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The Left Brain And The Right Brain Are Clearly Distinct
2008-04-04 13:07:00 The cerebral pineal complex of a transgenic zebrafish larvae, with glowing proteinsSome people really have a problem with telling rapidly which is right and which is left (researches proved that women more than men), but your brain doesn’t. Your left brain and right brain are quite different. The right brain hemisphere is linked mostly to emotional functions and music feeling, while the left hemisphere is more analytical, linked to logical thinking, speech and abilities.A new research carried out by a team led by Stephen Wilson at the University College London, and published in the journal "Neural Development," shows for the first time how the left and right parts of our brain are wired at neuronal level.The team focused on the left- and right-sided neurons (brain cells) in the brain nucleus called the habenula in zebrafish, in this case similar to that of the human brain. The team made the habenular neurons to synthesize a bright green fluorescent protein which enabled the resear... More About: Left , Brain
The Left Brain And The Right Brain Are Clearly Distinct
2008-04-04 13:07:00 The cerebral pineal complex of a transgenic zebrafish larvae, with glowing proteinsSome people really have a problem with telling rapidly which is right and which is left (researches proved that women more than men), but your brain doesn’t. Your left brain and right brain are quite different. The right brain hemisphere is linked mostly to emotional functions and music feeling, while the left hemisphere is more analytical, linked to logical thinking, speech and abilities.A new research carried out by a team led by Stephen Wilson at the University College London, and published in the journal "Neural Development," shows for the first time how the left and right parts of our brain are wired at neuronal level.The team focused on the left- and right-sided neurons (brain cells) in the brain nucleus called the habenula in zebrafish, in this case similar to that of the human brain. The team made the habenular neurons to synthesize a bright green fluorescent protein which enabled the resear... More About: Left , Brain
Matrix-Like Virtual Realities Will Soon Be Created By SuperComputers
2008-04-04 13:02:00 'The technology will be perfected during the next years'Supercomputers could be able to create extremely detail-rich virtual realities, that are strikingly similar to the ones presented in The Matrix . Researcher Michael McGuigan claims that extremely powerful supercomputers could be able to render virtual worlds that are so accurate that they can be mistaken for the real environment.The new worlds would allow the subjects to interact with the virtual environment as it would be able to do in the real life. "By interaction we mean you could control an object – rotate it, for example – and it would render in real-time," McGuigan says.The existing computers can spice up artificial scenes with high level of details, yet they require incredible amounts of graphics power. For instance, an image with the necessary amount of detail to trick the human into taking it for real would take hours to render completely. In order to overcome this obstacle, McGuigan says that photorealism should... More About: Virtual
Matrix-Like Virtual Realities Will Soon Be Created By SuperComputers
2008-04-04 13:02:00 'The technology will be perfected during the next years'Supercomputers could be able to create extremely detail-rich virtual realities, that are strikingly similar to the ones presented in The Matrix . Researcher Michael McGuigan claims that extremely powerful supercomputers could be able to render virtual worlds that are so accurate that they can be mistaken for the real environment.The new worlds would allow the subjects to interact with the virtual environment as it would be able to do in the real life. "By interaction we mean you could control an object – rotate it, for example – and it would render in real-time," McGuigan says.The existing computers can spice up artificial scenes with high level of details, yet they require incredible amounts of graphics power. For instance, an image with the necessary amount of detail to trick the human into taking it for real would take hours to render completely. In order to overcome this obstacle, McGuigan says that photorealism should... More About: Virtual
Matrix-Like Virtual Realities Will Soon Be Created By SuperComputers
2008-04-04 13:02:00 'The technology will be perfected during the next years'Supercomputers could be able to create extremely detail-rich virtual realities, that are strikingly similar to the ones presented in The Matrix . Researcher Michael McGuigan claims that extremely powerful supercomputers could be able to render virtual worlds that are so accurate that they can be mistaken for the real environment.The new worlds would allow the subjects to interact with the virtual environment as it would be able to do in the real life. "By interaction we mean you could control an object ? rotate it, for example ? and it would render in real-time," McGuigan says.The existing computers can spice up artificial scenes with high level of details, yet they require incredible amounts of graphics power. For instance, an image with the necessary amount of detail to trick the human into taking it for real would take hours to render completely. In order to overcome this obstacle, McGuigan says that photorealism should be ... More About: Virtual
Adding Human Brain To A Computer Gives A Brain Box?
