Filed under: StorageEarlier this year, we heard that NASA gurus were working up a biological nanobattery that utilized ferritin, and now another report is suggesting that the substance could even be used in a “biotech-based process for creating ultrathin computer memory.” Reportedly, the researchers have found that by using ferritin, metal memory cells could be […]

Filed under: Cellphones, GPS
The headline really does tell the whole story in this case: Finnish telecom giant Nokia has announced its intention to purchase one of the world’s two digital mapping powerhouses (the other being TomTom target TeleAtlas) in an $8 billion deal that should result in some pretty sick location-based services on your next […]

Ariel Waldman contributes Adgadget, a column about the intersection of advertising and technology.Technologically better equipped than booth babes, fantasy fembots seem to be popping up everywhere in ad campaigns these days. Alcohol seems to be popular with the fembots — they’re employed in ads from both Heineken and Svedka — but Philips is utilizing them […]

Filed under: Digital Cameras
BenQ has been firing on all cylinders lately, dropping more projectors, cameras, and Intel-based MIDs then you can shake a stick at (trust us, we’ve tried to shake a variety of sticks at them). Joining the fold today is the DC-X735 compact digital camera, a sleek little shooter which looks conspicuously similar […]