Save Dell Axim

Dell has discountinued its pocket pc Axim series.

If you want to save Axim, here's a post at Dell's Ideastorm webpage where you can show your support:
http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/63460

Hacker Cracks a Mac at Security Conference

A hacker managed to break into a Mac and win a $10,000 prize as part of a contest started at a Canadian security conference.

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IBM Technology Helps Disabled

IBM recently announced new technologies for disabled individuals. Among them, a technology called Easy Web Browsing helps the elderly, people with limited vision and the color-blind by reading text out loud and allowing users to customize the size and color of Web content

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Pain but no gain?

A recent study using NIRS (to monitor blood volume and oxygen concentration) reveled that extensive exercise can damage brain. Even for a healhty individual there's a threshold that after which brain activity ceases.

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10 Emerging Technologies 2007

Technology Review of MIT has listed the 10 emerging technologies. Here's the list:

Sharing Digital Video (Internet, peering)
Nanocharging Solar (Quantum-dot solar power)
Neuron Control (Neuroengineering)
Nanohealing (Nanotechnology)
Augmented Reality
Invisible Revolution (telecommunications, data storage, and even solar energy)
Digital Imaging (A new way of highres image capture)
Personalized Medical Monitors (Automate diagnosis, preventive care)
A New Focus for Light (enhanced optical storage)
Single-Cell Analysis (Improve medical tests and treatments)

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An Alternative to the Computer Mouse

A user interface that tracks eye movement may provide an alternate way to use a computer. A researcher at Stanford has created an alternative to the mouse that allows a person to operate computer simply by looing at the screen and tapping key on the keyboard. By using standard eye-tracking hardware--a specialized computer screen with a high-definition camera and infrared lights--Manu Kumar, a doctoral student who works with computer-science professor Terry Winograd, has developed a novel user interface that is easy to operate.

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Unype: Multiuser Google Earth with Skype

Unype is new program that uses Skype to provide connectivity with your friends in Google Earth. Unype is developped by Murat Aktihanoglu who has led projects like Emma3d. As Murat puts it, “Google Earth and Skype are great applications. Unype uses their APIs to turn Google Earth into a social environment.”

Unype: http://www.unype.com

Berlin Brain Computer Interface Demo

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A lecture by Brendan Allison

An informative lecture by Brendan Allison on June 26, 2006 to Microsoft Research Audiance about Brain Computer Interface Systems main EEG based ones.

Space tourist Charles Simonyi

On April 9, from a remote launchpad in Kazakhstan, a Soyuz rocket will carry Charles Simonyi into space.

He will share his experiences at a webpage: Nerd in Space

Space tourist and billionaire programmer Charles Simonyi is the former chief architect of Microsoft and has designed Microsoft Office. He was also part of the Xerox team that invented personal computing...

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