German company Decowood, well known as a designer and manufacturer of saunas, offers elegant and functional saunas based on infrared technology, designed for users with limited space. Small dimensions and original look make the IR line an integral part of any property, in terms of both - its decorative and functional values. While regular saunas [...]
The candle hasn’t changed much since the very early beeswax models illuminated our caves back in the day, but Europe’s electronics manufacturer Philips has come out with a quite interesting and useful (re)invention.
Philips has created the Philips Imageo Wax Candle that requires a small battery to operate colour changing LED inside a regular wax candle. [...]
Samsung Electronics has officially confirmed the launch of their new high-end smartphone, the Samsung INNOV8, (model name: i8510, pronounced [in-uh-veyt]), one of the most advanced smartphones that we have ever seen, announcing itself as a potential iPhone 3G killer, a tough competitor rivaling Sony Ericsson’s C905, but also competing head on with the Nokia N96 [...]
GN Netcom, best known for its Jabra headset brand, GN, continues to build on its standing as one of the world’s leading and fastest growing suppliers of hands-free communications solutions. The company has just released a new titanium Bluetooth headset, claimed to be the first of its kind. Indeed, the Jabra JX20 Pura is quite [...]
Liquid crystal displays (LCD) and plasma technologies are the most popular of the display/ television technologies currently used in desktop and mobile computing since LCDs are thin, have high resolution, are low cost, and offer low power consumption and long lifetime. But the negative side of LCD systems is that they do not have high [...]
China’s state-run media unveiled more details on the upcoming Shenzhou 7 mission. A report from Xinhua, the principal Chinese news agency, has confirmed that Shenzhou 7 will launch in October 2008.
Last week China Radio International provided some interesting pieces of information regarding this October’s projected Shenzhou 7 mission. Shenzhou 7 is China’s third human-carrying space [...]
Ineos, the world’s third largest chemical company, seems to have found a solution to the problem of the soaring fuel prices: an alternative fuel derived from rubbish. The British chemicals company announced today that it is aiming to produce commercial quantities of bioethanol fuel from biodegradable municipal waste around two years.
Ineos’ new technology will produce [...]
For those of you who have never heard of Kevlar, here is a brief introduction to this extraordinary invention and the modern day alchemist Stephanie Kwolek, who invented and patented this material in the 1970s.
Upon graduating in 1946 from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) with a bachelor’s degree, Stephanie Kwolek went to [...]
For the past few months Nokia has been following a trend, by launching a series of devices tagged with its first generation model numbers, now labeled as Classic.
Not to be confused with the first-generation Nokia 6220, the Nokia 6220 Classic is a 3G smartphone that combines all the “must-have” features of a last-generation device: a [...]
Fujitsu Europe Limited has just announced its newest travel-ready portable HandyDrive additions, featuring the world’s highest capacity 2.5-inch external hard disk drive (HDD). with up to 500GB of storage space in one drive. This new storage solution will offer you 500GB of space in one drive.
This HandyDrive comes with a new password lock [...]