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European researchers are working on 3D technology that does not require a pair of those nerdy glasses and can be viewed from several angles. A project nicknamed HOLOVISION which ended in April of last year was replaced by OSIRIS, which will continue through the end of the year. The resolution is said to be about 10x HDTV with projection engines driven by 9 high-end PCs and holographic imaging film being used. Expect this to not be accessible to the masses for awhile as the first applications will probably be in industry and/or science.
Read More 
| Physorg
Gallery: 3D TV Without Glasses Closer
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Cell Phone Elbow May Occur With Excessive Use
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Smartphones, Science,
Does your pinkie or ring finger ever tingle or feel slightly numb? This may mean that you are developing what doctors refer to as cell phone elbow aka cubital tunnel syndrome. Many of them have reported noticing the affliction that could result in damaging an essential nerve in the elbow by bending it too tightly. There are of course three solutions to this problem. Either put your device on speaker phone, switch hands or put down the phone occasionally!
Gallery: Cell Phone Elbow May Occur With Excessive Use
Always wanted to be a astronaut but would never pass the high standards? You can still hang with NASA as they are willing to pay volunteers $160.00 per day for lying down and playing games or surfing on a laptop. Travel and accommodations are also provided, as is a bedpan, because you cannot leave your bed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The project, referred to as Pillownaut, is meant to study the effects of micro-gravity.
Read More | New Launches
Gallery: Earn Money from NASA as a Pillownaut
Sharp Adds Cyan and Yellow to LCD TVs
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, HDTV, Science,
Sharp’s new line of LCDs will have cyan and yellow added to the RGB Spectrum. The 60.5-inch Five-Primary-Color LCD with “Multi-Primary-Color Technology” (special image processing circuitry) gives viewers about 99% of colors that human eyes can detect. Always on the cutting edge of viewing on the planet, the company will display their latest technology at the Society for Information Display Symposium in San Antonio this week.
Read More | Akihabara News
Gallery: Sharp Adds Cyan and Yellow to LCD TVs
eSoles Transmit Workout Data Via Phone
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Smartphones, Handhelds, Science, Transportation, Wireless / WiFi,
If you really want to know what’s going on with your body during that jog or other rigorous activity, eSoles will let your phone know cadence, power output, balance, speed and distance. The custom foot beds transmit the data from 11 pressure sensors via Bluetooth and are based on the company’s Imaging Kiosk System. A prototype has already been tested and Windows Mobile phones will be the first to try it out. Apps for iPhone and BlackBerry will be available later. Prices run from $49.00 for a basic version up to a deluxe model for $499.00.
Read More | eSoles via Newlaunches
Gallery: eSoles Transmit Workout Data Via Phone
While most discs can hold about 5GB data now, researchers from the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia have created five dimensional discs that can hold 2,000 times that amount. The team created the 10TB disc with a color dimension that uses nanoparticles that react to light according to shape, so that information can be recorded on different wavelengths. Polarization was also applied for recording layers of data. While there are still issues to work out, they foresee the discs in the market in the next 5 to 10 years. That will give us all time to save up the money to buy that much data in one disc.
Read More | Market News
Gallery: Austalians Developing 10TB Disc
The Baltimore-based company Under Armour was founded by Kevin Plank, a former football player who wanted a better T-shirt. His apparel is warn by many athletes and will now include “recharge,” a 2 piece body suit that pushes excess water from muscles to the bloodstream and relieves aches and pains. Based on research from the Univ. of Connecticut and Under Armour, the suit could be available by July for ~$200.00 for both pieces. We hope it will soon be there for the rest of us that could use some comfort after an extreme workout.
Read More | Baltimore Sun
Gallery: Under Armour Suit Eases Pain
Researchers Use Ionic Cooling for Laptops
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Design, Misc. Tech, PC / Laptop, Science,
Although Sharper Image and its Ionic Breeze purifier went belly up, Tessera and researchers from the University of Washington have teamed to adapt ionic cooling in a smaller form for laptops and other electronics. Supposedly the technology can extract about 30% more heat than a traditional fan at about half the power. Washington U’s Alexander Mamishev originally conducted research in 2006 before Tessera licensed it. And while the lifespan is not yet up to the 30,000 hours of life target, we may see it come to market next year.
Read More | MIT Technology Review
Gallery: Researchers Use Ionic Cooling for Laptops
Polystyrene Increases Power in Biodiesal Fuel
Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Science, Transportation,
Two researchers from Iowa State University figured out how to get rid of some of the excess styrofoam. Najeeb Kuzhiyil and Song-Charng Kong placed different amounts of polystyrene packing peanuts into biodiesel and found that it dissolved almost immediately. They also found that the power out increased up to 5%. Before you get too excited, the two scientists also noted that it increases the fuel’s emissions of carbon monoxide, soot, and nitrous oxides. They will continue to work on the problem, but we are thinking that the best way to get rid of the awful stuff is to not use/buy it anymore.
Read More | Physorg
Gallery: Polystyrene Increases Power in Biodiesal Fuel
While we were all leading our mundane lives the past week, astronauts John Grunsfeld and Andrew Feustel spent 7 hours installing a new camera on the Hubble Telescope. This cam replaces one that was built in the 90s and is sensitive to infrared and ultraviolet light as well as the human eye’s wavelengths. As we have previously mentioned, this is NASA’s final trek that over an eleven day period includes replacing a key computer.
Read More | Reuters
Gallery: Astronauts Repair Hubble Telescope
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