Al igual que Al Gore presume de haber inventado internet, Don Mattrick, principal responsable de Xbox, presume de haber inventado los avatares. En serio. Y según cuentan los testigos no sufría el síndrome Jaffe.
Yo declaro haber inventado los avatares. ¡Yo hice 4D Boxing! ¿Sabéis que era 4D Boxing? Ese fui yo. Escribe esto: Don inventó [...]
By Ramil Digal Gulle [abs-cbnnews. com]Nutec starter vs. ordinary starter--note how the lighted fluorescent lamp using the Nutec starter only has two pins attached to the electrical connection, instead of the usual four pins.We can only wonder if Thomas Edison is clapping in his grave--in case he's heard about what Filipino inventor Eric G. Ngo and his partners did to lighting technology.Ngo did n
German scientists have invented a wireless bionic eyeball that can restore vision to patients who have become blind due to retina damage or disease. The new prosthetic device caps 12 years of research to help these patients. This work has resulted in a unique system - a fully implantable visual prosthesis. The scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems in Du
German scientists have invented a wireless bionic eyeball that can restore vision to patients who have become blind due to retina damage or disease. The new prosthetic device caps 12 years of research to help these patients. This work has resulted in a unique system - a fully implantable visual prosthesis. The scientists from the Fraunhofer Institute for Microelectronic Circuits and Systems in Du
What is it with Leonardo DiCaprio and biopics? Obsession? Addiction? Or both? After about a dozen of fictionalized biographies, the $20 million a movie star has signed for another one. This time he will play Nolan Bushnell, who invented the Atari video game system in the seventies. As a pioneer, he later sold the company [...]
La modernidad acabó con el matrimonio concertado y con la idea de Dios, dice el filósofo francés Luc Ferry A simple vista, Luc Ferry puede parecer la antítesis de un filósofo. En vez de vivir en un barril, como el cínico Diógenes, este gran burgués de 56 años cultiva sus amistades en los círculos políticos de la derecha y da sus citas
NEWT Professional é um ferramenta de inventário e pesquisa na rede, fornecendo uma busca veloz por até 200 itens nas estações com tempo de depuração zero. As informações coletadas são exibidas na forma de planilha. Alguns recursos incluem a pesquisa e varredura por domínio, grupo
Bill Gates implies he invented the PC. Interesting speech in Korea.
I chatted with Sumner Redstone. He is one tough cookie.
Microhoo story continues.
Yahoo teaming up with McAfee.
Silicon wafers pushing to 450mm.
Consumer Reports gives Apple top ranking.
Neil Young is a fan of Java?
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16,17/04/2008 @-A imprensa espanhola comemorou. O Governo espanhol comemorou. A empresa espanhola societária comemorou o absurdo de petróleo do mega-campo Carioca-Pão de Açúcar, mas, a mídia corporativa brasileira detestou a mais-do-que-provável boas novas. Uma simples palestra virou crime hediondo para a mídia corporativa. Uma hipótese (mais-do-que-provável) aludida num auditório virou crime de lesa Pátria! Este blogueiro fica entristecido de ver e assistir a falta de credibilidade da mídia corporativa, não adiantou o histerismo sobre o assunto: o mercado e as empresas petrolíferas endossaram o “crime” cometido pelo magnífico orador. @-Frase eloquente da Sambu: "Esclareci aos senadores que não houve nenhum anúncio de nenhum tipo de descoberta. Fui convida
Wiley and Skepta in Coventry for 1xtra Live, performing to a crowd of over 5000 people. Check out them doing Rolex Sweep and Wearing My Rolex. Also do not forget to get practicing your Rolex Sweep's they will need some back up dancers.
OK, don't tell anyone, but, I'm going to apply for a few patents:
- A car with a trash chute
- A laptop that doesn't need a battery and remains powered on and connected to the Internet at all time.
- A dog that can serve up his own food, and, write on the grocery list when the food is gone.
- Parking space "spreader" attachment for the front of the car. Move those pesky already parked cars to the side, and, slide right in between them.
- Ritalin aerosol
- A washer and dryer for the back of the car (actually, I think someone may have beat me to that), so you can get a few chores done at the soccer field.
- Spray on coating to prevent dead trees from falling and crushing the fence that keeps the dogs in the back yard. (OK, maybe that's a niche item).
- Convenient, single serving si
Your next laptop could have a continuous power battery that lasts for 30 years without a single recharge thanks to work being funded by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. The breakthrough betavoltaic power cells are constructed from semiconductors and use radioisotopes as the energy source. As the radioactive material decays it emits beta particles that transform into electric power capable of fueling an electrical device like a laptop for years. Although betavoltaic batteries sound Nuclear they’re not, they’re neither use fission/fusion or chemical processes to produce energy and so (do not produce any radioactive or hazardous waste). Betavoltaics generate power when an electron strikes a particular interface between two layers of material. The Process uses beta electron emission
The team conducted its experiments at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington on the Hope Diamond. Blue diamonds are known to react with ultraviolet rays. They exposed the hope Diamond to the rays and noted that the diamond glowed with a reddish-orange phosphorescence colour for five minutes, and the emitted rays were of varying wavelengths, which became a marker for a blue diamond.
