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