The four inch gadget that helps British soldiers to pinpoint Taliban snipers

British soldiers are to test a revolutionary new device which can pinpoint the exact position of enemy snipers 1,000 yards away. The tiny computerised ‘sniper spotter’, which has been developed by Army scientists at the top-secret Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in Wiltshire, identifies the shooter’s location in an instant, enabling British troops to fire back immediately and accurately. The new high-tech gadget – just 4in square and weighing 11oz – is worn on a soldier’s arm. It is connected...

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Are we becoming more stupid? Human brain has been 'shrinking for the last 20,000 years'

It's not something we'd like to admit, but it seems the human race may actually be becoming increasingly dumb. Man's brain has been gradually shrinking over the last 20,000 years, according to a new report. This decrease in size follows two million years during which the human cranium steadily grew in size, and it's happened all over the world, to both sexes and every race. 'Over the past 20,000 years, the average volume of the human male brain has decreased from 1,500 cubic centimetres to 1,350...

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Britain's love affair with the Kindle confirmed: It was the best-selling gadget this year

Many doubted it would ever rival the traditional paperback. But the Kindle has become Amazon’s most popular product of all time - selling an estimated eight million in Britain and the U.S. this year. The device, which allows users to download and read digital copies of books and newspapers, threatens to consign printed books to history. It appeals to consumers whose priorities are convenience and portability, and follows the success of the Apple iPod, which lets users carry around their entire...

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By Jupiter! Comet dust and light from billions of stars and far-flung planets creates magnificent display in the desert night sky

If you live in a city it is easy to forget there is a stunning star-scape above your head, which is hidden by light pollution. But out in the Libyan desert, there is little to obscure your view. Amateur photographer and civil engineer Tunc Tezel captured the glorious night sky above Ras Lanuf camp in Libya. The 33-year-old from Turkey is overseeing a coastal railway construction between Sirt and Benghazi and was keen to take advantage of his isolated location. Although a glowing sky is often cloud...

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Android in space! Google send Nexus S 60,000ft above Earth - and it still works

It's official - there are little green men in space. Disappointingly the aliens are not from another planet but were launched from Earth by Google to test the outer limits of their new Nexus S phone. The tiny Android astronauts were strapped to seven payloads, which each contained one of the new mobiles. They were carried into Earth's outer atmosphere using weather balloo...

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exclusive-Tomorrow's world? Men on Mars and King William on the throne - Britons' predictions for 2025

Imagine waking up to a world where China is the world's leading superpower, astronauts are busy walking on Mars and a brand new political party is ruling the UK. Well this could be the reality in 15 years if some of the predictions of 100,000 Britons are correct. The massive survey asked the men and women of the UK how they pictured the world in 2025. Nearly half believe Prince William will bypass Prince Charles to be crowned King of England although one in six think the monarchy will have been...

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exclusive read-A bridge too far? China unveils world's longest sea bridge

China has unveiled the world’s longest sea bridge, which stretches a massive 26.4 miles – five miles further than the distance between Dover and Calais and longer than a marathon. The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge, completed earlier this week, links the main urban area of Qingdao city, East China’s Shandong province, with Huangdao district, straddling the Jiaozhou Bay sea areas. The road bridge, which took four years and cost a cool £5.5billion to build, will be open for use in the New Year and is almost...

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ViewSonic To Show 4G Tablet/Phone

ViewSonic is just a monitor company. Not so fast – the Wall Street Journal is reporting that ViewSonic is going to introduce a 4G Android tablet/phone at CES next week. The Wall Street Journal calls it a hybird phone/tablet, but the alleged 4-inch screen size really isn’t anything to write home about, considering we’ve seen bigger phones and tablets. In addition to that ViewSonic will be showing two other tablets, according to the WSJ. ViewSonic introduced their 10-inch G Tablet this year,...

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Samsung Looks To Show Off Next Generation AMOLED

Samsung’s looking to show of a 4.5 inch flexible AMOLED panel, which not only shows in WVGA (800 x 480) resolution, but can also be rolled down to as little as a one centimeter (.393 inches, roughly, for the non-metrics in the crowd). That alone is some pretty impressive stuff, but it doesn’t stop there, as they’re also looking to bring out a 19 inch panel designed for computer monitors and even televisions, offering up a full 30 percent transparency, even when activated. Last but not least,...

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LG ST600 Looks To Smarten Up Your Old Television

Cheer up, because the folks out at LG want to help you get your old television on line with their LG ST600 smart TV upgrader. Doubtless this is freaking out all the bandwidth providers out there–at least, if you believe what they’re saying–but what the LG ST600 will do is take your “dumb” display and turn it into a smart one. You don’t need an LG television, either; the LG ST600 will work with, apparently, most any television out there (oddly, I can’t quite pin down just what port you’ll...

