Ownership of e-readers is exploding.
E-reader ownership is exploding, according to a survey by Pew Internet Research. Ownership of e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook has grown from 6% to 12% of U.S. adults over the last six months. E-readers are more popular than tablets devices such as the iPad or various Android slates like the Samsung Galaxy Tab which are owned by 8% of U.S. adults.
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There are 160 million set-top boxes in the United States.
That cable box that sits on top of your television and ushers in cable signals and digital recording capacity into tv has become the single largest electricity drain in many American homes. Some typical home entertainment configurations eat more power than a new refrigerator and even some central air-conditioning systems.
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China opens National Intelligence College on the campus of Hunan University.
China opened its eighth National Intelligence College on the campus of Hunan University in the central city of Changsha last week. Since January, similar training schools have opened inside universities in Beijing, Shanghai, Xian, Qingdao and Harbin.
Women are more likely to engage in sexting than men.
Sexting, sending sexually explicit messages via mobile phones, is popular with both the sexes. But it is women who are more likely to have ‘sexted’ than men, according to a new study.
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Frey to Deliver Closing Keynote at “WorldFuture 2011” in Vancouver, BC
On Sunday, July 10, 2011, futurist Thomas Frey will outline a series of eight massively difficult competitions as part of his closing keynote to an audience of over 1,000 people attending the World Future Society’s “WorldFuture 2011” event in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Users will be able to change the focus of a picutre after the shutter clicks.
Have you ever taken a great picture only to find it wasn’t in focus? With the introduction of Lytro the out of focus picture may be a thing of the past. The Lytro is an entirely new kind of camera that allows users to completely change the focus of a picture after the shutter clicks. And, according to AllThingsD, this next-generation camera will be available before the end of the year.
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Researchers discovered several small regions in online addicts’ brains shrunk.
There are more internet and gaming addicts in China than in any other country. China also conducts more research on the issue than anyone. Chinese researchers think that excessive gaming and internet use can permanently alter brain function, according to a new study.
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ATM detects lies
Russia’s biggest retail bank has invented an ATM machine with a built-in lie detector in order to curb the growing menace of consumer credit fraud. The ATM can easily pass off as a part of KGB’s ultra- modern and secretive operational tool. Other than the rather unusual inclusion of a passport scanner, fingerprint recorder and a 3-dimensional facial recognition, the machine is equipped with advanced voice-analysis software.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: Two hundred years ago, the most stable jobs involved the needs of a community and the work of a skilled craftsman to meet those needs. People holding jobs such as cobblers, blacksmiths, chandlers, and butchers found themselves in high demand.
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The x-Ar arm
The Steadicam was originally developed to take the shake out of Hollywood chase scenes. But Equipois, a company in California, has given it a new purpose; to help line workers and file clerks. The x-Ar arm reimagines a Steadicam’s spring system to make arms and tools feel weightless, diminishing the risk of repetitive-stress injuries without motors, batteries or external power.
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The Diwheel
The Diwheel is a strange-looking vehicle, which places the rider between two giant wheels, has moved from science fiction to reality.
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Vehicle platoons (aka “road trains”) will allow software-equipped cars to automatically follow a professional driver in a “lead car”.
There will be platoons of vehicles lead by a professional driver that will let you take your eyes off the road and save fuel before cars are driven fully by computers. By 2020 they will be on the road in Europe. (video)
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