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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South Korean Professor Cho Jae-Phil of Hanyang University and his team have developed lithium batteries that are 90% more efficient than current models. You will be able to do stuff 8 times longer – cell phones, notebook computers, cameras, etc. They replaced the graphite in the batteries with three-dimensional porous silicon particles. Professor Jae-Phil [...]
Cool Earth Solar has announced their Solar Balloon technology – an inflatable plastic thin-film balloon (solar concentrator) that focuses sunlight onto a photovoltaic cell held at it’s focal point. This design produces 400 times the electricity as would be possible without the “solar concentrator”.
Cool Earth is constructing a power plant in Livermore, CA using [...]
Many of those who fought for us in WWII are gone, most of those still with us are in their eighties. In this era of self-indulgence and expectation of entitlement along with an increasing lack of respect for the commitments and contributions of those who came before us the stories of those men and women [...]
We live in a world of constantly emerging, developing and maturing technologies. These technologies are at the confluence of rapidly accelerating ideas and innovation.
The IT industry research firm Gartner has for many years tracked and analyzed emerging technologies from their inception to their fruition or demise and has developed, from their observations, the Gartner Hype [...]
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Do you hear it? That whooshing sound? Sure you do. Just listen:
It is there – the future rushing toward us ever faster!
I am fascinated by potential. In this case the potential of “computing” to increase from the equivalent of a mouse brain to that of a human brain in about 12 years from [...]
This reader will ship in first half of 2009.
It is an 8.5 x 11 form factor
with a large readable display
it’s thinner than a pad of paper (7-mm)
lighter than a business periodical
offers a high quality reading experience
low power consumption & long battery life
Recorded Sep 8, 2008 with Flip Video camcorder
The Plastic Logic [...]
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Amazon bought IMDb and has enabled video on the site! You can now watch 6,000 full-length feature films and TV episodes for free on IMDb.com’s video section
Check out:
Now Playing
Movie/TV News
House, M.D. - 52 Videos
Battlestar Galactica - 148 Videos
via: paidContent.org
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Micro sized LED Projectors
Look for LED projectors inside phones, PDAs, digital cameras and even pens.
From Projectorreviews.com
Diggit!
Del.icio.us
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Still Photo from SVT Video
via: [AP] - A 71 year old Swedish journalist, Erik Eriksson, formerly with the Swedish broadcaster SVT, has released previously unseen footage showing Republican presidential candidate John McCain as a proud, stoic prisoner of war in Hanoi on the day his Vietnamese captors released him to the U.S. military.
Eriksson stated [...]
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This innovative - new search engine - lets you search the web visually and get an idea of where you are going. Type the object of your desire in the search bar and you are presented with a list of categories. Click a category OR click ALL and you are then presented with:
This is GREAT!!! [...]
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Google’s new browser combines an elegant, minimal design that gives you more screen with advanced technology to make your web browsing faster, safer and easier.
I love this feature: the tabs run in separate processes so if you experience a problem it is isolated to that one tab and doesn’t hang your entire browser of [...]
Nvision 08
- Visual Wonderment from the Visual Revolution
- the conference was held in San Jose, CA, Aug 25 - 2, 08.
Perceptive Pixel Multi-Touch Demo Reel from Yoo Wonsuc on Vimeo.
Perceptive Pixel develops and markets the most advanced multi-touch system (compute without conventional input devices) in the world.
Visual Computing is coming!
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Does your cell phone transform?
VIA: Unbelievable animation: close encounters of the desktop kind
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An Very Cool Introduction to YouTube and the “MediaScape”
Michael Wesch
“An anthropological introduction to YouTube” video of Library of Congress presentation Jul 29th, 2008 by Prof Michael Wesch
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“The Machine is Us/ing Us:
Web 2.0 in Under Five Minutes”
A video created by Michael Wesch in February of 2007. Michael talked about about how everything is connected and his background in cultural anthropology during an interview with John Batelle. From Michael’s blog, “I sent it to 10 people. Four days later it was the [...]
Marge exhibits classic symptoms of obssessive PC and Internet compulsion
The Simpsons: Marge and The Internet
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Get your XR3 Hybrid Plans from Robert G. Riley Enterprises, do a little project in your garage and get from 125 to 225 mpg with this cool two seater plug-in/deisel hybrid:
The times are a changing - the high cost of gasoline/diesel will drive the change to sleeker, smaller and more fuel efficient automobiles and other [...]
This is done with still photos. Imagine when we achieve the Brain Computer Interface (BCI) well enough to decode our memories. Each image in this video could then be a chapter from your memory (or your imagination) that plays with full sensation:
Check out immersive views from across the web by PicLens.
LM3Labs in Tokyo leads [...]
