Electronics

Samsung HMX-S16 WiFi SSD camcorder shipping in Korea, due stateside any minute

While it’s not surprising that a Korean electronics firm would let Korean natives get the first crack at their latest line of wares, it’s not without some small jealousy that we tell you the Samsung HMX-S16 camcorder is shipping in South Korea today. After all, it’s not every day we see a sexy black number like this sporting solid state storage and streaming video over WiFi


Archos 7 Home Tablet now shipping, days ahead of schedule

Looking for a cheap Android tablet that’s neither KIRF nor vaporware ?


Alienware M11x getting Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 upgrade next month, says Dell rep

Meet Pearce Clune, Dell’s Head of Consumer Operations for Middle East, Africa, and Turkey. Clune’s gone ahead and a pretty brief demonstration of Alienware ‘s laptop lineup to NMK Electronics , include the mighty impressive M11x powerhouse in netbook clothing. It’s all pretty standard fare until about 2:20 into the video, where the fine gentleman casually drops that the Core 2 Duo processor is about to get a modern upgrade with Core i3, i5, and i7 options


Dr. Fritz Sennheiser, audio pioneer, dies at 98

Back in 1945, cryptographer Fritz Sennheiser founded a professional electronics company in an abandoned WWII German laboratory.


Electromagnetically induced transparency could create a quantum internet, quantum memes

The transistor ushered the modern world of gadgets that we all love, and now optical transistors could help to bring us to the proper next generation of the internet. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics have demonstrated successful electromagnetically induced transparency, or EIT, which is effectively a way of enabling one beam of light to control another. In their experiments, researchers used a rubidium atom to indicate state, blocking a beam of light in one direction but, when a laser hit it at a perpendicular angle, turning it transparent to allow the first beam through.


Plastic Logic plans 2012 launch for color e-paper display

E-readers as a whole best be watching their backs (or planning a wave of new functions, one), but it’s safe to say that having color displays would give ‘em a leg-up on the retina-killing, battery-draining LCD-based alternatives. Plastic Logic is still working to get its first e-reader (the decidedly not color QUE , for those curious) into the paws of consumers, but already the outfit is planning for the next big thing