2008-04-04 07:23:00 'A new type of computer that mimics the complex interactions in the human brain is being built by UK scientists'Manchester scientists' work aims tomake computers more reliableThe £1m machine, nicknamed the "brain box", will be constructed at the University of Manchester.The first of its kind in the world, it will be used to help researchers engineer fail-safe electronics.Professor Steve Furber, of the university school of computer science, said computer science had much to learn from biological systems."Our brains keep working despite frequent failures of their component neurons, and this 'fault-tolerant' characteristic is of great interest to engineers who wish to make computers more reliable," he explained.Visual encodingIn the brain, groups of neurons work together, producing bursts of activity called "spikes".These spikes give rise to the characteristic brain wave patterns seen on an electroencephalogram (EEG) trace.The "brain box" will use large numbers of microprocessors... More About: Computer , Human , Brain , Human Brain
Adding Human Brain To A Computer Gives A Brain Box?
2008-04-04 07:23:00 'A new type of computer that mimics the complex interactions in the human brain is being built by UK scientists'Manchester scientists' work aims tomake computers more reliableThe £1m machine, nicknamed the "brain box", will be constructed at the University of Manchester.The first of its kind in the world, it will be used to help researchers engineer fail-safe electronics.Professor Steve Furber, of the university school of computer science, said computer science had much to learn from biological systems."Our brains keep working despite frequent failures of their component neurons, and this 'fault-tolerant' characteristic is of great interest to engineers who wish to make computers more reliable," he explained.Visual encodingIn the brain, groups of neurons work together, producing bursts of activity called "spikes".These spikes give rise to the characteristic brain wave patterns seen on an electroencephalogram (EEG) trace.The "brain box" will use large numbers of microprocessors... More About: Computer , Human , Brain , Human Brain
Adding Human Brain To A Computer Gives A Brain Box?
2008-04-04 07:23:00 'A new type of computer that mimics the complex interactions in the human brain is being built by UK scientists'Manchester scientists' work aims tomake computers more reliableThe 1m machine, nicknamed the "brain box", will be constructed at the University of Manchester.The first of its kind in the world, it will be used to help researchers engineer fail-safe electronics.Professor Steve Furber, of the university school of computer science, said computer science had much to learn from biological systems."Our brains keep working despite frequent failures of their component neurons, and this 'fault-tolerant' characteristic is of great interest to engineers who wish to make computers more reliable," he explained.Visual encodingIn the brain, groups of neurons work together, producing bursts of activity called "spikes".These spikes give rise to the characteristic brain wave patterns seen on an electroencephalogram (EEG) trace.The "brain box" will use large numbers of microprocessors ... More About: Computer , Human , Brain , Human Brain
15 Must Have Freewares
2008-04-03 12:22:00 You know that there are tons of Freewares available on the web and most of them are useless and infected with at least an adware. They suck bad. Many people fail to get the right freewares to cover up all the computer browsing needs (well...almost) and they are forced to purchase expensive softwares that possess the 'same' or 'almost same' features which are easily available for free. Why waste money when you can get it for paying nothing? Now, here's the list of Free softwares that are safe and useful:Security---Zone Alarm Firewall: Features: Easy-to-use firewall blocks hackers and other unknown threats.Systematically identifies hackers and blocks access attemptsAutomatically makes your computer invisible to anyone on the Internet Download Page: Click hereBitdefender Antivirus Free Edition: Features: On demand scanning Scheduled scanningImmediate scanningSkinable interfaceReports Download Page: Click hereSpybot Search & Destroy: Features: R...
15 Must Have Freewares
2008-04-03 12:22:00 You know that there are tons of Freewares available on the web and most of them are useless and infected with at least an adware. They suck bad. Many people fail to get the right freewares to cover up all the computer browsing needs (well...almost) and they are forced to purchase expensive softwares that possess the 'same' or 'almost same' features which are easily available for free. Why waste money when you can get it for paying nothing? Now, here's the list of Free softwares that are safe and useful:Security---Zone Alarm Firewall: Features: Easy-to-use firewall blocks hackers and other unknown threats.Systematically identifies hackers and blocks access attemptsAutomatically makes your computer invisible to anyone on the Internet Download Page: Click hereBitdefender Antivirus Free Edition: Features: On demand scanning Scheduled scanningImmediate scanningSkinable interfaceReports Download Page: Click hereSpybot Search & Destroy: Features: R...
