Leapfrog's New Handheld Handheld gaming systems are a great way for kids to pass the time on summer afternoons. Kids use them in the car, on airplanes, and even outside when they should be playing. If the kids are playing with them, why not trick them into learning a little bit. That is Leapfrog's plan with their new handheld edutainment device The Didj Custom Gaming System What is the point with another handheld gaming system (especially since it........Go to the Gadget-blog (Added on 7/8/2008 5:07:11 PM) Eco-friendly packaging for 3G iPhone For those of us plagued by thoughts of waste when contemplating ditching our old iPhones to upgrade to the 3G iPhone, there''s a bit of good news, as it turns out that the packaging for the new iPhone to be released on July 11th is made of recyclable potato starch. Dutch company PaperFoam, maker of carbon-friendly packaging, is providing millions of paperfoam packages to Apple........Go to the Cell-phone-blog (Added on 7/3/2008 9:58:07 PM) New Laws Restrict Cell Phone Usage © David the Pimp Dadd Effective July 1, 2008, the state of California will impose new cell phone laws that contains the following high points Anyone under the age of 18 can not use a wireless phone or mobile service device. This includes telephones equipped with a hands-free device.Anyone 18 and older can not use a wireless phone unless equiped with hands-free operation.The law permits a driver, regardless of age, to use a wireless........Go to the Cell-phone-blog (Added on 7/2/2008 8:28:57 PM) The Google iPhone Affair Google has its own Android initiative but there are other statistics that suggest the there is more love for the iPhone. Recent statistics have shown that the access to the search engine from Apple's slick device is huge An excerpt from SearchEngineLan ....they found that 1.3 million searchers conducted 6.9 million searches for iPhone-related search terms in April 2008 alone. Of those 6.9 million searches, 88.4 percent came from........Go to the Cell-phone-blog (Added on 7/2/2008 8:28:44 PM) Gold Plated Samsung SGH-D780 Russia is one of the strongest contenders in the coming Olympics in Beijing and Samsung has thought of the perfect marketing strategy by announcing a Gold Plated version of Samsung SGH-D780 as the official phone for the Russia Olympic team. The Samsung SGH-D780 boasts 2 SIM card slots, a 2 megapixel camera, 2.1 inch QVGA screen, Bluetooth, FM Radio, microSD slot and a 1200 mAh battery. All in all it is a decent phone with shiny looks. It is........Go to the Cell-phone-blog (Added on 7/2/2008 8:17:25 PM) Electronic Ear To Judge And Coach Vibrato Technique the pulsating change of pitch in a singer's voice -- is an important aspect of a singer's expression, used extensively by both classical opera singers and pop stars like Shakira. Usually, the quality of a vibrato can only be judged subjectively by voice experts. Until now, that is. A research group from Tel Aviv University has successfully managed to train a computer to rate vibrato quality, and has created an application based on........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 6/30/2008 6:51:53 PM) Firefox 3 World Record Last week, the all new Firefox 3 browser was downloaded more than 8 million times in 24 hours. That''s more Firefox downloads than ever had in a single day. At the moment, the people of Guinness review this World Record attempt.If you downloaded Firefox 3, try this. Type about:robots in the address bar to see this Easter Egg.........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 6/23/2008 9:44:01 PM) Discovery could enable development of faster computers Physicists at UC Riverside have made an accidental discovery in the lab that has potential to change how information in computers can be transported or stored. Dependent on the "spin" of electrons, a property electrons possess that makes them behave like tiny magnets, the discovery could help in the development of spin-based semiconductor technology such as ultrahigh-speed computers. The scientists were experimenting with........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 6/23/2008 6:58:06 PM) Protecting Computer Networks From Internet Worms Researchers may have found a new way to combat the most dangerous form of computer virus. The method automatically detects within minutes when an Internet worm has infected a computer network. Network administrators can then isolate infected machines and hold them in quarantine for repairs. Ness Shroff, Ohio Eminent Scholar in Networking and Communications at Ohio State University, and colleagues describe their strategy in the current........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 6/4/2008 10:45:40 PM) P4P system for efficient Internet usage New Haven, Conn. A Yale research team has engineered a system with the potential for making the Internet work more efficiently, in which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software providers can work cooperatively to deliver data. The way people use the Internet has changed significantly over the past 10 years, making computers seem to run less efficiently and putting strain on the available bandwidth for transmitting........