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There are millions of billions of stars in the observable Universe, yet we only get to see a tiny fraction of them on a clear night sky. Since the Earth is protected by its own atmosphere, the conditions for stargazing are not always appropriate and that’s why astronomers have built special facilities on top of high mountains. I, for one, am pretty preoccupied with the latest discoveries in astronomy and astrophysics, but I certainly can’t access an astronomical facility whenever I please. However, there’s a solution to my stargazing needs, and it’s known as the HomeStar Planetarium Projector.

This unique projector should enable astrofans like me to view over 10,000 stars right at home. The projector integrates a crystal-clear, rotating field of 10,000 stars based on ultra-bright white LEDS and projects it on your ceiling or wall. Every once in a while the projector may also project a random streaking meteor across you room.

According to Coolest Gadgets, the Planetarium Projector features a slick spherical design which is motorized to move the star map at the same speed the real stars blaze across out skies. HomeStar provides two HD images of the northern and southern hemisphere skies and the user is able to adjust the projection angles in order to display the star fields on either the walls or ceilings.

You can order one of these from Amazon for $130.53.

"The Nokia N96 is mobile entertainment at its best, a fitting flagship for our Nseries range. It defines convergence by blending phone and multimedia options seamlessly with the unique Nokia Nseries dual slider that makes discovering and sharing experiences easy. Watch live TV and video, take high quality photos and geotag them to specific locations or directly upload them online via the fast internet connection - it is all about taking mobile entertainment and communication to the next level," says Jonas Geust, Vice President, Nokia Nseries.

And with these said, the Nokia N96 mobile phone starts shipping worldwide at a retail price of EUR 550, approximately $792.
Nokia’s flagship multimedia computer with live TV capability continues the Nseries handsets line bringing a 5 MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens, geotagging and dual LED flash, turn-by-turn audible navigation guides, 16GB built-in memory, up to 24GB memory support via a microSD card, high-quality 3D stereo sounds, N-Gage games, and many other features.



Sporting a large 2.8-inch display it allows you to watch and record TV shows on the go based on the DVB-H technology, in the landscape mode, enabled by the motion sensor for auto-rotate. You can set transfer up to 40 hours of video from your computer onto the handset and using the smart kickstand you can place the Nokia N96 mobile phone in the right position to watch live TV anywhere you are.



It supports high-speed Internet connectivity thanks to the WLAN and HSDPA technologies, so you to browse full web pages and download different things directly on the handset. Other main features include FM radio with RDS, advanced music application, secondary VGA camera for video calls, and instant access to Ovi, Flickr, Vox, Yahoo! And Google.

You are now reading this article. That makes you one of the millions of people who are using the web on a day-to-day basis, not only for web pages, but also for the so-called applications: you’re uploading and watching videos, chatting with each other, playing web-based games.

From the beginning of web browsers, which dates back to late 1980s (when a number of technologies became the basis for the first web browser, the WorldWideWeb), lots of things changed. For example, the applications I was referring to earlier didn’t exist when the first browsers were created. That’s why there must be some kind of synchronization between the development of browsers and the permanent and uncontrollable reorganization of web users’ needs.

Starting yesterday, there is publicly available on The Official Google Blog a comic book meant to introduce their new open source browser, presented under the name of Google Chrome. Moreover, Google announced for today the launching of the beta version of the new browser in more than 100 countries.

Confident in the capability of adding value for users and helping drive innovation on the web, Google explains its decision like this: it would be more useful to start from the scratch and design a new browser according to today’s web applications and today’s users. In consequence, Google Chrome fits in the context, because it accomplishes all the requirements: it is more stable, faster, more secure and allows Javascript itself to be a lot faster for web applications. In addition, Google Chrome is a fully open source browser which features a clean, simple and efficient user interface.

People using the web spend a lot of their time working inside a browser, for different types of activities, from search to chat, email or even collaborations in a browser. The spare time isn’t forgiven either, as we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with our dear ones, yes, you got it right, in a browser. As we tend to spend more and more time online, the best thing that could ever happen was the apparition of a browser built from scratch on the best elements out there. The web is not the same anymore. The simple text pages turned in time into rich and interactive applications which made imperatively necessary a fast reconsideration of the browser.

The browser window is streamlined and simple because few people are interested in the browser itself; they give more attention and importance to a tool helping them to run the important stuff, such as pages, sites and applications that make up the web.



As we leave the window behind, we get to the foundation of the browser, which runs all sorts of complex web applications much better. In order to prevent one tab crashing another and to improve protection from rogue sites, each tab is kept in an isolated “sandbox”. The browser is what we can call “speedy” and the time of response is considerably higher across the board. Because of the numerous web applications that aren’t yet possible in today’s browsers, Google designed a more powerful JavaScript engine, called V8, aimed to make those apps utilizable.

