Kent Beatty on January 14th, 2010

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In the future, location will not matter…

Say goodbye to cubicle nation…

Think about this:  The Future of Work is YOU!!!

Wherever You are…

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Free Online College Textbooks

Flat World is the world’s first publisher of open source commercial textbooks.  Flat World’s textbooks are written by world-class authors.  The company makes its books available as free web-hosted textbooks.  It earns revenue and pays its authors royalties by providing students with options to purchase print-on-demand soft cover textbooks, audio textbooks, and [...]

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Kent Beatty on February 26th, 2009

Amazing Stop Motion Video
Oren Lavie - Her Morning Elegance

 
Oren Lavie’s album The Opposite Side of the Sea, to be released March 2009, The song "Her Morning Elegance". This beautiful video captures this song and brings it to life.
 

Via Oren’s MySpace page:
 
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Kent Beatty on January 13th, 2009

Inspired by Transformers, this short Visual Effects piece shows us what the future may hold for our home computers … the future is unknowable, but we can be sure that robotics will play a central part.
See more at  NICK GREENLEE – DIGITAL COMPOSITOR, check out his 2008 demo Reel at youtube or at his [...]

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Kent Beatty on January 9th, 2009

Apple Computer Company had three founders:  Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs AND Ronald Gerald Wayne.  Ronald Wayne had worked at Atari with Steve Jobs and the three of them co-founded Apple on April 1, 1976.  Ronald had a 10% stake in Apple.  Two weeks later he got cold feet because as a partner he would be [...]

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Kent Beatty on January 8th, 2009

Terrafugia Transition – the roadable light sport aircraft
 

The two-place Transition® will be a certified Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) expected to have its first customer delivery in 2010.
  

 
Terrafugia Flying Car Update, AirVenture Oskhosh 2008
 
Terrafugia is a private company based in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA.  This company is developing the Terrafugia Transition roadable aircraft AKA personal air vehicle.  [...]

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Kent Beatty on December 24th, 2008

Awesome Dorm Light Show by a group of Polish students
 

 
Imagine the possibilities in the everyday objects all around us. How many people have looked at that dorm building during the day or at night without ever seeing past the facade?

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Kent Beatty on December 22nd, 2008

This beautiful mix of illustration and typography was made by the Japanese artist artless for w0w, a video production company celebrating their 10th birthday.
w0w 
artless AKA Shun Kawakami

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Kent Beatty on November 27th, 2008

Guy Kawasaki’s new site “AllTop” is an online magazine rack for just about any topic you can imagine.  It displays “all the top” stories for popular topics.
 

Video – Alltop Tutorial

Video - Guy Kawasaki on Alltop.com with Drue from ValleyZen.com
Video – Guy Kawasaki on The Art of the Start

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Kent Beatty on November 25th, 2008

Catch a glimpse of your future:
free-hand, three-space gestural input:
Forget GUI, and this isn’t even SUI (Spatial User Interface.)   g-speak is a spatial operating environment – it understands space, geometry, your hands and what they are doing, and a huge amount of real time data.   This SOE combines gestural i/o, recombinant networking and real-world pixels [...]

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Kent Beatty on November 5th, 2008

 
Microsoft has today unveiled their BizSpark initiative.
 
Get software, support and visibility.  Microsoft is hoping to seed Silicon Valley (both real and virtual) with future customers by providing a full kit of tools and software to software development startups for free (for three years.)  This is a global program that provides access to full-featured development [...]

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Kent Beatty on October 20th, 2008

IMOVIO has launched today their new USD $175.00 iKIT alternative to smartphone or min-PC that is as small as a cell phone and fits in your hand!
 
            
 
The iKIT has a QWERTY keyboard and connects to the internet at 3G speeds via cell phone or Wi-Fi.
This Linux-based system has a good selection of applications [...]

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Kent Beatty on October 19th, 2008

10 times lighter than steel, while 250 times stronger and highly conductive of both heat and electricity, future planes and cars may be made of ‘buckypaper’:

 
from:  buckpaper.com
 
Buckypaper is made of tube shaped carbon molecules (AKA carbon nanotubes) that are 50,000 times thinner than a human hair.
The Florida Advanced Center for Composite Technologies (FAC2T) , at [...]

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Kent Beatty on October 19th, 2008

Apple makes great products.  We have three Macs under this roof right now – a MacBook, a Mac mini, and a G4 that belong to my boys.  All three running OS-X of course. 
I have used PCs and windows for years.  Bought my first PC in 86 and first built my own PC in [...]

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Kent Beatty on October 14th, 2008

Light is all around us, but we often don’t really notice it.  Our eyes are sensitive to light but they also compensate, so we often don’t see things as they really are.   Film is sensitive to light, or in digital cameras it is the photoelectric light sensor known as a charge coupled device or CCD.  [...]

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