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Wallet of the future? Your mobile phone - CNN.com
These days, it seems that most Americans carry three things in their pockets or purses at all times: keys, a wallet and a phone.
The Reality of the Brain-Computer Interface | Brain Blogger
Imagine having the ability to turn on the television and change the channel without using a remote control or typing emails using just the power of your thoughts. Even behind the media hype, brain-computer interface technology may someday restore communication and mobility in persons with disabling diseases.
Google Wave: A Complete Guide
To make sense of it all, we have compiled key information, definitions, and links related to the launch of Google Wave. This in-depth guide provides an overview of Google Wave, discusses the terminology associated with it, details information on Google Wave applications, (i.e. the Twitter Wave app Twave), and goes over ways to keep yourself informed. We know you’re excited about Google Wave, so here’s what we think you should know:
Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web.
Everyone uses email and instant messaging on the web now, but imagine if you could tie those two forms of communication together and add a load of functionality on top of it. At its most fundamental form, that’s essentially what Wave is.
Google Wave: What Might Email Look Like If It Were Invented Today? - O'Reilly Radar
The world of computing has changed, profoundly, yet so many of our applications bear the burden of decades of old thinking. We need to challenge our assumptions and re-imagine the tools we take for granted. It's perhaps no accident that this project, carried out secretly at Google's Sydney office over the past two years, had the code name Walkabout. That's the Australian aboriginal tradition of going off for an extended period to retrace the songlines and learn the world anew.
The Top 6 Game-Changing Features of Google Wave
Earlier this week, we brought you detailed information on the new Google (Google reviews) product in our article Google Wave: A Complete Guide, but now we want to explore exactly why everyone is so excited about Google Wave.
YouTube - Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009
Google Wave Developer Preview presentation at the Day 2 Keynote of Google I/O.
Google Wave Video Demo Makes A Little More Sense Of Wave | Lifehacker Australia
Got a good hour and an abiding interest in the newly announced Google Wave? (You know, the app that “is what email would look like if it were invented today.”) This video demo from the Google I/O developer conference walks through some of the specifics of what’s coming with Wave.
Hackers Weigh In: 8 Big Things to Do with a Mini Server: Scientific American
We weren't sure what to do with a SheevaPlug, a cheap and powerful home server stuffed into a package the size of a power brick, so we asked a bunch of uber-geeks--Here's what they said
Plugging In $40 Computers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
What would you do with a $40 Linux computer the size of a three-prong plug adapter?
Marvell Technology Group is counting on an army of computer engineers and hackers to answer that question. It has created a “plug computer.” It’s a tiny plastic box that you plug into an electric outlet. There’s no display. But there is an Ethernet jack to connect to a home network and a U.S.B. socket for attaching a hard drive, camera or other device. Inside is a 1.2 gigahertz Marvell chip, called an application processor, running a version of the Linux operating system.
All this can be yours for $99 today and probably for under $40 in two years.
Are swap shops the battery breakthrough? | The Car Tech blog - CNET Reviews
But the battery-swap system faces its own hurdles. Unlike gas tanks, which can go almost anywhere on a car, batteries must be under the floorboard in the middle of the car for the robots to make the swap.
After the spent batteries are removed, they are recharged in 20 minutes. Refrigeration keeps the batteries cool and prevents damage during the high-voltage charging. But repeated quick charges degrade battery life.
State of the Art - With a Private MiFi Hot Spot, Be Online Wherever You Like - NYTimes.com
imagine if you could get online anywhere you liked — in a taxi, on the beach, in a hotel with disgustingly overpriced Wi-Fi — without messing around with cellular modems. What if you had a personal Wi-Fi bubble, a private hot spot, that followed you everywhere you go?
Incredibly, there is such a thing. It’s the Novatel MiFi 2200, available from Verizon starting in mid-May ($100 with two-year contract, after rebate). It’s a little wisp of a thing, like a triple-thick credit card. It has one power button, one status light and a swappable battery that looks like the one in a cellphone. When you turn on your MiFi and wait 30 seconds, it provides a personal, portable, powerful, password-protected wireless hot spot.
Rampant Piracy Will Be The Kindle DX’s Savior
Earlier this week, we got our first glimpse of the Kindle DX, Amazon’s upcoming E-book reader that has taken the original Kindle’s nearly prohibitive $359 price tag and bumped it up to an even more exorbitant $489 for good measure. Granted, the DX has one major improvement: a bigger screen that makes it suitable for textbooks, professional journal articles, and even newspapers. I’ve spent the last few days mulling over the future prospects of the new device, and up until a few hours ago my forecast was looking pretty grim. But then a lightbulb went off over my head: pirates are going to save the Kindle DX.
Next Age of Discovery - WSJ.com
In a 21st-century version of the age of discovery, teams of computer scientists, conservationists and scholars are fanning out across the globe in a race to digitize crumbling literary treasures.
In the process, they're uncovering unexpected troves of new finds, including never-before-seen versions of the Christian Gospels, fragments of Greek poetry and commentaries on Aristotle.
Tweeting Cat Door - Neatorama
If you want too much information about a couple of cats, see Gus and Penny’s Twitter page. These cats Tweet! Or, more acurately, their cat door Tweets when they go in and out. The door isn’t the famous Flo Control Project, but instead uses RFID chips.
Each cat has a small RFID tag on the collar. When a cat is in the close proximity of the door, a small RFID reader reads the tag and if the cat is authorized, a servo will unlock the cat door. The RFID reader and the servo controller are connected to an old laptop. The software on the laptop is written in Delphi and for each “cat door event” is sending a Twitter message and a picture to twitter.com:
Acer's AspireRevo Nettop Taps Ion Platform - PC World
Officials... played up the graphics processing power of the Ion combined with the Atom 230/330 chip, positioning it as a multimedia home PC that can be used as a gaming device.
The AspireRevo lets users watch 1080p HD video, play DirectX 10 games at high frame rates and tap the 3D capabilities of Windows Vista Premium. It will also be available in a package with a game controller with 3D motion sensors.
In search of Lithium: The battle for the 3rd element | Mail Online
The good news: A wonder metal that fires your phone, iPod and shiny new electric car is so clean it may save the planet. The bad news: More than half of the world's lithium is beneath this Bolivian desert...and getting it is so dirty it inspired the latest Bond plot
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