For those who think there’s a future in playing air guitar, two companies have prototyped invisible keyboard technologies. Samsung’s Scurry and the Senseboard are both a couple virtual keyboards that use sensors on the back of your hands to track the movements of your fingers. However, they’ll never be real useful for those of us that have to look at the keys.
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Most analysts agree that satellite radio will be a big winner over the long run. Some estimates say the music-from-the-sky format will have 25 million subscribers by the end of the decade. But XM and Sirius have a long way to go to see numbers like that. Sirius has yet to launch. XM boasts 30,000 subscribers, but will need 4 million before it breaks even.
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The idea of making your home an extension of Bill Gate’s computer network is alive and well. Thinking that Windows XP and the XBox were just stepping stones to total world domination, Microsoft unveiled new initiatives designed to further the company’s vision of turning homes into digital media networks linked to its software, video game machine and Internet services. More Here
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In a recent beakthrough, SoloTrek has achieved about 27 hours of tethered-hover flight testing. By design, the maximum altitude has been limited to about 12 inches, and the longest ‘flight’ had an endurance of about 15 seconds. They are being very careful to walk before they run. More Here
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This is a far cry from the old deep sea diving bells. Deep Flight I is an experimental, one-person sub that was built to prove the concept of underwater flight and has broken through to an entirely new class of submersible craft which operate on the principles of dynamic wing forces and flight control rather than the static system of ballast adjustment and vectored thrust of conventional submersibles. More Here
Continue reading… “Underwater At Its Best”
Since we already have powerlines running all over the country, why not just send data down them as well? Media Fusion claim to have a technology that does just this. The technology let you send data at GB/s, hundred of km’s over ordinary powerlines. It uses the magnetic fields generated by the power lines as a waveguide for a microwave signal. More Here
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Lawrence Livermore scientists have recently developed a new approach to magnetically levitating high-speed trains that is fundamentally much simpler in design and operation (requiring no superconducting coils or stability control circuits), potentially much less expensive, and more widely adaptable than other maglev systems. The new technology, called Inductrack, employs special arrays of permanent magnets that induce strong repulsive currents in a "track" made up of coils, pushing up on the cars and levitating them.
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Its maker, Italian fashion house Corpo Nove, calls it “memory metal.” We call it high-tech fashion. The Oricalco shirt, unveiled this year, is made from a lightweight half-titanium alloy that recovers any preprogrammed shape with a simple application of heat. Crumple it up, stuff it in your carry-on, fall asleep wearing it — a simple blast from a hair dryer ren-ders it wrinkle free. Of course, you’ll pay for such couture: $4,000 (that’d buy a lot of irons). The company is now working on a shirt that automatically rolls up its sleeves in hot weather. More Here
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Hydrogen warms the hearts in Colorado and fattens the wallets unexpectantly.
Primary personal energy investigator makes a stunning breakthrough over the Holidays. Miniature power sources that will enable smart clothes with heating, cooling and electric power generation from a renewable abundant fuel source.
Remarkably the fuel is transportated as innocent water and is converted to fuel on demand as needed.
A recent high altitude photo revealed a single line of investors snakeig across the continental divide with their black trench coats silouetted in the white snow, clenching check books in outstretched hands.
More on this enabling technology in our next issue with photos of the implosion pump from HydroLarc that powers this quantum leap in personal, wearable energy systems and the inexpensive alternative to challenge Fuel cells.
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Cast your vote! Who do you think is the greatest inventor of all times?
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When you have kids, you need eyes in the back of your head. Likewise, it helps if you have them in the back of your car too. The all-new Infiniti Q45 does — it’s the first car equipped with rear-view television. Shift into reverse, and a screen on the instrument panel — which doubles as the navigation display — shows what’s behind you so you don’t hit it.
http://www.popsci.com/bown/auto_57_infinitiq45.html
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A major reason you don’t drive a fuel cell car already: There’s nowhere to get a tankful of hydrogen. This infrastructure problem is not lost on General Motors engineers, who’ve found a new source: the local filling station. They developed a catalytic device that strips hydrogen from regular gasoline. It’s not as efficient as pure hydrogen, but it produces 50 percent better fuel economy. Demonstrated in a prototype Chevy S-10 this year, the advance brings fuel cells one step closer to the family car.
http://www.popsci.com/bown/auto_60_gmcfuelcell.html
Continue reading… “Fuel Cells Take a Big Step”
