons to store data. ...

Researchers have developed a technology by which your car will be running on power derived from sugar. The process aims to convert sugar into hydrogen which will fuel the vehicles. In the process sugar is combined with water and powerful enzymes to produce hydrogen and carbon ...