Looks like flexible screens on cell phones and MP3 players might not be too far off in the future after all. The new production process works on the same exact equipment as the LCD equipment but with a few tweaks. The difference comes in the substrate used during the process. For LCD televisions, the transistors that make the pixels light up are deposited on glass at high temperature. But in order to make the flexible OLED screens, plastic must be substituted for the brittle glass. That presented a problem as, at the normal temperatures of deposition, the plastic screen would melt away into a puddle of unhappy consumerism. So the researchers turned down the temperature dial, a trick that is known to cause imperfections in the electronics.

Highlights from an NVIDIA press release:

NVIDIA and its worldwide partners today announced the availability of the GPU-based Tesla™ Personal Supercomputer, which delivers the equivalent computing power of a cluster, at 1/100th of the price and in a form factor of a standard desktop workstation.

Highlights from Technology Review:

A cell phone that never needs recharging might sound too good to be true, but Nokia says it's developing technology that could draw enough power from ambient radio waves to keep a cell-phone handset topped up.

There are so many interesting stories coming out I don't have the time or energy to create writeups for all of them.  However, I hate to let good finds go to waste so I'll regularly post links I think are worth checking out.

There are so many interesting stories coming out I don't have the time or energy to create writeups for all of them.  However, I hate to let good finds go to waste so I'll regularly post links I think are worth checking out.

Dolphins are known to be some of the most intelligent animals on Earth. They possess a large brain, have the ability to learn complex behaviors, and communicate using one of the most advanced non-human languages. Unfortunately this language is so foreign to human ears that up to this point it has been impossible to understand even the most basic pattern. This problem may soon be a thing of the past, because two researchers have created a device that translates sounds into images that are more easily analyzed for language patterns.