Not too many people will dispute that cigarettes are likely to kill long term smokers. Not to mention that smoking gives smokers bad breath, yellow teeth, makes their clothes smell bad, and can make them really sick with heart disease, cancer, or emphysema. So why keep smoking, if it's so bad? One reason people keep smoking is ...
Way back in 1998, Jobe and I dreamed up a new type of interface - perfectly suited for mobile devices. We called it Active Edge. The patent was granted in 2002. It resembled the touch interface that is currently the rage, but was confined to the 4 borders of the display. ...
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 ...
Who knew? Everyone is waiting for the Chosen One's product announcement, yet a Mac tablet has been available for a while. Axiotron will take *customer-supplied Macbooks and for 7 bills or so turn it into a swanky tablet. The downside is that it's still a bulky, heavy, full featured laptop. Pretty ...
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 ...
The Sociology Lab at the prestigious Toys-R-Us Institute recently published some definitive research on gender differences. The study concluded that females were perfectly satisfied with magnification power of 90x in telescopes and 600x in microscopes. Males on the other hand suffered severe magnification envy, requiring at least 250x in telescopes and 1200x in ...
So here is my favourite iApp for 2009 - Brian Eno's Trope. Try thinking of nothing. Blissful empty space. There's an app for that. As some of you know Brian Eno has been a master of minimalist ambient soundscapes for 4 decades. One of my favourite albums is ...
The first commercial application using Numenta's HTM (Hierarchical Temporal Memory) technology is now beta (and available to tryout for free). What does it do? It watches your video camera and lets you know if certain things occur. For instance, the artificial intelligence engine is smart enough to tell the difference between a person creeping over ...
All I want this year to make my life complete is an Alien Abduction Lamp with LEDs. Now in 3-D! Take me now I'm ready! ;-)
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