How To Build A Computer

Are you the kind of person who wants his computer a certain way. It can sometimes be hard to find a computer that suits you exactly the way you want it. The easiest solution to this is to build your own computer from scratch. When I was in 9th grade I assembled a computer. It looked really hard at first, but once I found this website it became a lot easier. For anyone who wants to try to build a computer I would recommend reading this website. It's kind of long, but it's worth it.  http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/how-to-tech/build-a-computer1.htm

Touch/Feel Screen

The major problem with touchscreens is that you can't feel the boutons that you are pushing. So as a result you have to always be looking at the screen when you're typing and it is easy to push a wrong bouton. This is very annoying if you are trying to multitask. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have realized this and have make their own touchscreen. This touchscreen is very unique because it can change it's shape to form boutons that you can push. This design is very simple and can only form certain limited bouton shapes.

"Content Intelligence"

When people search something on the web using Google or other search engines, they usually come up with a list of documents with the word(s) they're searching in it. This is helpful, but not helpful enough according to researchers at Netbase Solutions. Netbase Solutions has come out with a new way to search for what you need on the internet. Typically if you search for something, such as a disease, you will come up with documents and websites related to that disease. But what this new search engine from netbase does is it takes all the important information from the documents and websites, and gives you just that. So if you search "Swine Flu", then you'll get a list of ailments, causes, etc- the important stuff. The searching software is called Content Intelligence.

Super Efficient Laptop Battery

HP has just designed and created a laptop battery that lasts longer and charges faster than any other laptop battery available on the market. The battery is a lithium-ion battery. It recharges 50 percent faster that normal laptop batteries, and it can retain 80 percent of its charging capacity after 3 years (compared to the normal 50 percent over 1 year). HP is installing this laptop battery in 18 of its laptop models.

Blue Gene/P

As the small laptop computers and devices get faster and faster, so do the big super computers. IBM has found a way to make supercomputers faster by using stream computing. This kind of computing can crunch a realtime stream of data in microseconds. This is 21 times faster than normal supercomputers. IBM joined forces with TD Securities to make this amazing supercomputer which they call Blue Gene/P. 

Graphene

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have just created the first ever full functional graphene. Graphene is a sheet of carbon atoms arranged in hexagons which can be used to make high radio frequency logic circuits, transparent electrodes (for flexible flat panel displays), and high surface area electrods (for ultra-capacitors). This is a big step for computer science because this new technology could make hard drives much faster and denser. The concept of graphene has been around, but it hasn't been of any interest because it wasn't thought to be possible. Andre Geim, a professor at the University of Manchester, said that this new technology is thrilling, because it's very simple.

Technological Brain

An international team of scientists in Europe have just created a silicon chip that functions like a human brain. This means that it can learn like humans can. Although this technology is not new, and it cannot mimic the brain perfectly, this technology is getting better and better, and closer than ever to mimicking a human brain. This silicon chip only carries 200,000 neurons which is not even close to the number of neurons in a real human brain. But the amazing thing about this technology is that it can operate about 100,000 time faster than a real human brain.