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  Taiwan’s ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) has developed a flexible AMOLED display that can easily be termed as the world’s thinnest flexible display. The display is just 0.1mm thick and can display images even when the display is folded. ITRI says the display has a folding radius of 5cm or less and can be [...]

  China’s Tianhe-1A created by the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) has been crowned as the world’s fastest Supercomputer. The fully operational supercomputer was revealed at the HPC 2010 China and runs at a record 2.507 petaflops, measured by LINPACK benchmark. Tianhe-1A has managed to achieve this extraordinary feat by integrating a whopping 7,168 [...]

  So you think Apple’s Retina Display is the ultimate screen for a device? Well, Ortus Tech from Japan thinks otherwise. They’ve developed the world’s first 4.8-inch display that supports full HD (1920×1080) resolution. The new display uses company’s HAST (Hyper-amorphous silicon TFT) technology and is able to show 458 pixels per inch (PPI) which [...]

  If you thought megapixel wars amongst mobile phone manufacturers came to a standstill, Sony has prepared a perfect weapon to start it all over again. However, this time it’s more about features than the megapixel count. Sony has created two Exmor R back-illuminated CMOS image sensors that can take pictures at 16.41MP or 8.13MP [...]

  We do know that Samsung is working to support the WiMAX 2 standard and now at the CEATEC in Japan, they’ll demonstrate the WiMAX 2 trial system with UQ Communications. The new mobile WiMAX standard is based on IEEE 802.16m that enables more faster, efficient data communication and is compatible with already deployed Mobile [...]

  Canon has announced that they’ve created a new CMOS image sensor, which is the world’s largest that can be produced from a 12-inch (300mm) wafer. The sensor measures 202x205mm, making it 40 times larger than size of Canon’s largest commercial CMOS sensor and is capable of gathering more light for an image or a [...]

  Canon has successfully managed to create a APS-H size CMOS sensor that can take pictures to up to 120 megapixel resolution (13,280×9,184 pixels). This new sensor has the world’s highest resolution for its size and when compared to Canon’s current highest-resolution CMOS sensor, the new APS-H size sensor is 7.5 times larger and 2.4-fold [...]

  SanDisk today announced a new breed of SSDs that can store huge amount of data in a very small size. The size we’re talking about is smaller than a postage stamp and SanDisk’s integrated SSDs or simply, the iSSD can store 64GB of data in that small chip. Shrinking the chip size means computer [...]

  Engineers at Waterloo Labs have devised a way to control things with our eyes. To illustrate a proof-of-concept they decided to mod an old Nintendo console to play Super Mario – yes – with the eyes. It’s achieved by placing electrodes around the eyes that track the movement. With the help of a modded [...]

  HTC’s decision to go from AMOLED to SLCD might have made few people worry about its actual performance. HTC claims SLCD to deliver a “comparable visual experience” to AMOLED but does it deliver? Well, a video from Howardforums sets to prove it as the new LCD tech goes head-to-head with conventional LCD, AMOLED and [...]

  Well, we already knew what HTC was up to but today they’ve thrown in an official press release acknowledging the use of new displays. HTC will now use Super LCD Display (SLCD) in its variety of phones and specifically in Nexus One and Desire that previously used a 3.7-inch AMOLED display. The reason for [...]

  Bluetooth 3.0′s adoption may not be as much as Bluetooth SIG have expected to be but that is not letting them to advance to the next version. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has announced the formal adoption of core specs of Bluetooth 4.0. Bluetooth 4.0 features include low power consumption during peak, average or [...]

  MIT researchers have developed a new way to check our eyesight which is way cheaper and portable than the current solutions available. The technique dubbed as NETRA (near-eye tool for refractive assessment) uses a plastic that costs about $2 and a phone loaded with the NETRA software. NETRA works by user placing its eye [...]

  Microsoft has developed a new technology that makes it easy for consumers to install batteries in gadgets, toys or virtually anything that requires CR123, AA, AAA, C or D size batteries. The technology known as Instaload and unlike regular batteries, it does not depend on positive or negative polarity making it easy to install [...]

  Samsung has introduced industry’s first 32GB load-reduced dual-inline memory module (LRDIMM). Servers used for virtualization, cloud computing or any other server applications will be able to take advantage of the 40nm-class memory that has 72 4Gb (gigabit) DDR3 chips and additional memory buffer chip to reduce load on memory by up to 75 percent. [...]