Mashable: Latest 10 News Updates - including “Toshiba to Launch a 10.1-Inch Android Tablet” |
- Toshiba to Launch a 10.1-Inch Android Tablet
- What Will Facebook Do With All That Money?
- Is Facebook Worth $50 Billion? [POLL]
- Facebook Raises $500 Million in Funding, Now Worth $50 Billion [REPORT]
- Mint, the Little Robot That Cleans Your Floors [PICS and VIDEO]
- Facto.Me Is an Addictive App for Sharing Facts About Yourself
- 5 Free iPhone Alarm Clocks That Actually Work
- HOW TO: Use Social Media to Create Better Customer Experiences
- What Are Your Tech-Related Resolutions? [POLL]
- Music Tech: 8 Digital Instruments for the Cutting Edge Composer [VIDEOS]
- 8 Sci-Fi Technologies That Are No Longer Just Fiction
| Toshiba to Launch a 10.1-Inch Android Tablet Posted: 03 Jan 2011 01:55 AM PST      Toshiba will announce a new, yet unnamed 10.1-inch Android tablet this week at CES, Engadget reports. The device is not yet ready for production as it awaits the new version of Android (Honeycomb) which is believed to be optimized for tablets. However, it has a really interesting set of features: a dual-core Tegra 2 chip, a capacitive, 1280×800 resolution display, and a 5-megapixel back camera as well as a 2-megapixel front camera for video calls. It also packs a full-sized USB and a mini-USB jack, HDMI, an SD card slot, and a rubberized, spill-resistant, replaceable back cover. It’s a very decent set of specifications; the only detail that spoils the picture by just a little is the weight: 1.7 pounds compared to iPad’s 1.6 pounds (3G+Wi-Fi model), but we don’t believe it’ll be a deal breaker for most users. [via Engadget] Reviews: Android More About: android, honeycomb, Tablet, Tegra 2, Toshiba For more Tech coverage:
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| What Will Facebook Do With All That Money? Posted: 02 Jan 2011 10:01 PM PST   We’re still reeling from the news that Facebook has raised $500 million in new funding at a $50 billion valuation. While The New York Times report has yet to be confirmed, we’ve heard rumors for a while now that Facebook was looking to raise a massive round of funding to fuel its rapid growth further before an eventual IPO. According to the deal, Goldman Sachs will invest $450 million in the social network, while previous investor Digital Sky Technologies will add an additional $50 million. Not only that, but Goldman Sachs will help Facebook raise an additional $1.5 billion through a “special purpose vehicle” designed to allow outside investors to indirectly invest in the company. Facebook had previously raised $800 million, so when all is said in done, the social giant will have raised an astounding $2.8 billion. What will Facebook buy with all that new cash? The first thing Facebook’s likely to do with its $2 billion in new funding is to cash out some of its existing investors and employees. The social network previously did this when DST bought $200 million in Facebook stock from its employees. Some of its early investors may also reach into the $2 billion pot and cash out. Once that’s done, it’s all about growth. We’ve heard from a reliable source that Facebook is close to purchasing the Sun Microsystems campus in Menlo Park, California from Oracle Corporation. The deal could be finalized as soon as this week, but it won’t be cheap. The new campus will give Facebook the room it needs to grow for the foreseeable future. Facebook is also likely to greatly ramp up its hiring. Currently the company has between 1,500 and 2,000 employees, a small number compared to its 500 million users and definitely small for a company with a $50 billion valuation. eBay and Starbucks are worth far less, but have 15,000 and 120,000 employees respectively. If Facebook intends to truly challenge Google as king of the web, it needs to ramp up its hiring in multiples. The social network is also likely to use the money to fund more acquisitions in 2011. The new round of funding could be the beginning of Facebook’s expansion into other markets as well. It has stayed focused on social networking since its inception, but it could follow in Microsoft and Google’s footsteps and use its vast reach to launch products in new markets. At some point, Facebook needs to find new markets to continue its expansion. The company is on pace to serve 1 trillion display ads per year, but it could make so much more money with a competitor to Google AdSense and AdWords, the primary revenue drivers for the search giant. What do you think Facebook should buy with its new cash? Let us know in the comments. Reviews: Facebook, Google More About: facebook, funding, Google, mark zuckerberg, oracle, sun microsystems For more Business coverage:
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| Is Facebook Worth $50 Billion? [POLL] Posted: 02 Jan 2011 10:00 PM PST   Now it’s your turn to react to the news of Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technology’s $500 million investment in Facebook at a valuation of $50 billion. Even with the social network on track to serve one trillion display ads per year, it’s still a surprising valuation. Just a month ago, SecondMarket put its valuation of Facebook at around $41 billion. Today’s news is a remarkable development. Do you think Goldman Sachs made a smart investment? Would you buy a piece of Facebook if you had the chance? What should Facebook do with that money? Cast your ballot, and then let us know what you think in the comments.
