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Photos: World's fair to focus on water: Zaragoza, Spain, to host next international exposition with theme of water and sustainability.; Tags: exposition, sustainability, Spain, photograph; Image galleries 2007-07-30
The Golden Volcano of divine Love (zip): The Golden Volcano of divine Love. Mahaprabhu's Life and Precepts. In the agony of separation from Sri Krishna, volcanic eruptions of ecstasy flow from the heart of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and His teachings [Sikshastakam] flow like streams of golden lava from His lips in this compelling narrative biography. A penetrating...; Tags: Exposition, Mahaprabhu; Software downloads 2006-03-02
MoodBook (exe): MoodBook is a tiny Windows utility that brings art to your desktop and sets a tone for your daily mood and emotions. With MoodBook your desktop looks like an art gallery changing art expositions either automatically, at regular time intervals, or manually, with a click. Each exposition has either a...; Tags: Computer Graphics, Exposition, MoodBook, Desktops, Hardware; Software downloads 2006-01-23

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Photos: What you see is how you drive: An eye-tracking system from Japan's Nac Image Technology watches you watching the road to help automakers create safer cars.Built-in cameras are now standard issue with cell phones. Could they someday become a common feature in your car? Automakers are starting to offer, for instance, backup cameras to augment or maybe...; Tags: Automobile Company, Photograph, Camera, It', Manufacturing, CNET News.com; Image galleries 2008-05-23
Standards and pragmatism in web browsers: Recently, Microsoft declared that true "standards mode" in IE 8.0 will be the default, indicating that it will try to render all pages marked with the proper DOCTYPE according to the more rigorous (and ACID2-compliant) HTML rendering rules of the improved standards mode in IE 8.0. This is in contrast...; Tags: Web, HTML, Spec, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Web Browser, Standards, Standards Mode, Joel Spolsky, Web Browsers, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, John Carroll; Blog posts 2008-03-20

The Big Switch: The network becomes the data center: Nick Carr, the Paul Revere of utility computing, blogged about HP reducing its data centers from over 80 to 6 and Sun's effort to shut down all its internal data centers by 2013. To achieve even greater efficiency will require a higher level of consolidation - across companies...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Data Center, Network, Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Utility Computing, Data Centers, Storage, Software As A Service (SaaS), Hardware, Data Management, Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-01-11
Sun converts carbon dioxide into fuel: We all know that the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has a major impact on the Earth climate. But now, chemists at the University of California at San Diego UCSD have developed "a device that can capture energy from the sun, convert it to electrical energy and...; Tags: Science &, Nature, Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment; Blog posts 2007-04-22
Teaching nanoscience to the blind: Nanoscale objects are much too small for us to see them. So, according to educators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, nanotechnology is a research field where blind students and sighted ones are equal. After all, "were all blind at the nanoscale," says a member of the educational team. Theyve built...; Tags: Social Sciences, Science &, Nature, Nanotechnology, Engineering &, Innovation; Blog posts 2007-03-31
Sunglasses changing color in a second: Wouldnt it be nice to wear sunglasses that change colors according to the weather or to your new skiing suit? According to the American Chemical Society ACS, scientists at the University of Washington have developed a new lens material that makes this possible. Their smart sunglasses can change color on...; Tags: University of Washington, polymer, American Chemical Society; Blog posts 2007-03-28
Growing metals on cotton: Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL have created a new form of metal crystals grown on cotton. Theyve used acid-treated cellulose fibers from cotton to crystallize them. Then, they grew all kinds of metal nanocrystals measuring between 2 and 200 nanometers on what they call "a cotton assembly...; Tags: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Blog posts 2007-03-27
Network Distributed Monitoring System Based on Robot Technology Middleware: In this paper, a network distributed monitoring system for human assistance robot system was developed to improve the interaction among the users and local service robotic system and enable a remote user to get a better understanding of what is going on in the local environment. Home integration robot system...; Tags: Network, Monitoring System, Middleware, University Of Electro-Communications, Robots, Emerging Technologies; White papers 2007-03-01
Microsoft copies BlueJ, admits it, then patents it: Microsoft copies BlueJ, admits it, then patents itPrior Art[i]The US patent system would have to be very broken indeed to award a patent here knowing that the idea was never MS's to begin with.[/i]That's not the USPTO's business. If the subject invention isn't already in their database, it's good...; Tags: government, Microsoft Corp., patent, BlueJ; Discussion threads 2007-01-29
My road map for CES 2007: My road map for CES 2007MacWorldI know it's not your beat, but you'd get more info on the future directions of Windows, gadgets and related technology next week at MacWorld.Control4I think you're right on with the sleeper hit of the show. Home automation is taking off right now. I'd check...; Tags: Strategy, Control4, Macworld, Home Automation; Discussion threads 2007-01-04
Are androids 'better' robots?: The latest issue of Connection Science is dedicated to Android science. This special issue was co-edited by Karl MacDorman, in the Human-Computer Interaction program of the School of Informatics, Indiana University, and Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Lab at Osaka University. As youll find out in "I, Robot;...; Tags: Robots, android, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Karl MacDorman, special issue, Connection Science, robot; Blog posts 2006-12-27
Spolsky on Gillmor on Schwartz and Winer: I love reading Joel Spolksys blog actually pretty much everything the guy writes is a gem. Today, he performs an absolutely amazing Tamudic examination and explication of Steve Gillmors latest rant about... well Steve tends to cover a lot of ground when he posts so there are a number of...; Tags: Blogs; Blog posts 2006-12-23
Nanoknives to cut cells: American researchers have built a carbon nanotube knife. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, this nanoknife will be used to cut and study cells. With this new tool, scientists and biologists will be able to make 3D images of cells and tissues for electron tomography, which...; Tags: Nanotechnology, nanotube, NIST, carbon nanotube, MWCNT; Blog posts 2006-11-24
Mathematical beauties: The American Mathematical Society AMS made us a great gift last week. It announced that a collaboration between a French mathematician and a Belgian artist has resulted in math animations that herald new era in visualization. And I must say that these animations about research in dynamical systems theory are...; Tags: Computers &, Internet, Science &, Nature, Social Sciences, American Mathematical Society; Blog posts 2006-11-12
Asynchronous Web Service Invocation With JAX-WS 2.0: Given that web service invocations are always remote across the internet, developing rigorous and responsive web service client applications has always been a challenge for architects and developers working with SOA. JAX-WS 2.0 comes with one effective solution to this problem: asynchronous web service invocation, with which a web service...; Tags: Web, Web Service, Web Services, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing; White papers 2006-09-19
Web 2.0 = a piece of jargon: During a podcast interview transcript here last week with Scott Laningham of IBM developerWorks, the father of the Web Tim Berners-Lee offered his view on the term "Web 2.0": LANINGHAM: You know, with Web 2.0, a common explanation out there is Web 1.0 was about connecting computers andmaking information available;...; Tags: Web; Blog posts 2006-08-31
NSA wiretapping unconstitutional: NSA wiretapping unconstitutionalNSA and UnconstitutionalityIts good to know that the American judicial system is, even if ever so gradually, waking up to its traditional role as custodian and interpreter of the nation's constitution. Its about time judges got commited to the responsibility of their appiontments and abandon political sycophancy...; Tags: SECURITY, NSA, attack, American Civil Liberties Union; Discussion threads 2006-08-17