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 5/27/2008 10:22:59 PM) Interactive Web sites draw minds The interactive look and feel of a corporate website could help shape positive perceptions about the organization if the site includes a likeable design and features that engage the target audience, particularly job seekers, as per media researchers. S. Shyam Sundar, professor of film, video and media studies at Penn State, and Jamie Guillory, formerly an undergraduate student at Penn State, are trying to understand how interactivity in........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 5/26/2008 8:43:24 PM) Broadband access opens doors to networking Proactive policies are needed to facilitate broadband Internet access and adoption in rural areas so that rural hospitals, schools and businesses can drive social and economic development and better position themselves to compete, say Penn State scientists in a recently released report from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania. The report, "Broadband Internet Use in Rural Pennsylvania," examines broadband availability and adoption in four........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 5/19/2008 8:15:45 PM) Free Applications for Nokia N95 and Nokia Smartphones Mippin Mippin is the free application that allows you to get your favorite web content and information delivered directly to your Nokia Smartphone. It delivers latest news, videos, pictures, blogs and more. For more information visit Mippin.co Mobii - Wireless Pleasure........Go to the Cell-phone-blog (Added on 5/18/2008 6:25:10 PM) A Slightly Old New Camera New models of anything, cars, cameras, appliances, and computers, e.g. are always appealing and hold the promise of better performance Usually that is the case, but sometimes the new isn't any better than the old, and many times the old is still able to hold its head up among the newest competition If you need or simply want a new digital camera and your budget is limited, or you simply don't want to spend more than X amount of........Go to the Gadget-blog (Added on 5/8/2008 7:53:05 PM) Graphene-based gadgets may be just years away Scientists at The University of Manchester have produced tiny liquid crystal devices with electrodes made from graphene an exciting development that could lead to computer and TV displays based on this technology. Writing in the American Chemical Societys journal Nano Letters, Dr Kostya Novoselov and his colleagues from The School of Physics and Astronomy and The School of Computer Science, report on the use of graphene as a transparent........Go to the Gadget-blog (Added on 4/30/2008 6:54:58 PM) Hackers learn to threaten computer hardware AS IF computer viruses and worms arent enough of a nuisance, malicious hardware, which will be much more difficult to detect, could soon become a threat too. Today, computer viruses, which are programs downloaded either as an email attachment or when someone visits a website, are responsible for most computer attacks. Hackers use them to gain control of a computer so that they can press-gang it into sending spam or downloading more malicious........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 4/30/2008 6:15:30 PM) Black and Decker Pocket Power While I've been using the Solio H1000 as my in-transit charger for the past several months, I found a good deal on Woot recently for the Black and Decker Pocket Power-two for $20, shipped to my door While I like the option of solar-power charging that the Solio provides, in practical terms, it's not something I can use. However, the Black and Decker Pocket Power just stores power from your mains and gives you up to 16 watts of juice........Go to the Gadget-blog (Added on 4/23/2008 5:37:34 PM) Wanted: Forty-thousand More Health IT Professionals Study by OHSU expert says a 40 percent hike in IT workforce will be needed to move U.S. healthcare toward a paperless system that controls costs and reduces medical errors. If the U.S. healthcare system moves toward wider adoption of advanced information technology systems to control health care costs, reduce medical errors and improve patient care, it will need at least 40,000 additional health IT professionals - or almost 40 percent more........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 4/17/2008 7:37:17 PM) Solar Bicycle Rider Lamp This is one must-have cute home accessory - the solar powered bicycle rider lamp. The cuteness factor is propped up by the fact that whenever this lamp is exposed to sunlight, the bicycle rider within starts pedalling, turning the lamp into a delightful piece of art. The solar panel itself is on a rotatable base so that you can easily catch the source of sunlight. During a cloudy day or at night, you can use it as a conventional lamp (40W) by........Go to the Gadget-blog (Added on 4/9/2008 8:26:54 PM) Not-So-Digital Future of Digital Signal It's possible, and in some cases, it's already happened. In any event, performing digital signal processing using organic and chemical materials without electrical currents could be the wave of the future - or so argue Sotirios Tsaftaris, research professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and Aggelos Katsaggelos, Ameritech Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, in their recently published "point of view" piece........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 4/7/2008 10:33:22 PM)

