http://www.superinnova.com Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:08:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, San Francisco By 2015 more than 12 billion devices will be capable of connecting to 500 billion hours of TV and video content, says chip giant Intel. It said its vision of TV everywhere will be more personal, social, ubiquitous and informative. "TV is ... http://www.superinnova.com/?p=369 By Mark Tutton For CNN LONDON, England (CNN) -- Over the past 20 years, robotics have revolutionized surgery, and new innovations are continuing to push the boundaries of medicine. Mike Rustic, senior lecturer at the mechanical engineering department at Imperial College, London, says machines such as the "da Vinci" system have had ... http://www.superinnova.com/?p=365 By Brandon Keim (WIRED) -- Scientists are one step closer to knowing what you've seen by reading your mind. Having modeled how images are represented in the brain, the researchers translated recorded patterns of neural activity into pictures of what test subjects had seen. Though practical applications are decades away, the research ... http://www.superinnova.com/?p=362 America is poised to loosen its control over cyberspace FORTY years ago this month American academics sent the first message over the ARPANET, a military network that was the precursor of today’s internet. A legacy of those efforts is that the American government continues to control the internet’s underlying technology—notably the ... http://www.superinnova.com/?p=359 Elizabeth Landau Forgot to charge your cell phone last night? Imagine that you could power it by walking. Weirder still, you might be able to just spray a new battery on. These concepts are being developed by two leading nanotechnology researchers who are developing cleaner, more efficient ways of delivering electrical power. ... http://www.superinnova.com/?p=355 The internet giant seeks new ways to foster innovation FEW companies are as creative as Google, which serves up innovations almost as fast as its popular search-engine serves up results. This week the firm unveiled a new version of its Chrome web browser and launched Fast Flip, which lets users scroll ... http://www.superinnova.com/?p=351 By John D. Sutter Oliver Yeh is the kind of guy who cooks up ideas so kooky, so out-of-this-world, that even his fellow MIT students tend to roll their eyes when they hear them. But that never stops him. His latest concept -- to launch a camera into near-space using a weather balloon, ... http://www.superinnova.com/?p=347 By Maggie Shiels Mobile providers have said that US proposals to ensure all traffic on the internet is treated equally should not be applied to wireless traffic. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants rules to prevent providers blocking or slowing down bandwidth-heavy usage such as streaming video. Providers claim a two-tiered system ... http://www.superinnova.com/?p=344 When is a cyber-attack a real one? AMERICA and other countries still have to fine-tune their cyber-defences to distinguish mere nuisances from real menaces. That, rather than any revelations about fiendish North Korean cyber-warfare, seems to be the upshot of the latest reported cyber-attack on South Korean and American websites. Initially, it ... http://www.superinnova.com/?p=340 How a Taiwanese firm became one of the world’s fastest-growing chipmakers MOST technology firms fall into one of two brackets: those that sell individual components, such as Intel, a chip giant, and those that offer finished products, such as Apple of iPhone fame. MediaTek sits somewhere in between: it sells most ... http://www.superinnova.com/?p=336