Here’s a short video demonstrating the features of Morph Technology

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Nokia Image Gallery (Morph)

It has a 120Hz refresh rate. The screen has the ability to display ultra-definition (UD) resolution at 120 fps. Thus, it can reduce the blur of the image that runs at 60Hz. In order to enhance the true color saturation to 150 percent, a red/green/blue LED backlight is installed.

modu is claimed to be the world’s first modular mobile phone. The tiny, sleek mobile phone can be slipped into a wide variety of modu jackets – stylishly designed phone enclosures. The modu phone is small, light, compact, superbly designed and minimalist, whilst offering all the functions and capabilities of a normal-sized.

The claim is a blow to Sony which developed the Blu-ray format. The discs are protected by an anti-piracy system called BD+. When it launched in 2007, developers boasted it would not be cracked for 10 years. Sony however failed to comment on the issue.

• Classic Alienware eye catching design
• Large screen with high resolution
• Superb video gaming capability
• Fantastic Audio
• Built on the Google Android platform

A new technology from Japan makes the latest HD movies look simply archaic. Last week, engineers at NHK’s (Nippon Hoso Kyokai) Science and Technical Research Laboratories demonstrated Super Hi-Vision technology capable of a 7680×4320 resolution.

At a resolution of 7680×4320, over 33 million pixels make the image – a 16 times jump from  the resolution of a 1080p image. It could be approximated by placing 16 of today’s best HDTVs together.

Security researcher Nick Breese used a PS3 to crack supposedly strong  eight-character passwords in a matter of hours.

Typically, previous attempts to crack such passwords took days to get the same result.

Eight-character passwords are used to protect PDF and Zip files as well as those produced by Microsoft Office.

The work to turn the PS3 into a password cracker was carried out by Nick Breese, who works for Auckland-based Security Assessment.

The Cell processor at the heart of the PS3 is the key to speeding up the time it takes to crack a password.

In a presentation given at the Kiwicon security conference in mid-November, Mr Breese said a powerful Intel chip could crank through 10-15 million cycles per second.

The architecture of the Cell processor meant it could speed through 1.4 billion cycles per second.

[ Via BBC News ]

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• SATA over Parallel ATA [IDE]
• The SCSI interface is also being transformed into serial.

What makes the parallel communication faster is that multiple bits are transmitted simultaneously, whereas bit by bit transmission occurs in serial.

The serial communication may be faster than the parallel one, provided the bits leave the transmitting device at a much higher speed. An example of such is the ATA 2 Serial port that however serial can reach a transfer rate of up to 300 MB/s, while the traditional IDE port [P-ATA] goes to 133 MB/s at the most.

The complications of using Parallel data transfer is that that many wires are required as the width of bus. E.g : A 32 bit PCI bus would have 32 wires and the controls are required for each.

In serial communication, just two wires will do the mojo. Also, as the speed of data transfer increases, the e.m disturbances also increases, making parallel data transfer very difficult.

Another problem with parallel commu. is that the bits may not reach the destination at the same time. The various reception time of the several bits makes the device wastes time having to wait for all the bits to arrive, which may represent a significant fall in performance.

Finally, parallel data tx. is semi duplex or half duplex, whereas serial data tx. is full duplex. In the serial communication, since it only uses two wires, the manufacturers usually make four wires available, two for the transmission and two for the reception of data. That makes it possible for the simultaneous transmission and reception of data. Such architectural difference alone makes the serial communication about twice as fast as the parallel communication.

The move is an important step in the transformation of the photo format from an in-house technology called Windows Media Photo to a neutral format more likely to be palatable to companies that don’t want to be beholden to Microsoft.However, the move also means that Microsoft will have to be more patient with its hopes to get HD Photo to catch on more broadly. Standardization “typically takes around a year,” said Bill Crow, who has led Microsoft’s HD Photo project.

[Via Bink.nu ]