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- In September of 1966, the NBC television network released an iconic but short lived series that would inspire generations of inventors and technologists to bring about changes in our daily lives in the use of technology that many of us take for granted but was once...
- Blog posts 2009-05-08
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- Microsoft's naive vision of the future home
- Microsoft's naive vision of the future homeCost go down and effciency goes up after a while.Most technology costs goes down as time goes by. 50+ in HDTV a 10 years ago costs mored than 10K, now you can buy them at less 1500. Cost of new technology is always expensive...
- Discussion threads 2009-06-10
- A 'simpler' invisibility cloak
- Still far from what you've seen on Star Trek, the development of technology to cloak objects--currently too small to see anyway--is heating up. Researchers at Purdue University report that they've created a new type of invisibility cloak that is simpler than previous designs, works for all colors of the visible...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- NCIS: Episode #140: Breakout
- NCIS: Episode #140: BreakoutNCIS ScriptPaul, keep taking the medication mate.Paul, you really are losing it.If you were to assess laptop marketshare by what you see used on TV, then you could easily be forgiven for concluding NOBODY BUT Apple makes laptops!This clearly isnt the reality of the world - its...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-09
- Advances in TREKnology
- Advances in TREKnologyI can think of three . . .right off the top of my head:1) The high-speed sliding doors at every mall, store, emergency room, etc, you go to today, came about as a direct result of the inventor seeing it on Star Trek, and wanted to duplicate...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-08
- Some Linux backers upset about selection of Silverlight to stream Obama inauguration events
- Some Linux backers upset about selection of Silverlight to stream Obama inauguration eventsActually, there are a lot of solutions that are much better than what MS isoffering that run all platforms. This is MS just paying money to exclude competition. If MS controls the standard, they can make sure that...
- Discussion threads 2009-01-19
- I think voice is going to be a big deal
- I think voice is going to be a big dealTrain to understandNowadays, computer education is too much focused on learning how to use a particular user interface of a particular application. Unwise, because those interfaces can change and applications themselves can change.Instead, children should be educated to understand how to...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-12
- Ozzie signals Microsoft's surrender to the cloud
- Ozzie signals Microsoft's surrender to the cloudMicrosoft's inevitable but noble declineIs such a scenario possible once Penelope and Rupert have taken fright?Surrender to the cloud? Nonsense! Co-exist with? Yes!I am sorry to burst the latest marketing buzz-word balloon, but cloud-computing does not fulfill everyone's needs. No one single solution answers...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-17
- Lucid Touch (Photos: Lucid Touch and the see-through screen)
- Lucid Touch (Photos: Lucid Touch and the see-through screen)See-through ...Sorry, but that is not a "see-through screen". It is just an optical illusion.Just take a closer look at the pictures and you will see that the there is nothing "see-through" about an color LCD monitor with the image of...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-07
- Sources: Microsoft readying sphere-shaped Surface
- Sources: Microsoft readying sphere-shaped SurfaceGlobe?Education... that's all I can come up with. It' make a pretty killer interactive globe.spherical surfceThere's one plainly obvious use of it. A "touchable" globe. I'm sure there must be plenty of useful applications for the ability to put a 3D world onto a 3D...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-05
- Klausner Technologies: The new NTP?
- Klausner Technologies: The new NTP?20 years?Doesn't that mean it's expired?Sue Apple for all it is worth!!Apple deserves to get back what it has inflicted on so many others. Sue 'em into bankruptcy![i]Apple has called iPhone’s Visual Voicemail "one of the greatest advances in the history of mankind … without question."[/i]Yeah,...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-03
- Captain Cyborg and the Problem of Evil
- (This is a re-run, from Dec 16/05.)While looking at a problem related to archiving thousands of project proposals and reports for a large IT consulting firm I was struck by the ease with which these could be classified into two strongly differentiated groups: those based on clerical or other worker...
- Blog posts 2007-07-04
- I've got two free Sun SPOT Java Development Kits (value $550) for the ZDNet readers who....
- Three Friday’s ago, I announced ZDNet’s Deputy Tester of the Week program. The following Monday, in search of our first deputy testers, I offered three free copies of PPTMinimizer 3.0 to the members of ZDNet’s audience who needed a utility like that for compressing PowerPoint files into more manageable...
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Welcome to this new ZDNet blog
- Welcome to this new ZDNet blogThe VT shooter and the issue of gunsI have had this bee in my bonnet for some years now since I had to leave work for my health and to keep myself mentally busy so as not to vegetate too much began to study quantum...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-19
- Why does government hatch so many bad tech ideas?
- BBC Click reporter Chris Long offers a rant about government-initiated projects that DOA dumb on arrival. He offers a few examples from the UK, many of which have parallels in America. A national health database took too long to load, so now one shift leader logs on from...
- Blog posts 2007-02-27
- How long to the Star Trek replicator?
- How long to the Star Trek replicator?Money could become outmoded.Why use general scarcity? Sure there is always scarcity. If we didn't have scarcity then we wouldn't have something here nor there but isn't money outmoded already with Digital Markets and Transaction?That extra layer of money just represents a segmented globe...
- Discussion threads 2006-12-30
- NASA, Google in deal to make space images widely available
- NASA is the greatest collector of space imagery, without a doubt. But their websites were never quite satisfying, many of which seemed to be targeted to scientific experts not to average users looking for an outer-space thrill. Google on the other hand has created a multibillion business out of improving...
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Usability on the web is a sham
- Grab your lighters people, because this may get me some flames, but it is something thats been on my mind for a while and the past couple of weeks have shown just how important experience is and how badly the traditional web does it. Humans have always been emotional creatures....
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- Philips MCD515
- When most consumer electronics news is devoted to iPods and HDTVs, sometimes it's easy to forget that technology like A/V minisystems even exist. That's too bad, because even though it's old technology, sometimes it's just the right component for a bedroom or den. Take the Philips MCD515: It isn't the...
- Product reviews 2006-12-04
- Futurist: To fix education, think Web 2.0
- Futurist: To fix education, think Web 2.0Vista vs WikiWell timed article. It's all happening in Massachusets, home of the 150 buck computer and of the Novell/Microsoft marriage, and of Open Source. Review of http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6139985.htmlwill demonstrate a notion of mash-ups which come from wiki implementations. Is Vista really a Wiki Me-too?...
- Discussion threads 2006-12-01
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