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T-Force CARDEA A440 M.2 PCIe 4.0 2TB SSD Review
It’s amazing to think that modern consoles are on such parity with high-end PCs these days, more so than they’ve ever been. This is especially true when talking about storage, with the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X taking advantage of the latest PCIe 4.0 storage standards. Of course, while…
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Creative Announces the Outlier Air In-Ear Headphones
AirPods Alternative from Creative Creative has finally launched their first truly wireless in-ear headphones called the Outlier Air. Unlike other wireless headsets which has a wire connecting both left and right ear pieces, the Outlier Air are two separate left and right buds that work together. Inside each are 6mm…
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MIT’s 3D Graphene Ten Times Stronger than Steel
A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a form of graphene that is ten times stronger than steel while being 95% less dense. Graphene is recognised to be, in its 2D form, the strongest material known to man, and MIT has developed a way…
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New Supercapacitor Enable Devices to Be Charged in Seconds
Researchers from the University of Central Florida’s NanoScience Technology Center are working on a new Supercapacitor technology that will revolutionize the way devices are charged from gadgets as small as phones to batteries used in electric vehicles. Current battery technology is very limited in that it takes a while to…
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Smaller & Cooler Night Vision Thanks To Graphene
Everyone knows that green hue of the night vision goggles, from TV or games you’ve seen them help police and search and rescue teams with spotting people from a distance or soldiers using them to gain that upper hand in the night. One thing you may have noticed though is…
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Hemp More Efficient and Cheaper than Graphene
A newly published data set shows that using hemp fibres is a much cheaper way to build super capacitors that perform equal if not better than those made from graphene. Lets get one thing straight right away, we’re talking about hemp here, not marijuana or cannabis as many pages are reporting.…
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Future Supercapacitors Could Be Made from Discarded Cigarette Butts
Cigarettes are often burned down to their filters by smokers looking to enjoy every last bit of their expensive tobacco. But then those butts are just tossed away, contributing what’s often estimated as being as many as 5.6 trillion used cigarettes to our trash heaps every year. A group of…
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New Manufacturing Technique Could Speed Up Graphene Production
Graphene has been in the hands of researchers for ten years now, a super material that has displayed many interesting properties and applications. The only trouble with the material is that it has proven very tricky to produce on a large scale, but new innovations from MIT have found a workaround…
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Pouring Saltwater Over Graphene Generates Electricity
When it comes to generating electricity out of water, most people probably think of dams and the use of the water pressure to turn large turbines and generate electricity by means of magnetic turbines. Scientists are looking at another method though. Specifically, they are once again exploring other prospects of…
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IBM Builds Graphene Circuit Boards, Sends Text Messages Faster At Lower Power Cost
Recent reports point to IBM creating a graphene-based circuit that they say performs 10,000 times better than existing options. It was reliable enough that they used it to send and receive a text message. What is graphene? Simple. It’s an atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms renowned for its strength and…
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New Graphene Manufacturing Method Inspired By Tree Frog Feet
Graphene is the cool kid in the world of materials, it’s incredibly strong and conductive, making it perfect for a wide range of applications, and especially good for electronic chips and solar cells. The only problem we have with Graphene is that it is hard to manufacture. When it was…
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Move Over Graphene, There Is A New Tough Guy In Town, Say Hello To Carbyne!
Remember back in the day, when times were simple and we all knew that diamond was the strongest thing around? Well those days are long over and since then we’ve learnt that Graphene was the strongest material, not to mention one of the most versatile materials. Yet for all the…
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Graphene Could Make Camara Sensors 1000x More Sensitive
Digital Cameras have proven them selves more than worth as the successor to more traditional film cameras, but while there have been many steady advances with both pixel density, lens technology and processing technology over the years, every once in a while something really big comes along, something that can…
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Graphene antennas will allow Terabit per second uploads
Researchers at Georgia Tech have made plans to build a wireless antenna using atom-thin sheets of carbon/graphene which will have the potential to allow terabit-per-second transfer speeds at short ranges. In theory, in short range you can move as much as 100 terabits per second which will approximately allow you…
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