In this day and age, multifunctional printers are a thing of the past, with the norm being scanning printers and such, but now Lexmark has put a twist to the design by using a camera-based scanner, instead of the run-of-the-mill flatbed kind.
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Ever since the creation of mobile cameraphones, there has been huge competition between makers in the megapixel war. Now with the release of this 16.41 megapixel sensor, Sony is definitely in the lead.
Lens modules: “IU081F” (left), “IU105F2” (right)
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Images undoubtedly make up a large percentage of data, reportedly up to 65% of the total bytes that makes up the data on the Web.
In its efforts to make the Web faster, Google has come up with a new file format, known as WebP to further compress the file size of these image files.
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These days, with so many new features, software, browsers, plug-ins, and whatnots, coming out of the Mountain View, California company, how does one keep up with the relentless outpouring of new stuff from Google?
Easy! **With triumphant music blaring in the background!**
Introducing the new Google New!
Google New is a one-stop page to help us keep track of all the latest Google technology streaming out from all of Google’s blogs and services in the internet.
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Backpacks are aplenty out in the market, with solar panels and bulky batteries that supposedly are able to charge your gadgets while you’re out and about, but most of them are just unsightly and just plain impractical.
Quirky’s Trek Support backpack is here to change all that. Not only is it a fully functional charging station for your laptop and other gadgets you may have on you, it is also a TSA-compliant laptop bag that safe to travel with and doesn’t look at all out of place in the streets. Continue reading “Quirky Trek Support Backpack: Charges Your Gadgets On The Go”
By now, you would have heard of Google Instant, which is Google’s most recent improvement to their search engine. It is kinda like a digital version of Instant Coffee, getit? First deployed by Google since Sept 8, 2010, and so far only available on Google domains in United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and Spain, it is propagating to other domains worldwide, probably to achieve whole world domination status in a few months’ time.
Google Instant is supposed to give you instant access to results, through the magic of Ajax, and is able to save you 2-5 seconds per search.
Google Instant
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Tablet PCs are all the rage these days, with products like the iPad on the market. Netbooks are also becoming increasingly popular with their portable size, which essentially makes them a mini laptop.
So what makes the perfect matrimony of the two products? Dell’s Inspiron Duo certainly fits the criteria.
Facial recognition software certainly is not something new or foreign, but having such a software made publicly available is.
This new program is able to scan a person’s face and then searches the web for all the photographs of that person.
There are times when Windows Explorer dies on you and takes with it, the Windows’ desktop and toolbar, together with the system notification area (aka system tray). Or Windows become annoyingly SLOW and something appears to be HOGGING your processor. Upon checking the Task Manager, you might see “Explorer (Not Responding)”, which can go on forever if you decide to wait for it to respond.
You can restart your computer at this point if you choose to, and if you do so, everything will go back to normal.
But why restart, when there is a simpler way? 😉
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With talks of going green and environmental conservation, this house is just what we need. Generally solar powered houses have neither been the most efficient nor sustaining, but this rotating house might just change all of that.
German architect Rolf Disch has built a home, called Heliotrope, that is able to generate five times the solar energy that it consumes.
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