The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) association aims to provide the world’s children with an inexpensive laptop, to aid learning. To achieve some of the design goals, very innovative technology was applied. This includes an LCD display that can be switched between backlight (colour) and reflective (mono) modes, making the display viewable even in direct sunlight. Read more about this low power, low cost display on the OLPC wiki.
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One Laptop per Child
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010LG’s Transparent Display
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010LG showed off their concept transparent AMOLED display at the FPD 2009 show in Japan. Read more on Gizmodo and oled-display.net.
LG also announced that their 15″ AMOLED TV will go on sale worldwide sometime this year. Read more on Reuters, afterdawn.com, CrunchGear and oled-display.net.
Just think it…
Monday, January 4th, 2010… and it happens! Honda Motor Company has created a device that can analyse thoughts and convert them into commands to control Asimo, their humanoid robot. Read more here.
Nanotube Circuits
Monday, December 21st, 2009Technology Review reports that Stanford University has created the very first carbon nanotube circuits. Being much faster than silicon circuits, this is a very exciting technological advancement.
There are Flash Drives, and then there are Flash Drives
Friday, December 4th, 2009If it is a piece of computer equipment and it is manufactured in standard silver and black models, somebody will invariably mod it. :) And the USB Flash Drive is certainly no exception. Have a look at this incredible collection of 15 unique Flash Drives!
Intel 48-Core Chip
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Intel has demonstrated a single 48-core programmable chip. It is called a Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC). Windows and Linux have been successfully booted during demonstrations of the chip.