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Touch & Feel the Future
2003-08-22 08:25:00
A very cool & interesting Video Clip made by NTT Docomo envisioning Year 2010. "Vision 2010 - Beyond The Mobile Frontier" Real Player : 64kbps  300kbps Windows Media : 64kbps  300kbps
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Spray-on Nanocomputers at hospital by Year 2013
2003-08-20 06:10:00
The Edinburgh Evening News writes that "spray-on computers the size of a grain of sand are set to transform information technology." Scientists at the Edinburgh University have just been awarded a £1.3 million grant to develop the "ubiquitous computing" technology which uses tiny semiconductor specks that can sense, compute and communicate without wires. Researchers are already working with staff at Edinburgh hospitals to develop a method of using the computers to monitor heart patients at home. They plan to spray the nanocomputers on to the chests of coronary patients, where the tiny cells would record a patient’s health and transmit information back to a hospital computer. And this isn't the only application envisioned by the scientists. Professor Arvid, who leads the project, thinks our current computer interfaces, typically a keyboard or a mouse, will completely be replaced by these nanocomputers. Arvid said: "In the future, computers will be able to be diffused into th...
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Smart Buildings
2003-08-15 10:52:00
Can building automation systems overcome interoperability problems to assert control over our offices, hotels, and airports? If only you could work in a building where you could keep your office as you like it, icicle-cold, while your neighbor turns hers into a sauna. If only your office lights and computer could flicker on every morning when you swiped your security card in your building's lobby, so that you would be ready to work when you sat down with your first cup of coffee. And while we're on this flight of fancy, wouldn't it be reassuring to know that your building would shield you from harm in the event of an earthquake, or even a chemical or biological attack? Buildings could do all these things and more, if only they had brains. As it happens, a few buildings already do, and they're getting smarter. The brainiac of buildings, the U.S. Pentagon, opened for business on 12 September 2001, the day after terrorists crashed a plane into it. Thanks to a network of digit...
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Evolving Robots
2003-08-15 08:15:00
If you can imagine robots that redesign themselves depending on what they're asked to do, you may be picturing one of those dark futures where machines rule the planet. But let's try a different spin. Self-replicating machinery will one day be common, reshaping itself on the fly to help us explore new environments, "growing" new tools when the existing ones can't handle the job at hand. PAUL GILSTER reports on The Golem Project at Brandeis University. The project develops autonomous systems for robot design. Another Robo ts Related Project : A step closer to the Terminator - Judgement Day?
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A step closer to the Terminator - Judgement Day?
2003-08-14 14:47:00
This article reminded me about the Skynet in Term inator 3. The U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) has started Project Alpha, a think tank whose goal is to replace human fighters by autonomous robots by 2025. In this article, USJFCOM gives some details about the project. Gordon Johnson, the Unmanned Effects Team leader for Project Alpha, said one of the goals is to create a unique DoD service to coordinate the efforts done by the Navy, the Air Force and the Army. Johnson added that autonomous robots will be more capable than humans: more lethal, cheaper, faster and with unmatched sensing capabilities. And these fighting robots will probably not look like humans. This means there will not be any Terminators in our future. This summary contains more details about Project Alpha."
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PalmButler - Wireless PC To TV Gadget
2003-08-14 14:33:00
Danish Company Homelinc introduces Palmbutler. Palmbutler makes your PC's digital media (streaming content, DivX movies, DVD's CD audio, MP3, photos, you name it) available anywhere in the house. The Palmbutler Linkbox converts the PC's sound and video signal into a radio- and TV channel, which in turn is distributed through the home's antenna network. The Palmbutler software creates a menu on your TV, showing the PC's digital media. This makes it easy to navigate through the PC's movies, music or photo files. The TV-menu can be modified to fit your requirements. Scripting allows you to extend its capabilities. With the wireless remote control you can navigate through the PC's digital media, no matter where you are in your home. The remote control communicates wirelessly with the PC and has an indoor range of 40 meters. i4u reported about the Sony RoomLink before, which is a similar product. See also HP Digital Media Receiver EW5000 and and the Motorola Simplefi
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Boot-able DiskOnKey USB Flash Drive
2003-08-14 14:28:00
M-Systems introduces Automatic Boot Feature for its Smart DiskOnKey® USB Flash Drive s. Making the DiskOnKey bootable through the basic input/output systems (BIOS), the Company implemented open source, general publicly licensed FreeDOS developed by FreeDOS.org. Engineers at M-Systems devised a methodology for the computer's motherboard to initiate data transfer once it has recognized the DiskOnKey is plugged into a USB port. All DiskOnKeys carrying the DOK T4 chip are boot capable, which can be easily activated through the specially designed bootability graphical user interface (GUI).
