Apple: New Products Are Coming In 2014

During Apple's quarterly earnings call today, CEO Tim Cook mentioned that the company is still working on breaking into new product categories. Cook offered very few specifics, but did say to expect to see new products from Apple in 2014. "If you look at the skills Apple has from hardware and software services...no one has skills like this," Cook said. "We obviously believe we can use our skills to build other great products in areas we do not participate in today." So what's he talking about? It's been widely reported that...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Tuesday, 29 October 2013

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Silicon Supercapacitor Powers Phones for Weeks on Single Charge

Material scientists at Vanderbilt University have developed a supercapacitor made out of silicon. Previously thought to be kind of a crazy idea, the silicon capacitor can be built into a chip — which could give cellphones weeks of life from one charge, or solar cells that produce energy with or without the sun. Pretty sweet deal. Published in Scientific Reports, the first-ever silicon supercap stores energy by gathering ions on the surface of the porous material. Different from batteries, which work on chemical reactions,...

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