Programmable Tattoos For Your Body

I just knew this was coming, Scientists at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have come out with the programmable tattoo concept. Human hair-sized nanotubes were embedded in the skin the display the image of your choice. The tattoo will still be visible even the power is off. You can change the tattoo to anything you like in an instant or make it go away. Wouldn't it be cool to flash a message or design across your body in an instant.

Scientists Close to Finding "God Particle"

Finding the Higgs Boson Particle - In February, the last piece of the ATLAS detector, the world’s largest general-purpose particle detector, has been lowered down a 300 feet shaft at the European Organization for Nuclear Research's (CERN) underground facility along the Swiss-French border. This concluded the construction of the high-tech device which started in 2003.

The ATLAS detector, measuring 46 meters long, 25 meters high and 25 metres wide, will detect and trace particles called muons expected to be produced in particle collisions in the CERN accelerator, known as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Meanwhile, British physicist Peter Higgs said yesterday that he is certain the new device will find a particle named the "Higgs boson," which is named after him. Also dubbed the "God particle," its existence was claimed by Higgs as far back as 1964, but using only scientific calculations.

European experiments are slated to begin later this year. The project will look for signs of the Higgs particle, which is believed by some scientists to be responsible for giving other particles their mass. CERN said in its statement that its entire muon spectrometer system contains an area equal to three football fields, including 1.2 million independent electronic channels.

Nokia Tube - Will It Crush Iphone

Nokia has given its touchscreen phone an early name of the Tube and full demo, Nokia Tube was revealed at the Evans Data Developer Relations Conference.

Nokia at the Redwood City-based event said its first touch device is internally known as the Tube and is said to be visually similar to the iPhone. However, the Finnish handset is already known to add features that its Apple competitor lacks, including the ability to directly upload videos as well as support for Java-based apps.

Neither additional features or a release date have been released, though Nokia has demonstrated the Tube playing Disney films the Third and last year showcased a likely related concept that includes iPhone-like photo navigation and an accelerometer that auto-rotates the image depending on the phone's relative position to the user.

Nokia VP Tom Libretto directly compared the Tube to the iPhone and explained that both features as well as sheer market influence would help Nokia outmuscle Apple. The latter has shipped 4 million iPhones as of January but is dwarfed by Nokia's sales, which saw 133.4 million phones shipped just in the fourth quarter alone. Apple is simply can not match that production scale, according to Tom Libretto

"We've done that [iPhone level of volume] since we've left the office on Friday," Libretto says.

Face Recognition Gone Terribly Wrong

Face Recognition Software obviously not what its cracked up to be. Yeah so, I am embarrassing myself here. However here are the splendid results of my celebrity lookalikes.

Who do you think I look Like? Most of the time when I'm out, people say I look like Robert Downey JR. I had to take this in stride with a grain of salt and some humor. These are the honest results. Click on the picture to get one for yourself with this gadget.

Ranger Robot Runs 45 Laps At Cornell - Sets Record

We're not sure what kind of batteries it was using, but the Cornell Ranger robot just kept going and going April 3 when it set an unofficial world record by walking nonstop for 45 laps - a little over 9 kilometers or 5.6 miles - around the Barton Hall running track.

Developed by a group students working with Andy Ruina, Cornell professor of theoretical and applied mechanics, the robot walked (and walked) until it finally stopped and fell backward, perhaps because its battery ran down. "We need to do some careful analysis to find out for sure," said Greg Stiesberg, a graduate student on the team.

An earlier version of the robot had already set a record by free-walking a bit over 1 kilometer, about .62 miles. (Another robot has walked 2.5 kilometers [1.55 miles] on a treadmill, Ruina noted. A six-legged robot has walked a bit more than 2 kilometers, and there's some debate over whether or not that counts.)

There are no rules for such records, Ruina admits, and the Guinness people were not involved. "There's a lot of rigmarole with that," he explained. The event, he said, was to show off the machine's energy efficiency. Unlike other walking robots that use motors to control every movement, the Ranger emulates human walking, using gravity to help swing its legs forward.

