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This solar charger can charge your iPod, iPhone and AA batteries

PowerFilm Inc has announced the launch of their ultra compact solar charger that can charge iPod, iPhone and other consume electronic devices and even AA batteries directly. This solar charger can be folded and it folds to the size of a billfold.
The charger generates power using the solar panels and then stores the power in [...]

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First custom Openmoko phone now available with full bundle of custom Google applications

Remember Openmoko? - the open-source alternative to iPhone that we had covered earlier? Well, nevermind. Here’s a refresher - The Openmoko stack allows users and developers to transform mobile hardware platforms into unique products. The open license allows developers and anyone to install their choice of the software on the handset and customize the [...]

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DIY: Build your own Laser Projector

Do you like laser projects? This is perfect for your weekend projects, you can do on your own with some minor investment going towards laser controller software.

Here’s how the projector works, also check this gallery of the project in making:
The green laser bounces off a mirror then through a green beam splitter, the beam is [...]

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Is 810 Reference Video System the most realistic digital video projection system in the world?

UK based Meridian Audio has introduced its new flagship front projection system, the Meridian 810 Reference Video System, which is perhaps one of the most expensive front projection system.
The entire system consists of two main components. A 9.8 million pixel video projector unit and a video scalar. The product boasts of native contrast performance of [...]

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Alienware features NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M GPU in its 15.4-Inch Notebook

By using NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M GPU, Alienware becomes the first notebook manufacturer to feature it in a 15.4 inch notebook. Alienware Area-51 m15x 15.4 inch notebook is the only one in the market that offers the NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 3600M GPU for extreme graphic performance. The Quadro FX 3600M delivers support for Open GL [...]

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Engineers create a mini-microscope - the smallest in the world

Coming straight out of science fiction, here’s a tiny microscope that is roughly about the size of a coin and will easily fit into your pocket, or may be you could fill your pocket with such mini-microscopes. Creation of such a miniature microscope was possible using nanotechnology, you would have already guessed that, and features [...]

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Dell debuts ultra-small studio hybrid desktop

Dell has unveiled an ultra-small desktop PC, that it’s calling a ‘hybrid’, which features a laptop processor. The hybrid studio doesn’t compromise on the features that it offers but also offers significant savings in power bills as the hybrid model consumes less power than a regular desktop with similar hardware configuration. Dell claims that this [...]

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