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The 1987 GTE concept video Classroom of the Future demonstrates videophone technology as an essential tool in making people more productive. Sadly, it doesn’t seem like kids of the future are any more intelligent. Check out part one of this paleo-futuristic gem. See also:Homework in the Future (1981)The Answer Machine (1964)The Road Ahead: Future Classroom…
Gordon Moore, the mind behind Moore’s Law, predicts his law of doubling processor transistors every two years will be proven wrong in about 10 years. Apparently, there’s only so much room on a processor and so small you can make a transistor before you run out of space. [I4U]
Despite wireless USB just getting off the ground, Intel is supposedly working on a wireless USB 1.1 standard that will increase data transfer rates to 1Gbps. The standard would move Wireless USB’s operating frequency to the 6GHz range, up from the 3-4GHz current wireless USB is operating in. There are detractors, such as NEC’s Masami…
Director Abe Greenwald just released his documentary of what goes on during Geeks on Board cruises, featuring Woz and David Pogue, among others. This is a trailer. Best part is when they go ashore to some exotic local and everyone lays on the beach far from the water, with laptops in tow. Gotta be hard…
Intel plans to release a “Santa Rosa Refresh” in January which loads the 45nm Penryn chipset and “improved graphics capabilities”, the both of which allow for improved battery life and better Direct X 10 performance. The refresh laptops will also have 802.11n as well as Gigabit Ethernet networking. [Businesswire]
Giz buddy Sean Captain of Pop Science…Sorry, Séan… got a hands on of the Pico projector we saw at CES. From the photo, it looks surprisingly bright for a system meant to eventually be crammed into the gullet of a cellphone. The laser-based system is loud, but notes that we’ll hear of the Pico in…
Meizu’s at the copying game again, showing off some renders of their upcoming Meizu M7, along with specs and pricing information. We suppose that leaving all the UI work to Apple and co-opting it later allows them to keep prices at a low $100, $110, and $150 for the 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB models respectively.…
Rather than just blowing room temperature air at your laptop like other coolers, this External Chilled Air Docking Station from Embarco and Intel has a miniature compressor that actually blows cold air at your laptop. It’s claimed as the world’s smallest miniature compressor—similar to the effect that your fridge uses to keep your leftover Arby’s…
Here’s a design concept for a potentially infinite string of USB drives. The snake-like, flexible design is called Memory Infinite. As you daisy chain one to the next, their storage capacity increases; keep adding drives until you have neither more nor less than is required. String together enough of them and you have yourself a…
We seem to have finally gotten the login problems worked out of the commenting system. Use the login at the top of the page and not next to the comment bar if you’re still having problems. That one should work. We’ve also got new features like commenter following, so you can choose to follow the…
Intel showed off some intriguing devices today at the ultramobility keynote at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) Fall 07, and the most notable example was this strange-looking cellphone/portable PC, which is pretty much an iPhone clone running on Intel’s Moorestown platform. More pics and context, post-jump. If you’re not familiar with Moorestown, it will be…
Intel’s Larabee GPU will be out next year, and due to a highly parallelized architecture, it’s not only going to be good for video and math processing, but discreet graphics processing, too. The chips should have manufacturing advantages over those from AMD and NVidia, too, with half of the new chips to be made in…
The Pantech Duo, seen previously as the Helio Ocean, has just been spotted in the wild by a tipster. He takes some sample shots next to his V3xx RAZR, which should give you a good idea of how large it is in comparison. If it’s as thick as the Ocean, prepare to be either appalled…
Stanford’s Folding @ Home has just crossed the petaflop barrier thanks to all those PS3’s cranking away because there aren’t any decent games to play. And for those not versed in science, petaflop means a Marco Materazzi amount of flops. It’s science. [Folding]
Intel’s about to announce embedded support for both WiMax and 3G in their upcoming Menlow chip packages, which fit nicely into UMPCs running either Windows or Linux. Intel’s Ultra Mobility Group will give the WiMax, 3G, and Wi-Fi options to UMPC builders, but it will be up to these OEMs to incorporate the features into…
Update: Turns out Energi to Go hasn’t been tested to work with the new iPods or the iPhone, as Mobile Whack reported. It only works with the old iPod Nanos and the iPod Videos. Original post below. The Energi To Go portable battery chargers from Energizer have just been updated to support the latest iPods.…
Powered by servos and microcontrollers that can move each part for a total of 56 degrees of freedom, the WD-2 (Waseda-Docomo face robot No.2) looks straight out of a Japanese horror movie. However, this shape-shifting robot face may be the first step toward bringing realistic humanoids to the world. And by realistic humanoids I of…
BenQ was hitting the floors of IDF showing off a new UMPC (although they call it a ‘mobile internet device’). While it may look like just a poor attempt to capture iPhone/iPod touch hype, it was surprisingly running Linux. Could we be moving towards a non-Microsoft based ultra-mobile future? [JKKMobile]
Intel’s 45nm Penryn chips aren’t even out yet and they’re talking about going smaller. Yesterday at their Developers Forum, CEO Paul Otellini, showed off a 300mm wafer built using an impresive 32nm process. Each 32nm chip will contain over 1.9 billion transistors. That’s more than 1.4 billion extra transistors compared with the 65nm chips that…
Digitimes’s insider at HTC tells them they just received ODM orders for Windows Mobile smartphones from Sony Ericsson to ship sometime in the 2nd half of 2008. We’ll find out whether this means SE will dump Symbian altogether (unlikely) or just have two smartphone OSes, like Palm. [Digitimes via The Unwired]