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| Facebook Raises $500 Million in Funding, Now Worth $50 Billion [REPORT] Posted: 02 Jan 2011 09:05 PM PST   Facebook has received a massive new round of funding: $450 million from Goldman Sachs and $50 million from Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies, according to a new report. Facebok has raised over $800 million over five rounds of funding. With this round, the social network will have raised over $1.3 billion. The New York Times says that the deal sets the social network’s valuation at a whopping $50 billion. Facebook’s worth has fluctuated between $40 and $50 billion in the secondary markets for the last few weeks. In September, Facebook was worth between $23 billion and $33 billion and in November it was worth $41 billion. As part of the deal, Goldman Sachs will help the social network raise an additional $1.5 billion. To do this, the investment bank will create a “special purpose vehicle” that will allow others to invest in Facebook indirectly. This would help the social network bypass an S.E.C. regulation that requires companies with more than 499 investors to disclose their financial results to the public. Goldman Sachs will be a first-time investor in Facebook, while Russian venture capital firm Digital Sky Technologies had previously invested $200 million in the company Mark Zuckerberg built at a $10 billion valuation. According to the NYT report, Goldman Sachs has the option to sell $75 million of its stake to DST. It’s unclear what Facebook will do with the money. It could cash out some of its employees and existing investors with that money or go on a hiring spree. It has so much money now that it will likely do both. Reviews: Facebook More About: facebook, trending For more Business coverage:
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| Mint, the Little Robot That Cleans Your Floors [PICS and VIDEO] Posted: 02 Jan 2011 04:44 PM PST It’s finally happened: We’re so lazy that we can’t even bother to take a dust mop to our wood floors. Criticisms of our society aside, this little Mint Automatic Floor Cleaner will be more than happy to accomplish that task for us. Working like a miniature GPS, Mint communicates with its North Star Navigation Cube, a black box that forms a digital map of wherever the little robot roams, and keeps things efficient by directing Mint to areas it hasn’t cleaned yet. The two work as a team, where Mint seeks the corners of a room, and communicates with its shiny black mother ship. There are two modes, one that works like a dust mop, and another takes care of wet mopping with a more vigorous back-and-forth scrubbing action. You place a wet or dry cleaning cloth onto its snap-in magnetic cleaning pad, select dry or wet mode by pushing one of the buttons on top, and then that little sucker is off and running. I charged Mint for about five hours, and then turned it loose on our wood floors. At first, it polished wide swaths of the floor as if it were mowing the lawn. Then it got more adventurous, digging into the corners and edges of the room until it had gotten the whole area clean. This is not a vacuum — it’s designed to avoid carpets and other obstacles. For the most part, it did a good job of staying on the wood or tile, but as you can see in the video above, it got a little confused with some of our area rugs. It’s so cute, we felt sorry for it as it moved back and forth, its tiny green lights blinking to indicate that it was trying to figure out what to do next. With a little help from me, it was soon on its merry way. It’s not perfect. Its wet mopping routine was mediocre. It couldn’t press down hard enough to remove any dried-on stains, but it could at least accomplish a superficial wetting down of the floor. In wet mode, you need to baby-sit, re-wetting its cleaning cloth after 10 minutes because it dries out. So it would be even less effective if you left it to its own devices. On the other hand, its dry mopping was stellar. Take a look in the gallery below and see how much dirt this little sucker picked up! We thought we kept a fairly clean house, those are a LOT of dust bunnies Mint rooted out. It’s downright embarrassing. As one of our colleagues pointed out, it’s not that hard to dust-mop (or even wet-mop) the floor, but it’s tons of fun to set this beautifully designed $250 bot on its way, making its whisper-quiet whirring noise as it explores your floors, cleaning as it goes. Mint Automatic Cleaner   Mint's North Star Navigation Cube Mint Automatic Cleaner Mint Automatic Cleaner That's a LOT of dust Reviews: Mint More About: Cleaning Bot, household, mint, Mint Automatic Floor Cleaner, reviews, Robot For more Tech coverage:
