Wow! What a wicked wipe this new Dyson hand dryer seems to be. I anxiously await my first close encounter with the new amazing Dyson Airblade™ hand dryer. Most of us are used to the rather lack-luster experience of drying our hands with one of those old school hot air hand dryers you find in public ...
Fresh off the press at the US patent Office are some interesting filings by the Cupertino Cult. 1. POWER MANAGEMENT CIRCUITRY AND SOLAR CELLS - Are shiny solar cells going to be the 'new aluminum'? This invention describes a clever mechanism of virtually re-ordering cells to produce constant voltage in the case that certain cells ...
In the not too distant future you will be able to identify your surroundings by simply pointing your phone's camera at what you see. What you see through your view finder will be enhanced with spatial data pulled from the interweb. Already available is the Apple iPhone 3Gs app named Nearest Tube which should help ...
Flickr Photos tagged 'Wakefield Quebec'. Enjoy and happy holidays to all the good folk in Wakefield! If you have difficulty viewing this page, you can try this alternative link: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=wakefield%20quebec&w=all
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When I joined Nortel, my friends Lisa Fast and Marilyn French St-George had re-invented the payphone. This electronic creation featured a bright fluorescent display that was readable by sight-impaired users. The digital readout could spew site specific ads. The phone even had a card reader that was tilted upwards to prevents cards being left in. Like ...
ok - I promise to ease up on crochet puns! Yarn Bombing has become a phenomenon in the deeply secretive underworld of rebel knitters. Spun out in 2005 in Vancouver by designers Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain, the site weaves wimsical urban images of "knit graffiti." Counter-culture couture! Double-knit bravado! A ...
Back in 1950 Ray Bradbury wrote a short story originally titled "The World the Children Made". I can remember reading that short story and feeling the heat and stench of the virtual world the children lived in. Somehow the words morphed into imagined yet a very real experience to me. I now ...
This post is seeking answers from our readers as to when digital sharing becomes copyright infringement. For the most part, I know the answer to this question, and understand fair use, but lately with so many ways to easily capture something and share it with others, I've been wondering whether this digital sharing sometimes ...
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