There’s a new screen protector from Singapore that not only saves your phone from scratches but turns the screen into a 3D display capable of showing images and videos that pop out at you.

Called EyeFly 3D, the plastic film promises to turn any smartphone into a 3D display, once it is carefully pasted on the screen. Though it looks no different from regular S$5 screen protectors, the film is actually fitted with half a million tiny lenses that let you view 3D video content, say, from YouTube. …

If you’ve been fretting over the growing number of security tokens that you have to carry for performing online transactions, a solution is on the cards.

MasterCard and Standard Chartered Bank today unveiled Singapore’s first payment card with a built in security token powered by MasterCard’s Display Card technology. …

Intel has just formally unveiled its fourth generation Core CPUs, sticking to its guns to push out cross-over tablets and ultrabooks that promise enhanced performance while providing a full day’s battery life in 2013.

These new chips, previously codenamed Haswell, can produce the same performance while consuming half the battery life of this year’s Ivybridge or third-generation Core CPUs, which are expected to power the first Windows 8 devices. The new CPUs also use 20 times less power while idle.

At full speed, the new CPUs’ graphics prowess surpasses the current CPUs easily, according to demos at the annual Intel Developer Forum at San Francisco this week.

Intel hopes the new chips will further push the sales of ultrabooks, which have wowed many users with their innovative designs, but have not sold as well as expected. Last week, the semiconductor giant had to downgrade its sales prediction for the third quarter
…

Even as consumers are starting to warm up to PCs powered by Intel’s third-generation Core “Ivy Bridge” chips, all eyes will be on Haswell, Intel’s new microprocessor architecture that’s expected to be make a splash at the Intel Developer Forum this week.

Haswell follows the introduction of Ivy Bridge earlier this year. It is based on the 22nm manufacturing process, and corresponds with the “tock” cycle in Intel’s “tick-tock” model of alternating manufacturing processes and processor architectures when building chips. …

Well, it’s not strictly a complete computer- you’ll still need to stick in an SD card with Linux on it. Yet, the tiny Raspberry Pi, costing just £21.60 (S$43) plus £4.95 for worldwide shipping, has been getting lots of love from the geek community since it went on sale in February.

One of the distributors, RS Components, told reporters in Singapore on Thursday that it had sold the first 700 units in mere hours and has a waiting list no fewer of 200,000 orders.

What’s so hot about this new machine, besides the cost?

For S$43, it has a British-designed Arm-based processor running at 700MHz, a graphics core that can decode 1080p Full HD videos, an HDMI port and a USB port, plus it runs with 256GB RAM and boots from a memory card that you slide into the included SD card slot. …

Researchers in Singapore have found a way to pack six times the data today into future hard disks by basically ordering the structures on the physical drive more neatly – like packing clothes in a suitcase, they say.

Using a materials process known as nano-patterning, they have been able to create arrays of magnetic bits that can potentially store up to 3.3 Terabit per square inch ( Terabit/in²) of data on a hard disk. That is six times the recording density of current devices. …

Was gonna blog about Creative’s new Zii chip that was launched at the CES gizmo show yesterday, but realised its site is actually down. Another PR snafu?

The company has smartly hyped up the Zii as something to do with “stem-cell computing”, driving up hits at techie sites by making them guess what Zii actually was.

Unfortunately, a problematic site is surely not the best way to launch such an important chip that is aimed at turning around Creative’s flagging fortunes of late.

What exactly is Zii? We have no real idea. But Creative calls it stem-cell computing. So at first we thought – WOW maybe Creative is moving to the life sciences industry and scored some deal with some big pharmas. But it’s not.

…