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 A team of scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, USA, has managed to entangle ions using microwave fields for the first time. According to their publication in the journal Nature (“Microwave quantum logic gates for trapped ions”), the team has implemented a method that could be important for the realization of an integrated quantum computer with trapped ions.
Christian Ospelkaus, professor within the Cluster of Excellence QUEST (Centre for Quantum Engineering and Space-Time Research) at Leibniz Universität Hannover and Physikalisch-Technischen Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig since December 2010, has realized the experiment together with colleagues at NIST.
 The Apple Store cut prices resting on three of its five manufacturing facility-refurbished Apple iPad Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi/3G Tablets. Up toward a $50 drop applies. With free shipping, it’s the best agreement we’ve noticed for the majority of these iPad models. Sales tax is added where applicable. This 0.5?-thick tablet weighs 1.5 lbs. plus features an Apple A4 1GHz processor, 9.7? 1024×768 LCD touchscreen screen, 802.11a/n wireless, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, accelerometer, compass, up toward 10 hours of battery life, plus extra. Each carries a 1-year Apple warranty, the equal as new units.
Apple cuts prices of refurbished 16GB, 32GB, 64GB wi-fi and 3G iPad models with one year warranty with carrier like new iPad.
 Apple iPad has received great traction and if you wonder what new features will be introduced into its second generation iPad, or better known as iPad 2, the recent report from a Chinese local newspaper, which claimed to be based on reliable industry sources may have some clues for you.
Basically, the newspaper source believed that the Cupertino-based company will add/improve five new main features on top of its existing feature in current model as listed below:
- New Display Technology – As you aware that Retina Display provides 4 times better pixel resolutions on iPhone 4 as compared to previous iPhone 3G/S generation, it is likely that Apple will design a similar or a much better AMOLED based display that can demonstrate better graphics especially for gaming applications.
 Research In Motion Ltd, the maker of the BlackBerry smartphone, said it will begin selling a tablet computer in North America in the first quarter for “under” $500 as it takes on Apple Inc.’s iPad.
As we know the iPad is a tablet computer designed and developed by Apple. It is particularly marketed as a platform for audio and visual media such as books, periodicals, movies, music, and games, as well as web content. If we want to transfer copy and transfer files from iPad and other portable devices such as iPod, iPhone to computer without iTunes, backup files on your hard disk easily, then we can choose an ipad to computer transfer for us. Apple, based in Cupertino, California, increased its market share in tablet computers to 95 percent in the third quarter, according to Strategy Analytics. Global tablet sales rose 26 percent from the previous period to 4.4 million units, with Apple selling 4.19 million iPads, the researcher said last week.
 As we know the Apple iPhone and iPod touch are great multimedia players on the go if you live in the iTunes ecosystem, many of us have a ton of videos which have to be converted to play of Apple’s mobile devices. The new VLC Media Player for the iPhone and iPod touch now enables you to play a variety of video files on the go.
The VLC Media Player is already on the Apple iPad and the new app will bring much of that video-playing goodness to your iPhone or iPod touch through an ipad video converter. It’s not quite as simple as just dragging and dropping movies and television
Given that, rather than facing exorbitant cell-phone roaming charges, we can travel to Europe with just an iPad and an iPod touch. Though that meant that we could only look up restaurants or things to do when we were in a free Wi-Fi . And rather than being tethered to Facebook updates, we both paid more attention to the scene at hand.
 A Chinese research centre has built the world’s fastest supercomputer, with almost one-and-a-half times the computing power of its nearest rival.The computer, known as Tianhe-1A, gives China the edge over the United States, whose fastest machine, the Jaguar, is housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The Tianhe-1A sits at the National University of Defence Technology in Tianjin. According to Nvidia, a technology company that supplied parts for the Chinese computer, the Tianhe-1A was clocked at 2.507 petaflops, or more than two quadrillion calculations per second. It has the power of 175,000 high-end laptops.
“The scientific research that is now possible with a system of this scale is almost without limits”, said Liu Guangming, president of the centre in Tianjin, in a statement supplied by Nvidia. “We could not be more pleased with the results.” Having the world’s fastest machine is also the source of some national pride in China.
 Where there is high-tech, there is a newly produced fashionable gadget. As time go by and technology develops, millions of high-tech products have become to head for thousands of users. As we see, people are always playing with smartphones when they are walking in a street, or listening to music. Most of them have iphone 4 ,ipod, or other small tools .
The iPhone has always been a great smartphone, although the current fourth-generation has some thing wrong with antenna, this is just a tiny blimp.The only issue has been handling with the Apple smartphone .The recently released Apple iPhone 4 has received a huge amount of media hype and attention.
 iPad is the latest innovative product developed by Apple which is similar to the older (and smaller) iPod Touch and iPhone. Its screen is framed by a one-inch black border and its button is familiar to iPhone and iPod touch users. Apple described this device as a “third category” between smartphones and laptops .The iPad is an elegant example of elegant design ,and its functions are quite powerful.
iPad Tablet is the best way to experience the web, email, video, and photos. All of the built-in applications on iPad were designed from the ground up to take advantage of the large Multi-Touch screen and superior capabilities of iPad. They work in any dimension.
 Present time is the time of mobility and portability of gadgets. But Sony always think one step head of time. After desktop is Laptop then Palmtop and slate and future is going toward bracelet type of computer which can be rolled on your wrist like a watch strap and can be used as full specification computer as and when required.
Developed to be worn as a bracelet, this computer concept is constructed out of a flexible OLED touchscreen. Earmarked for the year 2020, features like a holographic projector (for screen), pull-out extra keyboard panels and social networking compatibility, make the concept plausible. Ten years from now is not too far away, so how many of you think we’d be buying such gadgets?
Hiromi Kiriki created a concept that totally blew our mind, the Sony Nextep Computer, that can be worn on the wrist, detached and turned into a brilliant PC, as you can see in the following pictures.
 Since time immemorial, man and machine have been inseparable thus human beings have come up with ideas on how they can effectively and easily perform tasks whether hard or simple.
A stream of gadgets have been launched in year 2009 ranging from PS3, iPad, Iphone, iBlah… Out of these some were more popular due to their unique design , their brand label or top notch technology and other were due to their price and marketing .
A consumer spending slump dealt a blow to electronics makers in 2009. With industry sales tumbling 8% to $164.9 billion in 2009, Pioneer dropped out of the plasma HD television market and mobile Internet device innovator OQO shut its doors. Even the supposedly recession-proof video-game industry suffered steep sales declines.
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August 22nd, 2011 |
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