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Google To Bring Ultra-Fast Gigabit Broadband Service To Consumers

11, Feb 2010

(Wired.com) Search and advertising giant Google plans to build and test super fast fiber-optic broadband networks in a few communities around the U.S., promising up to a one gigabit per second service — a hundred-fold increase over what most Americans currently can subscribe to. A 1 Gbps could let a user download a HD movie [...]

Miniature Robots to Swarm the Oceans

10, Nov 2009

  (livescience.com) Swarms of soup-can-sized robots will soon plunge into the ocean seeking data on poorly understood phenomena from currents to biology. With $2.5 million in new funding from the National Science Foundation, researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography will create and deploy fleets of autonomous underwater explorers (AUEs) to explore the depths. Tens [...]

Nov. 10, 1983: Computer ‘Virus’ Is Born

10, Nov 2009

(Wired.com) 1983: Fred Cohen, a University of Southern California graduate student, gives a prescient peek at the digital future when he demonstrates a computer virus during a security seminar at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. A quarter-century later, computer viruses have become a pandemic for which there’s no inoculation. Cohen inserted his proof-of-concept code into a [...]

Europe’s Space Freighter Almost Ready

15, Jul 2009

(bbcnews.co.uk)   “It’s clear from space history that often it was not the prototype that experienced the problems; it was the mission that came later. That’s why specific attention has to be paid to what we do now.” Nico Dettmann is in charge of producing the European Space Agency’s (Esa) next space freighter. He knows the [...]

Microsoft Ad Makes Viewers Sick, Pulls Ad

2, Jul 2009

(wsj.com) Microsoft appears to have come to its senses over an advertisement that had some observers claiming it was the worst technology commercial ever. The company has yanked official versions of the online-only ad for its Internet Explorer 8 Web browser off online video sites after users complained it was offensive. If you haven’t seen it, [...]

New Innovative Lighting System – Altrove by Carlotta de Bevilacqua

2, Jul 2009

    (mocoloco.com)  New lighting from Artemide this year includes the Altrove by Carlotta de Bevilacqua, a decorative wall or ceiling light that uses transparent wires to allow the light to flow. It’s the type of lighting that begs the question, “Is it really there?” More substantial is Ross Lovegrove’s Cosmic Leaf, available as a [...]

LRO First Images Of The Moon

2, Jul 2009

  (discovermagazine.com) The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned its first images from the Moon. This image, taken in the Mare Nubium region of the Moon, shows a heavily cratered area. The scale here is amazing: the whole image is 1400 meters across, or just under a mile. That’s like looking out your airplane window… if [...]

Pirate Bay Purchased for $7.8 Million

30, Jun 2009

        The Pirate Bay, a site used for searching torrent related information has been acquired by a Swedish firm Global Gaming Factory X, says the NY Times. Global Gaming Factory X said it will re-organization the model of the company to include compensation for copyright owners and content operators. [via businessinsider.com]

Toyota Develops Mind-Controlled WheelChair

30, Jun 2009

  It seems Toyata has developed a wheelchair that users can move and steer with their Brain.  The brain transmits signals from the rider to a EEG located on the chair.  A comptuer analyzes those signals and transmtis the appropriate command to the wheelchair.  Toyota says their technology can decipher the brain signals within milliseconds.  [...]

The Future Of Cell Phones

29, Jun 2009

  Cell phone technology and styling continue to progress by leaps bounds bu that still leaves a lot of wiggle room for creative engineers eager to answer the call for ever odder phones. Here are 15 of the hottest cellphone concepts around. Your future’s calling! [via Weburbanist.com]                 [...]

Dyson Reveals World’s Fastest Motor Ever

29, Jun 2009

Faster than a speeding bullet? Not quite. But faster than an F1 car. Normally, we wouldn’t bother reporting about the release of a hand-held vacuum cleaner. They’re just not that exciting. But Sir James Dyson – the man who revolutionised the vacuum cleaner and washing machine industries – has claimed that the DC 31′s motor [...]

Limited edition M8 Leica

29, Jun 2009

    The M8 takes the original iconic Leica Rangefinder body crafted from brass, aluminium, titanium and steel but inserts a 10.3 megapixel digital lens and sensor system that delivers professional quality pictures. [Via wallpaper.com]


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