tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41158832012-01-07T22:38:47.186-08:00Thoughts and machinations about the concept of ''Whuffie'' so penned by sci-fi author Cory Doctorow in ''Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom''. Also other various semi related sci-tech comments.xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02740609774694632574noreply@blogger.comBlogger3981100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4115883.post-45671367085856529262008-09-09T09:21:00.000-07:002008-09-09T11:33:26.662-07:00

The move is not yet entirely complete (several months later) but I have established the host, and the platform, and have recently published the new graphics. (Which I think are cool because I designed them. And THEY ROCK!)I am currently pimping the CSS and am about to update links and blogroll. If you specifically would like to be listed or not please let me know.In the meanwhile be sure to

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Alas,5 years now with Blogger. I have outgrown Blogger and the software (though free) is not versatile enough for what I am wanting out of this site. So I am moving it to a managed Wordpress site on my own server. This is going to be a neat upgrade and I am excited about the future of this channel, I hope you will be excited as well. Please update your bookmarks and subsribe to the new RSS feed.I

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DataPortability - Connect, Control, Share, RemixThis video is a continuation of a previous conversation about Google's Server Farms and how people will store information in the future.

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When personal information continues to aggregate at blinding speeds in the hands of our government, sentient people ask, what is privacy and why should it be valued? Transparency is the manifesto for those on the cluetrain, and many are espousing that privacy is only for criminals. Truly valuable men and women have nothing to hide and therefore freely give away privacy to anyone?This is fine if

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Soon metal may never require paint. Researchers are now testing high output laser abrasions that refract light to a controllable color. Black or blue gold, aluminum, even multi color. The article suggests one could have their family laser etched on to the hood of the car at the factory. Never requiring paint, polish, or maintenance.This is good for our environment. While the power requirements

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Manned Cloud is a flying hotel proposed by French designer Jean-Marie Massaudvia Futurismic

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"This had started out being a program to track or identify criminals," he said. "Now we're talking about large swaths of the population -- workers, volunteers in youth programs. Eventually, it's going to be everybody."Barry Steinhardt, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Technology and Liberty ProjectObviously updating our technology is an imperative. However the power of that new

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According to this info from Ebay about changes in 2008 negative and neutral feedback will be removed from Feedback for sellers and buyers. They claim that too many people were afraid to leave negative feedback for fear of retaliation.Brilliant. Theres a trust metric shot to hell. I guess that leaves an open door for a new auction site based on Ebay's model with an intact use of social trust. Or

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I recently attended Creative Economy workshop Luncheon featuring keynote presentation from Caleb Chung owner of Ugobe's Robo pet "Pleo". (Prior to the luncheon Artie Gogats presented from his book Business Creativity.) The event was held at the Capital City Development Corp Office in downtown Boise, Idaho.Mr.Chung's presentation was fractal in that the sum of his life's work to date is comprised

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If this is a legitimate product, this is a big deal. Sending photos and video automatically to your computer, blog, or Flickr will become a standard. Automating captured data changes things.via aleeshka.com

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“With $100 a barrel oil, we’ve crossed a historic threshold where electricity and batteries provide a cheaper alternative for consumers,” Mr. Agassi said. “You buy a car to go an infinite distance, and we need to create the same feeling for an electric car — that you can fill it up when you stop or sleep and go an infinite distance.” full story

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"io9s were marketed as cheap time machines in the 2070s. They were actually just low-grade input/output devices for the brain that tuned tachyon waves and gave users vivid images of possible futures. The things were so addictive, and drove so many people insane, that io9s were eventually outlawed. Today the word is just slang. io9ers are the early implanters who obsessively upgrade themselves

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Remember when I said "we get it, everything is a screen"? Well here is 'nother toy fur me list.

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Major contract signals shift from experimental deployment to new use of force. What happens when they become self aware? Deathbots are great when the enemy doesn't have them.

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"..we will reach the Singularity, a moment when technology is advancing so rapidly that 'strictly biological' humans will be unable to comprehend it."I hate it when that happens, wait a minute...what?Brian O'Keefe gives a good write up on Ray Kurzweil. Inventor of the flat bed scanner, author, and visionary futurist.

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The Raw Feed reports that Bill Lishman has invented a rescue tricycle story hereI like the citizenship behind the low cost solution for emergency aircraft, The invention would be far cheaper, faster and more flexible than current methods of getting helicopters to deliver supplies for disaster relief.

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My friend Dean sends me this story from the Associated Press. A couple has been convicted of bilking people for cash claiming that they can scan their bodies via satellite imaging and that government agents will repair any maladies found while you are sleeping. This is great Utopian science fiction.

