Here are a few interesting approaches with alternative energy forms:
MiniC.A.T a car running with compressed air
Miniature jet engines for mobile devices.
Silent mobile phone calls might be possible in the future - the Feature article.
Siemens introduced its first lab version of mobile mock-up laser projected display or user interface writes TheFeature.
Mitsubishi has came out with their version of pocket projector. A brief intro by Gizmodo.
Upstream Engineering should be coming up this year with a technology solution for even smaller projector sizes (e.g. match-box).
How to carry your passed away loved one with you every day? Turn your relative into a shining diamond - prices range from $2000 upwards. Large expansion and international growth with high demand. Figure it out yourself: LifeGem. And this is not a joke...
Red Herring has an interesting piece about Anti-Intel tech company Linear that stays fat in profit by anti-sexy analog business. Think different, be different and most of all avoid standards.
Gradually we're entering into a stage where our lives are exposed to others even without our own will. Digital technology enables to track us everywhere. If we are not captured by thousands of security cameras indoors or outdoors there is still a great chance that you're having a mobile phone in your pocket. Credit and debit cards, loyalty programmes, internet surfing, emails, instant and short messaging, wlans, ATMs, radio tags, and passports among other official ids...
We are turning into a huge aquarium filled with air.
Mercury News tells about 3-D image recognition. Oh, I forgot to add to the list web-forms :-) Well, you can avoid the Mercury News and some other non-essential ids by BugMeNot. And if there is a service one needs to register with confirmation email try this one: Mailinator.
This is something I have been waiting for: Ixus 50. My old Ixus 300 digital with 2,1 megapixels have served me well but I have got tired of long focusing times and low quality night shots. The new top line model is available from April 2005 from 399$ upwards.
Barely can wait to test the piece for some cool target like the Sphinx at moonlight.
Skype released its 1.0 versions just recently. Now there is already rumors of embedding the software for 3G mobile phones - not so good news for telco operators. (via TheFeature).
Mercora is a new P2P radio that uses other people's music sources for your convenience. No downloading, one is only streaming the music. Not bad idea especially when you definitely want to hear a particular song you cannot find... Red Herring probes deeper. Unfortunately no Mac version as of yet...
How many ways to use you can find for Mac Mini? TechnologyReview has came up with some.
And finally how not to drive in winter (a WMF clip from CBSNews)...
I had enough. No more formatting of one's hard disk for a fresh installation of Windows every year or so. My Windows registry gets messed up and the system becomes unstable after too many Win batches that one has to install due to security leaks and faults. Usually this takes about an year and then the only alternative is to re-install the whole operating system.
I had a PowerBook for few weeks and fell in love immediately. And I could work with it without a problem - Mac Office rules.... Even the right mouse button works!
I'm a believer that Mac will gain significant growth of its market share during the next years. Linux is not that much for the end users but for enterprise applications and developers. Mac is user-friendly and a real alternative for Windows. Jason Ball shares my view as well.
Web-analysis are getting better. The other day I found this service where already some 12m people's bios are put together from public sources. The scary part was that those old press releases and quotes in online news papers often reveal your career history - even the ones that you would like to forget about... I run the search with a few of my friends and it seemed to work quite nicely. Try it out yourself: Eliyon.
Rojo is another new company in beta mode. Rojo (i.e. Mojo companied with reputation) claims to combine social networking with rich content of internet feeds (RSS, weblogs etc.). If you are not that excited about it yet make sure you read who is behind the venture. Some names should ring a bell.. Here's their weblog.
Upstream Engineering Ltd. got their seed funding just lately. They claim to have the first battery operating color video projector possibly by the size of a matchbox. This sounds like a big thing but the prototypes are still to be seen. Here's their press release.
Something is happening around the virtual keyboard innovation. Recently my site has been getting a load of hits from seach engines to my old post about the technology. I did not find anything especially in Google except a lawsuit or so. Anyhow, this just proves how the search engine guys can really feel the pulse just by looking at the queries...
Tired of using mobile keypads? I'm after this one: a laser projected keyboard (virtual keyboard).
Negotiating a round of financing? Pay attention to the fine print. VC's are not only after your initial round per cents but the golden pot in the futher future as well.
Skype might lead the way for the VOIP calls but regulators are catching up with their ideas to tax internet connections.
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin
E-Bird is starting to beam two-way broadband connections to EU later this year.
Is Nokia too cheap? - at least Barron's thinks so.
Around 60% of Canadian VCs expect a brigher outlook for the next six months. I could underwrite the same issue...
Sony will turn your mobile into a TV receiver.
When the French were ahead of the net game - history of Minitel, which is still operational!
IDC has discovered that the most popular place to use Wlan is at home.
Tired of constant bug fixes for your PC? Well, maybe the software provider should be held liable. Any particular company in mind?
Would you outsource part of your business processes to Eastern Europe, e.g. Romania?
New solutions for lost kids, keys and pets - RFID tracking.
Tired of noisy surroundings? Well, you can quiet your boss easily with Bose's noise-cancellation headset. Excellent for customer service personnel - makes it so much easier to smile for the complaining customers :-) Technology-review covers: "The Sound of Silence".
Do you want Wlan with your Big Mac? I have hard time figuring out who would use Wlan with McDonald's. The target group is different from Starbucks and other coffee shops. Well, I did not understand many of the previously hyped start-up biz models either. Has anyone seen Wlan bundled with a movie ticket?
Ever bother with the currently playing music since you just cannot remember the artist or the track? Just make sure that you have still some 30sec of the song left and you're saved. An UK-company has released a nice service that's rolling out across the Europe.
I could not resist since everybody seems to comment the buzz (highly overrated if you ask from me). Some alternative Matrix stuff: Matrix-XP and a flash version by OddTodd.
Decentralization is coming back to fashion. From mainframe era to PC's and a supercomputer out of 100 Playstation 2's. History repeats itself and so does technology cycles.
Moblogging is the next wave to ride...
Turbo10 is the latest search engine in the block. TheRegister has crawled the engine and the company: "Turbo10 produces BETTER results for a given search. In fact, after using it for a while, you tend to notice that Google slightly over-rates geeky and sub- culture comments in place of solid, useful links and facts". While writing this they were offline due to high load. Promising. Still I dislike their layout...
Palm is about to release some new models. They seem to be boosted with a camera and wireless features.
Watch out touching your screen with bare fingers in the near future. You might be scanned and identified. Well, I would not mind if my laptop would recognize me and speed up the booting...
You remember the movie Charlie's Angels with Cameron Diaz? Nokia was sponsoring the movie and Cameron was using her Nokia 8210 along the storyline. Angels were having tight clothes without any pockets. Still they were able to fetch their phones out of nowhere. Well, there is a sort of similar commercialised product in UK...
"Play for a billion". Pepsi will launch a contest where you earn some big buck (a billion to be exact) or do some monkey business.
Alias in real-life. An incident worth reading: how a weblog can save you out of messy relationships.
I'm pretty excited about RFID tags' almost endless opportunities. They are coming slowly but within five years they will hit like mobiles. One day they will replace EAN codes that today tag all the products available. New technology is always frighthing, at first.
Benetton seems to be stepping back from its initial proof of concept test. Consumers were afraid of their privacy. For manufacturers the advantages are enourmous even before the product hits the shelves. But how to ensure that the tracking is turned off when the consumer walks off the shop?