Roomba - Top Christmas gift for a Family

It seems that every year before Christmas time the popularity of the automatic vucume cleaner, Roomba, surges.  The Roomba is the small electric circle that can sense dirt on a floor, travel over to it, and...

UK - Smart Meters in every home

29 11 2009 All UK homes to get ‘smart’ power meters. The news comes after Ed Balls announced that smart meters will be installed in up to 12,000 Schools in order to save money and allow teaching staff to monitor electricity by the second [ news 26 11 2009 ]. Energy...

Alberta allocates $495M on Carbon Capture Pipeline

Alberta has come under pressure for its dismal record on the environment.  The Alberta Oil Sands, near Fort McMurray, have come  under the criticism by David Suzuki and Al Gore.  President Obama...

Google Earth Runs the Spy Scene

"Look! It's my car. It's at my house.  Everyone in the World can See!"     Yes.  Google just keeps on monopolizing.  The newest rumor is of their Operating System.  Does this mean the end of Microsoft and Apple as we will all be able to...

Sparking a Helping Hand

Today I read a simply wonderful and inspiring piece from the Jerusalem Post. It was titled "Sparking a Helping Hand". It went on to describe the wonderful life of Prof. Boris Rubinsky in his quest to invent new...

Whose terrorising who & the need for evidence to protect oneself

As the blame/revenue collection Technologies “kick-in”, perhaps more rigorously given a climate of recession, what protection have you got against authority given its profiling/storage mechanisms as to DNA, finger prints, CCTV footage, lie detectors, phone and e-mail...

Is Your Startup a "Nice to Have" or "Must Have"?

With the downturn in the economy, numerous people are talking about starting a new business or company. Whether it’s a technology startup or new restaurant idea, I’ve heard of more and more people meeting to brainstorm and working to bring their ideas to fruition.Whether...

USA - Dell to close their desktop plant in North Carolina by 2010

As a part of their new corporate strategy and expected to cut the computer giants cost by $4 billions, PC giant Dell is closing down its desktop assembly plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.When started in...

TV Could Be 3D As Early As 2010

The 3D experience that many flock to the theatres for could be available in home TV broadcasting as early as 2010. TV manufacturers such as Mitsubishi, Sony, and Panasonic are investing interest in 3D compatible TV...

USB 3.0 Demonstrated At Intel Development Forum

Point Grey and Fresco Logic are showing off the first camera that contains functioning USB 3.0 technology at the Intel Development Forum this week. The camera is capable of capturing 60 uncompressed frames per...

Electric cars are absolutely gorgeous, want to plug them in?

We, as humans, are lazy - that, I believe is the father of invention as necessity is its mother. And that isn't misanthropic either!Men like their remotes - and with more buttons the better! BAM, Ugh!"WiTricity's version of wireless electricity -- which converts power into a...

Qwerty – a technological rethink?

What an auspicious occasion it being the 09-09-09 today and to mark the occasion what better than to celebrate the QWERTY keyboard after 134 years of its <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />US history. Yes its been...

Our Work and Technology

What role is technology playing in your prevention work? Andre Blackman from Pulse & Signal has written a great post on Why Technology is No Longer an Option in Public Health. He's been focusing his learning on mobile technologies lately and seeing how these and other...

Well, we're not Ninja turtles

Being a person who had a good few, and heated, debates about the "theory" of evolution - whether it is a scientific theory or just a theory - more evidence comes to light that we, humans, are just a bunch of mutants - as expected by yours truly."Each of us has at least 100...

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