FastCompany reports that researchers at the University of York have discovered that waste from old LCD TVs can be recycled for medical purposes.
The researchers believe that polyvinyl-alcohol (PVA), one of the materials used in polarizing films on the front and back of LCD displays, can be transformed into pills, dressings, and even a substance [...]
Perhaps former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was right, the Internet is just a bunch of tubes and finally the plumber we need to fix the tubes is here!
This handcrafted Nintendo hero, stores 4GB of memory inside Mario sitting atop one of Mario Bros.’ famous question boxes. You can also store your data with [...]
Intel has been working on wireless power transmission technology for several years, which I wrote about earlier, that now works over longer distances. At its Intel Research Day at the Computer History Museum in Mt. View California, on 06-18-2009, the company showed off a new variation of the idea that power can be transmitted through [...]
On Thursday (06-18-09) LG, and NComputing announced an agreement where the Korean manufacturing giant will include NComputing’s desktop virtualization hardware on a new line of LCD monitors slated for release in June 2009.
NComputing’s desktop virtualization product includes both a proprietary hardware access device and Vspace desktop virtualization software. The hardware piece will be integrated in [...]
Like the most of us (except the bankers) global sales of servers have taken a beating since the first quarter of 2008. Server sales have declined over $3 billion due to the economic slowdown meltdown recession and the growth of virtualization. Today, the global server market stands below $10 billion.
Since Q1 of 2008 IBM’s server [...]