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| Facto.Me Is an Addictive App for Sharing Facts About Yourself Posted: 02 Jan 2011 03:33 PM PST   From the maker of designer/developer community Forrst comes Facto.me, a highly self-referential app that’s at least mildly addictive, entertaining and social. The premise is simple: We all have stories to share about ourselves, but sometimes, they don’t quite come out the way we’d like them to in conversation. We tend to disclose information about ourselves in passing and as it’s relevant to the conversation. Often, this means we leave out the most interesting bits about ourselves and our lives, simply because no one ever asks us those questions. Like Formspring, a similarly addictive anonyous Q&A app, Facto.me draws our focus inward. We’re asked not to respond to questions from strangers but rather to share fascinating non sequiturs about ourselves, things few or no other people might know. For example, Kyle Bragger, the guy who made Facto.me, secretly enjoys country music (secret’s out, buddy). And I turn to the crochet hook when I need to unwind. Users are invited to interact with others’ facts with a row of buttons under each fact. You can respond “Me too!” or “No way!” or, if you’re feeling a bit blasé, “Boring,” among other options. You can also click to see a random fact from a random user. If you’re not just pounding out fact after fact about yourself, it’s also a great way to learn things about the people in your world. Once the service’s userbase grows a bit, we’re hoping Bragger creates some cool tools for discovering people in your social graph. And for now, it’s an interesting way to learn random facts about random people — and we do mean random — from all around the web. Again, with more and a greater variety of users, it could be a fascinating app for online voyeurism; if there’s anything we humans love more than talking about ourselves, it’s peering into the strange, strange lives of others. Take Facto.me for a spin, and let us know what you think in the comments. Reviews: FormSpring More About: facto.me, formspring, forrst, kyle bragger For more Social Media coverage:
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| 5 Free iPhone Alarm Clocks That Actually Work Posted: 02 Jan 2011 02:13 PM PST   When Apple’s alarm clock app failed, letting down a multitude of users on New Year’s Day and January 2 due to the bug the company still hasn’t fully explained, we started looking around for alternatives. Apple said yesterday that the failure of its clock app only happens when you set a one-time alarm, and it will somehow fix itself on January 3. We have made a call and sent an e-mail into Apple asking why this happened. Meanwhile, we were thinking it wouldn’t hurt to look around for something that might be dependable 365 days a year. In the post linked above, we mentioned one alarm clock app that costs $0.99 and gets the job done, but its design leaves much to be desired. What about free apps? Are there acceptable alternatives to Apple’s clock that’s included in every copy of its mobile operating system? And most importantly, do those other clocks suffer from the same alarm problem? We confirmed that the alarm failure problem in Apple’s app is still happening today, when we set an alarm and nothing happened. We found five free alarm clock apps that don’t have that problem. We picked these acceptable alternatives out of the hundreds of choices available, and they all were able to reliably sound an alarm today. Each one has certain limitations, but the impact of those deficiencies is lessened by the fact that these apps are all free. 1. Nightstand Central FreeThis ad-supported alarm clock reminds us of the Android operating system with its flip clock on top. We like its helpful weather report included just below the timepiece. It works when you have the phone sleeping and the screen is locked, but for that background alarm capability, you’ll be limited to just four different sounds with the free version. 2. Clock Pro FreeAnother ad-supported app, this one can also multitask, so the app doesn’t need to be running for its alarm to sound. We like the way it offers a choice of pleasant-looking analog clock faces in addition to the usual digital look. An unusual feature is its ability to display almanac information such as sunrise, sunset, the exact time of midday and even your latitude and longitude. 3. Theme Clock AlarmSwipe from side to side, and you’re offered a choice of a dozen different clock styles. Some of them are stylish. Others, not so much. Surprisingly, this app is not ad-supported, and you can wake to vibrate-only alarms without sounds. What’s the catch? Although you can lock your screen and put it in sleep mode, the app must be running for its alarm sounds to work. This one would work best in a dock overnight. 4. Alarm Tunes LiteHere’s another ad-supported app that has fast app switching for background alarms. However, there’s only a few choices for alarm sounds if you want to use that feature. If you’re willing to leave it in a dock overnight and keep it running, it can wake you up to any song in your device’s music collection. A slight limitation: Its orientation is vertical-only. 5. iClock FreeAt first glance, iClock Free seems surprisingly full-featured, but maybe that’s because it’s ad-supported. It automatically adjusts for landscape or portrait orientation, but although you can turn the alarm off for different days, it only allows you to set one alarm time in this free version. Still, it has a lot going for it, with its alarm sounds that work when you’re not running the app, and for heavy sleepers, it offers a puzzle that you must solve before you can silence the alarm. Reviews: Android More About: Alarms, apple, apps, Clocks, free, iPhone Alarm Clocks For more Tech coverage:
