Right Hemisphere is an Auckland, New Zealand company that recently won the Most Innovative Product Award for it’s Deep Paint 3D and Texture Weapons gaming technology. They also won PEI magazine’s Cool2 award as the “most desirable imaging products of the year.” And to think this all started with pong.
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Volkswagen’s New W-8 Engine
Volkswagen has been re-engineering the engine. The W-8 eight-cylinder engine “can best be described as two narrow-Vee (15 degree) four-cylinder engines side-by-side in one block, sharing a common crankshaft.” Smaller, lighter, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound…… well, maybe two bounds. What exactly is a bound?
What will the next generation Internet be like?
Search engine Google is growing so fast that it has to add 30 servers per day to keep up with all the new material appearing on the web. The demand for broadband connections is increasing annually by over 15%. The Internet 2 in the US will connect with Europe’s Géant for the start of a super fast network. Will there be a need for Internet 3? More Here
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Unsung Heroes Survey
We always hear about the successful people in the history books. But there are a few people that we don’t know anything about. Here’s you chance to be heard. Please cast your vote in the unsung heroes survey.
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Industrial Sensor Market To Cross $6.7 Billion by 2006
Trend Watch – Faster, cheaper, smaller, more accurate, and more robust — these are the attributes driving innovation in the field of sensor technology. The current downturn in manufacturing has momentarily affected industrial sensor demand. But in the long run, this is an area where ongoing innovations will make this a prime industry to be in. More Here
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Total Home Automation
To get the most out of your home entertainment investment, you need more than a large screen picture and a pile of remotes. Crestron Home makes wireless touchpanel that can automatically dims the lights, draws the drapes, lowers the screen and projector from the ceiling, and even start the popcorn popping to complete the cinema experience. At the same time, the kids can surf the Internet in the den and program music videos from the DVD jukebox. Or you can watch the big game on satellite TV while checking the camera at the front door for late-arriving sports fans. Cool Stuff! More Here
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Retrofit Your Home – No Wires
Intel’s Anypoint allows you to connect your PCs with a wireless home network. Now everyone in your home can surf the Internet at the same time using only one Internet account. More Here
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Cool Home Award
Home Director, Inc., of Morrisville, N.C., recently won the “cool home” award for all the “hot” technologies it incorporated into a home in Plano, Texas. The company loaded the home up with the very latest digital wiring and components, including the “Intelligent Home” networking systems for Internet, entertainment, and communications applications, along with its structured wiring Network Connection Center. More Here
Super Tiny Micro Engine Video Cam
Sandia Labs now has a MEMS Cam so you can see one of their latest microengines in action. The gear teeth in this engine are about the size of red blood cells. They have been able to achieve speeds of 500,000 RPMs. The current endurance record is 7 billion rpms, the equivolent of your car driving back and forth to the moon 5 times.
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Machine Intelligence VS Human Intelligence
“NASA’s Three-Dimensional Artificial Neural Network processor is capable of recognizing objects in real time and in highly cluttered background scenes. It can process an image and is capable of a certain degree of judgment about the objects, much the same way a person looks at a variety of objects and makes judgments about the nature of those objects.” While this may be a significant step forward, they’re missing the point. The key to replicating human intelligence is to devise ways of capturing it – capturing real intelligence – and filtering it for use in multiple applications. More Here
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Sky Visions 2002
The vision of what air transportation products we’ll be seeing in 2002 is quite interesting. As an example, the PAM (Performance Aviation Manufacturing) Group of Williamsburg, Virginia, has developed a personal vehicle that can transport you via air from your driveway to a nearby parking lot. I’ve known some brands of coffee that can do the same thing.
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Genetically Designed Trees
Some call this the Dr. Frankenstein of tree research. “Plantations of genetically designed supertrees could supply the world’s wood needs from a tiny percentage of today’s forestlands, deeding the rest to environmental protection and restoration” But the environmentalists don’t think so. A forestry lab at the University of Washngton was recently torched by protesters. More Here
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