Tales from the bits

We just returned from a trip to London. Both myself and my wife, Alina, have an iPad 2 3G 64GB each. Remember to take with you the proper power adapter changer. iPad 2 is a must have travelling assistant. As soon as we arrived to London, we purchased a 3G SIM for iPad 2. Just [...]

For long time I was resisting the temptation of owning a tablet. Recently I quite resisting and I bought an ipad 2. It took me sometime to make that choice because I wanted to be 100% sure that I am purchasing the correct tablet according to my needs. Before making my final choice I wrote [...]

On February 3rd, 2011, ICAN announced that the available pool of unallocated IPv4 Internet addresses is now completely emptied. This is a historical moment. ICANN’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Rod Beckstrom said “This is a major turning point in the on-going development of the Internet. No one was caught off guard by this. The Internet [...]

The newiPad from Apple is simply fantastic. It has a multi-touch high resolution screen which makes surfing on the Internet, reading emails, browsing photos, watching videos a new experience. Some technical specifications: Height: 9.56 inches (242.8 mm) Width:  7.47 inches (189.7 mm) Depth: 0.5 inch (13.4 mm) — extremely slim!! Weight: 1.5 pounds (.68 kg) Wi-Fi model; [...]

Josh Romero from IEEE spectrum reports that Plastic Logic’s QUE e-reader was the best e-reader presented at CES. The entire surface of the QUE is a capacitive touch screen.  Plastic Logic replaces the traditional glass backplane with one of thin, flexible plastic. The device will be available in April ($649 for the basic Wi-Fi model and $799 for [...]

Google presented today its new super phone Nexus One. It looks great and it sure will be a success. The operating system is Android Mobile Technology Platform 2.1 (Eclair).The display is 3.7-inch (diagonal) wide-screen WVGA AMOLED touchscreen with resolution 800 x 480 pixels, 100,000:1 typical contrast ratio, 1ms typical response rate. You can get all [...]

Brain-machine interfaces (BMI) could someday help people with severe paralysis move their limbs, walk, and use a computer. A brain-computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a direct neural interface or a brain-machine interface, is a direct communication pathway between a human or animal brain (or brain cell culture) and an external device. (Wikipedia,2008) Paralysis is caused [...]