GPS in cell phones too

Pretty expected, the cell phone is always with you, and it is the best place to home a GPS, next step is surely to get the maps inside and probably a way for the security people to pinpoint wanted people whereever they are through a small program running on phone and sending location info. LG 8600 Pone has the GPS built-in and others will follow. Link to this is here
http://reviews.cnet.com/LG_VX8600/4505-6454_7-32154930.html

GPS and Cameras

A simpel idea with great excitement . . .

If you have a digital camera and a GPS receiver, you can link date and time of the photos with the latitude and longitude recording of the GPS by a software that will direct Google Earth to take you to the place the pictures were taken, and of course impress yourself and others. Check out Sony's ....

http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_DisplayProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=GPSCS1

At last, the solid state huge storage is in

In the 1994, I scratched a design of a slate computer (was in the united states at that time) that was A4 size and with no mechanical parts whatsoever (hard disk in particular). My professor at that time claimed that I was out of my mind because no could believe at that time the the EEPROM will turn into a huge fast storage that would compete with the hard disk. I was hoping that reference CDs like the Encarta would be burned on a credit card sized media.

Now, Samsung's notebooks with solid state drive is in (June 2006 in Korea). NAND-based Q30-SSD price is 3,700 US dollars, but that 32 GB of NAND reads 300% and writes 150% fatser than a normal hard drive(this means 53 MB/s and 28 MB/s respectively) while offering better protection against shock, 25-50% faster boots and sleep recovery times, longer battery life and reduced weight all in a completely silent, fanless package. This means an even smaller and thinner computers that one can hardly attached a keyboard to.

Wait only few years to see this 32 GB quadruple and the speed double

More on memory from Samsung, click http://www.samsung.com/Products/Semiconductor/Memory/index.htm

Nanowire Computing Made Practical

Researchers have made efficient nanowire logic circuits that could be mass produced, slashing the size of transistors. Full story is below
http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17534&ch=nanotech

4 MBit MRAM chips

Magnetic RAM has been talked about for years and is now a fact, data retention of 10 years minimum, unlimited write times, and quite fast 35 nsec access time, it is like a fast hard disk with random access method, check the link
http://www.electronicproducts.com/ShowPage.asp?FileName=fa-freescale.nov2006.html