Virtual charter schools
January 30th, 2004 by rbanks
Virtual schools gain popularity in Wisconsin
USATODAY.com
Archive for January, 2004
The pressures of carrying mobile technology
January 30th, 2004 by rbanks
A Tired, Aching Back is one possible side effect of all the technology that people are increasingly having to carry with them.
nytimes.com
Tracking fire engines
January 30th, 2004 by rbanks
A digital command board for New York City firefighters.
nytimes.com
Sensors that monitor emotions
January 29th, 2004 by rbanks
Using the PC as an advanced polygraph machine, which monitors your emotions, and tells you when you shtould shut up.
Wired News
Africa as the next tech frontier
January 28th, 2004 by rbanks
Africa’s mobile phone adoption rose 37% last year. What room for the PC and Internet?
businessweek.com
Why analog is better
January 28th, 2004 by rbanks
Commentary from businessweek extolling the virtues of analog over digial.
businessweek.com
Blog searchers
January 28th, 2004 by rbanks
BlogPulse and DayPop are both tools that mine blogs for key phrases, sites and people of the day. BlogPulse describes itself as “automated trend discovery for weblogs”.
GlogPulse.com & DayPop.com
3D virtual models for you
January 27th, 2004 by rbanks
Toshiba is developing a system that create a 3D model for you to “try” on clothes. It takes snapshots of the shopper, then combines them with clothes and accessories in a 3D view.
BBC NEWS
Philips to launch flexible display products in 2005
January 27th, 2004 by rbanks
Polymer Vision is a new company formed by Philips to produce flexible displays. They plan to create a pilot line to create 1 million a year. Current specs: QVGA (320×240 pixels) active matrix displays with a diagonal of 5 inch, a resolution of 85 dpi and a bending radius of 2 cm.
polymervision.nl
Handling patient technology in a mental institute
January 27th, 2004 by rbanks
Technology influx (cellphones, laptops etc) owned by patents at a mental insitution created practical and clinical problems.
nytimes.com
Bands working for themselves
January 27th, 2004 by rbanks
Brian Eno and Peter Gabriel are trying to form a musicians alliance that would encourage artists to sell their own music online.
wired.com
10 seconds to boot using LinDVD
January 26th, 2004 by rbanks
InstantOn is a new “technology” that allows users to quickly access the multimedia capabilities of a PC, without having to wait for Windows to boot. “The Windows platform coexists with LinDVD and still has to be launched for regular computing tasks such as word processing, but users can forgo the longer Windows boot-up time if they only want to watch movies, record TV shows or listen to music. “
eweek.com
Summary of gesture based appliances
January 26th, 2004 by rbanks
Here’s a summary of a bunch of different products being developed in the far East, that use gesture input.
NE Asia Online
3D displays come to phones and PDAs
January 26th, 2004 by rbanks
Sharp’s 3D display technology is also being applied to cellphones and PDAs
Gizmodo.com
Cellphone-style monthly laptop rental from Vodafone
January 26th, 2004 by rbanks
Vodafone are planning a laptop rental programme, that is similar to cellphone rental. Cheap hardware + $160/month in airtime contracts (GPRS and wi-fi access).
The Register
Mobile wi-fi for rural areas
January 26th, 2004 by rbanks
A couple of motorbikes hooked up with wi-fi “pick up the post” in rural Cambodia, just by driving slowly through villages
gizmodo.com
Moores law continues
January 26th, 2004 by rbanks
Tech Review tries to predict what sort of gadgets the “superchip” age will anable
techreview.com
IM Conferencing through live meeting
January 21st, 2004 by rbanks
IMConferencing Combines IM, Web Conferencing for SMBs
eweek
Trend for telecommuting
January 20th, 2004 by rbanks
Predictions from MetaGroup about changes in work locations.
MS library (internal)
Wi-fi brings the family together
January 20th, 2004 by rbanks
Here’s an article on the impact of wi-fi on family relationships. “Now I can sit on the couch doing e-mail while my family is watching television and not be accused of being anti-social.” Hmm.
nytimes.com
Hi-Definition movies over the network
January 20th, 2004 by rbanks
AtomFilms debuts a hi-res video service. Windows Media 720d. Service downloads movies in the background.
CNET News.com
Sending personal messages to combat identity fraud
January 20th, 2004 by rbanks
Some Eastern European company has set up a system where you’re sent an SMS message when a transaction is made on your card, as a way of combating identity theft.
gizmodo
Hardware is more important then software
January 20th, 2004 by rbanks
Here’s a New York Times article arguing that the success of the iPod shows that software is entering a commodity phase, and hardware will become more important
NYTimes.com
Distributed storage
January 20th, 2004 by rbanks
Part of an article from Tech Review on “10 technologies that will change your world”. This one is on distributed storage, or ‘your files, scattered across the internet’.
Tech Review
Sundance film done in iMovie for $218.32
January 20th, 2004 by rbanks
Here’s the Price of Fame: $218.32
Wired News
Control over your phone location
January 20th, 2004 by rbanks
Bell Labs have developed “rules based” software that gves users control over when others can see their location through cell phone triangulation
eweek.com
Real time lying detection
January 19th, 2004 by rbanks
New tech claims to detect lying in real time
Ars Technica
Cameraphones as bar code readers
January 19th, 2004 by rbanks
Camera Phones Help Buyers Beware – Wired News
Using real windows for display
January 16th, 2004 by rbanks
Using real windows as displays and speakers.
Ars Technica
US Zip Code finder
January 13th, 2004 by rbanks
A nice visualization of US zip code locations. Just type in a code.
ben fry
Location free TV
January 13th, 2004 by rbanks
Sony has announced a wireless, portable TV system that will stream video, pictures etc anywhere in the home.
Sony.com
Intel “strained chips” increase performance by 30%
January 5th, 2004 by rbanks
Intel stumbled across a way of creating faster chips by applying stress to the silicon attoms. Coming soon to a processor near you.
Factiva
Turning any PC into a WAP
January 5th, 2004 by rbanks
This software product from Pctel turns any PC with a wireless card into a wireless access point.
The Register
Social networks in the office
January 5th, 2004 by rbanks
Contact Network 2.5 allows employees to create social networks in which contacts can be shared to create new introductions and sales leads.
eWeek
Credit card under the skin
January 5th, 2004 by rbanks
This injectable RF Tag stores sensitive personal information, and could end identity theft (or increase limb-theft)
New Scientist
