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In this video podcast, Dr. Oren Shriki, a science teacher at the Israel Arts and Sciences Academy, speaks about Intel’s International Science and Engineering Fair, taking place in Atlanta, May 11-16. (As excitement builds toward the event’s opening, you can follow along on […]

From Too Many Cars.

From today’s Intel press release.
The Intel Atom processor is based on an entirely new microarchitecture designed specifically for small devices and low power, while maintaining the Intel Core 2 Duo instruction set compatibility consumers are accustomed to when using a standard PC and the Internet.
The chips have a thermal design power (TDP) specification in 0.6-2.5 […]

For those who haven’t seen one, they’re quite beautiful and extraordinary. Fans of good design will marvel at the mind-boggling intricacy of 400-million transistors in about the size of a dime. All brought to you by Intel’s leading 45nm process technology.

Approximately 400 of Intel’s 45nm transistors could fit on the surface of a single human […]

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Intel Corporation’s new 45nm Penryn microprocessor relies the element Hafnium and metal gate technology to increase performance and significantly reduce eco-unfriendly, wasteful electricity leaks.
In recognition of the 45nm technology (but also for the innovation that will […]

From http://www.sigchi.org/dis2008/
DIS 2008 will be hosted in Cape Town, South Africa from Monday 25 February – Wednesday 27 February 2008. It will be the first DIS conference to be held outside the USA or Europe, and as such aims to challenge participants to reflect on designing interactive systems for users outside these established markets. This […]

Robert recently made a prediction of Google’s demise.
Below are fifteen queries (actual text of queries was different) I have made to Google in the last couple of days.
You can see that the queries fall into several types: general facts, current news and event information, recommendation for products or services, research and opinions on general topics.
All […]

This weekend one of the parents standing along the sidelines mentioned it would be great to have club t-shirts for next week’s tournament.
When I got home, I whipped up a logo using Photoshop and uploaded it to Zazzle. I emailed the link to the team roster and order my family some shirts. It took less […]

Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman from one of my favorite shows, MythBusters, have done a series of videos for PodTech’s sponsor, Intel.
I like this one, entitled Powers of Smaller. It employs the MythBusters’ special effects expertise to demonstrate how Intel has been able to continuously shrink the size of the transistor over the last three […]