Pubmedfight You definitely know Googlefight where you can compare the number of search results returned by Google for two terms or expressions (Wikipedia) What about a similar tool in health science? Here is Pubmedfight, a French tool, with which you can compare authors by their number of publications in Pubmed........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 7/8/2008 4:20:21 PM) The Sarniematic 6 Cheddar-O-Meter The Sarniematic Cheddar-o-meter, produced by West Country Farmhouse Cheesemakers, will utilise a newly discovered formula to ascertain the Sarnie Strata Ratio for your perfect cheese sandwich based on your choices of filling and calculate the optimum thickness of the slice of West Country Farmhouse Cheddar you should use.........Go to the Gadget-blog (Added on 7/8/2008 4:07:19 PM) Mobile Bluetooth presenter mouse You may not get excited by mice, but I have quite a collection of the cute critters. There''s the Logitech multi-media zoomer, my pink Kensington travel model, the Kensington travel model ergonomic version, not to mention the drawer full of reject mice that weren''t up to my exacting standards The Kensington travel model Presented Mouse by Kensington is my newest pet. It combines a full-function laser mouse and presenter in one sleek........Go to the Gadget-blog (Added on 7/3/2008 9:57:43 PM) Sony Ericsson wins the Green Peace Award Sony Ericsson is going through a rough time lately but finally there is some good news for Swedish-Japanese mobile giant. It has won the Green Peace Award to become the greenest electronics company in the world. This is definitely a milestone for the struggling mobile giant as it is the only company that has secured 5 out of 10 points. Nokia came second followed by Samsung, Dell, Toshiba and other companies This is the result of environment........Go to the Gadget-blog (Added on 7/2/2008 8:27:52 PM) Opera Mobile 9.5 beta available on July 15 Opera has announced that its new mobile browser would soon be available for download. The new Opera 9.5 mobile would be based on the same engine as the Opera 9.5 Desktop browser. It will offer a better user experience and support many latest and popular web standards and technologies........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 7/2/2008 8:17:49 PM) Canon's Tiny Personal Digital Photo Printers Do you want or need the convenience and speed of a quality home digital photo printer with a small footprint If so, then a dedicated 4X6" digital photo printer may be the answer, and there are plenty of them from which to choose These small printers turn your digital camera into a sort of "Polaroid" instant camera and work wonders for parties and get-togethers because of their portability. In fact there are several models........Go to the Gadget-blog (Added on 6/23/2008 10:09:47 PM) Bill Gates Looks Back Microsoft''s Bill Gates gave Fortune magazine access to some rare photos from the Microsoft archives - and shared his memories about them.(via Doobybrain)........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 6/23/2008 9:43:50 PM) Dartmouth launches network security study A team of Dartmouth scientists is preparing to launch a project that examines the campus wireless computer traffic in an effort to learn how the network is used and how to best maintain its security. The project is called the Dartmouth Internet Security Testbed, or DIST. "Our campus environment is the perfect place for this project because we can examine live network activity at scale and in real time," says David Kotz, professor of computer........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 6/10/2008 9:47:02 PM) Balanzza luggage scale Have you ever been at the airport and seen a parade of dazed and elderly Asians, trailing bags that could easily have held a couple of large humans? You were witnessing an immigration, and those bags held every single earthly possession of those people. Seeing one of those sarcophagus-shaped bags always chokes me up because they become a bit of a legacy- those bags live in the homes of immigrant families forevermore. Most often, they''re used........Go to the Gadget-blog (Added on 6/8/2008 8:07:59 PM) New wireless sensor network keeps tabs on the environment Have you ever wondered what happens in the rainforest when no one is looking?. Research in the University of Alberta's Faculty of Science may soon be able to answer that question. The departments of computing science and earth and atmospheric science have been working together to create a Wireless Sensor Network that allows for the clandestine data collection of environmental factors in remote locations and its monitoring from anywhere in........