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| HOW TO: Use Social Media to Create Better Customer Experiences Posted: 02 Jan 2011 12:36 PM PST   Maria Ogneva is the director of social media at Nimble, a social relationship management solution that transforms your entire community into business opportunity by leveraging the best of customer relationship management, social media and communication tools. You can follow her on Twitter at @themaria or @nimble, or find her musings on the company blog and her personal blog. It's no secret that customer experience is one of the cornerstones of an effective business strategy. In all honesty, it should have been all along, but many companies chose to hide behind corporate walls and only talk to customers when it was convenient for them instead of when the customer needed them. There's no need to belabor the point that social media has put customers in the driver's seat. However, companies don't need to live in fear of the next Kevin Smith or Nestle Fanpage episode. They just need to fix their customer experience to ensure that products and services actually do what they’re supposed to do and the company's support and service are actually helpful. Social CRM Connects Social Customer to Social BusinessToday's business must address more aspects of the customer experience than ever before. In addition to a stellar product or service, you now have many more channels to listen to and participate in, while keeping the experience consistently excellent. Where it gets complicated is wading through the noise, turning data into insights that the whole company can use, and sharing these insights. Because there is so much data being hurled at you, solutions that help unify and share information in a usable format have become necessary. Analyst firm Gartner estimates that more than 80% of growth in enterprise use of social networking tools will be driven by customer engagement projects and estimates social customer relationship management to be a $1 billion submarket of CRM in 2011. Recall that in my previous post about social CRM, we addressed some key tenets:
In an effort to see these theories applied to real-life situations, let’s examine some examples of how my personal customer experience was affected by businesses correctly capturing, sharing and acting on relevant information. Honeymoon and TeamworkFor my honeymoon, I stayed at a world-class resort called Tabacon in Costa Rica. Each day was full of thoughtful and personalized details that were carefully orchestrated among various employees of the hotel, as well as external parties. The best part of the experience was a private dinner in a cabana in the rainforest. Let's dissect the collaboration and communication that had to occur for this experience to happen:
At least five people and two systems (internal and external) were involved in making this an unforgettable experience. So why did I use this as an example, even though there was no social media involved? Because social or not, the underlying business principles haven't and shouldn't have changed. A finely tuned communication and collaboration system is key if you want to provide an excellent experience, whether it's via the social web or in-person. How Does Social Media Enhance Experience?Only when you are confident in your ability to support the collaborative process should you invest in a full-scale social media effort. I recommend following these simple steps:
I once had a sub-par experience with a major financial institution where I couldn't get in touch with customer service. Exasperated and in a panic, I complained on Twitter, after which the Twitter rep got back to me promptly. Before I could even write back with details about my situation, she proactively e-mailed me via the e-mail address on record. In this case, it wasn't creepy and actually provided value, because we had a relationship, and I knew the company had my e-mail address. Of course, if an existing customer is having a bad experience, your first priority should be fixing the experience, communicating it back to the user and asking this person to keep voicing feedback and opinions. This will increase brand affinity and create an experience worth sharing with others. Whether your customer is having a good experience or bad, it's key to create a participatory channel in which ideas can be voiced and captured, and progress communicated back to the customer. Share and Collaborate, Rinse and RepeatAs you do all of the above, make sure that your team, as well as key external parties, are on the same page with you. Cross-reference social data with internal data, retain and reference current and prior conversation threads and ensuing actions items. Just like how the Tabacon personnel immaculately shared information about me, delegated tasks to each other, and stayed on the same page, so should any business that wants to provide a superb customer experience. More Business Resources from Mashable:
Image courtesy of iStockphoto, AndyL Reviews: Twitter, iStockphoto More About: business, crm, customer relationship management, customer service, social crm, social media For more Business coverage:
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| What Are Your Tech-Related Resolutions? [POLL] Posted: 02 Jan 2011 10:56 AM PST   It’s time for a fresh start in lots of ways, but what about your tech life? Our team of editors found a lot to look forward to in 2011. We foresee big innovations in the mobile space, gaming taking an even more agressive stance with motion detecting devices, and connected media spreading across a variety of screens. If you ask me, I can’t wait to abandon AT&T, looking forward to the Verizon iPhone. What about you? Let’s see how you plan to change your life this year in the world of gadgetry and technology.
