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  Toshiba readies Cell-based graphics engine | Reg Hardware 

  http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/24/toshiba_readies_spursengine_gpu/

  Toshiba will next week formally announce a processor based on the Cell chip that sits inside each Sony PlayStation 3 games console. The new CPU will be pitched not only at consumer electronics kit but ... set head-to-head with today's PC and Mac graphics chips. To be fair to Nvidia, AMD and co., Toshiba's October announcement only covers a prototype of the bizarrely named SpursEngine processor - no, it's not going to be fabbed in Tottenham - as the company has yet to finalise the products specifications. What it'll be showing off on 2 October at Japan's CEATEC exhibition is a version of SpursEngine that contains four of the Synergistic Processing Element (SPE) cores that, along with a PowerPC-based general-purpose processing core, make up the PS3's CPU. Toshiba's SpursEngine: own goal or champion GPU? Alongside those four SPEs sit dedicated H.264 and MPEG 3 decode and encode circuitry, along with 256KB of on-chip data storage. The prototype processor will be clocked at 1.5GHz, Toshiba s   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 26 September 2007, by: Kris Sangani  [Report as spam]

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  Where broadband Internet is headed: To the kitchen 

  http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/16/news/novel17.php

  NEW YORK : Dream kitchens may soon include a computer along with the latest refrigerator or oven. That way, people gathered at the family hub can satisfy their digital needs along with nutritional ones. ... Hewlett-Packard's new TouchSmart IQ770 PC, which retails for $1,699 in the United States, is designed for that kitchen of the future, where people turn on the computer - along with the coffeepot - and then check the screen for the weather, ball scores and the family calendar as they prepare breakfast. The calendar on the TouchSmart is easy to use. Entries can be written on the touch-sensitive screen with a finger or stylus, or entered on a keyboard, so that everyone knows what is ahead during the day, from the dentist at 9 in the morning to the parent-teacher's association meeting at 7 in the evening. The computer also has a high-definition television receiver, a DVD player and a 19-inch, or 48-centimeter, screen that moves up and down and tilts, so that people having a snack at the   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 17 September 2007, by: Kate Porter  [Report as spam]

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  Inside IT: Tiny particles that are used to tackle the biggest issues | Technology | The Guardian 

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/jul/05/guardianweeklytechnologysection.it

  British nanotechnology company Oxonica yesterday announced a partnership with the US medical supply company Becton Dickinson to develop technology that could help quickly diagnose infectious diseases in ... the developing world. The government has rejected academics' calls for funding for a new nanotechnology centre, but has accepted that more research is needed to allow it to implement a sensible regulatory structure. The scientist who first warned that nanotechnology could spell the end of civilisation, thanks to swarms of "nanobots" consuming the planet, has said the scenario might not be so plausible after all. Nanotechnology - the science of the incredibly small - may pose a real threat to human health, scientists warned yesterday. Research shows that nanoparticles, the ultrafine powders produced by the nanotechnology industry, can build up in the brain if they are inhaled.   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 20 November 2007, by: Laura Adams  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  consumer electronics, nanotechnology, climate change, nanotech

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  TrustedReviews - Universal Mobile Phone Charger Format Agreed 

  http://www.trustedreviews.com/mobile-phones/news/2007/09/24/Universal-Mobile-Phone-Charger-Format-Agreed/p1

  Could this be the most sensible development of the year so far...? Delivering a great bitch slap of common sense today is the Open Mobile Terminal Platform - a consortium comprised of manufacturers like ... LG, Nokia, Samsung and prominent rebadgers such as Vodafone, Orange, 3 and T-Mobile - which declared a consensus on a universal mobile phone charging standard: the humble micro USB. Also given backing by the USB Implementers' Forum, the choice of micro USB (above right) is an interesting one since while most handsets opt for mini USB (above left), micro's reduced size has greater future proofing for ultra thin handsets and is still capable of supplying both power and data. On top of this there are the environmental benefits of single cable solutions and even financial rewards since money can be consolidated not having to regularly come up with new connectors (or even bundle one?), a saving which could be passed onto the consumer. On the downside, most smartphones were only just group   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 24 September 2007, by: Kris Sangani  [Report as spam]

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  paidContent:UK - Covering UK's Digital Media Economy 

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  Seven days after the UK iPhone launch, a survey finds British consumers really don’t want all-singing, all-dancing converged multimedia phones. Just 41 percent of 500 Brits surveyed - in Universal McCann’s ... survey of 10,000 in 21 countries ( via Guardian ) - said they’d like to own a converged handset. The problem? Device fatigue - 82 percent of us already has a mobile, 48 percent a mobile music player so the new wave needs to work hard to ween us off our existing purchases. Still, only 43 percent of respondents wanted wireless internet and, though 48 percent quite fancy having video on their mobile, a full 28 percent wants music features but none of the moving pictures. Curiously, even in the normally hyper mobile-savvy Japan and Taiwain, interest in owning a converged device only bobbled around 27 percent. Most excited of all were Mexicans (79 percent), Brazil and Malaysia (72 percent) and India (70 percent), suggesting those markets where penetration of rudimentary phones is still lo   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 16 November 2007, by: Jakub Uradnik  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  media, apple, consumer electronics, iphone, mobile , multimedia phone, phone, digital, content   [More...] [Less...]