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Thomas Frey - Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute

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Foodies Love the Net

September 20th, 2006 at 10:37 pm » Comments (0)

For those who live to eat, one of the beauties of the Internet is the wealth of delicious recipes that can be discovered with such ease. According to comScore Media Metrix, 39 million Americans visited food Web sites in July 2006, up 23% from a year earlier. FoodNetwork.com claims the top spot among all food [...]



Emails Replace Conversation

September 20th, 2006 at 10:27 pm » Comments (0)

Britain’s offices are falling silent as email replaces conversation, according to a new study. The average office now sends 3,840 emails from work every year – the equivalent of 158,064 messages over a typical working lifetime.



Artificial Reef Made From Old Tires Becomes Ecological Disaster

September 20th, 2006 at 10:19 pm » Comments (0)

A plan in the early 1970s to create a massive artificial reef off Fort Lauderdale has turned into an environmental mess with the U.S. Navy, Broward County and others trying to figure out how to remove about two million tires covering 36 acres of ocean floor.



MicroTextâ„¢ Font from Xerox to Hinder Document Forgers and Everyone’s Eyeballs

September 20th, 2006 at 4:05 pm » Comments (0)

Xerox Corporation scientists have developed a digital printing font so tiny that you need a magnifying glass to read it. And if you already need a magnifying glass to read regular size type, forget it! The new MicroText Specialty Imaging Font, just 1/100th of an inch high, is designed to help make valuable documents with [...]



An Exiting Name in Gaming Tools – PLENOPTICS

September 20th, 2006 at 3:43 pm » Comments (0)

Plenoptics, the Edinburgh-based technology group, is planning to develop a new automatic photo-modelling tool that could save computer games developers millions of dollars a year.



Tasers Fail to Work on a Pig

September 20th, 2006 at 7:28 am » Comments (0)

A pig withstood taser shots from police officers and eluded authorities for more than an hour after wandering onto a major Green Bay, WI highway.



Japanese Women Prefer Younger Men

September 20th, 2006 at 7:22 am » Comments (2)

An increasing number of Japanese women are delaying or skipping marriage altogether. But for those who still want romance, younger men are an increasingly trendy option.



Ad-Based Email Service

September 20th, 2006 at 7:04 am » Comments (0)

Earlier this month a beta version of Yahoo! Mail rolled out in 19 worldwide markets including the US, Australia, Hong Kong, China and India. A sophisticated e-mail service using Web 2.0 technologies, it can be accessed from any computer linked to the Internet.



China Cancer Rate Increasing Dramatically

September 20th, 2006 at 6:58 am » Comments (0)

The combined factors of improper diet and stress have increased the incidence of some highly fatal cancers in China, including colorectal and pancreatic cancers.



Introducing the Gear-Driven Keyboard

September 20th, 2006 at 6:46 am » Comments (0)

Elecom’s TK-U09FG keyboards have gears mounted under each key, depressing evenly even if just hit on a corner. Apparently, the cause of typos is hitting a key on a corner and having the keystroke not regstr.



College Students Spend More Computer Time than TV Time

September 20th, 2006 at 6:38 am » Comments (0)

For decades marketers have been seeking ways to reach college students during their formative years, when they are first buying products in their own right and making decisions about brands that could last a lifetime. Now they have one.