Feb 21 2011
Spintronics: Abandoning Perfection for the Quantum Age
Here’s a great introduction to Spintronics by David Awschalom, one of the pioneers in this exciting new science:
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Feb 03 2011
OLED-Info won a Golden Retrevo Award!
Remember the OLED-Info nomination for a blogging award a few weeks ago? It turns out that I’m one of the winners… OLED-Info was chosen as one of the best blogs this year in the Gadget Accessories Plus category…
Jan 20 2011
So I finally have a new phone
A few months ago I found out that my Nokia phone is not water resistance – in fact it died after spending a few minutes in the pool. I had to switch to a phone we bought in China – a Nokia 1202, which is probably Nokia’s simplest phone ever (although it does sport a [...]
Dec 24 2010
OLED-Info is nominated for a blogging awards…
I just learned that OLED-Info is nominated for the Golden Retrevo Awards. According to Retrevo, the awards honor the best and brightest independent bloggers of the gadget blogosphere… That’s rather cool. You can help by clicking here to vote for me…
Nov 25 2010
Grapene explained
As you probably know, I have a web site dedicated to Graphene. Graphene has got a lot of attention lately, after the 2010 Nobel Prize in physics went to the researchers who discovered Graphene. Here’s a great explanation of Graphene and why is it important: Check out this post for another great video explaining all [...]
Nov 11 2010
Flexible OLEDs
I have neglected my blog for a while (I have two small excuses). So here’s something short: Samsung’s new Flexible AMOLED display:
Sep 27 2010
Lumiotec OLED lighting panel
Lumiotec is the third company (after OSRAM and Philips) to offer sample OLED lighting “kits”. I just posted a review of their OLED Lighting panel. This is the first time Michal said “wow” about a gadget – and I reviewed all sorts of OLED panels, watches and pico projectors… so I guess this one is [...]
Aug 08 2010
Life is good, and I have a new OLED watch
It’s been a while since I wrote last… things are kinda busy – but all is good. Noga and Abigail and both growing quickly, and it’s fun to be a real family. Although it’s also quite challenging at times (usually these times are around 5AM in the morning). Next week Abigail starts her summer vacation, [...]
May 06 2010
Gmail e-mail spam-filters are trigger-happy?
Usually I get around 200 spam messages a day to my gmail account. Once every 2-3 days I go over them, and usually I find one or two real messages that gmail mistakenly marked as spam. Today I went over about 500 spam messages, and found over 20 (!) real ones in there. Including e-mails [...]
Apr 06 2010
Are e-readers really green?
Here’s some interesting facts, comparing e-readers (Apple’s iPAD, really) to regular books: One e-reader requires 33 pounds of minerals and 79 gallons of water. A regular book requires about 0.6 pounds of minerals and 2 gallons of water. Making an e-reader requires around 100 kw/h of energy (around 66 pounds of co2). A normal book [...]