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Grace Digital Lends Color Displays And More To Three Internet Radios

It’s been a while since we’ve had the opportunity to talk about much out of Grace Digital, so I’m glad to see they’re still working. First out of the gate is the Mondo, offering a 3.5 inch touch screen display with an actual alarm clock contained within (even down to the snooze button, an all too necessary feature for any alarm clock owner), as well as a USB port. This one’s set to cost $169.99. Second up, we’ve got the Bravado X, which offers a 2.7 inch touch screen display, RCA input and...

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Sharp Galapagos Tablets Expected To Arrive In US Market In 2011

Well, flash forward till today and while we are still waiting on something slightly more official, or at the very least — from Sharp, we do have word that Sharp has plans to release the Galapagos line of tablet readers in the US in 2011 and follow that up with a release in China, India and Brazil. The details are fairly vague at the moment and are coming by way of The Mainichi Daily (a newspaper). So far the details include that Sharp has plans to bring both the 5.8 inch and the 10.8 inch...

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University of Glasgow Researchers Create Thousand Core CPU

Yes, that’s right…a thousand core processor. I had to read that one a couple times myself, but apparently, they’ve done it. And how they got to that point is by using systems that are commonly found in plasma and LCD televisions called Field Programmable Gate Arrays, or FPGAs. An FPGA is a microchip with a bunch of transistors in it, and what the folks out at the University of Glasgow did was build their own FPGA, wiring up the transistors just how they wanted them and effectively turning...

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LG Set To Show LW6500 Passive 3D Television

It’s a 65 inch television that will be running TruMotion operating at 200 Hz to give it a nice blur-free image, the capability to convert 2D to 3D, HDMI and USB ports, a variety of internet options like YouTube and Hulu Plus, and I’ve heard mention of a brightness booster to keep things looking nice and sharp. You can probably also figure it’ll have component and composite inputs, an Ethernet jack (or possibly outright Wi-Fi connection to have the internet options), and it’s a pretty good...

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South Korea Has First All Electric Commercial Bus

It can be a bit interesting to watch countries that are considered behind the United States and Europe in power and influence still beat the world powers to the punch when it comes to things like having entire cities taking large steps to going green. Seoul, South Korea has announced that it is the first in the world to roll out all electric commercial bus service for its city. While there have previously been several different pilot programs all over the world and there have been other...

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Advanced X-Ray Camera Captures Lightning Bolt Strike

Most recently an X-Ray camera recorded what a lightning strike looks like when captured by a camera shooting 10 million frames per second. The X-Ray camera 1,500 pound camera was built by researchers who wanted to learn more about these lightning strikes. Of course it is awful hard to predict where lightning will actually strike and because of this the researchers fired rockets into thunderstorms that were laced with metal lines geared towards drawing the electricity to the certain desired...

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HTC Thunderbolt 4G Pictures Come Out Early?

Life is posting what are allegedly the first pictures of the HTC Thunderbolt, aka the Incredible HD, aka the Mecha, aka the first 4G LTE phone on Verizon that’s expected to be unveiled next week at CES. According to Droid-Life, it’s very similar to the Desire HD / EVO 4G and will be called the “Thunderbolt”.  Droid-Life seems conflicted on if the phone will carry the Droid branding. They say it’s possible that the phone will come default with Bing as the search engine – which would make...

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Onkyo Announces TA117 Tablet

The Onkyo TA117–which will come in sub-flavors the TA117C3 and the TA117C1–is set to offer (for both) a 10.1 inch touch panel display running at 1024 x 600 resolution, Android 2.2, an Nvidia Tegra 250 processor running at one gigahertz, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, a microSD slot, two USB ports (just 2.0, I’m afraid), an HDMI output for when ten inches just isn’t enough screen, 1.3 megapixel camera, and a docking port with optional stand. The sub-flavors, meanwhile, really only differ...

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To help boost the IT literacy of the Japanese kids, Toshiba has rebranded and introduced its former Classmate PC Tablet created together with Intel for the Japanese market. The new tablet will be known as the CM1, an initiative reportedly aimed to “foster ICT environments in schools“. Among the features that the Toshiba CM1 would carry include a 10.1″ LCD touch screen boasting of 1366×788 resolution with LED backlight. They will be powered by an Intel Atom N450 1.6 GHz CPU, NM10 Express chipset,...

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NEC Announces Three 3D Desktop PCs

NEC continues its drive to embrace 3D tech, this time announcing the release of three new 3D desktop PCs which are expected to invade Japan sometime this month. The three new 3D desktop PCs are the Valuestar VW970/CS, Valuestar VW970/CS and the Valuestar VL750/CS. The NEC Valuestar VW970/CS will feature a Core i5-460M CPU (2.53 GHz) backed by 4GB RAM, 1.5TB HDD, a GeForce GT 330M, a 3D Blu-ray Disc drive, a 23″ 3D full HD screen, two TV tuners, a pair of 3D glasses and an HDMI port. It...