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Smart chips making daily life easier
2003-08-14 14:23:00
"Your medicine is out of date" is not what you would usually expect to hear from your bathroom cabinet, but it could be very soon. It is all thanks to what is being called "ubiquitous computing", which means sticking programmable microchip sensors onto everyday household objects to make them a little bit smarter. The microchips have sensors attached to them The microchips can be attached to any everyday object Read
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Mobile Content - Where's it going?
2003-08-14 12:59:00
There's an interesting article on The Failure and Future of Mobile Content in Brighthand by Ted Ladd, in which he describes four popular myths about why he thinks it's failed so far, and where it's going in the future - although as someone writing this article on a pda on a train, which I'll ftp via IRDA and a mobile phone using GSM/GPRS, I'm not entirely sure what he means by failure... The "myths" are: 1. It's a technical problem 2. It's a management problem 3. It's an economics problem, or no cash post-crash 4. It's a bad experience Now I'd argue with calling most of those myths, but the second half of the article is more interesting. Here he discusses the future of mobile content and describes four generations of mobile content First generation: Same but smaller Second generation: Alerts Third generation: Exclusively mobile Fourth generation: The Disappearance of Mobile Content A breakdown of these generations is reasonably straigh...
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Intel's WiFi chair
2003-08-14 12:50:00
[Gizmodo] To promote its line of Centrino wireless chips in Britain, Intel has commissioned the Design Laboratory to create a line of WiFi-enabled furniture with wireless access points built-in. The chairs themselves are made of computer cables encased in clear resin (which is meant to make good use of all the cables we'll be throwing away now that the wireless era has arrived) and are intended to be setup in places like train stations and hotel lobbies so people can get online. Read
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Sanyo's TV cellphone
2003-08-14 12:48:00
[Gizmodo] First Samsung, then NEC, now Sanyo has a prototype of a cellphone with an integrated digital television tuner. The new phone has a 2.2-inch organic electroluminescent display, two built-in digital cameras, 128MB of internal memory, and we think (it's hard to tell from the translation) that it can function sort of like a TiVo and save up to 30 minutes of television programming. Read
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The Guide Robot
2003-08-14 12:46:00
[Gizmodo] South Korean company Woori has a new guide robot designed to show visitors around at trade shows and exhibitions: The robot is able to guide spectators to their destination and provide them with information using a liquefied crystal display (LCD) monitor as well as voice recognition and response systems, the robot maker said. By recognizing voice, the robot actively delivers user-needed data in voice files, image files and moving image files, it said. Oh, and buried right at the bottom of the article it says that Woori is also working on a "cleaning robot" which we hope does more than just vacuum floors. Read
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This is kind of scary: one in nine five to nine-ye...
2003-08-14 12:39:00
This is kind of scary: one in nine five to nine-year-olds has their own cellphone in Britain. Besides concerns about exposure to dangerous levels electromagnetic radiation (which are probably unfounded), it just seems a little weird to think of a five year-old kid walking around with their own cellphone. On the other hand, maybe someone will make their first million marketing a cellphone to toddlers. # My First Cellphone #
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lets blog towards the future~ yeah!
2003-08-14 12:29:00
lets blog towards the future~ yeah!
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