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Submission + - Silicon Valley's Island of Misfit Tech (technologizer.com)

Submitted by harrymcc
harrymcc writes: For more than 20 years, Sunnyvale's cavernous, aptly-named Weird Stuff Warehouse has sold an amazing array of salvage and surplus computer products. It's like a tech museum where everything's for sale at bargain-basement prices--from shrinkwrapped Atari 1040ST software to used BetaMAX tapes to 1GB hard drives to mysterious printed circuit boards to Selectric typewriters. I paid a visit to this legendary geek temple and snapped photos of some of the fascinating stuff I came across.

Submission + - SPAM: A Universal Language Translator for Smartphone by

Submitted by nikki4
nikki4 writes: The Google folks are always busy in their labs bringing new technology to the users and enhancing the existing applications for a better user experience. Giving some major improvement tweaks to its existing voice recognition tool for the Smartphone, Google is bringing new translator software for an instant translation of the foreign language, reports Times Online.
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Hardware

Submission + - 3D HDMI specification is set free (pcauthority.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The licenser of the HDMI specification have announced their intent to "secure the application of 3D" by making the 3D portion of the HDMI 1.4 Specification available for public download, as well as extracts from the upcoming HDMI 1.4a. While the spec includes a 3D component, apparently not everyone has decided to sign up to adopt it. Given the developments happening in DisplayPort v1.2, the next year in displays looks like it will be an interesting one.
Medicine

Plasma Jets Could Replace Dental Drills 131

Posted by kdawson from the open-wide dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "The first electric dental drill was patented in 1875; modern drills grind the diseased portions of teeth away at up to 500,000 rpm. But dentists have been seeking less invasive ways of wiping out stubborn, tooth-decaying bacteria. Now Live Science reports that bacteria-killing jets of plasma could soon replace the drills used to treat cavities in our teeth. Researchers recently demonstrated that a small, blowtorch-like device emitting a relatively cool beam of purple plasma could eliminate oral bacteria in cavities, leaving more tooth structure intact than a drill does. To test how well 'cold' plasma jets (about 100F or 38C) sterilize tooth material, researchers took slices of dentin from extracted human molars, doused them with bacteria, and torched them with the plasma jet. An inspection via a scanning electron microscope of the damage done to the germs shows bacterial remnants had holes in their cell walls. When the plasma jet fires, it charges oxygen in the surrounding air, creating highly reactive molecules that can break down the bacteria's defenses. Researchers believe the technique could be available to general dentistry in three to five years."
Power

Submission + - Physicists Discover How to Teleport Energy (inhabitat.com) 1

Submitted by MikeChino
MikeChino writes: A physicist at Tohoku University in Japan has figured out how to teleport energy from one point in the universe to another. The technique is based upon prior research that shows it’s possible to teleport information from one location to another, and involves making a measurement on each [of] an entangled pair of particles. The measurement on the first particle injects quantum energy into the system, and then by carefully choosing the measurement to do on the second particle, it is possible to extract the original energy. Heady stuff, but essentially it means that you can inject energy at one point in the universe and extract it from somewhere else without changing the energy of the system as a whole.

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