Measuring 9 inches by 3 inches, the Flexis FX-100 keyboard is entirely flexible and water-resistant. Unlike other PDA keyboards on the market, it includes no moving parts. You can just roll this one up and put it in your pocket. Its also waterproof.
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Internet Access Through Your Electrical Outlets
There’s a battle brewing between the power companies and the telecom companies. The battle is over creating an industry standard for the delivery of high speed Internet to homes and offices.
Long used by utility companies to activate street lights, powerline communications will first arrive in consumer homes this summer as equipment vendors roll out gadgets designed to allow networking of PCs, fax machines, and other devices through the electrical outlets inyour home.
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Smart Dust Mote – Walls With Brains
A building could look sturdy but in fact be near collapse. Researchers at University of California, Berkeley think it’s possible for smart walls to detect hidden cracks that could cause a structure to tumble during larger quakes. Using a small sensor called the “Smart Dust Mote” walls will soon be able to write their own bills of health. More Here
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Goats Genetically Altered To Produce Spider Silk
“What do you get when you cross a goat with a spider? A Canadian biotech firm has used gene splicing to create a synthetic version of spider silk that’s biodegradable but also strong enough to stop bullets.” The only side effect is that it causes the goat to grow eight legs and live in the ceiling of old barns.
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Cell Wars in Space
Immune cells vs. invaders: it’s a war going on in every healthy human body. When the combatants travel to space, say NASA scientists, curious things happen.
In space, these cells don’t work the way they do on the ground. T-cells, for example, don’t multiply properly; there aren’t as many of them as there should be. They can’t move well. They don’t signal each other as effectively. Overall, they seem less able to destroy invading germs.
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Domain Name Registrations Down
Total domain name registrations (.com, .net, and .org) peaked at 32.4 million on June 30, before dropping to 32 million on September 30 and 28.8 million on December 31.
At the end of 2000, the total was 28.2 million.
It looks like the era of multi-million dollar domain names is over. More Here
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Business Failure Survey
The past couple years have been brutal to the business community. Several companies on this survey are either dead or breathing their last breaths. Let us know which one you will miss the most.
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Wanna Buy a New Identity?
The FTC said a massive 42 per cent of its 204,000 complaints for 2001 involved stolen identities, placing the problem at the top of the list.
The FTC said up to 750,000 other US citizens will have their identities stolen this year for the purposes of accessing credit card accounts, securing loans and cashing cheques.
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Wacky Technology of the Week Award – Robotic Slug Sucker
A team at the University of the West of England has created a slug-sucking robot, powered by methane.
“Slugbot” trundles around picking up slugs. The robot arm then dumps the creatures into an internal compartment.
“Further research is being continued by the team based on Slugbot’s self sustaining energy autonomy, this time using plant material rather than dead slugs.”
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Pub Finding Watch
Scientists have finally found a worthwhile use for technology and placed a pub-detecting global positioning system inside a wristwatch.
The watch provides the wearer with the location of the nearest four pubs and his/her distance from each one. Finally, a really good technology centered around beer.
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Nano-Sized Chips
“A C-Net News story is reporting that HP has announced they have made breakthroughs that ‘help turn out powerful computers that fit on the head of a pin with room to spare.’ Also in the article, that the patent announced Wednesday, will produce no two chips that are the same. ‘Each one will be customized for a particular function,’ says Stanley Williams, the chemist on the team. The work was done by himself, Phil Kuekes, a computer architect, and James Heath, a UCLA professor. The chips use nanowires and the chips are said to be even less than the size of bacterium. Sounds cool enough. The biggest part of the breakthrough isn’t the chips themselves, but that HP plans to be able to ‘fix’ chips which come out with imperfections, thus saving money on an already cheap process.”
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People Watching Satellites
The first generation of people locators packs an impressive amount of technology into a three-ounce package. Wherify Wireless makes a watch-like GPS locator for parents to be able to track down their kids. More Here
