Archive for December, 2010

IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives in the Next Five Years

IBM formally unveiled the fifth annual “Next Five in Five” — a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years: You’ll beam up your friends in 3-D Batteries will breathe air to power our devices You won’t need to be a scientist [...]

Skooba Launches First-of-its-Kind Leisure Laptop Travel Duffel

Skooba Design has added a unique new “hybrid” travel/laptop duffel to its award-winning line of laptop bags and accessories. The company calls the all-new Weekend Warrior a first-of-its-kind tech/travel carry-on bag, ideally suited for leisure travel. The duffel is designed to eliminate the need to carry a separate laptop bag—especially for overnight or weekend trips—reducing [...]

D-Link Brings the Internet to Your TV With Boxee Box

The way you experience media on your TV will be revolutionized with the Middle Eastern & African availability of the Boxee Box by D-Link in January 2011. The striking black box allows users to watch available movies and TV programmes from the Internet, stream videos from nearly any website, exchange recommendations with friends using social [...]

GUNNAR Optiks 3D Eyewear Receives Certification from RealD

GUNNAR Optiks announced that it has received RealD certification for its line of optical-quality 3D lens and eyewear. By fine-tuning the company’s patented i-AMP3D lens technology to meet RealD’s specification, GUNNAR ensures that movie aficionados can now experience what 3D professionals and 3D content creators have had access to since the beginning of the year [...]

GE Scientists Employ Jet Engine Cooling Technology in Prototype LED Bulb

Scientists from GE Global Research, GE Lighting and the University of Maryland—as part of a two-year solid-state lighting program with the U.S. Department of Energy—have announced the successful demonstration of a 1,500-lumen LED bulb (a standard 100-watt halogen PAR38 bulb produces 1,500 lumens) that addresses key barriers to more widespread adoption of LED bulbs for [...]