Google reaffirmed their desire concerning the competition: they think it would be in the best interest of the web to help each other on the path of innovation and they recognize the fundamental role other open sources projects had in the development of their own project. As they had the chance to use components from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox, among others, they decided to join the team and share the spirit by making their code open source as well.

Concerning the announcement of Google’s Chrome browser, Tristan Nitot, the President of Mozilla Europe, commented the relationship between Google and Firefox, reassuring everyone about the fact that they’re not worried too much, even if they would never disregard their competitor.

As a matter of fact, Mozilla should keep their guard up, as from now on Google Chrome is available for download (for Windows Vista and Windows XP) right here.

We humans are still struggle to reconcile primal instincts with pure intellect and hope to figure out some day how the Universe works. Along the intricate path of supreme knowledge we come across visionary concepts that may change our understanding of the world in a radical manner. Things like these happened with the introduction of Einstein’s theory of relativity or the advent of the computer age and it’s bound to happen again with the imminent invasion of the programmable matter.

Make online magazine informs that in the final keynote of the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) held last Thursday, Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer, shed some light on the advancements made with programmable matter. Intel strongly believes that programmable matter will radically transform the technology of the next four decades.

Rattner explained that programmable matter would consist of tiny glass spheres with processing power and photovoltaic components for generating electricity to run the tiny circuitry. These particles called catoms would move relative to one another via electrostatic. What you see in the picture are just visible-scale replicas. The catoms are supposed to be only a few micrometers wide.

Just think of it as "the ultimate form of digital printing," only this time we’re talking about 3D printing. "You literally could make an object of any imaginable shape, or design, and simply 'hit the print command' and the matter would take that shape,” Rattner revealed in an interview for ZDnet. Rattner reminded us that the great Sci-Fi writer Arthur C. Clarke once said that “any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic.” “And that's what programmable matter is – it's a technology so advanced it might as well be magic,” Rattner said.

Now, I wonder if these catoms are self-replicating like nanobots. If so, we only need to buy a single catom in order to conjure any object we desire, and that should be pretty cheap, hopefully. Wait, can catoms take the shape of a breathing, thinking human?

During this month the TechPin and LaptopsArena teams are inviting you to participate in this month’s giveaways. As we have a limited number of gadgets to give away, we’ve decided to start a fun contest based on comments.

The contest terms are the simplest. All you have to do is post a concise comment here, in which to highlight the most important criteria you use to follow when buying a laptop computer. To give you a suggestion, let’s say I take into consideration aspects such as price, brand, weight, display size, the processor speed, the hard drive storage capacity, and I prefer colored laptop computers, not necessarily in this order.
What about you? Do you know some key elements that we all should base our final decision on? Speak and win!

As you’ve probably already heard, there’s a new website in town that will help you take the best decision before buying, but for that, you first have to know exactly what you plan to use the laptop for. After that, the same people on the website will be there to assist you in keeping your new acquisition in best shape.

Powered by no other than Toshiba, one of the top leading manufacturers of notebook computers, the laptop experts is a place where you can ask any question you need regarding your computer issues, and receive a helpful answer from people who really know what they are talking about.
If you are too lazy to enter the website and check for the answer, you can simply use the desktop widget and watch all the action as it happens.
Don’t forget to use the Tips & Tricks section before taking your final decision of what to buy.
And now let’s see what you will win!



The first of you who will come up on the list will get the Trio MP3 Player with the maximum capacity available, of 1GB. This MP3 player model measures 1.25 x 2.75 x 0.67 inches and uses 1 AAA Alkaline battery to operate for up to 10 hours. You can use it for playing music on the go, record voice, and organize the media in up to 9 folders containing 99 music files each.
Specifications include Backlit LCD for a clear display in dark conditions, USB 2.0 for high-speed PC connectivity, 85Db, 9mW 2@32Ohm headphone output, 20Hz-20KHz frequency range, 8KHz sample recording frequency, MP3/WMA supported file formats, and AG8/35 hrs (128MB) voice recording length.



The second subscriber who gets on the list will receive Belkin’s USB 2.0 4-Port Ultra Mini Hub that connects 3 devices to a single USB slot from your computer, for transfer speeds of up to 480Mbps. It powers via the USB connectivity and is plug-and-play, meaning you won’t have to install special driver to make it work.
Coming with a lifetime warranty, the mini hub was designed for travel and fits any pocket of a laptop bag.



If you don’t get neither the MP3 player nor the Belkin mini hub, you could have the luck to receive a $10 iTunes Gift Card. With it you could purchase songs at $0.99, audio books at $0.95, video clips, movies at $3 and $4, and other media from the iTunes.
For the winners’ list generation we chose RANDOM.ORG because it is a true list randomizer that works based on the atmospheric noise.

Winners will be announced on both websites, TechPin.com and LaptopsArena.com by the end of September, and they’ll also receive an alert via email, based on the personal information entered in the newsletter subscription. Only our readers have the right to participate at the giveaways, excluding members of the two websites' teams.
We are anxious to read your comments and we wish you good luck!