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| Music Tech: 8 Digital Instruments for the Cutting Edge Composer [VIDEOS] Posted: 02 Jan 2011 09:32 AM PST   Some kids grew up wanting to drive DeLoreans or throw LightDisks at each other. Some kids wanted to be rock stars and play for the crowds. These instruments combine both of those dreams into one tech-filled bonanza of light and sound. Technology has always played a big role in the evolution of instruments. The washtub bass became the acoustic bass, which became the electric bass and so on, each one taking and adapting its generation’s technology — analog or otherwise — and running with it. The earliest inventors only had to worry about how to make sound and then how to most efficiently amplify it. Now, technology has led to so many different musical possibilities that it can be hard to figure out what’s “next” and what’s just a gimmick. An instrument that can play the weather report? Digital splicers? Interactive musical tables? We’ve gathered some of the most interesting tech instruments — most of which are so new or niche that they’ve barely cracked the market. With that, read on for eight instruments on tech steroids, and let us know in the comments below which gadgets you found most interesting. 1. OtamatoneThe OtamaTone is a cute, toy-like instrument. Behind its adorableness is a pretty sophisticated voice simulator. Moving your fingers along the stem changes the pitch, while squeezing its head changes the volume. Unfortunately, the science behind the OtamaTone is probably more pleasing than the sound it actually makes. 2. 1-Bit SymphonyBlurring the line between “instrument” and “album,” 1-Bit Symphony doesn’t give the user a ton of control. The device literally plays the album as you listen to it. Think of it as a digital, post-modern music box. 3. Tenori-onThe tenori-on is Yamaha’s version of the monome, a much sought-after, reprogrammable board with buttons. After setting a time signature, the instrument will play whatever buttons (and their associated tones) are depressed in as it scans from left to right. It’s easiest to understand by actually trying it — and while it might be hard to actually get yours hands on one, there is a pared-down, digital approximation you can try right here. 4. Continuum KeyboardIt’s easiest to think of this as a variable MIDI-controller. You can assign individual sounds or sets of sounds to the keyboard, which can then be individually controlled by how hard you press, where you press, and by where you slide your fingers once down. It’s a clever use of electrical current to change sound from external sources. Judging from the video above, however, it might be a load of work for the casual user. 5. ArduinomeThe arduinome is another riff on the monome idea similar to the Tenori-on except with a different pattern to how notes are played. Rather than a straight left-to-right, the arduinome plays in alternating, oscillating patterns that can be individually manipulated and changed. Where the Tenori-on is percussive, the arduinome is a touch more expressive. Same idea, though. 6. Brick TableBrick Table “Weather Report” Tangible Multi Touch Interface from FlipMu on Vimeo. The Brick Table is a way of turning data (from weather reports to graphs) into music. Each object has a certain sound pattern and movement associated with it. When they are placed on the interactive map they pick up on different sounds and time patterns to create the surreal soundscapes heard in the video. If you can program, this might just be your thing, but don’t expect to see too many Brick Tables at your high school talent show. 7. LemurSomewhere between an iPad app and a stand-alone device, the Lemur is touted as a jazz machine, though it seems to share more in common with apps like Ableton. Still, its touchscreen interface allows for the user to manipulate beats, sound and ambient effects to mix and create music. 8. ReactableOne part TRON, one part music jigsaw puzzle, one part Minority Report, the reactable is the most far out addition to the list. A fully interactive table responds to the location and orientation of specially designed objects. Drum cubes can be spun to speed or slow down, and different instrument blocks can be modified by placing and rotating objects in their vicinity. It looks like fun, but can it actually make music? Apparently so. Even Bjork, the oddball laureate of emotional music has one. 9. Kaoss PadAnyone familiar with DJing should know what a Kaoss Pad is. The tiny, interactive MIDI-controller from Korg can be used to distort, modify, or generally scramble any music sample you’re spinning. As the above video shows, it’s also fun to just hit the buttons and see what happens. Just try and forget the vocal sample. More Music Resources from Mashable:
