Archive for February, 2006
Vision of the Future: NYC2123
Sunday, February 26th, 2006I found a very interesting online graphic comic series called NYC2123 the other day via iGargoyle, which is worth a read for anyone interested in this website, cybernetics, or science fiction. The story called “Dayender” is set in New York City in 2123, and presents an interesting technological vision which I believe could be possible […]
0wnz0red
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006For today’s post I thought I’d mention a sci-fi short story that I read last year called “0wnz0red”. It was written by Cory Doctorow and originally published by Salon, and later included in his collection of short stories titled A Place So Foreign and 8 More. The story is a creative sci-fi account of a […]
Super Vision
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006Nice article today on Wired about high-tech glasses that offer the possibilty of giving people better than 20/20 vision. From the article:
Thanks to technologies created for astronomical telescopes and spy satellites, aberrometers can map a person’s eye with extreme accuracy. Lasers bounce off the back of the eyeball, and structures in the eye scatter the […]
Transparent OLED’s
Monday, February 6th, 2006Nice article this week about an important new technology: transparent OLED’s. In particular, this could pave the way for low-cost, low-power wearable displays, particularly for heads-up displays, media player applications, and augmented reality. Certainly a technology to watch.
Is NeuroSky for Real?
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006While reading some blogs last week, I came across some coverage of the Entrepreneur27 technology symposium. At this event, a company called NeuroSky was a presenter, and reading about them piqued my interest. From their website:
NeuroSky, a fabless semiconductor/module company, has developed a non-invasive neural sensor and signal processing technology that converts brainwaves and eye […]
Voice Recognition for the Car
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006Nice article this week from news.com that discusses the current and future states of voice recognition interfaces in cars. The main point of the article is that all of the car companies are investigating voice recognition in order to reduce the amount of attention drivers need to divert to other tasks while driving, such as […]