15 Must Have Freewares
2008-04-03 12:22:00 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} You know that there are tons of Freewares available on the web and most of them are useless and infected with at least an adware. They suck bad. Many people fail to get the right freewares to cover up all the computer browsing needs (well...almost) and they are forced to purchase expensive softwares that possess the 'same' or 'almost same' features which are easily available for free. Why waste money when you can get it for paying nothing? Now, here's the list of Free softwares that are safe and useful:Security---Zone Alarm Firewall: Features:...
Sony's "World's Smallest Full HD Cam" Has Miniature Sensor
2008-04-03 12:03:00 'The HDR-TG1's WOW factor tainted by MemoryStick format'Sony's diminutive new heir to the newly minted "world's smallest Full HD camcorder" throne is the travel-ready silver titanium frame HDR-TG1. While Full HD (1920x1080, also known as 1080P) with a 1.3 x 4.7 x 2.5 inch body and $900 price tag would have seemed like fantasy just a short while ago, Sony made it real and gave it a horror twist that just one day after the launch already has potential customers complaining. Stealthy voyeurism in HD may have to wait a while more.This is a memory card camera, but it can only use Sony's unsuccessful proprietary MemoryStick format. While it ships with a 4GB PRO Duo Mark 2 card, using it in its most attractive role – as a travel/vacation cam - would most likely force you to buy extra MemoryStick cards, which just happen to be more expensive than (almost twice as much as) the norm. I can see this camcorder joining the pile of Sony products being boycotted by savvy gadgeteers who are... More About: Sensor , Miniature
Sony's "World's Smallest Full HD Cam" Has Miniature Sensor
2008-04-03 12:03:00 'The HDR-TG1's WOW factor tainted by MemoryStick format'Sony's diminutive new heir to the newly minted "world's smallest Full HD camcorder" throne is the travel-ready silver titanium frame HDR-TG1. While Full HD (1920x1080, also known as 1080P) with a 1.3 x 4.7 x 2.5 inch body and $900 price tag would have seemed like fantasy just a short while ago, Sony made it real and gave it a horror twist that just one day after the launch already has potential customers complaining. Stealthy voyeurism in HD may have to wait a while more.This is a memory card camera, but it can only use Sony's unsuccessful proprietary MemoryStick format. While it ships with a 4GB PRO Duo Mark 2 card, using it in its most attractive role ? as a travel/vacation cam - would most likely force you to buy extra MemoryStick cards, which just happen to be more expensive than (almost twice as much as) the norm. I can see this camcorder joining the pile of Sony products being boycotted by savvy gadgeteers who are d... More About: Sensor , Miniature
Sony's "World's Smallest Full HD Cam" Has Miniature Sensor
2008-04-03 12:03:00 'The HDR-TG1's WOW factor tainted by MemoryStick format'Sony's diminutive new heir to the newly minted "world's smallest Full HD camcorder" throne is the travel-ready silver titanium frame HDR-TG1. While Full HD (1920x1080, also known as 1080P) with a 1.3 x 4.7 x 2.5 inch body and $900 price tag would have seemed like fantasy just a short while ago, Sony made it real and gave it a horror twist that just one day after the launch already has potential customers complaining. Stealthy voyeurism in HD may have to wait a while more.This is a memory card camera, but it can only use Sony's unsuccessful proprietary MemoryStick format. While it ships with a 4GB PRO Duo Mark 2 card, using it in its most attractive role – as a travel/vacation cam - would most likely force you to buy extra MemoryStick cards, which just happen to be more expensive than (almost twice as much as) the norm. I can see this camcorder joining the pile of Sony products being boycotted by savvy gadgeteers who are... More About: Sensor , Miniature
Things That You Can Do To Fight Global Warming
2008-04-03 11:31:00 Global Warming is a dramatically urgent and serious problem. We don't need to wait for governments to find a solution for this problem: each individual can bring an important help adopting a more responsible lifestyle: starting from little, everyday things. It's the only reasonable way to save our planet, before it is too late.Here is a list of 50 simple things that everyone can do in order to fight against and reduce the Global Warming phenomenon: some of these ideas are at no cost, some other require a little effort or investment but can help you save a lot of money, in the middle-long term!Replace a regular incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb (cfl)CFLs use 60% less energy than a regular bulb. This simple switch will save about 300 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.Install a programmable thermostatThermostats will automatically lower the heat or air conditioning at night and raise them again in the morning. They can save you $100 a year on your energy bil... More About: Global Warming , Fight , Global , Things
Things That You Can Do To Fight Global Warming
