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Silicon Mirror & Kaleidoscope

Downloads The Silicon Mirror is a gadget that operates like the mirrors inside a kaleidoscope. The Silicon Kaleidoscope is a Windows screensaver that uses the Silicon Mirror to create kaleidoscopic images that flow in real time.

14 August 2003, 5:08 > More matches in Downloads

What's on the cards at Intel - silicon "everywhere", for one thing

News Intel plans to place its silicon in as many products, markets and geographic regions as possible, the company said yesterday. Because integrated chips cost less than separate chips, Intel believes it can undercut competitors as well as sell a...

23 October 2002, 8:45 > More matches in News

Construction worker wipes out Silicon Valley web access

News Web users in the heart of Silicon Valley lost their internet access yesterday after a construction worker accidentally severed a fibre-optic cable. UUNet customers in San Francisco and Santa Clara saw their web access interrupted - or at best...

31 October 2002, 7:40 > More matches in News

News.blog: Can silicon help Blu-ray?

News Shimei Semiconductor has developed a blue LED grown on a silicon substrate, according to EE Times. The Blu-ray people face a big problem: those blue lasers are a pain to make. Now, blue LEDs are grown on a sapphire substrate.

10 November 2006, 10:02 > More matches in News

Google slams mobile operators for blocking apps

News I think that has scary, scary implications," added Sacca, who was appearing on a panel titled 'Silicon Valley Comes To Oxford'. I think a lot of people in Silicon Valley are agitating to work out 'how do we take the dam down faster?

27 November 2006, 9:20 > More matches in News

Analysts and journalists: A case of tainted love?

News Ever wonder why you see particular IT industry analysts quoted again and again on the pages of silicon.com and other publications? That's a different ball game, one with definite conflict of interest issues," Dale Kutnick, Meta Group founder and co...

22 October 2002, 14:50 > More matches in News

CES kicks off the year of video

News Executives from Silicon Valley, Beijing, Europe and Hollywood will descend on the Consumer Electronics Show to talk about how they plan to make money from convergence -- the long-promised coming together of entertainment and computing that's...

4 January 2006, 10:16 > More matches in News

Can Google beat the curse of the new office?

News Google is following in the high-tech footsteps of many Silicon Valley companies who came before, dreaming big and building or leasing large new offices to accommodate its swelling employee roster. Of course, some Silicon Valley companies are easily...

29 September 2005, 9:36 > More matches in News

Cryogenic chip breaks speed record

News IBM and Georgia Tech have coaxed a chip to run at 500GHz, a record for a silicon-based device, by dropping the temperature to -268°C. The experiment is part of a project to explore the ultimate speed limits of silicon-germanium (SiGe) chips.

20 June 2006, 10:16 > More matches in News

Win a free mobile phone!

News Following the success of our silicon.com Christmas television giveaway special, the Gadget Showdown returns with an in-depth look at the future of mobile phones. You've heard the hype - log on to http://www.silicon.com/a51182 to see if it's worth it.

8 February 2002, 12:00 > More matches in News

Best most comfortable earphones

Reviews Their tiny enclosures and super-soft silicon tips make them almost completely unnoticeable, with nothing physically there to even risk causing discomfort. Sennheiser's CX 500s also boast small enclosures and silicon tips, which contribute to their...

23 April 2008, 15:17 > More matches in Reviews

Hands-on with Denon's AH-C700 sound-isolating earphones

Crave They look like silicon-tipped silver bullets, and mark Japanese audio specialist Denon's entry to the high-end earphone market. They're comfy 'phones too -- the soft silicon tips provide a comfortable fit and sound-isolation is excellent.

Tags: denon, bass, high end, ears

5 July 2007, 10:59 > More matches in Crave

Thirty photos a second with a digicam?

News The US chipmaker has come up with an 8-megapixel silicon imager for compact cameras that will allow cameras to shoot ten 8-megapixel pictures a second or 30 2-megapixel shots a second. Digital cameras have also switched from relying on charge...

18 May 2006, 12:03 > More matches in News

Facebook founder leads Agenda Setters

News Zuckerberg topped CNET.co.uk's sister site silicon.com's eighth annual 2007 Agenda Setters poll, which rates which tech leaders are making the biggest impact. Hallett, editor and site director of silicon.com said it has been fascinating to watch...

Tags: places, director, industry, tech

18 October 2007, 9:32 > More matches in News

i-Steroid iPod valve amplifer: Drugged up, or quick and nimble?

Crave These tiny fires of electrical power, burning so bright, give ancient tech a romantic appeal, something that today's innocuous silicon diodes lack. Valves were superseded by silicon in most electronic equipment, but we still use them in specialist...

Tags: equipment, electronic, elements, gap

14 September 2006, 12:59 > More matches in Crave