Posts Tagged ‘electronics’

All The Gadgets, All The Time. Introducing GDGT

Thursday, July 2, 2009 14:47 By Rajeev Saxena

In the year 2008, Peter Rojas, the then CEO of RCRD LBL, a free music download website announced his parting with the website and decided to join hands with Ryan Block to create a start-up focused on electronics, especially gadgets. Ryan Block was the editor-in-chief of the immensely popular blog known as Engadget.
Now, that proposed [...]

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Electronics made out of Germs

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 11:18 By GSerrano

These days, germs, bacteria, and viruses are not all discarded and deemed harmful, especially the ancient kind. In fact, they are being used to ‘assemble the electronics of the future.’
Viruses are now used as building components of solar cells and other gadgets. The type of germs used is called ‘bacteriophages’ or ‘bacteria eaters.’ They are [...]

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Costa Rica: treasure trove of biodiversity

Sunday, June 28, 2009 20:15 By GSerrano

For at least five miles, one can witness different intertwining plants, trees, creepers, ferns, mosses, and orchids that seem to be in a perpetual struggle for light and life. A tiny hummingbird nest holds an egg about to hatch and a baby already born. Bats fluff their wings while under the shelter of a giant [...]

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Where Best to Buy Electrical Appliances, Electronics, and IT Products in Singapore

Wednesday, May 6, 2009 19:34 By GSerrano

Singapore is bargain paradise for electronic and IT products. Sim Lim Square has over 400 stores that offer great deals in IT and electronic products, audio equipment, digital cameras and camcorders, and every imaginable accessory to all these products. This IT mall has a Star Retailers Programme where every registered mall shop tenant gives full [...]

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Piezoelectrics: Self-Powering Electronics

Sunday, January 11, 2009 15:20 By GSerrano

This field of science wants to eliminate batteries. Already, it sounds good for the environment, actually. It is said that a cell phone battery, for instance, is hazardous to the health if one makes a call because the caller is too close to the dying out battery, and will intercept all that negative radioactive energy. [...]

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