2008-04-03 11:31:00 Global Warming is a dramatically urgent and serious problem. We don't need to wait for governments to find a solution for this problem: each individual can bring an important help adopting a more responsible lifestyle: starting from little, everyday things. It's the only reasonable way to save our planet, before it is too late.Here is a list of 50 simple things that everyone can do in order to fight against and reduce the Global Warming phenomenon: some of these ideas are at no cost, some other require a little effort or investment but can help you save a lot of money, in the middle-long term!Replace a regular incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb (cfl)CFLs use 60% less energy than a regular bulb. This simple switch will save about 300 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.Install a programmable thermostatThermostats will automatically lower the heat or air conditioning at night and raise them again in the morning. They can save you $100 a year on your energy bil... More About: Global Warming , Fight , Global , Things
Things That You Can Do To Fight Global Warming
2008-04-03 11:31:00 Global Warming is a dramatically urgent and serious problem. We don't need to wait for governments to find a solution for this problem: each individual can bring an important help adopting a more responsible lifestyle: starting from little, everyday things. It's the only reasonable way to save our planet, before it is too late.Here is a list of 50 simple things that everyone can do in order to fight against and reduce the Global Warming phenomenon: some of these ideas are at no cost, some other require a little effort or investment but can help you save a lot of money, in the middle-long term!Replace a regular incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb (cfl)CFLs use 60% less energy than a regular bulb. This simple switch will save about 300 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.Install a programmable thermostatThermostats will automatically lower the heat or air conditioning at night and raise them again in the morning. They can save you $100 a year on your energy bil... More About: Global Warming , Fight , Global , Things
Computer Scientists Have Devised Tools To Help Children With Autism
2008-04-03 11:17:00 'Computer scientists have devised two tools to help people interact with autistic children. Videotaping interactions allows teachers or parents to replay situations and evaluate the cause of particularly good or bad behavior. Cataloging actual data, rather relying on memory or interpretation, proves to be a more accurate measure of a situation.'Autism affects one in every 165 children. For the parents and teachers of those boys and girls ... knowing what works and what doesn’t can be key to their development. Now, new technology is helping them help these kids.From riding on dads back ... to bouncing around the kitchen. There's little down time in the Abowd home. Both of Gregory Abowd's sons have autism."With Aiden you have to work really hard to get him to say anything. With Blaise you have to stop him from what he wants to say, to get him to actually communicate with you," Abowd told Ivanhoe.It’s his boys who gave this human computer interaction professor his next project ... More About: Tools , Children , Scientists
Computer Scientists Have Devised Tools To Help Children With Autism
2008-04-03 11:17:00 'Computer scientists have devised two tools to help people interact with autistic children. Videotaping interactions allows teachers or parents to replay situations and evaluate the cause of particularly good or bad behavior. Cataloging actual data, rather relying on memory or interpretation, proves to be a more accurate measure of a situation.'Autism affects one in every 165 children. For the parents and teachers of those boys and girls ... knowing what works and what doesn?t can be key to their development. Now, new technology is helping them help these kids.From riding on dads back ... to bouncing around the kitchen. There's little down time in the Abowd home. Both of Gregory Abowd's sons have autism."With Aiden you have to work really hard to get him to say anything. With Blaise you have to stop him from what he wants to say, to get him to actually communicate with you," Abowd told Ivanhoe.It?s his boys who gave this human computer interaction professor his next project at G... More About: Tools , Children , Scientists
Computer Scientists Have Devised Tools To Help Children With Autism
2008-04-03 11:17:00 'Computer scientists have devised two tools to help people interact with autistic children. Videotaping interactions allows teachers or parents to replay situations and evaluate the cause of particularly good or bad behavior. Cataloging actual data, rather relying on memory or interpretation, proves to be a more accurate measure of a situation.'Autism affects one in every 165 children. For the parents and teachers of those boys and girls ... knowing what works and what doesn’t can be key to their development. Now, new technology is helping them help these kids.From riding on dads back ... to bouncing around the kitchen. There's little down time in the Abowd home. Both of Gregory Abowd's sons have autism."With Aiden you have to work really hard to get him to say anything. With Blaise you have to stop him from what he wants to say, to get him to actually communicate with you," Abowd told Ivanhoe.It’s his boys who gave this human computer interaction professor his next project ... More About: Tools , Children , Scientists
Disposable Credit Card Numbers
