According to Flight Global, DARPA is planning to award a contract to build an unmanned aircraft that can stay in the air for up to 5 years at a time. DARPA named it the “Vulture” project and descirbes it as a “persistent pseudo-satellite capability in an aircraft package.” In other words, the aircraft can hover […]
Oil spilling is a big challenge to the environment, and the only solution to avoid its deadly effects is to to clean up the spill as soon as possible. This can be easily done with help of robots that do not fatigue and tire like humans do. Their designer Ji-hoon Kim named them OSP and […]
A new bluetooth headset The RoadRunner is actually a Bluetooth neckset. It’s using the same principle as bone-conduction speakers, the microphone picks up vibrations from your larynx and turns them into sound. As it doesn’t rely on vibrations in air, it’s useful in the outdoors, and “when driving a convertible or a motorcycle.”
Bookmark to:
Asus finally launching a ready-made gaming rig. Although Asus has been closely associated with PC gaming via their motherboards and graphics cards for some time now, but they’ve never produced a gaming computer.
Asus has not yet publicly disclosed any information however, I486.net beleives that the first Ares will sport the latest in Core 2 Duo […]
This Sunday Intel announced its new line of processors targetting the market for pocket-sized Internet devices and slimmed-down computers will be dubbed “Atom.” Intel plans to begin shipping the processors to its manufacturing partners this month.
The name is cute, even if anatomically inaccurate: The microprocessor will measure less than 25 millimeters square, less than a […]
The Britannia Royal Navy College scientist’s are working hard to make an invisible ship using metamaterials that refract light in such a way that it “bends” around an object, making it appear as if it were invisible. It will be invisible only with naked eye however they will even need radar cloaking. However, it appears […]
Attention Windows Mobile device owners. A new trojan is out that targets Windows Mobile devices and it installs silently on your device without any warning.
It sends the infected device’s serial number, operating system and other information to the developer of the trojan. The infected mobile device is left vulnerable by allowing silent installation of malware. […]
The Suntory Mermaid II Boat is totally different boat from what’s available in market so far, as it uses waves to power it instead of a motor. This is probably the most eco friendly power source ever since the sail’s introduction. In this boat a couple of fins are located side-by-side, bow are moved by […]
An iPhone Hacker called “Core” has managed to port a functioning P2P client based on Transmission to IPhone, which is a popular torrent app for Macs. This is for the first time some P2P torrent software has run natively on the iPhone
If anyone does give this one a go, let us know how you get […]
Softbank, Japan has miniaturized the robot part with its new Toshiba 815T PB clamshell cell phone. This is a full 3D handset, featuring a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus and a QVGA display.
Bookmark to:
You are currently browsing the i486.net - Tech Blog weblog archives for March, 2008.
