Nokia N900, a multitasking smartphone

Nokia N900 is different from other smartphone. Most disturbing feature of a smartphone is that most of them are not supporting multitasking, which means, if you want to browse more then one task simultaneously you can’t, but Nokia N900 is supporting multitasking. Nokia N900 is just like a computer. The N900 comes with a large WVGA touchscreen with a slider and a landscape-oriented keyboard.

It’s high-resolution of 800x480 pixels way more than the iPhone's same-sized screen. N900's spec sheet has the same highlights as the N97, including a 5MP camera and 32GB storage, a new Linux-based Maemo 5 operating system.

Adobe Flash 3D version coming up

Adobe is scheduling to release a 3D version of its well-liked Flash software, allowing videos and games to be played in 3D online.

The Adobe Max conference is coming up in October. The main agenda for the conference take account of a presentation titled "Flash Player 3D future".

The Adobe product manager, Thibault Imbert, has confirmed in a blog post that it there will be support for 3D applications in a future Flash version.

His post in full said, "If you are into 3D enlargement for games, increased reality or just interactive stuff like websites, you just can’t miss the session entitled Flash Player 3D future planned for Max 2010 scheduled on October 27 at 11:00AM in room 503. Flash Player engineer, Sebastian Marketsmueller, will deep dive into the next generation 3D API coming Flash Player in a future version.

"Now you may wonder, what do this means, what kind of 3D are we talking about? What kind of API? True textured z-buffered triangles? GPU acceleration? Even better? We’ll share after the launch.

Electricity demonstrated in potato

Alex Golberg student of Bioengineering demonstrates a potato could power by a battery in a lab at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem on July 6. The electric battery based on boiled potatoes could give an inexpensive foundation of electricity in the developing world, according to the technology transfer company of the university. Photo: AFP