Tag: FIBEROPTIC

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. In 1855, ...

Share A month ago, the mayor of Topeka, Kansas changed the city's name (temporarily) to 'Google, Kansas' in a bid to become one of the test beds for the company's Fiber for Communities project. The search giant responded in kind today; visiting Google.com will reveal a change in names from 'Google' to 'Topeka.' The April Fool's Day-obsessed Web giant posted a lengthy explanation on its ...

Want greener energy without having to install large, gaudy solar panels on your house? Join the club. But what was once wishful thinking might soon be reality. According to ABC Science, scientists have created a way to harness sunlight and convert it into electricity by connecting a photovoltaic cell to fiber-optic wiring that's barely wider than a human hair. (Note that it doesn't actually use ...

Those dang MIT brainiacs. When they're not cracking people up with their erudite pranks and kooky creations, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing something to make the rest of the world feel insignificant and, well, let's just say undereducated. Institute researchers, according to CNet, have created a fabric with intertwining fibers that act as a basic camera. ...

We love ill-fated, awesome products that make little to no sense. In this case, we are talking about fiber-optic bed covers, of course. We couldn't have been more thrilled to hear from OhGizmo about this delightfully useless offering from manufacturer LumiGram. The comforter is constructed from a patented material called Luminex. When plugged in (yes, it has to be plugged in), the entire cover ...

Verizon's FiOS service has already been putting the heat on cable providers in the ISP realm, offering blisteringly fast downloads and impressive upload speeds at prices comparable to most cable providers. Depending on where you live, you can nab a connection at speeds up to 50 megabits downstream and 5 megabits up. Many cable providers have begun to catch up with Verizon in the quest for the ...

So you think your cable modem is fast? Maybe you think that those Japanese are lucky with their average broadband speed of 61 megabits per second. Well, one woman has put all those to shame. Sigbritt Löthberg, a resident of Karlstad, Sweden has been set up with the worlds fastest broadband connection -- 40 Gigabits per second. Yes that's right Gigabits. Thats roughly 800 times faster than the ...