Smart Home exhibit mixes cool green design with easy high-tech living September 08, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Just inside the first floor of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry's Smart Home, a 20-year-old re-covered Crate & Barrel sofa flanks a cool-to-the-touch, ethanol-burning fireplace that floats in the middle of the room. ... | |
Does the next president have to be tech-savvy? September 06, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama promises to appoint the nation's first chief technology officer if elected. | |
Home IQ: Winning technologies will make people smarter -- not their houses September 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Someday, we may be getting fashion advice from our mirrors. Instead of digging through our closets to find the perfect complement for a new shirt, we may hold it up to our bedroom mirror for a computer to scan. Using radio-frequency ... | |
Digitized student: Accelerated research using a digital camera September 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A researcher on a short trip to a foreign country, with little money, but a digital camera in hand has devised a novel approach to digitizing foreign archives that could speed up research. | |
Keeping an eye on intruders September 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Electronic fingerprinting, iris scans, and signature recognition software are all becoming commonplace biometrics for user authentication and security. However, they all suffer from one major drawback - they can be spoofed ... | |
IBM Moves Real-Time Communication and Collaboration Into 3-D September 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
IBM Research announced a new project, dubbed "Sametime 3-D," demonstrating the integration of Lotus Sametime with several virtual environments. The project showcases the business value virtual environments can bring to the ... | |
Not enough space: The dicey game of storing, backing up files September 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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About five years ago, a technical disaster struck Fernando Santos: His computer hard drive failed. The San Francisco resident lost everything on it and had to reformat his drive. "I lost a lot of nice pictures," said Santos, ... | |
Toting a laptop? Relief's in store at airport checkpoints September 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Travelers heading through airport security soon may be spending less time in line, thanks to new rules that allow laptop computers in "checkpoint-friendly" bags to pass through X-ray machines without being pulled out for ... | |
Intel CTO Says Gap between Humans, Machines will Close by 2050 August 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Intel Corporation's chief technology officer took a fascinating look at how technology will bring man and machine much closer together by 2050. | |
 Western Transportation Institute to study drowsy and distracted teen driving August 22, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | User comments: 1
Over the next year, researchers at Montana State University's Western Transportation Institute will use state-of-the-art video cameras to help teenage drivers stay safe on the state's rural roads. | |
 Eco-architecture could produce 'grow your own' homes August 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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A bus stop that grows its own foliage as shade? A children's playground, made entirely from trees? A shelter made from living tree roots that could provide natural protection against earthquakes in California? | |
Intel and Yahoo! to Bring the Internet to Television August 20, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. today previewed plans for the Widget Channel, a television (TV) application framework optimized for TV and related consumer electronics (CE) devices that use the Intel Architecture. The Widget ... | |
New data center architecture from commodity network elements August 20, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Computer scientists at the UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering have proposed a new way to build data centers that could save companies money and deliver more computing capability to end-users. | |
Intel Unveils Extensible Host Controller Interface Draft Specification to Support USB 3.0 Architecture August 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Intel Corporation today announced the availability of the Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) draft specification revision 0.9 in support of the USB 3.0 architecture, also known as SuperSpeed USB. The xHCI draft specification ... | |
 It's The Water: Beijing Olympic Swimmer Provided State-of-Art ProMinent Ozone Technology August 12, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As Olympic records are being broken left and right by Michael Phelps, questions have been raised do we have a performance enhancing water issue. Some attribute the gold hanging around Olympiad ... | |
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