Litrosphere – a substance that glows for 12 years without external energy!

Tritium is the glow substance that commonly found on watches that makes the dial and the hands of a watch to glow. But most people are skeptical whether the tritium-filled watches will expose human body to any harmful radiation or not. Anyway, a company called MPK, seems to have found a better way of making use of tritium to make better glowing substance. They used a method of stuffing some tritium inside a phosphor-coated microsphere to form a new kind of glow substance, which will glow non-stop for 12 years without supplying it with energy.

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U-Disp, USB Statistics Display, shows your most concerned online stats

You’re most concerned with how many Diggs you’ve got for your blog post, how many new emails you have and the number of hits your blog is getting. And you wish to have a device that could be attached to your computer’s USB port and with simple display that would tell you all these stats, by just taking a peek at it. I think there is no such a device in the market yet, but if you’re brainy enough and with little knowledge of electronics, you can follow the instruction on the project page to build one – a device called U-Disp which stands for USB Statistics Display.

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Sound Leaf Plus Bluetooth cell phone best use for noisy urban environments

Japanese would have been pretty frustrated with the noisy city environment, especially when talking on cellphone. Imagine, while you’re stuffed in a commuter train, an urgent phone call comes in, you’d have problem to hear what the callers are trying to say over the phone. NTT Docomo, the Japanese cellphone provider, has taken a step ahead, has produced a pretty unique cellphone both in terms of its shape and also its sound transmission technology.

As shown in the picture, the Sound Leaf Plus Bluetooth cell phone, you can obviously see that the cellphone looks either like robot finger or an electric shaver. It’s all up to you what you’d like to describe it as. In transmitting sound, it uses bone conduction technology to ensure the best transmission of sound to user, regardless the noisiness of the city environment. The phone runs on two AAA batteries and will be available in February next year in Japan for a price of $116 or 13,000 yen.

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IBM shrinks supercomputer into laptop form factor!

No doubt supercomputer is super fast to solve all the very complex computational problems. But the downside is its size – the size of a fridge that makes it impossible for your to bring around to assist you to solve complex engineering problems, or for hackers to make their hacking life easier. So, did you get my point? No matter what reason, that always puts you into difficult situation that only a supercomputer can solve the problem for you, perhaps, you wouldn’t need to tolerate this difficulty for too long. As IBM has found a way to clam supercomputing power into a computer that is in the form of a laptop.

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Wireless keyboard encryption easily broken

Are you one kind who hates tangling wires and you want everything to be wireless? You’d have recently equipped yourself with a wireless keyboard that would probably add little neatness to your work desk. But be extra careful, when you’re shopping online using this wireless keyboard to punch in your credit card information on an online store or typing any confidential information using it, as the information transmitted wirelessly over its receiver based could be easily eavesdropped. It’s simply because of the encryption used by the wireless keyboard to safe guard data transmission to its receiver is easily breakable. And the researchers at Dreamlab Technologies AG and Remote-exploit.org have proved that!

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World’s fastest graphic memory chip, GDDR5, by Samsung

Samsung’s new graphic memory chip is the world’s fastest chip that boasts a data transfer rate of 6Gbps. The new chip is GDDR5, which is about three times faster than the GDDR3 found in today’s game consoles.

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Bug Lab’s Linux-based modular cellphone

It’s another Lego idea. Of course, it’s not new to us. This cellphone produced by Bug Lab is a cell that you can dismantle into pieces and assemble them back to a complete shape of a cellhone. So in short, it’s just like Lego. Basically, each piece will have their own individual function. Such as if you don’t need the camera, then don’t stick it on, so you’ll have a slimmer and lighter phone.

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NEC wireless camera powered by magnetic induction of fluorescent light

The new wireless camera developed by NEC can be powered by a fluorescent light. Having it attached close to a fluorescent light, you just need to connect a ring-shaped component to the fluorescent light to take power from the bulb. Its way of taking power from the bulb is by means of electromagnetic induction generated by the AC source (45-100kHz) in the fluorescent light. It’s kind of convenient for super stores or offices, which you need no additional power for this camera, as long as you keep the fluorescent lights on your ceiling on.

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Super USB aka USB 3.0 available in January and promises a speed of 4.8Gbps

USB 3.0 is on the way and it’ll be available in January 2008. And will be presenting us an amazing data transfer rate of 4.8Gbps.

The USB 3.0 will be called Super USB. Here are the specs of the USB 3.0 at a glance after the jump.

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Switch Me spice container brings pushing button to dining table!

Geeks are used to pushing buttons or pressing switches only. When coming to dining table you might have difficulty to identify which little bottle on the dining table is salt and which one is the pepper. Here comes the Switch Me concept, which is a container to hold salt and pepper. Of course, the container itself will have the compartment to segregate the salt and paper and the ingenious part is it comes equipped with a switch that wouldn’t let geeks be confused on the dining table. Just a press of a switch then you’ll be sure to get the right spice out of the little container.

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