You may thing there isn’t anything “technological” about a parking lot. It’s a simple mass of various minerals and compounds that are unmoving, unchanging, and wholly static. People, it’s a concrete slab for crying out loud. What could it do. While all sorts of energy regenerating technologies can be incorporated into [...]
October 30, 2009 - 4:57 am
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Who hasn’t at one point or another wanted to soak in a nice warm tub for multiple hours? For some, they simply don’t have the patience to just lay there which is understandable. Given our tech background and ever changing landscape, we want stuff happening all the time and fast fast fast. [...]
** Facial recognition technology starts at 45 seconds in…
Buying an energy efficient TV and turning off the TV whenever you leave the room, no matter how short the time are just two things we can do to save electricity. A new application of facial recognition technology by Hitachi will soon give us another choice [...]
October 24, 2009 - 8:14 pm
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Augmented reality has been getting a lot of hype lately especially in the mobile world as it gives GPS aided phones a rather nifty HUD-like layer to their normal map applications. So far, developers are just barely scratching the surface of the potential that AR holds. Though researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are [...]
October 22, 2009 - 9:02 pm
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Getting giddy because of that AMOLED display in your mobile gadget? Enjoy the throne while it lasts because another potential contestant is on the horizon: TMOS. What is TMOS? TMOS display technology is a technology that aims to remove as many of the filters between a displays light source and your eyes. [...]
Traffic lights are ancient tech. All it is — a light on a traffic controlled sensor. Heck, cheaper counties and local governments such as my own aren’t even that technologically savvy opting for the ‘ol timer controlled method. And we all know how much those suck. We’ve all been there, sitting [...]
October 19, 2009 - 9:39 am
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Currently, space exploration for humans means a nice little voyage to the moon and back. While traveling in space, seeing the sights, and feeling everything for yourself is, I’m sure amazing, the moon is old news. Manned missions to Mars have been the new hotness for several years now. The only problem [...]
October 16, 2009 - 9:22 am
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Though mind reading and mind control were reserved for science classrooms and geeks foretelling of futuristic tales, it appears that we’ve leapfrogged several decades as mind control is coming to the masses…now! While controlling objects with brain waves isn’t new, (as hospitals and research labs have been researching and toying with such issues for [...]
October 12, 2009 - 12:47 pm
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Speakers for better or worse haven’t really undergone that much of a transformation over the last 50-100 years save for slight achievements in build quality and integrity. New developments such as the “FleXpeaker by ITRI, a Taiwanese based company, are leading the way to flat, flexible speakers that will bring sound to countless new [...]
September 29, 2009 - 11:21 am
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While we have covered several different types of watches and clocks, with a few of those being rather simple to read, are a far cry from this latest freak show. The Measuring Tape Watch will force your eyes to do a full gymnastic routine just to get the current time. Hey, I’m not [...]
