A definite highlight from CES this year is Samsung’s new see-through LCD monitor screen – Smart Window. Total Recall & Minority Report here we come!
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Here’s a really good video from IBM answering the question: What is The Internet of Things? It serves to remind us of how transient our current grasp on technology is, and how close we are to a type of Skynet reality!
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I know – you are probably as fed up as I am with people saying stupid things like “it’ll be the year of mobile” (it will be honest!) but here is my favourite of the bunch as it is by far the most useful resource from a strategic planning point of view (IMHO). View more [...]
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JAPAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Here is a short footage on our recent work on quantum levitation. We were inspired by the game Wipe’out to do our work. With this new technology, we hope to revolutionize the world of motor transport; Maybe in a near future we could assist to a real Wipe’out race. [...]
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NASA artists impression of Konstantin’s cable Surprisingly it was not a science fiction writer who came up with the idea of tethering a space station at a point on the equator via a hugely long cable, but a Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1895. A real stretch for anyone’s imagination the idea has lasted, [...]
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No words… just beautiful… http://vimeo.com/32001208
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OK so I drive a Volvo and I grew up around them and although they are far from sexy they are due to set new standards with the release of an unusual diesel/electric hybrid D5 estate next year which has a seriously impressive green spec to add to it’ already safe standards. …the default Hybrid [...]
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This was a great find by DJ Greg Wilson: a series of short films about how all creation is plagiarism. Here’s the 3rd of 3 (the 4th is coming autumn 2011) which focuses on the creation of the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of the modern-day home PC. Interestingly it was of course Apple who successfully brought [...]
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