2008-04-02 12:23:00 'Anti-Fraud Scheme'Each time you give your credit card details to a phone agent or Web site, it can feel like you die a little — after all, you've just given away the keys to your personal kingdom.Security experts nowadays are trying to help address this fear by developing disposable credit card numbers (DCCNs).Under one new proposal, the disposable digits would be good only for a single transaction. As detailed in a recent edition of the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, researchers at Anglia Ruskin University in the U.K. suggest a scheme whereby consumers submit a DCCN instead of their regular card number when making online purchases.Researchers Mohammed Assora, James Kadirire and Ayoub Shirvani suggest that the customer would get the secret code number from the credit card company. Using a simple calculation, the code would be a combination of a number from the e-commerce site (probably the sale price) and the credit card number to create a ... More About: Card , Credit , Numbers , Credit Card
Disposable Credit Card Numbers
2008-04-02 12:23:00 'Anti-Fraud Scheme'Each time you give your credit card details to a phone agent or Web site, it can feel like you die a little ? after all, you've just given away the keys to your personal kingdom.Security experts nowadays are trying to help address this fear by developing disposable credit card numbers (DCCNs).Under one new proposal, the disposable digits would be good only for a single transaction. As detailed in a recent edition of the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, researchers at Anglia Ruskin University in the U.K. suggest a scheme whereby consumers submit a DCCN instead of their regular card number when making online purchases.Researchers Mohammed Assora, James Kadirire and Ayoub Shirvani suggest that the customer would get the secret code number from the credit card company. Using a simple calculation, the code would be a combination of a number from the e-commerce site (probably the sale price) and the credit card number to create a "h... More About: Card , Credit , Numbers , Credit Card
Disposable Credit Card Numbers
2008-04-02 12:23:00 'Anti-Fraud Scheme'Each time you give your credit card details to a phone agent or Web site, it can feel like you die a little — after all, you've just given away the keys to your personal kingdom.Security experts nowadays are trying to help address this fear by developing disposable credit card numbers (DCCNs).Under one new proposal, the disposable digits would be good only for a single transaction. As detailed in a recent edition of the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, researchers at Anglia Ruskin University in the U.K. suggest a scheme whereby consumers submit a DCCN instead of their regular card number when making online purchases.Researchers Mohammed Assora, James Kadirire and Ayoub Shirvani suggest that the customer would get the secret code number from the credit card company. Using a simple calculation, the code would be a combination of a number from the e-commerce site (probably the sale price) and the credit card number to create a ... More About: Card , Credit , Numbers , Credit Card
Google Debuts gDay: Search Today the Webpages Published Tomorrow!
2008-04-01 11:30:00 'Exclusive Image by Sergey Brin! 'Google keeps up the good work and today released another revolutionary technology, codenamed gDay, which may bring a different perspective of searching the web. First of all, gDay* is powered by MATE (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation), which is quite an amazing aspect considering the fact that it now works in collaboration with Google's search engine. Since I'm sure that the term MATE doesn't ring any bells to you, gDay is actually a web service able to allow you to search today the webpages published tomorrow! If you still can't believe it, here's Google explanation for gDay:"Google spiders crawl publicly available web information and our index of historic, cached web content. Using a mashup of numerous factors such as recurrence plots, fuzzy measure analysis, online betting odds and the weather forecast from the iGoogle weather gadget, we can create a sophisticated model of what the internet will look like 24 hours from now," it is ... More About: Search , Today , Published , Tomorrow
Google Debuts gDay: Search Today the Webpages Published Tomorrow!
2008-04-01 11:30:00 'Exclusive Image by Sergey Brin! 'Google keeps up the good work and today released another revolutionary technology, codenamed gDay, which may bring a different perspective of searching the web. First of all, gDay* is powered by MATE (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation), which is quite an amazing aspect considering the fact that it now works in collaboration with Google's search engine. Since I'm sure that the term MATE doesn't ring any bells to you, gDay is actually a web service able to allow you to search today the webpages published tomorrow! If you still can't believe it, here's Google explanation for gDay:"Google spiders crawl publicly available web information and our index of historic, cached web content. Using a mashup of numerous factors such as recurrence plots, fuzzy measure analysis, online betting odds and the weather forecast from the iGoogle weather gadget, we can create a sophisticated model of what the internet will look like 24 hours from now," it is ... More About: Search , Today , Published , Tomorrow
Google Debuts gDay: Search Today the Webpages Published Tomorrow!
