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• 'Space Cube' could be world's smallest PC

  Measuring just 2 inches by 2 inches, the Space Cube is roughly the size of a large die. However, the cube is actually a tiny PC, developed by the Shimafuji Corporation in Japan. The PC is designed for use in space, where its task is to control various Read More...
  Posted Friday, August 29, 2008 12:42 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Computers, Space

• Rensselaer student invents alternative to silicon chip

  Huang, who comes from humble roots as the son of farmers in rural China, has invented a new transistor that uses a compound material known as gallium nitride (GaN), which has remarkable material properties. The new GaN transistor could reduce the power Read More...
  Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 6:01 PM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Computer processors, Computers, Silicon, inventors

• India Looks To Produce World's First $10 Laptop

  India's Ministry of Human Resource Development, with help from Semiconductor Complex, a state-sponsored designer and manufacturer of integrated circuits, has developed designs for a laptop that would cost about $47, while a $10 system remains the ult... Read more
  Posted Sunday, May 06, 2007 8:15 AM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Developing world, Computers, India

• $100 Laptop to Cost $175, Run Windows as Well as Linux

  The founder of the ambitious "$100 laptop" project, which plans to give inexpensive computers to school children in developing countries, revealed Thursday that the machine for now costs $175, and it will be able to run Windows in addition to Linux. ... Read more
  Posted Sunday, April 29, 2007 9:33 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Developing world, Computers

• Fun and profit with obsolete computers

  Even as the power and speed of today's computers make their forerunners look ever punier, a growing band of collectors are gathering retro computers, considering them important relics and even good investments. In an old barn in Northern Californi... Read more
  Posted Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:57 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Computers

• Computing, 2016: What Won't Be Possible?

  Computing and algorithmic processes are transforming business, the gloabl economy, culture, and even social sciences. Future trends in computer imaging and storage will make it possible for a person, wearing a tiny digital device with a microphone... Read more
  Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 9:44 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Technology forecasting, Computers, Information technology

• The bootless PC and terabytes on a dime

  Imagine a PC with instantaneous boot up or storing 10TB of data on a device the size of a dime with data-transfer rates unhampered by any latency. ... Read more
  Posted Tuesday, September 19, 2006 10:35 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Computers

• Revealed: world's oldest computer

  The "Antikythera mechanism," found amid the wreckage of a cargo ship that sunk off the tiny island of Antikythera in 80 BC, is the world's oldest computer, used to map the motions of the sun, moon and planets.... Read more
  Posted Monday, August 21, 2006 11:59 PM from KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News / 0 Comments

  Tags: Archaeology, Computers