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October 26, 2005
October 25, 2005
New sustainable building materials
"By using recycled, vegetable-based and biodegradable resources, these materials offer consumers a choice that may begin to alleviate the long-term burden of building. "
White Light, No Heat
"Its visible spectrum is similar to a typical incandescent bulb, but it puts out fifty times the light-per-watt, and lasts sixty times longer."
BitTorrent user guilty of piracy
"A Hong Kong man has been convicted of movie internet piracy in what is believed to be the first case involving BitTorrent file-sharing software."
Gamer buys virtual property with lots of real cash
"A virtual space resort being built in the online role-playing game, Project Entropia, has been snapped up for $100,000. "
October 24, 2005
iPod Nano litigation
"Apple is facing legal action from an aggrieved American consumer over alleged problems with the iPod Nano."
October 18, 2005
Power boosts for future gadgets
"Power generation is one of the big challenges facing not only the consumer electronics industry, as people do more with their devices..."
October 17, 2005
Microsoft Invents A 'Play-Once Only' DVD
And the rest of the world gets ready to completely ignore it.
The exhaustion of IPv4 address space
"It predicts that the IPv4 address space will be exhausted in 2 - 10 years and suggests that it isn't worth trying to reclaim old allocations."
October 13, 2005
Dark Underbelly of Technology
"I'm not, strictly speaking, anti-technology. I just don't treat it like a freaking religion."
October 12, 2005
I.B.M. to Put Genetic Data of Workers Off Limits
"I.B.M., the world's largest technology company by revenue, is promising not to use genetic information in hiring or in determining eligibility for its health care or benefits plans. "
Machine Makes Dishes on Demand
"MIT Media Lab's Counter Intelligence Group, which develops innovative kitchen designs, has created a machine that makes dishes on demand and recycles them after diners have finished a meal."
Here comes Flock
"Flock hopes to turn the browser into a dashboard for collaborating, blogging, sharing photos, reveling in a raft of other group activities that have recently caught fire online.... "
my iPod = myPod
"Other technologies are conveniences, but with my entire personal musical history -- 22 gigabytes of music organized into 100 playlists -- my iPod is no longer just a product. It's an extension of myself. It's myPod."
October 10, 2005
Microsoft Plots the End of Drivers
"Microsoft has received a U.S. patent for a system for PCs to get information about a peripheral device directly from the device..."
October 04, 2005
SmartDeck cassette adapter provides iPod control
New school media on your old school home/car stereo
Dell redefines “free” delivery
"They’ll continue offering free delivery, it’s just that beginning October 10th you’ll have to pony up some extra cash if you’d like that budget Dimension desktop delivered all the way to your door."
Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near"
"By "Singularity", Kurzweil refers not to a collapsed supernova, but instead to an extraordinarily bright future in which technological progress has leapt by such exponentially large bounds that it will be... well, for lack of a better word: 'utopian'."
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