According to Reuters, the paradigm of military UAVs is soon to be replicated by Miami police in Miami, Florida. Military UAVs are being continuously improved in the Iraq and Afghanistan battlefields, to a degree that they are now regarded as indispensable tools for a modern army.
This success has apparently not gone unnoticed among law enforcement [...]
In its quest to achieve 20% energy production from clean sources by 2010, Southern California Edison wants to turn large flat Californian rooftops into useful solar producing spaces. This new project is a followup to a massive wind project. It will eventually produce 250 MW, and installation will be on large commercial buildings at a [...]
Source: ars technica
Poor Microsoft. You have been hammered by almost everyone about the instability of Windows Vista. But what can you do when the largest GPU supplier writes low quality driver software that causes the whole OS to crash?
NVIDIA’s G80 architecture caused many problems throughout 2007 and the pie chart above -based on Microsoft data- [...]
Adobe’s Photoshop Express is now available online and free for everybody to use. Like its Premiere Express cousin, it uses Flash and all you have to do to get started is to register online. You get 2 GB of storage space and there are presentation choices. You can sync with Facebook, MySpace or Picasa and [...]
The statistics do not lie, the times are changing. Traditional newspapers and magazines have to face the inevitable. As older generations are replaced by the younger tech savvy ones, online news gain ever more momentum, to the detriment of paper publications. People like to get a quick glimpse of the news at the office, much [...]
UMPC sales have not exactly taken off. Being a product segment squeezed between light laptops and smartphones makes life very difficult indeed. That does not of course subtract any conceptual value from Jean Hong’s design, a combination of UMPC and alarm clock. It consists of two pieces that can be manipulated for use in your [...]
According to a post in Treehugger and the Earth Policy Institute, global energy generation from wind is growing in leaps and will very soon -estimated within a month- reach 100 GW! This considerable amount covers the needs of 150 million people!
Although certainly not solving global energy problems, it is a great start and holds even [...]
Modern cellphones sport an outstanding array of functions that could not even be imagined a decade ago. Now their use is extended beyond voice and data to special two dimensional barcodes that can replace paper boarding passes. Continental Airlines is currently offering that functionality to its US customers and is a step ahead of electronic [...]
Very few people will manage to get their hands on the new camera co-developed by Phase One and Mamiya. It is called the 645 by Phase One, or the 645AFDIII by Mamiya and is hailed as the most flexible medium format system in the world (great moto). Components are the usual body, backs (digital or [...]
Arthur Clarke is a typical case of an outstanding person ahead of its time. During World War II he got involved as an officer with the British early warning radar system that was one of the decisive factors that helped turn the war tide. As early as 1945, he conceived the use of satellites and [...]
I’ve been hearing about an Internet crash since the 90s. Of course nothing serious happened, but back then animated gif files were in fashion and “heavy” sites were hardly known. The proliferation of video on the web and plans for IPTV, HD videos and film downloads are now creating a new scare with a new [...]
There is hardly any camcorder that is not tested by the guys at camcorderinfo. Amid the storage medium confusion -HD, tape, flash, optical disc- there is also the even more serious matter of what format to choose. From the first HD generation, the only models that managed to offer good quality results were tape based [...]
When it comes to new technology standards, having a single protocol on which everybody can base their hardware and service decisions can only be described as a blessing. The European Commission has made a significant move by adopting DVB-H as the single European standard for mobile TV.
Critics argue that it is backed by Nokia and [...]
Source: Northrop Grumman
Usable laser guns are one of the technological aims of the American military. Northrop Grumman is one of a handful of companies that have the experience and financial background to push R&D to levels that could potentially spawn weapons that be used in the battlefield. It has recently succeeded in producing a laser [...]
As Gizmodo states, Canon’s 5D DSLR is around for 2 1/2 years and a replacement is definitely on its way. This length of life is highly unusual for a digital camera, even if it is a semi-professional DSLR.
So what elements have made the 5D attractive for so long? Most of all its full-frame sensor, in [...]