2008-04-01 11:30:00 'Exclusive Image by Sergey Brin! 'Google keeps up the good work and today released another revolutionary technology, codenamed gDay, which may bring a different perspective of searching the web. First of all, gDay* is powered by MATE (Machine Automated Temporal Extrapolation), which is quite an amazing aspect considering the fact that it now works in collaboration with Google's search engine. Since I'm sure that the term MATE doesn't ring any bells to you, gDay is actually a web service able to allow you to search today the webpages published tomorrow! If you still can't believe it, here's Google explanation for gDay:"Google spiders crawl publicly available web information and our index of historic, cached web content. Using a mashup of numerous factors such as recurrence plots, fuzzy measure analysis, online betting odds and the weather forecast from the iGoogle weather gadget, we can create a sophisticated model of what the internet will look like 24 hours from now," it is ... More About: Search , Today , Published , Tomorrow
Steve Jobs, Head of Apple Products, In Mosiac Art??
2008-03-29 04:34:00 'A Smart Marketing Strategy'We’ve seen some awesome photo mosaics, some even functioning as more than art and delivering social commentary.While this image of Steve Jobs doesn’t hold any moving messages about society, it could serve a function. The entire image is made of up Apple products, so the finished portrait could function as one big Apple ad campaign.It features everything from computers to the iPhone. To spare you some squinting, yes, it does also include the MacBook Air. It also has other new gadgets like the iPod nano pink.“Credit must go to Deanna Lowe @ Fortune magazine and the photographer of the original photo in which this mosaic is based,” it says below the Flickr image which also says the image was “Made with Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop and Apple QuickTime Pro with custom developed scripts and techniques.”The Opinions are quite divided while some readers are actually repulsed by the portrait, claiming this could have easily be done throug... More About: Products , Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, Head of Apple Products, In Mosiac Art??
2008-03-29 04:34:00 'A Smart Marketing Strategy'We’ve seen some awesome photo mosaics, some even functioning as more than art and delivering social commentary.While this image of Steve Jobs doesn’t hold any moving messages about society, it could serve a function. The entire image is made of up Apple products, so the finished portrait could function as one big Apple ad campaign.It features everything from computers to the iPhone. To spare you some squinting, yes, it does also include the MacBook Air. It also has other new gadgets like the iPod nano pink.“Credit must go to Deanna Lowe @ Fortune magazine and the photographer of the original photo in which this mosaic is based,” it says below the Flickr image which also says the image was “Made with Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop and Apple QuickTime Pro with custom developed scripts and techniques.”The Opinions are quite divided while some readers are actually repulsed by the portrait, claiming this could have easily be done throug... More About: Products , Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, Head of Apple Products, In Mosiac Art??
2008-03-29 04:34:00 'A Smart Marketing Strategy'We?ve seen some awesome photo mosaics, some even functioning as more than art and delivering social commentary.While this image of Steve Jobs doesn?t hold any moving messages about society, it could serve a function. The entire image is made of up Apple products, so the finished portrait could function as one big Apple ad campaign.It features everything from computers to the iPhone. To spare you some squinting, yes, it does also include the MacBook Air. It also has other new gadgets like the iPod nano pink.?Credit must go to Deanna Lowe @ Fortune magazine and the photographer of the original photo in which this mosaic is based,? it says below the Flickr image which also says the image was ?Made with Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop and Apple QuickTime Pro with custom developed scripts and techniques.?The Opinions are quite divided while some readers are actually repulsed by the portrait, claiming this could have easily be done through specialize... More About: Products , Steve Jobs
Nature Crisis Update: Nigeria's forests to disappear by 2020
More articles from this author:2008-03-28 09:11:00 Nigeria will lose all of its remaining forests in the next 12 years if the rate of deforestation remains unchecked, an environmental expert warned Thursday."Considering the rate at which trees are chopped down without any regeneration efforts all of Nigeria's forests will disappear by 2020," Kabiru Yammama said.A still from the Documentary: Trees Of PlentyYammama, who heads up the National Forest Conservation Council (NFCCN), a body that acts as a consultant to the Nigerian government, said all forests in northern Nigeria have been depleted and deforestation is moving southwards."The north has lost virtually all its forests. Our 1999 survey showed that the rate of deforestation in northern Nigeria alone stood at 400,000 hectares per annum," he said.Nigeria uses 40.5 million tonnes of firewood every year, he said, adding: "Imagine the depredation wrought on the vegetation in the last decade."According to the most recent NFCCN report, released in 2007, 35 percent of arable land in 11... More About: Nature , Update , Crisis , Disappear , Forests 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
