A Rolling Urban Command Center

Future Car From Ford Concept

When parked and placed in secure mode, SYNUS deploys protective shutters over the windshield and side glass. Small windows on the flanks and roof are non-opening and bullet-resistant. The SYNUS concept also signals security through its use of a driver-side dial operated combination lock on the B-pillar. On its welcoming inside, the SYNUS makes any mission possible. The interior can transform into a mini-home theater with multi-configuration seating and multi-media work station, all controlled by a Wi-Fi laptop. Use the 45-inch flat-screen LCD from Sharp for Internet research, DVD viewing or any screening needs.

SYNUS

Virgin Galactic Spaceship

Virgin Galactic Spaceship 2 animation( click on Picture to watch the demo)
After talks throughout 2004, on September 24, 2004 Virgin Galactic signed a deal worth up to US$21 million with Mojave Aerospace Ventures to license the intellectual property behind the Tier One project for purposes of space tourism. The deal was announced by Branson and Burt Rutan on September 27, 2004 at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London. The initial plan is for Rutan to design and build five suborbital tourist craft based on a scaled-up version of SpaceShipOne. Construction began in 2005, with six months of intensive testing (comprising at least 50-100 test flights) planned for 2007. Actual spaceflights for ordinary citizens are expected to begin on the SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise in Upham, New Mexico in early 2009.

Filmmakers Turn to Really Small Screens

Digifilm Mobile Service
The Sundance Institute is banking on it, not to make money but to help the art form of the short film find a new audience without having to rely on screenings at traditional niche theaters in major cities. Sundance said it would make the films available to download from its Web site on Feb. 15,2007, but did not disclose details, including if there would be a charge. For attendees at 3GSM, the films were available free via a web link sent by text message.

Sundance was not alone. A pair of Bollywood short films, "Zahir" and "Matrimony," both directed by famous Indian director Sanjay Gupta, were given their premieres.

"Bollywood today is the world's largest movie industry, producing more than 1,000 movies a year with an audience of more than 2 billion viewers across 127 countries," said Bobby Srinivasan, CEO and chairman of Roamware Inc., which provides software to wireless networks.

Quantum Computing

Many Time Faster Than The World Best
"Quantum Computing." It's one of those things that bring a sparkle to the eyes of propellerheads — and make the rest of us just scratch our heads. But it's been a holy grail in the arcane world of supercomputers — and a Canadian firm claims it will be unveiling one on Tuesday. Nevermind that most engineers thought quantum computers were decades away. D-Wave Systems, Inc., based near Vancouver, is the company that's been working on the project. Its machine is described as a computer that can perform 64,000 calculations at once. Following the odd laws of quantum mechanics, the digital "bits" that race through its circuits will be able to stand for 0 or 1 at the same time, allowing the machine, eventually, to do work that is orders of magnitude more complex than what today's computers can do.

World's First 5Gbps Packet Transmission /4G Field

The Keitai as Lifestyle Infrastructure

NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it achieved a maximum packet transmission rate of approximately 5Gbps in the downlink using 100MHz frequency bandwidth to a mobile station moving at 10km/h. The field experiment of fourth-generation (4G) radio access took place in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture on December 25, 2006.download

An End To Digital DRMs

The Music World Between Quality and Quantity
Website titled "Thoughts on Music," Jobs argues:

Imagine a world where every online store sells DRM-free music encoded in open licensable formats. In such a world, any player can play music purchased from any store, and any store can sell music which is playable on all players. This is clearly the best alternative for consumers, and Apple would embrace it in a heartbeat. If the big four music companies would license Apple their music without the requirement that it be protected with a DRM, we would switch to selling only DRM-free music on our iTunes store. Every iPod ever made will play this DRM-free music.

Why would the big four music companies agree to let Apple and others distribute their music without using DRM systems to protect it? The simplest answer is because DRMs haven’t worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy. Though the big four music companies require that all their music sold online be protected with DRMs, these same music companies continue to sell billions of CDs a year which contain completely unprotected music. . . . In 2006, under 2 billion DRM-protected songs were sold worldwide by online stores, while over 20 billion songs were sold completely DRM-free and unprotected on CDs by the music companies themselves.

. . . So if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system? There appear to be none. If anything, the technical expertise and overhead required to create, operate and update a DRM system has limited the number of participants selling DRM protected music.

Silence

Artist: Jeroen Diepenmaat

Exhibition: silence

Date: January 31 2007 - February 24 2007

Curator: Galen Joseph-Hunter and Dylan J. Gauthier

Bio: "mississippi is a mess sometimes and not only when it rains" Art has to comfort you, like a good friend will do in hard times. You’ll have to be vulnerable, to accept this kind of comfort. My work is about this vulnerability, and about the comfort from which it grows.Amazement and wonder underlie most of my works. 'Wonder' directs us to the technical side of the sculptures while 'amazement' points to the twisted taste which growing from each sculpture. By using a simple and practical design for the works, I avoid an esthetical look. The sculptures are just what you see; birds on records, speakers under shoes, unfolded paper bags and wheels made of records. When you look closely and listen, the imagination is affected. Ríght now I'm woking mostly with sound. I want to enlarge in my installations and performances the effects of sound and what sound is. By using physical and scientific facts and twisting them, it enlarges the essence of my sculptures. It makes you reflect your own being. Besides amazement there also is moderation. You have to be strong these days, but most of all you have to be vulnerable.These sculptures are to find comfort in.

USB AA

Specification * Battery Type * Rechargeable AA NiMH Battery 1.2v 1300mah * Product Specifications * Built in Intelligent Charger * Charge by powered USB * Also can be charged in approved NiMH Chargers Technical * Battery Chemistry * NiMH - Nickel Metal Hyrdride * Technical Specifications * 90%+ Charged after 5 Hours by powered USB * Also rechargeable by approved NiMH charger at 250ma for 7 Hours.video via Reuter

Smart Energy

ClimateWell
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X-Hawk flying Car/2010

X-Hawk Rescue Or Attack ?
When population on earth getting bigger and bigger every year, even people can’t afford car anymore because there will soon be no place on the earth that you can place your car and you know what’s the solution? In order to solve this problem in the future Rafi Yoeli, the founder of Urban Aeronautics created a flying car code name X-Hawk and he claimed that this car will be in the market on 2010. Rafi Yoeli also said that this project has been started for years already, but recently he managed to get a rudimentary prototype to fly a few feet off the ground and had find interest from Textorn’s Bell Helicopter for partnership. Watch the video demo after the break.

Sling Talking Mode

Futiro Wireless Skype
If you think that the three phones shown in the picture are bound to leave a hole in your pocket, think again. These sleek looking designer Skype phones cost only between $55 to $75, but have looks that can command much more. Designed by the Irish company Futiro,

Digital Healing

Best iPod Stethoscope
Tight, now doctors can give patients a recording of their heartbeating sounds saved to an ipod!