I see that some of the innovations for laptops are coming out and one of those innovations is the increased use of virtual keyboards. What I see are holograhipc projectors beaming an image of a full QWERTY keyboard that is supposed to eliminate and reduce the bulk of mobile computers. I wonder how well these [...]
Apple has scheduled it Worldwide Developers Conference for June 7-11 this year, and everyone in attendance will receive a free slushee. Actually, while tickets are a whopping $1,600 dollars, this conference has been selling out pretty regularly. So, somebody must feel these are worth the money. If you’re wanting to go, you better make plans [...]
I didn’t know that Europe was building wind farms in the water. If you don’t know, wind farms are collections of modern windmills that generate electricity through wind power. I live in Illinois, and wind farms are becoming more prevalent in the rural areas of the state. I guess people over in Europe are building [...]
Well, if you’re Mark Cuban, the answer is yes. Cuban believes that everything the internet was 5 years ago, Facebook is now. I have to humbly and wholeheartedly disagree. Facebook has done what very few other sites have been able to do; provide a platform for long distance and long ago friends to reconnect. Facebook lets [...]
I was born in 1977 so I obviously missed Star Wars’ initial theatrical release. I was old enough to remember seeing the second movie in theaters, and I have been a fan of the series since then. I dragged my family to the theater to see Return of the Jedi 6 times. As a kid, some [...]
There was a new chair design introduced in Milan not too long ago from a Lebanese architect. It’s a regular chair but the seat has a layer of live grass. I remember being a kid and enjoying the feel of fresh green grass between my toes. I can also remember the harsh feeling of dead, [...]
The Library of Congress announced that it will be archiving all the tweets placed on the social network site since Twitter’s inception in March of 2006. According to the article by Dan Hope, there are 50 million tweets per day and the total number of tweets in the site’s four year history already numbers in [...]
With the proliferation of superheroes and powers available in the world of comic books, you would think that we as a culture had a fascination with abilities beyond human. Well, scientists and engineers are working on bringing some of our greatest superhero fantasies to life. Scientists have developed a boron-carbide t-shirt which will stop a [...]
I just watched a Today Show clip concerning a father and son who had a bit of trouble with their online relationship via Facebook. Basically, the dad posted some pictures of his son on to his page, and his son didn’t particularly care for it. The pictures included some from when this kid was 6 [...]
If you already have an iPad, you may kick yourself after reading this, and if you haven’t bought one, this may give you reason to hesitate slightly. There’s a German company that is developing a tablet computer similar to Apple’s. What makes this one more enticing is a larger screen, USB ports and a built [...]
