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In 3D chips, the cores are stacked to reduce wire lengths and improve communication speeds.

Computing

Going 3D for more powerful and environmentally-friendly microchips

After multicores, 3D chips promise faster performance and, even more importantly, better efficiency to reduce the rapidly growing environmental impact of data centers around the globe.

Automotive

BMW ActiveE Concept – fully electric 1 Series Coupe

BMW will show an all-electric 1 Series Coupe bristling with ideas at the NAIAS in January. The ActiveE Concept's 125 kW motor is located in the rear axle, its lithium ion batteries recharge in three hours and it has a range of 160 km.

You can own your very own robotic doppelganger, just like roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro (thatâ€™s Hiroshi on the right)

AI and Humanoids

Get your own robotic doppelganger

As part of a New Year’s promotional sale Japan’s Sogo, Seibu, and Robinson’s department stores will offer people the chance to buy a humanoid robot custom-built to look, move and sound just like them.

Good Thinking

The Top 10 things you CAN have for Christmas 2009

If you've got some last minute shopping to do, and you hurry, this might just help - it's Gizmag's pick of the top 10 tech gadgets of 2009.

The 'motorized knee' enables runners to use 30 percent less muscle power

Robotics

‘Motorized Knee’ gives runners a leg up

Researchers at Japan’s Tsukuba University have designed a “motorized knee” that supports the flex of the knee, enabling a runner to use 30 percent less muscle power compared to running unassisted.

Steorn's Orbo device, exploded, and our reaction to it.

Science

Roll up, roll up to see the Irish perpetual motion machine!

Remember that zany Irish companySteorn, who claimed to have built a working perpetual motion machine that could produce clean, free energy out of a few magnets and some plastic discs? Well, they're back again.

The hub contains batteries, a motor, gears and a range of sensors

Urban Transport

MIT debuts the Copenhagen Wheel

MIT researchers have unveiled an electric assist wheel that can bee fitted to any existing bicycle and contains environmental sensors and GPRS tracking.

Home Entertainment

James Cameron's Avatar in IMAX 3D: a mind-blowing glimpse into tomorrow's cinema

Gizmag is hardly a movie review site, but when a film comes along that advances the art form in such a revolutionary way as James Cameron's Avatar, it becomes entirely relevant to fans of emerging technology. Minimal spoilers, read on!

Solar Surge - a sunny solution to iPhone charging

Environment

Solar Surge: a sunny solution for iPhone charging

The Solar Surge is a lightweight slip-on solar panel that cleverly charges your iPhone 3G or 3GS and iPod Touch

Swedish telecommunications company TeliaSonera has launched its 4G network in Sweden and Norway, incorporating USB modems developed by Samsung

Mobile Technology

TeliaSonera launches 4G network in Norway and Sweden

Swedish telco TeliaSonera has launched its 4G network in Sweden and Norway.

IBM predicts smarter buildings, transportation, water systems, medical will impact cities in the next five years

Body and Mind

IBM forecasts the next 5 big ideas for the next 5 years

IBM has focused on innovations that have the potential to change how people live, work and play in cities for their fourth annual “Next 5 in 5” list of innovations that they believe will impact our lives in the next five years.

Research from Penn State could improve UV blocking in eyewear (Photo: Gizmag)

Wellness and Healthy Living

New glass promises improved UV blocking

Research suggests that adding cerium oxide to phosphate glass may result in sunglasses that block ultraviolet light and have greater radiation damage resistance.

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