There's an old saying that goes: "If you can't beat them, make them sterile"Scientists have found a new way to combat insect populations by doing just that. The researchers, based out of the Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna, Austria, have discovered a sex switch that causes certain insect behaviours after mating.
So, every day we're opening a door on the advent calendar of things that should be invented.
Not strictly an invention this one, just a reapplication of an invention. It's from Sam.
Hi Steve,
Here's one for you advent. You know those massive toilet rolls they have in restaurants these days? Well, why can't we buy them for home?
They were brought in so that the restaurant owners didn't have to be changing the rolls all the time. Well, do we at home just love doing the change? No. We'd prefer the option where we don't have to as much changing.
There you go. Just an idea.
Cheers...
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La ricchezza di una lingua sta nelle sfumature. Nei dettagli. Non l'avevo mai capito così bene finché a Parigi, non m'è capitato di dover chiedere al concierge dello scicchettoso albergo di Place des Vosges, il Pavillon de la Reine, di sostituire in camera due lampadine fulminate. Proprio non c'era verso di ripescare in quelle 4-500 parole di francese che conosco, la parola: lampadina. Così ho fatto ricorso al fido vocabolarietto, che se da un lato fa molto turista sfigato, dall'altra salva la vita in più di una situazione, specie a tavola. [Non so voi, ma io mangiar delle robe che non so esattamente cosa siano, proprio non riesco]. E così il vocabolarietto mi restituisce: ampoule per lampadina. Ampoule, capite? Sentite com'è rotondo ed elegante questo termine: ampoule [pronuncia: ampùl]. E poi, la lampadina è, a guardarla bene, effettivamente un'ampolla. Ecco: i francesi, la loro lingua, i loro modi, son tutti l&igra
Two eight-year-old twins, tired of playground bullies, have invented "wedgie"-proof underwear.
Jared and Justin Serovich from Colombus, Ohio, came up with the "Rip Away 1000" underpants which...
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Take your blank page to national bookshelves. by Tamara Monosoff Inventing can take on many forms; it doesn't necessarily have to involve a newfangled gadget. One of the greatest "inventions," in my opinion, is setting a pen to page and writing a book. I'm repeatedly asked how one should go about getting published, so it's a topic I thought I would address as part of the creative process. I base this advice on my own experience writing and publishing two books: The Mom Inventors Handbook, released in 2005, and Secrets of Millionaire Moms, released this year.The OptionsFirst, it's important to note that there are multiple options in the world of book publishing. The first, less risky option is to find an existing publishing company to publish your book. The advantages of this approach are that you are paid for your work upfront and the publisher incurs the expense of typesetting, printing, distributing and promoting your book. The challenge is finding an editor and publisher who bel
Here’s a short history of the internet..
First, the internet was created by nerds for nerds. (Since only nerds got online)
Programming, numbers, BBS, email, databases, all that stuff.
Then it was nerds creating content for non-nerds. (Nerds making money off of you)
The internet takes off, web developers create popular sites, advertisers pay big money to get noticed.
Now, [...]
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Political Betting asks whether Gordon Brown's 'theft' of policies will damage his reputation and image amongst the media and the general public:It struck me while re-watching this on the net a couple of night’s ago that something significant was happening. That the standard Brown approach of closing down debates by stealing popular policies from his opponents might not be so easy in the future.The notion of Gord the policy thief is starting to gain credence. We saw that line being used by the Sun in its editorial on the inheritance tax plan and increasingly commentators are making the same observation. For once people have noticed what you are doing then it is much harder to do it. The Brown government might need to be a lot more subtle in the language it uses.The key question should not be whether Brown 'steals' policies, but whether this is a bad or unusual thing.All parties 'steal' policy ideas from somewhere. John Redwood did not invent the idea of reducing inheritance tax
This is one that people who try to cheat the system will not be happy about, as UK scientists have invented Dtect (a new infrared camera).
What Dtect does is count the number of passengers inside cars to check if there is too many people in the car, the system is targeted at cars driving in high-occupancy vehicle lanes (HOV).
Tickets then can go out automatically which is what governments love to do as it saves them cash and gets them more cash, the infrared camera can even distinguish dummies and dogs from people.
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"In other words, a piece of technology will not spontaneously or independently start delivering value, generating benefits, and doing precisely what its deployers want it to do. Technologies have to be managed in order to do any of these things; they're not magic bullets or miracle cures."No invention alone changed the world unless there was somebody who understood how to use it and how to use it for the best.I guess the disruptive power of fire was recognized long before somebody thought how to use it.And very often you plan a technology for a certain use and most likely it will be succesful for another one.An idea is not responsible for what people do with it, but exchanging of ideas create new ideas and new ideas make the progress.If progress is a good thing or not it doesn't matter, what matters is that man is on this earth to do something, to discover something, to live and not only to survive.Think and you'll have the problem of disposal of ideas...
