from The Korea Times Athletes to Wear Smart Bio-Shirts Amateur marathoners sometimes fail to pace themselves during the long, 42.195-kilometer course. This is very dangerous and can even lead to a runners death. To reduce the risk, a team of Korean scientists has developed wearable computing ware, called BioShirt, which warns runners who try to […]
Read more "..Athletes to Wear Smart Bio-Shirts.."A high-tech collection of soldier gear, 15 years and half a billion dollars in the making, will finally make it into battle. The 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry has adopted the Land Warrior suite of wearable electronics, and will take it with them to Iraq when they deploy next year. It’s the first time a large group of infantrymen will be tied to the combat network that’s connecting so much of the military…
Read more "..High-Tech Uniforms Finally Heading to War.."Mock moon landers are set to compete for millions of dollars in prize money at next week’s Wirefly X Prize Cup in Las Cruces, New Mexico, US…
Read more "..Mock lunar landers to go head to head in X Prize Cup.."NASA announced Tuesday that its new crew exploration vehicle will be named Orion.
Orion is the vehicle NASAs Constellation Program is developing to carry a new generation of explorers back to the moon and later to Mars. Orion will succeed the space shuttle as NASA’s primary vehicle for human space exploration.
Orion’s first flight with astronauts onboard is planned for no later than 2014 to the International Space Station. Its first flight to the moon is planned for no later than 2020. ..
Read more "..NASA Names New Crew Exploration Vehicle Orion.."from PhysOrg China and Russia to launch joint mission to Mars China and Russia are planning a joint mission to Mars that will bring back samples to earth and land on one of the red planet’s tiny moons, state media quoted a Chinese scientist as saying Wednesday. Ye Peijian, of the Chinese Research Institute of […]
Read more "..China and Russia to launch joint mission to Mars.."link to the mp3, and my notes
Read more "2003 interview with Cory Doctorow on “Down And Out in the Magic Kingdom”"My thoughts on two new SF books…
Read more "Glasshouse vs Rainbows End"trying to compare and contrast the two notions – both extrapoliations of how current technology will change society in years to come..
Read more "you say Participatory Panopticon, I say Super Public"from BBC NEWS Young drive ‘radical media shift’ … Sixteen to 24 year olds are spurning television, radio and newspapers in favour of online services, says the regulator’s study. The 2006 Ofcom report also found that increasingly households are turning to broadband and digital TV. And it notes 1.8 million homes are now using their […]
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