Samsung launched to the Indian this month the world’s first solar-powered cell phone, The Solar Guru E1107 which can be charged whenever and wherever the sun is shining. This new mobile phone is all about energy efficiency in design, charging, and consumption.
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World’s first commercial jetpack will be available soon for the price of $75,000. The jetpack can fly for 30 minutes at top speed of almost 100Kmh lifting up to 120Kg and reaching top altitude of 2,400 meters. The Martin Aircraft company plans to manufacture 500 units per year.
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Research team from the University Of Waterloo managed to create lithium-sulphur battery which stores three times more power than conventional lithium-ion batteries. The new battery expected to be much cheaper than currently available batteries and achieve long lifetime and stability. Options of mass production in the near future are being reviewed.
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GoldenGadgets sales a Portable Hybrid Solar Charger, that can charge many cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras. The charger can draw energy from the sun or from USB source like PC.
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Google and NASA will soon launch a new university which will teach all aspects of future technologies. This university, Singularity University, will first allow 30 students this summer.
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last week, the Indian Human Resource Development Ministry, the Indian Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Science met in order to discuss a roadmap for a direct challenge to the One Laptop, which will cost 10USD Per Child program. The technical spec of this laptop are not yet known but it will include a 2 GB memory.
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Panasonic showed at CES last night at Vegas a new 3D TV which is capable to play 3D movies that can be watched with special 3-D glasses. The company goal is that by the year of 2010 we will be able to watch 3-D home movies.
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HP offers money to people in the US who will send them their old tech equipment (such as PC, monitor, printer, digital camera, or smartphone). The target is to recycle by the year 2010 two billion pounds of electronic parts. People can even found out online how much their tech stuff worth on the new quote website that HP developed.
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