Tag: tech Digest
T-Mobile lets you play with proper phones
250 of T-mobile’s UK stores are getting posh new touch screen demo booths, designed to let buyers check out what they’re about to sign up to 18 months of.
Logitech Cordless Number Pad for Notebooks
So if you’ve only got a tiny laptop and are always punching in numbers as a job or obsessive/compulsive hobby, now you can do it quickly.
A portable LCD screen for Wii owners with 20/20 vision
Not entirely sure it’d be possible to play Wii on something this small, but Japanese bit-maker Century reckons enough people out there have the eyesight good enough to use it.
3D films are the next big thing again
Just like they were in the 1970s and again for a while in the 1980s. This renewed optimism for 3D films is, of course, down to everyone making a whole load more money out of it all.
Price put on Daft Punk's robotic heads
The maker of the band’s LED robot helmets are putting them up for sale – with fans asked to pay $65,000 and seek permission from the band first. You’d have to be one hell of a fan.
Creative Zen Stone Plus gives you a hell of a lot for 50 quid
Even though the tiny Zen Stone has only just arrived, Creative’s tireless boffins have decided to up the spec already – adding an OLED screen, doubling the memory to 2GB and including an FM radio and voice recorder. For a tiny, budget MP3 player, the Zen Stone Plus is one hell of a package.
'Fish on a chip' could save your life
New technology called ‘fluorescent in situ hybridization‘, or FISH, automates testing for chromosome mutations in a bunch of different types of cancer. This cuts test costs by 90% and speeds up the test process by a similar factor. It also means patients in rural areas don’t need to travel so much, because test kits can be administered under simpler settings. Finally, since it tests for a variety of cancers, it means quicker notice of the disease jumping from one organ to another, like a stealth evil Tarzan in the jungle of your intestines. “I believe that this might be the most important thing that any of us ever do,” said the University of Alberta professor Dr. Linda Pilarski. [GT]
‘Fish on a chip’ technology may speed cancer diagnosis
Related posts:
USB EarScope shows you what’s inside your ear, seriously
Emotional Social Intelligence Prosthetic camera tells you if you’re boring
Mice without Cdk5 brain enzyme are smarter
Pet Shop Boys Go Fest – in Second Life
The world’s finest pop/dance/social commentators are performing a concert in Second Life at the end of the month, according to accidental internet revelations.
Sanyo PLC-XL50 LCD Projector works well near walls
Not everyone’s got a spare room the size of an aircraft hangar solely for watching TV in – which is why Sanyo’s come up with the PLC-XL50 LCD Projector.
