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Gorilla Glass NBT, a specially designed solution for touch-enabled notebooks that aims to protect these higher-end devices from the dangers of everyday use. Touch-Screen Notebooks Protects By New Gorilla Glass     Standard Gorilla Glass, the type designed back in 2007 especially for the iPhone  that can handle its fair share of roughing up, but all it takes is a uniquely applied push of pressure for the screen to teeter on the edge of a wicked spider web crack. With touchscreen notebooks, the threat is more serious considering the huge cost of screen replacement. That's why the NBT variety of the glass is not meant to protect these devices from drops but rather from scratches due to excessive use and from any weakness that may result if a scratch does end up on the screen.  According to Corning, consumer complaint rates are more than twice as high for scratches on touch-screen notebooks than for scratches involving other mobile devices. Gorilla...

Swedish Researchers Make "Impossible Material" By Accident In an effort to create a more viable material for drug delivery, Uppsala University researchers have created an unprecedented material with record-breaking properties. This new material, Upsalite, thought for more than 100 years to be impossible to make but it came into existence as the result of an accident in the lab. Upsalite is a magnesium carbonate material that has already broken world records with its surface area and water absorption abilities. Upsalite is a new form of non-toxic magnesium carbonate with an extremely porous surface area which allows it to absorb more moisture at low humidities than any other known material. "The total area of the pore walls of one gram of material would cover 800 square meters (8611 sq ft) if you would 'roll them out'", Maria Strømme, Professor of Nanotechnology at the Uppsala University, Sweden told. That's roughly equal to the sail are...

Beware, Cookies Are Harmul For You!!!! "Cookies" are tidbits of information that Web sites store on your computer, temporarily or more-or-less permanently. In many cases cookies are useful and innocuous. They may be passwords and user IDs, so that you do not have to keep retyping them every time you load a new page at the site that issued the cookie. Other cookies however, can be used for "data mining" purposes, to track your motions through a Web site, the time you spend there, what links you click on and other details that the company wants to record, usually for marketing purposes. Most cookies can only be read by the party that created them. However, some companies that manage online banner advertising are, in essence, cookie sharing rings. They can track which pages you load, which ads you click on, etc., and share this information with all of their client Web sites (who may number in the hundreds, even thousands.) Some examples of these cookie shar...

Panasonic Lumix DMC - FZ70 Review And Specification Panasonic appears to have just lapped everyone in the superzoom camera race -- at least in terms of zoom range -- by offering a whopping 60x optical zoom with an equivalent range of 20 to 1,200mm in the just announced Panasonic FZ70. While that's not a longer telephoto reach than, say, the Canon SX50, which also can zoom out to 1,200mm, the FZ70's zoom range starts from a 20mm wide angle and provides a 12% wider field of view than does the Canon SX50's 24mm wide angle. Add in a lens that also starts out at max aperture of f/2.8, brighter compared to the SX50's f/3.4, and the Panasonic FZ70 has our full attention. At least on paper, this FZ70 boasts stats that beat our favorite of all the superzooms we've tested (yes, the Canon SX50), and looks like a serious option for photographers wanting a ton of shooting flexibility. What stands out most in addition to the FZ70's 60x zoom is the camera's c...

Microsoft Introduces Pop-Up Warning On Child Abuse Image Searches To "Bing" Search Engine Anyone in the UK who uses Microsoft's Bing search engine to seek out images depicting child abuse will now be greeted with a pop-up warning informing them their activities are illegal. The notification, which is the first of its kind in the UK, will also provide links to 'help and advice' services, for those who may be drifting towards such content, courtesy of the StopItNow.org counselling group. Microsoft's Bing search engine has become the first service in the UK to introduce measures warning users who request online images of child abuse. BBC News reports that Bing users will now see pop-up notices if they search for indecent images of children, warning them that the content is illegal and linking to details of a counselling service. The move comes shortly after the UK government announced its bold and controversial plan to crack down on online p...

WigWag Brings Home-Automation Mobile Over the past few years, a number of smart home devices and systems have come and gone on Kickstarter, IndieGoGo and other platforms, but it seems like a bunch of new ones have launched recently. WigWag is another device with that goal, and it has some distinct features that its creators hope will help it stand tall above others on the market. WigWag is a sensor-based control system. it allows users to set up all kinds of rules for their homes, and it acts upon them when the "if" condition is met. No programming or computers are necessary; everything can be set up and controlled via the WigWag app for smartphones and tablets. WigWag  acts upon them when the "if" condition is met For example, a user can tell the system to turn on the lights in a room when motion is detected, turn the heat on when the temperature falls below a certain level, if someone enters the backyard, WigWag can send an email. Users can ...

Sony And Panasonic Team Up To Develop 300GB Optical Discs Technology giants Sony and Panasonic have officially announced that they are working on the next-generation optical disc for long-term digital data storage. Both companies are planning to develop an optical disc with storage capabilities of at least 300 GB by the end of 2015. In the joint announcement from the two companies, the move is said to target professional-use customers looking for long-term digital data storage solutions. The new disks are also meant to ensure inter-generational compatibility between various formats, thus cutting down the frequency of archiving updates required when storage mediums inevitably shift due to changes in hardware constructs. According to the Nikkei, the primary customers for the high capacity diskc will be broadcasters and data centers, but the development also offers hope for the cloud-phobic that high capacity, offline solutions may continue to be available far i...