Tablet shipments will grow 67 percent this year to 256.5 million.
We will buy more tablets than notebooks for the first time ever this year. But by 2017, we’ll buy six times more tablets than laptops, according to market researcher NPD.
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Safety Shorts
At first glance, it may seem kind of silly, but radiation proof underwear certainly has more to it than meets the eye.
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Mobiles and laptops to run for up to 100 times longer between charges.
Mobile phones could soon run for months rather than days between charges, after scientists discovered how to make them work more efficiently.
Google eBooks is a big threat to Amazon.
Let the new chapters in the e-book wars begin. And this time, market leader Amazon.com could take it on the chin.
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More colleges shutting down digital distractions in classrooms.
As a culture, we’re at an odd crossroads regarding personal computers. For years, educators have been clamoring to put technology in the hands of young students through partnerships with big tech companies, best symbolized by the One Laptop Per Child initiative.
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Chile’s Salar de Atacama desert is a major source for the world’s lithium, key ingredient in the batteries we use in our laptops, cell phones and other gadgets every day. And, key ingredient in batteries for a growing selection of electric and electric hybrid cars. As the demand for battery-powered devices increases, so does the demand for lithium and therefore the earthly resources that provide it. Check out this video from CBS about the production and demand.
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A company based in Berkeley, CA, is developing lightweight, high-energy batteries that can use the surrounding air as a cathode. PolyPlus is partnering with a manufacturing firm to develop single-use lithium metal-air batteries for the government, and it expects these batteries to be on the market within a few years. The company also has rechargeable lithium metal-air batteries in the early stages of development that could eventually power electric vehicles that can go for longer in between charges.
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In the race to renewable energy, organic solar cells are now really starting to take off. They can be manufactured easily and cheaply, they have low environmental impact, and since they are compatible with flexible substrates, they could be used in many applications such as packaging, clothing, flexible screens, or for recharging cell phones and laptops.
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A new incarnation of lithium-ion batteries based on solid polymers is in the works. Berkeley, CA-based startup Seeo, Inc. says its lithium-ion cells will be safer, longer-lasting, lighter, and cheaper than current batteries. Seeo’s batteries use thin films of polymer as the electrolyte and high-energy-density, light-weight electrodes. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is now making and testing cells designed by the University of California, Berkeley spinoff.
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Flexible displays that are bigger, brighter, and cheaper could be made using a new approach that involves exciting fluorescent chemicals embedded in the screen with an infrared laser.
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Thin films of a new polymer developed at Penn State change temperature in response to changing electric fields. The Penn State researchers, who reported the new material in Science last week, say that it could lead to new technologies for cooling computer chips and to environmentally friendly refrigerators.
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For the rich geek with conscience this $2,200 SunTable could be the perfect outdoor workstation which will enable you to simultaneously charge your laptops, cellphones, stereos and other gadgetry that occupies your workstation space.
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