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 6/4/2008 10:27:56 PM) Don't let cyberspite destroy your good name YOU buy a television on eBay. When it arrives, you eagerly unwrap it, only to find it is badly scratched. You return it, and leave a negative comment about the seller on the site. The next day, you find the seller has retaliated by posting a nasty comment about you, branding you as a time-waster. Suddenly, no one wants to sell to you and your reputation is in tatters. Until now eBays rating system, which allows users of the auction and........Go to the Cell-phone-blog (Added on 5/21/2008 9:46:50 PM) Biomedical Imaging in Palm of Hands Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a narrowband filter mosaic that will expand the uses and functionality of multispectral imaging-a technology that enables subsurface characterization. The new, single-exposure imaging tool could significantly improve point-of-care medical and forensic imaging by empowering front line clinicians with no specialized training to detect and assess, in real-time, the severity of bruises and erythema,........Go to the Gadget-blog (Added on 5/20/2008 9:50:33 PM) NIST tool helps Internet master top-level domains At the request of a worldwide Internet organization, a computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) developed an algorithm that may guide applicants in proposing new top-level domains the last part of an Internet address, such as.com, that people type in navigating the Web. As new top-level domains are added to the familiar.com,.info and.net, the algorithm* checks whether the newly proposed name is confusingly........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 5/18/2008 9:54:32 PM) Orb Audio Speaker Systems We live in an age where every person wants the coolest sound system at the lowest possible price, and Orb Audio is ready to play. Orb Audio produces speakers with a very distinct shape. They are stylish and round at about 4 inches in diameter. That's about the size of a baseball, and they produce sounds that hit out of the park. The basic set, the Quick Pack, includes two of these speakers, and they cost about $239. You can also buy........Go to the Gadget-blog (Added on 5/18/2008 6:24:55 PM) A new role for cell phones in telemedicine After launching a communications revolution, cell phones are talking up a potentially life-saving new role in telemedicine the use of telecommunications technology to provide medical diagnosis and patient care when doctors and patients are hundreds or thousands of miles apart. Scientists in the United States and Brazil describe development of a simple, inexpensive telemedicine system that uses ordinary cell phone cameras to collect medical........Go to the Cell-phone-blog (Added on 5/5/2008 7:42:21 PM) A CluE in the Search for Data-Intensive Computing The Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) released a solicitation for proposals for the new Cluster Exploratory (CluE) initiative. The CluE program was announced in February as a part of a relationship between Google, IBM and NSF. NSF hopes this initiative will help lead to innovations in the field of data-intensive computing, as well as serve as an example for future........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 4/30/2008 6:39:49 PM) Samsung Soul U900 Phone Launched Korean mobile phone giant Samsung has launched its new phone known as the Samsung Soul (Spirit of Ultra) in the European region. Announced at the 2008 Mobile World Congress, this phone is available for purchase in the UK, France and Germany. It will be available in three exciting colors: sterling steel, Soul gray, and platinum silver and expected to be priced at 400 Euros........Go to the Cell-phone-blog (Added on 4/23/2008 5:37:59 PM) TeraGrid Computing Capacity The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $65 million grant to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) to develop Kraken, a state of the art supercomputer. Kraken will enhance the computational power of the TeraGrid, the world's largest, most powerful and comprehensive distributed cyberinfrastructure for open scientific research. "Like the gargantuan sea monsters Kraken, which inspired the naming of this supercomputer,........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 4/10/2008 8:13:29 PM) Step Toward Creating Quantum Computers For now, full-fledged quantum computers are the stuff of science fiction - in last summer's blockbuster movie Transformers, the bad guys use quantum computing to break into the U.S. Army's secure files in just 10 seconds flat. But Prem Kumar, the AT&T Professor of Information Technology in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the director of the Center for Photonic Communication and Computing, and his research........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 4/8/2008 10:19:51 PM) Copy to 20 USB drives at once What would you do if you had to copy a couple of hundred megs of data to 20 USB drives in under 5 minutes? That''s easy, right? But look at the constraint - you have only one PC. Now, that''s a toughie The Nexcopy USB duplicator allows you to copy as much as 250MB of data to 20 USB drives in one shot. In under 4 minutes. Now, who can beat that? For companies, this device can save much time and effort, for example, when duplicating official........Go to the Computer-blog (Added on 4/6/2008 6:55:44 PM)