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Nanobots finally Get A Central Brain To Control Them

Recently, scientists have built the first ultra-tiny, ultra-powerful "brains" for nanobots.

The brain, just two billionths of a meter across - work as tiny computer transistors. But instead of carrying out just one operation at a time, like a normal transistor, the new controller can simultaneously perform 16 operations at once. In other words, the devices use parallel processing, like a real human brain - rather than serial processing - like a normal computer. The researchers call this ability "one-to-many" communication.

The tiny machines (see Picture Top Right) are composed of 17 duroquinone molecules that act as logic gates. The researchers arranged 16 of these molecules in a wheel, and placed the last molecule in the middle, which acts as the control center. The entire wheel was constructed on a gold substrate.

Each duroquinone molecule has four side chains that can be individually rotated to represent four separate logic states. Conventional transistors, on the other, have just two logic states: on and off.

The scientists also created the "world´s tiniest elevator," a 2-nanometer-tall device that can move up and down by 1 nanometer. They also plan to hook up the brain to a variety of nano-sized motors, propellers, switches, and sensors for different applications.

In the future, the researchers hope that they can control the central duroquinone molecule using proteins or other molecules, rather than the scanning electron microscope tip. For one thing, this ability might enable the brains to serve as tiny transistors packed onto a microchip for future powerful computers.

More futuristically, the brains could accompany nanobots for medical missions, such as bloodless surgery. As the scientists explain, specialized molecular machines could travel through veins to a tumor or damaged tissue, and perform surgery according to the instructions given by the new brains.

Nokia 5000 Cell Phone

Nokia 5000 Cell Phone is shaped like its 5310 XpressMusic with green on the sides. This gadget comes with a a 2-inch high resolution QVGA display,FM radio with recording ability, 1.3-megapixel camera, MP3 ringtones and support for email,Bluetooth and GPRS connectivity, Nokia Xpress Audio Messaging. Other basic features include advanced calculator, Bluetooth, screensavers and Image caller ID. The Nokia 5000 will be available in Cyber Green, Neon Blue and Perfect Purple. The Nokia 5000 is expected to hit the shelves in Q2.

Sony HDR-TG1 Super Small HDR

The Sony HDR-TG1 is the worlds smallest HDR 1080i camcorder. The HDR-TG1, measures at just 1.3- x 4.7- x 2.5-inches and weighs ten ounces. HDR-TG1 has a 4.0-megapixel sensor, 10x Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar optical zoom lens, 2.7-inch touch display, MS Pro Duo / Pro Duo Mark2 card slots and a BIONZ processing engine. The HDR-TG1 has so many features its well worth taking a look at.

Kabu Keitai 920SH YK Phone Allows Real Time Stock Trading

The Kabu Keitai 920SH YK, cell phone enables online trading and real time portfolio checking. The other is a Citizen iVIRT-M watch that pairs to the 920SH via Bluetooth, incoming calls, mail, and news are available without pulling out the 920SH phone from your pocket. You can take, reject or divert calls from the watch, use it as a remote camera shutter, with 1000 address book entries, the contact details of your caller probably will be posted on the screen.

The Kabu Keitai 920SH will no doubt be snapped up by stock brokers / traders as it frees them from a PC for the first time. The W-CDMA + GSM phone is available from Softbank Mobile and trading is done via SBI E-Trade Securities, though even without the trading function, this gadget has a ton of features.

Blackberry Curve 8330 - Very Sexy

Blackberry Curve 8330 will be released at the end of the month. The Blackberry Curve 8330 with 320 x 240 pixel display, stereo bluetooth audio, 2-megapixel camera, media player, GPS, microSD / SDHC expansion, and provides 260 minutes talk / 11 days standby. The Blackverry Curve 8330 is available $270 after a $50 mail-in rebate and it’s a 2-year contract for this gadget.

Thats a lot of phone for the money.