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The end of the plug? Scientists invent wireless device that beams electricity through your home - Daily MailExcerpt:"Scientists have sounded the death knell for the plug and power lead.In a breakthrough that sounds like something out of Star Trek, they have discovered a way of 'beaming' power across a room into a light bulb, mobile phone or laptop computer without wires or cables.In the first successful trial of its kind, the team was able to illuminate a 60-watt light bulb 7ft away."http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=460602&in_page_id=1965Alex
Ok - I'm clueless. I was just reading the news and saw that some students in Amsterdam had 'invented' a powdered alcohol. It's like Kool-Aid. It's lime flavored and colored and you just add water. It has a 3 percent alcohol factor. Also, because it is in powdered form it can legally be sold to kids! Crazy huh? But of course I'm also thinking, cool - I'll have to try some of that! LOL.
Technology proceeds at such a breakneck pace that sometimes it feels like we're rocketing into science fiction territory's like Animal cloning, unmanned aircraft and space tourism are all recent realities. For some, though, invention isn't moving fast enough. Check out the 15 amazing things we wish someone would invent. >>
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Just as surely as Apple didn’t reinvent cellular service with the introduction of the iPhone, it DID accelerate the changes taking place in the music business by the deal it announced today with EMI for the electronic distribution of music WITHOUT copy protection (aka DRM or digital rights management). Tom Evslin I agree with you, as usual 100%.The Internet is the End of the middle man, unless he has something to offer.Like value added services.But these will be paid on a smaller scale.The main result is the lowering of cost, not necessarily a lowering of income.If you sell directly the customer pays less and you earn more...P2P will not disappear and that should be kept in mind from those upthere.Everything must change in order to be always the same.And since technology changes so fast, you cannot sleep.Otherwise you risk to wake up one they and find a different world where there is no place for you anymore...Instead of fighting, the best move, in my opinion, would be to lower the
Chimpanzees
we're told share some 98 per cent of their DNA with humans which, obviously, is
what makes them so intelligent compared to other mammals.
Primatologists have also known
for some time now that chimps in the wild often use tools - a dead giveaway of
having extra brains - when they 'fish" for termites using long stalks of grass,
or fashion makeshift hammers out of large flat stones to break open nuts.
But till now the crucial 2 per
cent difference was thought to govern the fact that such tools were never
modified in any way, whereas even the earliest human tools demonstrate
deliberate shaping through intention.
The gap, however, may be
closing. A study released last week in Current Biology reports that researchers
have observed chimpanzees routinely using rudimentary spears to kill bush babies
in the savannahs of Senegal.
According to anthropologist
Jill Pruetz the chimps break off two-foot-long branches and sharpen them at one
end with their teeth
Chimpanzees
we're told share some 98 per cent of their DNA with humans which, obviously, is
what makes them so intelligent compared to other mammals.
Primatologists have also known
for some time now that chimps in the wild often use tools - a dead giveaway of
having extra brains - when they 'fish" for termites using long stalks of grass,
or fashion makeshift hammers out of large flat stones to break open nuts.
But till now the crucial 2 per
cent difference was thought to govern the fact that such tools were never
modified in any way, whereas even the earliest human tools demonstrate
deliberate shaping through intention.
The gap, however, may be
closing. A study released last week in Current Biology reports that researchers
have observed chimpanzees routinely using rudimentary spears to kill bush babies
in the savannahs of Senegal.
According to anthropologist
Jill Pruetz the chimps break off two-foot-long branches and sharpen them at one
end with their teeth
Chimpanzees
we're told share some 98 per cent of their DNA with humans which, obviously, is
what makes them so intelligent compared to other mammals.
Primatologists have also known
for some time now that chimps in the wild often use tools - a dead giveaway of
having extra brains - when they 'fish" for termites using long stalks of grass,
or fashion makeshift hammers out of large flat stones to break open nuts.
But till now the crucial 2 per
cent difference was thought to govern the fact that such tools were never
modified in any way, whereas even the earliest human tools demonstrate
deliberate shaping through intention.
The gap, however, may be
closing. A study released last week in Current Biology reports that researchers
have observed chimpanzees routinely using rudimentary spears to kill bush babies
in the savannahs of Senegal.
According to anthropologist
Jill Pruetz the chimps break off two-foot-long branches and sharpen them at one
end with their teeth
The word photography comes from the Greek "photos", meaning light, and "graphos" meaning drawing, but the ancient Greeks didn't invent photography. The word camera comes from the Latin "camera", meaning room, and "obscura", meaning dark. It's not surprising the Ancient Greeks didn't invent photography, after all, they never liked to get their hands dirty, but the Romans, who would have been at home in the "Dark Room", could have invented photography, but never did. Why? Nowadays, most people take photographs. Remove the modern cameras and film, and many homes still contain the things needed to produce a photograph, things which the Romans could have had access to as well.Read more how to do it step by step here: http://www.grand-illusions.com/roman.htm+del.icio.us +redditTechnorati Profile
