• Entertainment & Gaming

    The Future of Mobile Computing

    By Annemarie Conte and Esther Haynes Posted on 9.8.2008 7 Comments

    When MIT professor Hal Abelson heard that Google was about to release the software-development kit for its free, open-source Android mobile-phone operating system, he immediately decided to teach a class that would design programs for it. “Android is about to change people’s experience of what they can do with computers,” he says, because the computers in our cellphones will soon be the ones we use the most. These seven applications, developed by students in Abelson’s class, show what Android-equipped phones will be able to do.

    9.5.2008 at 11:33am - Comment by trendsetter

    @pic QWERT AWDF??? !n Dust We Trustii

  • DIY

    5-Minute Project Video: Snooper-Proof Wallet

    By Posted on 1.29.2008 1 Comments

    As more and more credit cards and other documents come equipped with RFID tags—the tiny radio-frequency identification chips that beam your account or ID info to readers used by various services (public transportation, toll road fees, etc)—the more speculation has surfaced on how malicious ID thieves could potentially use similar readers to lift your personal data without your knowledge. Thankfully, it's pretty simple to keep your info protected right in your wallet. Web editor Megan Miller demonstrates above. As always, our 5 Minute Projects are available in video podcast form—subscribe here. And check out the whole series at popsci.com/5minutes.

    5.26.2008 at 08:49pm - Comment by trendsetter

    why the hell kathmandu has roaring leopard's head??

  • Science

    The Space Archaeologists

    By Posted on 5.22.2008 8 Comments

    If it weren’t for the landmines, Lingapura would be a great place to dig. For part of the 10th century, this pocket of northwestern Cambodia was the capital of the famed Angkorian empire, a sprawling city studded with homes, irrigation channels, and more than 1,000 temples crowned with stone lingam, or phalluses. But ever since Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge dotted Cambodia with millions of landmines in the 1970s, Lingapura’s ruins have sat mostly untouched.

    5.24.2008 at 12:00am - Comment by trendsetter

    EGG what?!>@?# oh shancre oh shancre..u should have first confirmed b4 writing that comment...should have saved some embarrassments

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    The Incredible Hulk: Curiously Strong

    By Posted on 5.20.2008 5 Comments

    The latest cinematic version of The Incredible Hulk is due to hit theaters soon. Now, many people are aware that the most incredible thing about the Hulk is the way his pants always stay on when he expands to ten times his original volume. (If they didn’t it would make for a completely different kind of superhero.) His brute strength, however, is a close runner-up.

    5.20.2008 at 11:55am - Comment by trendsetter

    lol...

  • DIY

    Beef Up a Little PC

    By Posted on 5.8.2008 8 Comments

    If you want a super-light laptop, you have to pay for it, and you have to use Windows. Thats been the (frustrating) conventional wisdom—at least until late last year, when the Taiwanese company Asus rolled out the Eee PC (pronounced as though it were a single long e), a two-pound, seven-inch laptop starting at a mere $300. The tradeoff: It comes with just two to eight gigabytes of flash memory instead of a conventional, larger hard drive, and a simplified Linux operating system that essentially is usable only for e-mail, Web browsing and typing.

    5.9.2008 at 12:22pm - Comment by trendsetter

    From next time onwards just sell parts like motherboard, ram, cdrom, "laptop shell(if u can make any standard version)" etc and we will make our own pc, how bout that?



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