TMS Tech Blog

Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast are studying a new kind of wireless network that might someday help alleviate the crush of mobile internet traffic in dense cities. How does it work? By making you–and me, and all of us–into cellphone towers. The research concerns what’s called body-to-body networks, or BBNs. A BBN requires each user to have some kind of [...]

Component makers are whispering that the fabled Google Chrome OS will ship in November – THIS November. That's THIS MONTH. Acer made promises that Chrome OS devices would be released this fall, while Digitimes reports the launch of the OS to be this month, with Google supposedly planning the launch its own brand Chrome notebook along the lines of Nexus [...]

Apple's new iOS is in Beta mode and you can bet there's a bunch of little tics and tacs in the workings that're noteworthy. This is a unification sort of release, bringing the iPad up to snuff, including such treasures found up until now only on the iPhone. Features such as multitasking, unified email inbox, Game Center, and folders. If [...]

Electronic devices could get much more sophisticated with new diode technology that allows electrons to move around more quickly. Two groups of researchers are reporting advances in diode performance through new manufacturing processes — one uses a metal-insulator-metal system and another uses metamaterials to work with electromagnetic waves. The new systems could yield a new approach to electronics, researchers say. [...]

Hang a left on over to your local NASA swap meet and garage sale because NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is setting an auction up for exclusive lisence to five patents for automated software development. This happens in a little over a week on November 11, 2010, and includes patents which encompass a new method for auto-creating software code which [...]

The folks over at Healthy Vending have developed a machine that not uses 35-50% less energy than your average pop-dispensing machine, it's ready to dispense anything from granola bars to orange juice to fruit. It's cheap, it's efficient, and it's aimed at offices. So you've got your Urban Camouflage Vending Machine Costumes, your Technology Dispensers, and your Mix on the [...]