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Onkyo TW317A7 Tablet Set To Take Japan

The Onkyo TW317A7 offers a 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450 processor along with  two gigs of RAM, and a 32 gig solid state drive, which is actually quite a bit better than some desktop PCs were putting out even three years ago (I should know, I actually bought a new one three years ago and it’s currently only about a quarter of that RAM count and no solid state drive). You’ll also get Bluetooth and WiFi connectivity (admittedly rather standard for anything going for the “mobile appellation),...

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HTC EVO Shift 4G / Knight Specs & Features Leak?

The HTC EVO Shift 4G also known as the HTC Knight by true Android rumors connoisseurs has been spotted in various places so far and by the time the device will hit Sprint stores we’re probably know all there is to know about it. Today we have specs and features for you, and chances are they are the real deal. So, without further ado, here’s what the HTC EVO Shift 4G is now said to offer you: • Android 2.2 • Sliding QWERTY Keyboard • 3.7-inch Screen • 800Mhz Processor or 1Ghz Dual Core Snapdragon...

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Dell Venue Shown Off In India

Dell had been promising publicly that they would be releasing an version of their Windows Phone 7 Dell Venue Pro that would be running Android. It was rumored to be called the “Dell Venue” and would be sans the keyboard that the Venue Pro carries. It was also believed to be the Dell Thunder concept that was leaked months ago. After being introduced by a carrier in Korea two weeks ago, it’s made another appearance in India. It seems Dell is having the Venue make its rounds in Asia before being...

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Samsung Bows Ultra-Definition 3D Television

I’ve always been fond of Samsung televisions–they’re big, often pack great quality picture and sound, and though I didn’t like those touch-panel controls at first I’m starting to get used to them and even appreciate them a bit more as they add to the aesthetic. But even I’m blown away by what I spotted today: Samsung’s new 70 inch “ultra definition” television. Everyone’s talking about the Samsung Continuum and such, but Samsung’s got its fingers in a lot of other pies, and televisions...

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Internet Rumors Pin Sony As Preparing To Announce New Music Service, To Span All Sony Devices Including Bravia HDTVs and PS3]

could Sony be planning to steal the show out from under Cupertino? According to newspaper Financial Times, a “source in the media industry” told them that Sony was preparing to unveil a major “new service” that would be media-centric and be capable of being used across multiple internet-connected devices. Allegedly, the PlayStation 3 will be the starting point. But expect this service to be on Vaio computers, Bravia TVs and Sony Ericsson phones and even Walkman MP3 players. Could it be something related to...

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Bose Enters HD Television Market With Surround Sound Television

The thought of a television from Bose was downright exciting. And that’s what I’m talking about today, the Bose VideoWave. Spec-wise, you’re going to be stunned by this–the video portion brings out a 46-inch, 1080p LCD display. Nothing spectacular by itself, sure, but consider that it’s backed up by a whopping 16 speakers, with six woofers included in a magnesium enclosure. Bose’s Adaptiq technology automatically sets the system’s levels according to the shape of your room, with its PhaseGuide...

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LG E720 Android Smartphone Specs Leaked & Images

It looks like we have had yet another Android smartphone spotted in the wild. The latest is the LG E720, which is said to be running Android 2.2. First things first here, the LG E720 was spotted in the wild and there are images posted along with some specs. That said, the device has not been officially announced, which means we are still unsure if/when it will be released. Not to mention which areas of the world will see it or how much it will cost. With that out of the way, the E720 appears...

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Microsoft To Announce 3D Plans For Xbox At E3?

Yes, more 3D news. Many expect 3D to be a big topic at the E3 gaming trade show next week – and now one developer hints that Microsoft may be planning to reveal their 3D gaming plans. Andrew Oliver, co-founder of UK-based Blitz Games Studios, said at a forum in London: “Microsoft are going to be making an announcement about it at some point soon.” While the PS3 was patched through firmware to be 3D ready, Mircosoft has said little on the 3D front regarding the Xbox 360. Oliver had a few...

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New Samsung Galaxy Tab Tablets to Feature Android 3.5 Honeycomb in 2011

We’ve seen the 7-inch Galaxy Tab get official today but that’s not the only tablet Samsung plans for the immediate future. In fact, 2011 might bring us lots of other Galaxy Tab versions, and the more successful the Tab will be, the better Tab successors we’ll have. Samsung has definitely realized how important the tablet is in the mobile business, considering how successful Apple is at selling the iPad. And while the tablet was reinvented by Cupertino this year, that doesn’t mean competitors...

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