"Eye On The World"
Tech
Wonder is All Around Us
Dec 24th
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?
Lithium Batteries to Store 8X More
Nov 13th
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 has hinted at merging this technology with solar panels. For More Info: Hallyutech.net
Solar Balloon – 400X Energy
Nov 12th
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 this new technology. This plant is modest in size, 1.4 Megawatts, but if works as expected, Cool Earth will launch a full sized power plant next summer. The plastic for this concentrator only costs $2.00.
Cool Earth Solar eyes rural power with balloons – Cnet.com Cool Earth Solar experiment with solar More >
Losing a National Treasure
Oct 23rd
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 who left hearth and home and went into harm’s way to protect their way of life for themselves, their families and all Americans need to be told. Of those who went, many did not return. Those who came home have carried their experiences and their stories More >
2008 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle
Oct 4th
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 Cycle for Emerging Technologies.
This cycle tracks the market views of various technologies, which go through predictable cycles from their “trigger” to their inflated peak of expectations, then down into the trough of disillusionment, then up the slope of enlightenment and, finally, to the plateau of productivity.
Keep in More >
Singularity – Exponential Computing
Oct 4th
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 now, then that of many human brains, then all human brains, and past that we can only speculate.
The term “Singularity” was mentioned in the 1950s by John Von Neumann, then solidified by Vernor Vinge in a 1983 article in Omni magazine when he coined the term “technological More >
Like eBooks? – Try Plastic Logic Reader
Oct 3rd
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 reader supports a full range of business document formats, such as Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint, and Adobe PDFs, as well as newspapers, periodicals and books. It has an easy gesture-based user interface and powerful software tools that will help business users to More >
Amazon Adds Video on IMDb
Sep 16th
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:
Battlestar Galactica – 148 Videos
via: paidContent.org
Cool Gear Update
Sep 16th
Look for LED projectors inside phones, PDAs, digital cameras and even pens.
From Projectorreviews.com
John McCain – Previously Unseen Footage – POW Release
Sep 12th
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 that he found the video in the network’s archives while researching a book he was writing about his experiences as a Vietnam War correspondent. The footage was filmed by a North Vietnamese photographer with whom Eriksson had contracted to film the release of U.S. prisoners More >
SearchMe.com – Awesome New Search Engine
Sep 12th
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!!! – screenshots of pages before you visit them
If a picture is worth a thousand words then one screenshot is worth much more!
You’ve got to see this!What a concept – Searchme Stacks are visual bookmarks that let you collect items from your search (pages, photos, graphics, videos, documents etc.) and More >
Chrome
Sep 4th
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 several tabs – i typically keep anywhere from 20 to 60 tabs open and FireFox 3.0 has been LOCKING UP on me! Now, with Chrome, I wont lose the whole kit and kaboodle. After using Chrome for a couple of days I can say that it is More >
Perceptive Pixel – Visual Computing
Sep 1st
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!
Secret Life of Cell Phones
Aug 31st
Does your cell phone transform?
VIA: Unbelievable animation: close encounters of the desktop kind
Self Replicating Machines
Aug 11th
The birth of self-replicating machines?
By controlling a glue gun with a computer!
