Tag / technology
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Magic Mouse
Apple announces a new product line, including the anticipated new Magic Mouse. It’s available for pre-order now at $69. I can’t wait to trying it when it arrives in 5-7 days. The…
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10/GUI Concept
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6712657[/vimeo] 10/GUI is an interesting take on a possible multi-touch system by R. Clayton Miller. The concept re-imagines the desktop UI by proposing a multi-touch system that doesn’t rely on the screen,…
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Honda U3-X Personal Mobility Concept
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-pe3_Fwa5o&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Honda is literally reinventing the wheel with its new concept, the U3-X Personal Mobility Concept, an experimental personal mobility device that provides 360 degree movement. The concept relies on technologies derived…
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PicoLED
Kyoto-based electronic component creator, Rohm, announced today that the world’s smallest LED, the PicoLED will go into mass production in April. [Via FujiSankei Business if you can read Japanese] I am now…
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Clever Car
Researchers in England have been working on a prototype for a “clever” (Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport) car. The car has three wheels and tilts for easy manueverability. The prototype…
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Pleo: designer life form
Pleo is a “designer life form” created by Caleb Chung, the creator of the Furby. The Pleo looks like a miniature dinosaur toy, but it’s much more – stuffed with 38 sensors…
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The Future Hasn’t Arrived Yet
I came across an old blog post of mine that caused a double-take. The post, titled “One-Screen Access to Your Life” isn’t about Netvibes or another Web 2.0 application, but cites a…
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Kevin Kelly: Out of Control
Though it was written more than ten years ago, this caught my attention and seemed particularly relevant again. From Kevin Kelly’s Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and…
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Google Wants to Provide Free Wi-Fi for San Francisco
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom made it a goal to provide a free or inexpensive citywide network last year and bids were submitted by competing firms this Friday, mostly by ISP companies. …
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iPod nano
For a real-world and hilarious account of Apple’s big pitch for the nano and the iTunes phone at the Moscone here in SF last week, read Nicole Lee‘s post at Metroblogging SF,…
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Design something original
Princeton Technology has created a hard drive that’s “inspired by” the Mac Mini, so much so that it really looks just like it other than the logo etched on the top and…
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Wikipedia for all
One of my all-time favorite websites is the wikipedia – partly because I’ve used it for many years to look up terms, concepts, historical facts; also because I like to link to…
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Pingoat rocks
I’ve been looking at ways to increase blog traffic and I’ll be posting more about the services and various techniques I’m using, but for now, you’ve got to try pingoat, a great…
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Web Mapping Technology
I was searching to see if anyone had released some Ajax-driven maps and came across “Build AJAX-Based Web Maps Using ka-Map” by Tyler Mitchell which led me to an open source map…
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Open source
MIT Technology Review has a story, The Tech Boom 2.0, that covers a point of view that I couldn’t agree with more. I often use open-source software to develop high-end, robust, and…
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Mash-up the Web
While the term mash-up has its roots in hip hop culture, the web mash-up seems a natural evolution of our need to customize and our love of hacks. (See an earlier post…
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Mac Mini
Smaller is better. The new Mac Mini is lighter and thinner than my firewire drive.
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Well-behaved women seldom make history
Received email from misbehaving yesterday and I’m proud to be listed among many of the most influential women in technology today. misbehaving.net is a weblog about women and technology. It’s a celebration…
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Happy 10 Years
It’s hard to believe it’s already been 10 years for the commercial web! All you kids out there (that’s all of you 13 year olds that are signing up for livejournal at…
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Ajax the Web
In his essay, Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications, Jesse James Garrett articulates a new use of several existing technologies – XHTML, CSS, DOM, XML, and Javascript, which, when used together…
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It’s an electrolumniscent world after all
I’m a nut for anything illuminated (eg. my sculptures circa 1999) so this is definitely something I can relate to… “Illuminated Handbags. Ladies, suppose that your handbag featured a “cool, gentle light”…
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Kid robots jogging
Newscasters seemed to be mocking Sony’s child-shaped walking robot that can now jog. Personally, I think it’s amazing that the robot can now actually jump and lift itself off the ground. Sony…
