from CNN.com – Kristie Lu Stout’s Web log – Oct 12, 2005 … Gadgets that deliver an enhanced experience of the Net, but at cut rate prices — just what the OCPC ordered. OCPC stands for the One Child Policy Crowd. It’s the nifty new acronym I picked up from Frank Yu, a high-tech commentator […]
Read more "CNN report of state of chinese tech/net/kids culture"The one-two hurricane punch from Katrina and Wilma along with predictions of more severe weather in the future has scientists pondering ways to save lives, protect property and possibly even control the weather. While efforts to tame storms have so far been clouded by failure, some researchers arent willing to give up the fight. And […]
Read more "..U.S. Military Wants to pwn the Weather.."from Herald News Daily Digital revolution set to sweep Indias Bollywood Staff and agencies 28 October, 2005 By Narayanan Madhavan 53 minutes ago BANGALORE – Digital cinema is about to take off in India, home of the worlds most prolific film industry, but not without some twists and turns worthy of a “Bollywood” melodrama. In […]
Read more "Bollywood goes digital , while Hollywood deliberates"from The Washington Post Robots May Allow Surgery in Space Small robots designed by University of Nebraska researchers may allow doctors on Earth to help perform surgery on patients in space. The tiny, wheeled robots, which are about 3 inches tall and as wide as a lipstick case, can be slipped into small incisions and […]
Read more "swallowable surgical robots"for the ultimate workers? control humans via programs? no.. its for video games from CNN.com Japan developing remote control for humans … A special headset was placed on my cranium by my hosts during a recent demonstration at an NTT research center. It sent a very low voltage electric current from the back of my […]
Read more "Japan developing zombie tech?"via digg: The link is to a screenshot of Google Base. Looks like a clone of Craigslist to me… You decide. read more | digg story the news rumor has already hit BoingBoing as well, who point us over to Battelle’s site: Word is ripping around the web that Google is testing a new subdomain called base.google.com. […]
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Read more "pure lol"showing they’re all about the Long Tail Official Google Blog: The point of Google Print Indeed, some of Google Print’s primary beneficiaries will be publishers and authors themselves. Backlist titles comprise the vast majority of books in print and a large portion of many publishers’ profits, but just a fraction of their marketing budgets. Google […]
Read more "Google CEO in defense of Google Print"this is so like something out of Ghost in the Shell.. from New York Times Korea’s High-Tech Utopia, Where Everything Is Observed IMAGINE public recycling bins that use radio-frequency identification technology to credit recyclers every time they toss in a bottle; pressure-sensitive floors in the homes of older people that can detect the impact of […]
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