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- Concentric
- Coming from the center, or circles within circles. For example, tracks on a hard disk are concentric. Tracks on optical media are concentric or spiral shaped (in a...
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- Play drums? How about in the office -- via USB?
- Sure, this isn't the most serious item on this blog, but for the office worker who moonlights as a rocker, this is big news. May the cubicle emancipation begin! Synesthesia Mandala has hooked up with Tool drummer Danny Carey, of all people, to create...
- Tags: Pad, USB, Synesthesia Mandala, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Medical devices are no longer a safe haven
- For several months now we've been told by stock pickers that medical stocks are safe havens, that they're recession-resistant. Maybe they're not. (I first ran this picture last year. It was from a photo contest sponsored by Worth Magazine.) Profits at Wright Medical sank...
- Tags: Stock, Medical Device, Healthcare, Investment, IPO, Finance, Financial Services, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-02-15
- 2008 Audi TT Coupe
- Photo gallery:2008 Audi TT Coupe Our week with Audi's second-generation TT Coupe came soon after our earlier test of the Audi TT Roadster. We enjoyed the convertible version enough to give it an Editors' Choice award, mainly thanks to its unflappable performance and roster of available tech options.The TT Coupe...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, Audi AG, TT Coupe
- Product reviews 2007-12-10
- Canon HG10
- Photo gallery:Canon HG10It's been a longish wait, but Canon will finally premiere its first hard-disk based camcorder this October, the AVCHD-compatible HG10. Based on the innards and lens of the HV20, the HG10 nevertheless uses an almost completely different design, one that takes a few chances--not necessarily successful ones. The...
- Tags: Corporate communications, Monitors & displays, Canon HG10, Canon Inc.
- Product reviews 2007-08-10
- An 'origami lens' for your camera phone?
- Your next camera phone might get a new kind of lens if researchers at the University of California at San Diego convince the cell phones makers. They have designed an origami lens which will slim high resolution cameras. Today, their 5-millimeter thick, 8-fold imager delivers images comparable in quality with...
- Tags: camera, Engineering &, Innovation, Wireless &, Telecom
- Blog posts 2007-01-31
- Details in tech journalism - a Sun Shiny example
- Last Thursday Sun issued two sequential press releases signed by the same spokesman. The first, under the title "Sun Expands Solaris/SPARC CMT Innovation Leadership", announced the widespread availability of the 4GB DIMMS in the UltraSPARC T1 line, the corresponding megahertz rate increase to 1.4Ghz, progress on the "Neptune" TCP/IP...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Blog posts 2007-01-22
- Off-World Resource Base (German) (exe)
- O.R.B. is a visually stunning 3D real time strategy game that pits the forces of two planets against each other in an epic struggle for control of the vast asteroid belt that circles their planets. Within the concentric rings of the belt are the precious resources that both planets desperately...
- Tags: Belt, Planet, Strategy First Inc., O.R.B., Strategy, Management
- Software downloads 2006-12-04
- Off-World Resource Base (French) (exe)
- O.R.B. is a visually stunning 3D real time strategy game that pits the forces of two planets against each other in an epic struggle for control of the vast asteroid belt that circles their planets. Within the concentric rings of the belt are the precious resources that both planets desperately...
- Tags: Belt, Planet, Strategy First Inc., O.R.B., Strategy, Management
- Software downloads 2006-12-04
- Nicera Mill (msi)
- Board game for two people, played on a special board with nine pieces. The board has three 'concentric' squares linked at the mid points of their sides. Play is divided into three stages, but the object throughout the game is to get three pieces in a line - called a...
- Tags: Board, Piece, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law
- Software downloads 2006-10-23
- Nanocosmetics are used since the Pharaohs
- French researchers have found that Egyptians, Greek and Romans were using nanotechnology to dye their hair several thousands years ago. In "Nanotechnology in Cosmetics - 2000 Years Ago...," Nanowerk Spotlight reports they were using lead compounds which generated lead sulfide PbS nanocrystals with a diameter of only 5 nanometers. At...
- Tags: PBS, nanotechnology, Nanowerk
- Blog posts 2006-09-06
- Slashdot the Apache of open source journalism
- How far down the road to true open source journalism has Slashdot really gone?Pretty far, but not all the way. While blogs like this may mean ZDNet is in a Shared Source mode, Slashdot co-founder Jeff Bates says his site is more like Apache. Staffers taking "DaddyPants" duty are like...
- Tags: journalism, Slashdot, open source journalism
- Blog posts 2006-08-11
- New shapes for soccer balls
- Now that the World Cup is over, it's time for me to tell you that a soccer ball doesn't need to be spherical. With the help of Ivars Peterson in his last Math Trek column, "Bending a Soccer Ball," let's see how the FIFA soccer balls used between 1970 and...
- Tags: pentagon, Ivars Peterson, Michael Trott
- Blog posts 2006-07-10
- Kodak EasyShare V603
- Essentially a 6-megapixel version of the EasyShare V550, Kodak's EasyShare V603 shares the same black-and-silver styling; the same 3X optical, 36mm-to-108mm, f/2.8-to-f/4.8 zoom lens; and the same 2.5-inch LCD as its sibling. Fans of tiny tunnel-vision viewfinders will note that the V603 has no such framing device, so you'll have...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Kodak EasyShare, camera, V603, ISO, Eastman Kodak Co.
- Product reviews 2006-06-08
- Canon PowerShot A540
- Solid image quality, usable ISO 800 performance, and a full set of manual controls make the Canon PowerShot A540 an excellent choice for photo enthusiasts looking for an almost-pocketable second camera, or for budding photographers who aren't ready to move up to a superzoom EVF model or digital SLR. Only...
- Tags: Canon PowerShot, camera, scene mode, Canon Inc., A540
- Product reviews 2006-04-05
- The consequences of information overload
- The consequences of information overloadIn more primitive times.You wrote:It's a fascinating topic and one that has been argued in one form or another at every stage of societal and technological evolution dating back, probably, to the first hominids arguing about whether the newfound ability to make fire was essentially good...
- Tags: Now IT, social change
- Discussion threads 2006-03-20
- One more update to Apple patch
- One more update to Apple patchOne more update to Apple patchAt this rate I guess we'll never "get a Mac and be done with it."A patch to a patch to a patch?A patch to a patch to a patch? Wow, and this in a one month period.I still say...
- Tags: Patches, SECURITY, patch, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-03-17
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