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Category Archives: New and Noteworthy
Ultrasound Can Read Your Mind
“Ultrasound is good for more than monitoring fetuses and identifying heart defects. According to engineers in Canada, it can help tell what people are thinking as well. “Their research suggests that ultrasound-based devices could lead to a new kind of brain-computer interface.” … Continue reading
The Social Media Velocipede | Spiegel Online
Usually I don’t write about products. But today I’ll make an exception: In today’s Spiegel Online was an article on an interesting US-Swiss Cooperation. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) worked with the Swiss company MTB Cycletech. The result of … Continue reading
Posted in New and Noteworthy, Social Media, Unusual
Tagged Bicycle, Cycling, Electric motor, Social media
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Does the West Now Learn From Dictatorships?
Limiting Access to Social Media . . . Does the West now mimic the behavior of some Far East governments and some of the other dictatorship regimes? The same circles that a short while ago praised the role of social … Continue reading
Posted in New and Noteworthy, Social Media
Tagged IEEE Spectrum, Open Rights Group, Social media, Twitter
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Power Walk, Gain a Watt or Two
We knew it all along: Walking is good for you. While walking we turn 20 Watts of power per foot into heat. But now researchers in Wisconsin have found a way to charge batteries with a firm stride. Tom Krupenkin and J. … Continue reading
Robot Swarm Could Steal Your Books
Swarmanoid Robot Teams Up with Itself to Steal Your Books – IEEE Spectrum. “The Swarmanoid swarm consists of three discrete types of robots, all of which we’ve been introduced to before: Foot-Bots can grab onto other robots and move horizontally. Hand-Bots have manipulators and … Continue reading
Innovation vs. Patents: Google’s New Patent Armor – IEEE Spectrum
“How many patents does it take to stay afloat in the smartphone world? It seems Google has pegged it at around 20 000. Its proposed acquisition of Motorola Mobility for US $12.5 billion, announced on August 15, would add 17 000 patents to its … Continue reading
Infographic of the Day: Chronology Of Important Tech Inventions
Although there have been controversial discussions on the usefulness of infographics the one published on dvice.com from Rackspace Hosting, via Daily Infographic is nicely summarizing how each generation enjoys a technology revolution. What the graph does not mention though is that fact that … Continue reading
Jonathan Livingston Seagull the Robot
Festo‘s SmartBird robotic seagull is barely four months old, but already it’s flown (or we should probably assume, been flown) from Germany to Edinburgh for the 2011 TEDGlobal conference. Festo has a fairly fascinating, frankly fantastical, and frequently full-on fabulous … Continue reading
Posted in New and Noteworthy, Unusual
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Will SuperCooperation Beat Command-and-Control in the Network Age?
Within the last couple of days I read two articles, a book review and a printed blog. Both were published at completely different places but reading them in a timely context made me see some interesting connection between the two. … Continue reading
Posted in Management, New and Noteworthy
Tagged Altruism, Business, Cooperation, Environment, F-Factor, Martin Nowak, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
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Twenty Years of World Wide Web!
August 6 marks the 20th anniversary of the world-wide web. It was the day when Tim Berners Lee and Robert Cailliau (both researchers at CERN) published a description of the world-wide web project and the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) in the … Continue reading
Posted in New and Noteworthy, Web
Tagged CERN, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Robert Cailliau, Tim Berners Lee, World Wide Web
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Visible Light Communication An Alternative to Wifi?
An interesting alternative to WiFi in the home is the use of LED lamps where the network signal can be modulated on the light beam (Visible Light Communication, VLC) resulting in data transfers of 1GB/s. Project Omega, the Home Gigabit … Continue reading
Posted in New and Noteworthy
Tagged Data transmission, European Union, home network, LED lamp, Light-emitting diode, VLC, Wi-Fi
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Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in serious trouble | ZDNet
A post by Robert Ciampa made me aware of this development. This time it seems that Tell is getting shot by the apple . . . See the article on ZDNet: Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in … Continue reading
Swiss ICT Award: Public Award is Open for Voting
Update: On Oct. 18th the Swiss ICT Award ceremony took place. See the new blog entry. As in earlier years I have the honor to serve as Jury member of the Swiss ICT Award. The Swiss ICT Award is an important and internationally recognised … Continue reading
Posted in New and Noteworthy
Tagged Lucerne, Swiss ICT Award, Swiss IT Magazine, Switzerland
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