SteveS | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 14 2009 | technology, language
Seem like a cool and unusual use for high tech.
Quoted: A Native American game developer has figured out a way to create new speakers of a language in danger of dying out, and it involves a bit of clever programming. Chris LaVigne speaks with Don Thornton, creator of RezWorld, and examines how native communities are using games to preserve their cultures and traditions.
- SteveS | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 11 2007 | time, it, technology
Ubergeeky.. have to keep this in mind if I ever retire. :-)
Quoted: "It was the best extra 22 nanoseconds I've ever spent with the kids," Van Baak says.
ShareViewed: 6 Times - SteveS | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 29 2007 | it, technology, sony
Makes sense to me.
Quoted: Breese says the initial reason for embarking on the research project was to get the company to buy him a PS3.
ShareViewed: 22 Times - SteveS | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 22 2007 | it, time, technology
Shhhhh.... Don't tell Rosemary!
Quoted: Cats and spare change, take notice: there's a new Roomba in town. Photos: iRobot's new 'robust' Roomba Video: New Roomba put to the test.
ShareViewed: 16 Times - SteveS | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 06 2007 | it, web, technology
The good old days, when 32K was a *lot* of RAM.
Quoted: One good example is the onboard computers that run the space shuttle, which haven't been upgraded since 1989.
- SteveS | Shared With: Everyone - May 14 2007 | it, time, technology
I already feel out of date... won't be long before you do too, Derek!
"10Tb is an interesting number. That's a megabit for every second in a year -- there are roughly 10 million seconds per year. ..... Realistically, with multiplexing, it puts three or four video channels and a sound channel and other telemetry -- a heart monitor, say, a running GPS/Galileo location signal, everything I type and every mouse event I send -- onto that chip, while I'm awake ... Add optical character recognition on the fly for any text you look at, speech-to-text for anything you say, and it's all indexed and searchable. 'What was the title of the book I looked at and wanted to remember last Thursday at 3pm?' Think of it as google for real life. "
ShareViewed: 2 Times - SteveS | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 08 2007 | it, technology, time
Rosemary is *not* allowed to see this article under any circumstances!
Quoted: A test of the TurboChef speed oven, which will be introduced next month with the pitch that it will revolutionize American home cooking.
ShareViewed: 16 Times - SteveS | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 27 2007 | it, technology, environment
A blast from the past... funny thing, his thinking has changed over the years! Maybe there is hope for us old farts yet. :-)
Quoted: When it comes to anticipating the zeitgeist, never underestimate Stewart Brand.
ShareViewed: 4 Times - SteveS | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 03 2007 | it, technology
Awesome! Why didn't I think of that!
ShareViewed: 10 Times - SteveS | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 24 2007 | it, technology, batteries
ZZZZAP!!
Quoted: From MIT. Information on Emerging Technologies & impact on business & society
A Texas company says it can make a new ultracapacitor power system to replace the electrochemical batteries in everything from cars to laptops.
- tim.slager - Feb 12 2009
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