Technology – Page 222

Business, Entertainment, Science & Technology News

Are you ready to ditch Netflix? Here are six alternatives to renting videos

July 21, 2011

More than 12,000 — mostly angry — comments have been posted on Netflix’s blog since it announced the new plan July 12.

Netflix recently announced that customers would have to pay extra for unlimited online video streaming starting September 1 and many subscribers are an unhappy bunch. Currently, Netflix members can get unlimited streaming and unlimited (mailed) DVDs for $9.99 a month but under the new plan announced, members will have to pay $15.98 a month to get both services ($7.99 for unlimited streaming and $7.99 for unlimited DVDs).

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Analysis, Photo Perspectives, Science & Technology News

1940’s whiskey ads predicted the future

July 21, 2011

“Perfected television and radio telephone combined!”

Seagram’s advertised its VO Canadian whiskey back in the mid-1940’s with a series of extremely manly magazine ads about “Men Who Plan Beyond Tomorrow”. They were unspecified futuristic thinkers who liked the fact that Seagram’s was patient enough to age VO for six years. Each of the ads depicted a different miracle that would transform postwar America and they were glorious. (Pics)

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Alternative Transportation, bicycle, Great New Product, Photo Perspectives, Science & Technology News

The INgSOC hybrid bike that is out of this world!

July 20, 2011

INgSOC advanced hybrid bike

The INgSOC, by designers Edward Kim and Benny Cemoli, is an electric bicycle concept is out of this world! It combines the aerodynamic shapes of triathlon designs, flexible handling of traditional bikes, and advanced hybrid power technology into one super-efficient commuting machine that (to say the least) looks, well… unearthly! (Pics)

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Animals, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News, Sealife

Terrifying looking creature viewed under an electron microscope

July 19, 2011

Hydrothermal worm

This is a real creature. It’s not from J.J. Abrams’ next monster movie, this guy is 100% real. But it’s so small that it’s pretty much invisible to the naked eye.

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Education, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Students can now rent e-textbooks on Kindle

July 19, 2011

Students can now rent e-textbooks for periods from 30 to 360 days.

E-book textbook rentals have just been introduced by Amazon just in time for the fall semester. This will allow students to save up to 80 percent on some titles. E-textbook rentals can be viewed not just on Amazon’s e-reader (and rumored Amazon tablet) but also on any device that can download the Kindle app including PCs, iOS devices, and Android phones and tablets. The rental option isn’t available for general interest e-books, just e-book versions of textbooks.

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Famous Inventor, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News

123 year old recording may be Edison’s talking doll

July 17, 2011

The picture on the shows the original phonograph removed from the doll’s body.

Using advanced imaging technology, scientists have recovered a 123-year-old recording made by Thomas Edison. The recording is believed to be the world’s first attempt at a talking doll and may mark the dawn of the American recording industry.

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Food, Science & Technology News

‘Edible antifreeze’ can preserve ice cream’s smooth, silky texture

July 16, 2011

Edible antifreeze can prevent ice crystals from forming in ice cream.

It’s Friday night, and the movie’s already playing in the DVD player. You run the freezer to grab a gallon of ice cream, but you find the tub nearly empty.

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New Discoveries, Science & Technology News

The future of energy storage – graphite and water

July 15, 2011

Graphene sheets

Graphite and water, a combination of two ordinary materials, could produce energy storage systems that perform on par with lithium ion batteries, but recharge in a matter of seconds and have an almost indefinite lifespan.

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Analysis, New Viewpoints, Science & Technology News

DaVinci Institute unveils eight competitions for mankind

July 15, 2011

Thomas Frey, futurist and executive director at the DaVinci Institute.

Thomas Frey, a futurist and executive director at the DaVinci Institute, has been drawing inspiration from the success of large-scale incentive-based prize competitions as he announced a series of eight massively difficult competitions during his keynote July 10th at the World Future Society’s “WorldFuture 2011″ event in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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Analysis, Business, Economy, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

‘The start-up of you’ – Reinventing yourself in the ever changing job market

July 15, 2011

Employers are looking for people who can invent, adapt and reinvent their jobs every day, in a market that changes faster than ever.

The rise in the unemployment rate last month to 9.2 percent has Democrats and Republicans reliably falling back on their respective cure-alls. It is evidence for liberals that we need more stimulus and for conservatives that we need more tax cuts to increase demand. I am sure there is truth in both, but I do not believe they are the whole story. I think something else, something new — something that will require our kids not so much to find their next job as to invent their next job — is also influencing today’s job market more than people realize.

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Analysis, Science & Technology News

A third of iPhone users think they already have 4G phones

July 13, 2011

Thirty four percent of iPhone owners think they already have 4G phones, according to a survey which shows that naming, as well as timing, can be everything.

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Alternative Transportation, Science & Technology News

Talking cars coming soon!

July 13, 2011

Tests suggest it could reduce motorway pile-ups by 40%.

“Talking” cars coming soon, say Italian scientists who claim to have developed a software that lets vehicles “communicate” with one another on the road.

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