The next hot thing, the shebang, the future is a little thing called a Wireless Wallet. Your credit card, your bank accouant, your financial self (or whatever else) is stored in a wireless device, like a cell phone. Certain cell phones have been made in Asia that have this feature, but have not yet been [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on August 31st, 2004 | No Comments »
Sunflower Oil may be the future fuel for cars. (CNN). UK Scientists have figured out how to get hydrogen out of sunflower oil and use it to propel the car. It is still incredibly expensive, among many other hurdles, so golden fields of sunflowers are still many years away if they ever come.
Filed under: Uncategorized on August 26th, 2004 | No Comments »
I’ve finally gotten a landline … kind of. I’m signing up with Vonage, for their VoIP telephone service. It’s only $14.95 a month and there is no contract, so if I don’t like it, I can always get rid of it.
The idea is that it will be better than my cell phone service which doesn’t [...]
Filed under: Telecommunications on August 24th, 2004 | No Comments »
Olympians have been forbidden from posting blogs (CNN). They may not post their experiences till after the Olympics and may never post their personal pictures or video taken at the Olympics. Why? Because the International Olympic Committee says so. It interferes with the real journalists and takes away from their profession. I think it would [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on August 20th, 2004 | No Comments »
Imagine India, a country with only 12 computers per 1000 people. Despite the fact that India churns out computer engineers, the majority of its people, farming people, have no access to computers or the internet. Enter Rickshaw Computing (CNN).
Funded by the government, these computers in a richshaw travel to poor farming villages to teach young [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on August 19th, 2004 | No Comments »