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| 8 Sci-Fi Technologies That Are No Longer Just Fiction Posted: 02 Jan 2011 07:54 AM PST A submarine once seemed about as ridiculously impossible as an invisibility cloak seems today. But while technologies like the submarine, bomb, radar and tank once captured the imagination of science fiction authors, science has brought them to the mainstream awareness. Researchers are continuing to catch up with imagination, and it’s only a matter of time before the technologies we still consider fiction meet a similar fate. Laser Guns   In science fiction novels, heat-rays, death rays, beam guns, blasters, phasers, blasters and plasma rifles usually serve a similar purpose to guns. Scientists at Intellectual Ventures Laboratory found a slightly more benign purpose for one: zapping mosquitoes. The gun locates the mosquitoes in flight, and then this happens. The U.S. Navy also developed a giant laser weapon for a more traditional purpose. [Photo: NAVSEA] Moving 3D Hologram Scientists at the University of Arizona in Tuscon have developed a material that can record and display 3D images that refresh every two seconds. The resulting hologram, which you can check out in this video, isn't as smooth as its science-fiction counterpart, but the scientists are working to speed up the refresh rate to match that of movies. "From day one, I thought about the hologram of Princess Leia and whether it can be brought out of science fiction," Nasser Peyghambarian, one of the team members who worked on the project, told Nature News. IMB recently predicted that mobile phones would project 3D image of callers by 2015. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, melhiLevitation It's been two years since researchers at the National Institutes of Health and Harvard University have accomplished levitation, though the power is reserved for the molecular level at the moment. Researchers suspended a tiny gold-plated sphere over a glass surface by relying on the tendency of certain combinations of molecules to repel each other. The researchers saw more applications for their technology in nanomechanics, the development of microscopic machinery, than they did for magic demonstrations, but one can't help but hope that larger floating objects are on the way. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, scodonnell Hoverboard The flying skateboard-like vehicle used by characters in the Back to the Future films exists. French artist Nils Guadagnin finished creating it in 2010 for an exhibition appropriately named "Back to the Future." Though the board hovers, alas, it does not fly. Nor does it support weight in its levitated state. Mind-Reading Machine Researchers at the University of Utah were able to translate brain signals into words by implanting microelectrodes on top of the brain (the patient who volunteered for this experiment already had part of his skull removed to treat his epilepsy). Grids of the electrodes were placed over the speech centers of the brain and recorded brain signals the patient read a list of 10 words. When they compared any two brain signals, they were able to distinguish brain signals for each word 76% to 90% of the time. The research may one day help scientists create a wireless device that converts thoughts of severely paralyzed people to computer speech. Teleportation While humans aren't zapping themselves to alternate locations at will, in 2009 a team of scientists from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) at the University of Maryland and the University of Michigan managed to get two isolated atoms to exchange information at a significant distance (a little more than three feet). The information, in a sense, had been teleported. The discovery has more implications for computers than it does for human transportation, but we're happy about it nonetheless. Image courtesy of iStockphoto, GeorgethefourthInvisibility Cloak Harry Potter might not be the only one with an invisibility cloak in the near future. Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley made progress toward manipulating light waves in a way that renders objects invisible in 2008. German scientists created a cloak (albeit a tiny one) earlier this year. Commercial Jetpacks Comic strip character Buck Rogers helped popularize jetpacks starting in the 1920s. By the 1960s, a jetpack designed for the military called the Bell Rocket Belt started appearing at public demonstrations. And soon, you'll be able to purchase your very own jetpack from Martin Aircraft Company. More Tech Resources from Mashable:
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