Grab a device like Nokia N8 and try to count the number of antennas there are inside. You have got 4 just for GSM/EDGE, 5 for 3G, 1 for Bluetooth, 1 for WiFi, and 1 for the FM radio. Thats a total of 12, and that number is only going to go up as innovations such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) and near field communication (NFC) start making their way into future flagship devices. How exactly is one supposed to fit all that metal inside a mobile phone and ensure that they will get a strong signal, Researchers at the University of Illinois have come up with a solutionand it’s so futuristic that we are wondering if their mad science will ever land inside a product. First they make a round bubble out of glass, replacing the traditional flat antennas of yore, then they take ink with silver nano-particles inside and draw a pattern on said bubble using a 3D printer.

Wait for everything to dry, and boom, you have got something that "approaches the fundamental limit dictated by physics." They have basically made the perfect antenna, but now they have to deal with finding a way to produce these things at scale, getting the cost down, and making them small enough to fit inside a mobile phone.

NVIDIA seems to have developed a taste for dual GPUs recently. Today the company launched its latest GTX590, which is basically a couple of GTX580 units soldered together and even though some power/heat limitations forced NVIDIA to lower the clocks of 1024 CUDA cores inside the GTX590, compared to the GTX580 this is one beast of a GPU. Early reviews put it within 1% of the AMD Radeon HD 6990, aka. the fastest single card on Earth. And the new NVIDIA baby is way quieter, too.

But do not let the average performance confuse you. AMD and NVIDIA use completely different architectures, which make performance at specific tasks poles apart. The GTX590 swipes the floor with the HD 6990 on Civilization V and H.A.W.X, for example, but gets a good spanking at BattleForge, Crysis and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

The YouTube in-browser video editor just got updated. And this is not your everyday minor tweaking, mind you, this is a pretty major improvement. The editor can stabilize your shaky video and even make it 3D worthy. The stabilization feature is using the Green Parrot Pictures technology and know-how, which Google recently acquired by buying the company. It removes all the shaky camera movement and replaces it with specially selected trajectories. It makes it look as if you were using a tripod for filming the video rather than your hands.

This does come at a price, though. The video looses some detail and it gets cropped so you are also getting a reduction in viewing angle. Fortunately, you get to preview the changes in real time, before you hit the publish button. The other cool feature the YouTube editor has gotten is the 3D Video Creator. It uses two separate streams to create the effect of 3D on your video.

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It seems like these functions require serious processing power to work properly, but since this is YouTube we are talking about here providing that is no problem at all. The Google subsidiary has distributed the load along numerous servers and the overall performance is pretty great.

At the very beginning, when Amazon opened its App Store for business, AT&T Android users were locked out of the fun. The reason behind this was that the US carrier considers the newly announced app store’s content as third party, thus unusable.

Naturally this action was a bummer for AT&T customers, who wanted to try the new app store, not to mention to download the Angry Birds Rio for free, as it was exclusively launched by Amazon in its app store. Now it seems that the carrier management has changed its mindset on the Amazon app store matter and will try to fix the problem. This should be done by some sort of update for AT&T-specific Android devices.

NetComm An Australian company that manufacturers routers. However, their routers are not quite regular they feature modems so you can build a Wi-Fi network from your carrier 3G connection. This year the company has announced an LTE router. Interestingly enough, the company does not work in retail but only with carriers.

The Tunebug

The company has elaborated the idea of transmitting sound through different media any object can become a loudspeaker: a table, a chair, even a bike helmet. Connection to the phone is, naturally, via Bluetooth. There is only one issue upon hearing the statement that you can listen to music via your helmet, I inquired whether there is a production of stereo helmets going on somewhere. The response was that, no and that music lovers would not probably appreciate the sound quality. I cannot understand why anyone would be listening to the horrid mono sound in 2011.