Tuesday, October 7, 2008
GPS Receivers also can be spoofed
Just like flat-screen televisions, cell phones and computers, global positioning system (GPS) technology is becoming something people can't imagine living without. So if such a ubiquitous system were to come under attack, would we be ready? Read More
Now mobile phones can unlock car and start them
Mobile phones now will be fitted with technology that will allow users to unlock the car and start the engine without using conventional keys. Sharp designed a phone that would work on Japanese phone company NTT DoCoMo's network.. Read More
Who were you in 2001? Check Google's old index
Once of Google's 10th birthday gifts to the world is its re-release of a 2001 version of the search index. (The FAQ says there are "various technical reasons" for not displaying results back to Google birth year of 1998.) On it you can see what the service knew about any topic back then. Like you. Go ahead Read More
Sunday, July 27, 2008
This Robot Toots Its Own Flute
Atsuo Takanishi, a professor of engineering at Waseda University, Tokyo, has completed building the first member of his robotic orchestra, a flute-playing robot. Takanishi hopes to eventually create a humanoid robot orchestra. The next robot, currently in development, is a saxophone-playing robot, though Takanishi believes the process will go much faster because he started with one of the most difficult instruments. Read More
Set Top Boxes to Revolutionise Internet Architecture
'Nanonet' circuits closer to making flexible electronics reality
Researchers from Purdue University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have overcome a major obstacle in producing transistors from networks of carbon nanotubes, which could lead to the printing of circuits on plastic sheets for applications such as flexible displays or electronic skins to cover structures such as aircraft to monitor for cracks. The "nanonet" technology, circuits made of numerous carbon nanotubes that randomly overlap in a fishnet-like structure, has been hindered by metallic nanotubes that cause short circuits. Read More
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