technology

Dated Technologies

June 21, 2007 Opinion

After listening to Leo Laporte’s “The Tech Guy – episode 360” podcast today. I decided to try and answer the question: What technologies we use today, or not long ago, that we may not have tomorrow? Remember the phonograph, or gramophone? It is also commonly know as “record player” or “turntable“. It was the common [...]

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SeeReal Hi-Res Holographic Display

June 1, 2007 News

SeeReal, a German company, developed a high resolution Holographic Display that allows you to see 3D images with a LCD flat panel display. This is the kind of display they extrapolated along with the Heliodisplay, by IO2Technology, in the 2003 movie “Paycheck” staring Ben Affleck. read more | digg story

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FogSHIELD Smokes Crooks Out

April 27, 2007 News

This idea is great and ingenious, but what if the occupants are in the home or business. They will not be able to see either, they will be trapped where they are not able to call for help or escape from the premise. read more | digg story

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Choosing a Technology

April 26, 2007 Advice

I still hear people say, “It’s about time I learn how to use xxxx”. You can replace the “xxxx” with almost any technologies now a days. From SMS (text messaging) to Instant Messaging (IM), doing word processing on a computer to downloading HD (High Definition) movies from the Internet, video chatting to voice over IP [...]

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Dissolving dress

February 13, 2007 News

A dress made out of materials invented by a British designer and chemist, which slowly melts as the person wears it. It brings new meaning to the phase, “you must have here home by midnight”. I think we should all be more aware of the environmental affects of the activities from our daily lives. Our [...]

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Pervasive Technologies

January 1, 2007 Observation

While at Starbucks I over heard an elderly couple speaking to another elderly gentleman about staying in touch while living in Shenzhen using email, Flickr and blog.

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Putting All Your Apples in One Basket

November 20, 2006 Opinion

I am sure many of you had heard of the saying or advise, “don’t put all your apples in one basket”. Meaning you should not focus all your efforts with one idea or a single solution. As for applying this principal to software and technology, I had been advising friends and clients for as long [...]

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Technology Not Always the Solution

September 20, 2006 Opinion

Having worked in the technology field for the past 17 years and an avid gadget guy, I am the first to admit that a technical solution is not always the best solution. Some times a pen and paper is the right solution. Take for example, a widow in Ohio, United States, rented a rotary telphone [...]

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Do You See Double?

July 21, 2006 News

A senior Japanese researcher at ATR Intelligent Robotics and Communication Laboratories outside Kyoto, has created a machine in his own image. A perfect thing for times when you need to go see a chic flick with your wife or girlfriend. Of course this also applies for the women who have to suffer through the ball [...]

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What SUN is up to

May 26, 2006 News

The attached video shows what SUN OS R&D is thinking about. Please note that this is not about OS war or comparing how great one OS over the other. Or whether one OS copied another. Do note that this SUN OS experiment was done well before Mac OS X had its public beta and long [...]

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Finding songs by humming

February 7, 2006 News

Ever went into a record store not knowing the name, artist or title of a song you looking for, and decided to hum to the store staff expecting them to know what song you’re looking for? Well, the students at New York University may have a solution for record stores around the world. They have [...]

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