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Wired magazine touched on this last year, and noted that the 'Goog had moved it's headquarters not far from where I am along the Columbia river for it's abundant low cost hydroelectric access (needed to power it's massive server farms).According to a report today from the WSJ Google will be offering mass storage for free and larger amounts at a fixed cost and could be operating within a few

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Cool recumbent manga-style electric motorcycle charges in six hours goes 180K before needing recharge. via StrangeThingsFromJapan

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"Imaginary Scenario based on real event" the best part is the last.via thedaytheytriedtokillme

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banksy

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Guilty of not regularly backing up your files? HMRC doesn't back up it files either apparently.Living breathing humans known as individual citizens:0 Ministry of Information: -2. Orwellian debacle: Priceless. For everything else there's Socialism."They simply can not be trusted with people's personal information,"In other news I noticed that according to the websitevaluecalculator.com Whuffie

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The new JSF x-35 helmet is being developed to where the entire plane is invisible, no longer limiting the pilot to a mere cockpit display. The first plane without a Heads Up Display (HUD) in 50 years. via nu

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Fellow blogger and author Nina Munteanu's book "Darwin's Paradox" has just been released a by Canadian publisher Dragon Moon Press. "It's a sci-fi thriller that explores co-evolution, artificial intelligence, nature's 'intelligence' and destiny."The novel is available online through Amazon and Buy.com.And at the following retailers: Barnes & Noble , Borders.com , Wal-Mart, and Target.Nina's

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I saw another report on the news about the waning readership of newspaper industry due to internet, and cannot understand why they don't see the answer in flexible portable OLED screens that sync via wi-fi. Like imagined in the Phillip k. Dick movie "Minority Report". (see first few frames of video below.) If the papers, who have continued to decline in quality and care for their readers,

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It shows the number of Google hits you get, when you search for the name of the person who wears it. Need I say more? This Berlin college project is looking for investors.

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You know I thought Bored with Boing Boing was a funny idea. So many people read Boingx2, I thought that a little cerebral satire would do the world good. Okay it made laugh. Maybe at the expense of the hard working folk at that site. But funny just the same. The author known only as "The Advocate" was wacky, zany, and from left field. In a good way. But alas it was a "FIPS". Flash In the Pan Site

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Many moons ago I blogged about a Seattle start-up that claimed it's new eye-glass monitor would replace all video monitors. The folks at Futursimic have dug up this from Scaler by way of the Pink Tentacle claiming that "in few years" they will be as ubiquitous as earbuds. Hmnnn. I predict rocket packs, eyeglass screens, and watch phones will converge simultaneously when Steve Jobs wants them to.

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I expected to hear the standard "Crack Addict" or "Domestic Violence" lables. What I read on the site seemed a little gossipy, and tell all.Although the use of Googlemaps with pins that say things like "White Trash With Loud Dogs: Beer bottles in the yard, trash strewn about, 12 year olds smoking on the front porch. These people are ridiculous" seems interesting.I think if I was going to purchase

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Hollywood Reporter sez Joseph Kosinski is slated to do remakes of both Tron circa 1982 and the 1976 film Logan's Run.Readers of this blog know that I post as often as possible about one of my all time favorite sci-fi flicks and have mentioned previously that Logan's Run is a favorite too.Now if "they" would only make a movie from Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom, I could die and go to heaven. (

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MyWay reports Japanese company DoCoMo Inc. is protyping a cell phone that monitors your health. The phone has a "sensor that can tell whether you're walking, running, climbing stairs, or resting, and counts the calories accordingly to tally daily totals".

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"I felt like a character in a Philip K. Dick novel who wakes up and has had his identity completely replaced with a hardened criminal’s and everyone knows but himself."from post about an encounter while waiting for the subway at I am Not Lying blog

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George Orwell (Eric Blair) was a member of the Indian Imperial Police in Burma 80 years ago. Today the country continues to under dictorian rule. (Below China in between India and Thailand)Despite our human failures, democracy is still desired amongst those who love freedom.Do something with your money that matters, I did. Support the the people.The Burmese Refugee Project.

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Dystopian mocumentary about the future of gaming.via TooMuchNick

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Woophy is a Social Networking photo map from the Netherlands.Sounds like "whuffie" but stands for "World Of Photgraphy"."The goal of Woophy's founders is to create an accessible, visual, current, democratic and collective work of art comprised of a database picturing our remarkable world."Kinda fun to look at photos from your area.

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The former tech leader is looking to re-open the market with the new OLED technology 3-9MM flatscreens. The one drawback is they do not work at large screen sizes."My screen is flatter then yours-" "oh yeah well mine is invisible." (John Anderton.)

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This video above below depicts recovering coma victim after 19 years of sleep.Sun ArticleAlso read about Zolpidem (commonly known as Ambien) sleeping pill that wakes up comatose patients. Could discoveries like this open the pathway for purposeful "deadheading" or self induced comas as a legal alternative to suicide? What are the moral implications of this type of thing. Exactly the

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From MikeElgan at The Raw Feed:"The single-winged device would pack a tiny two-stage rocket thruster along with telemetry, communications, navigation, imaging sensors and a power source." The tiny rocket could be blasted in clusters over war zones." full story at Sci AmGee wiz' I just put down Crichton's "Prey" about bio-engineered swarming micro camera's gone amuck. The article says the

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"The U.N. would like to pretend it doesn't understand blogging. Last night, over drinks and dinner, members of U.N. organizations asked us about blogging and internet publishing, stressing their desire to participate in the conversation, but only if it didn't waste their time. "How do we tell who is legit and who is a looney?" asked Stephane Dujarric, Deputy Communications Director, Office of the

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See the details.Thus hastening the "See this grain of rice it has everything I ever saw, and I got it from Bestbuy on clearance for ten bucks." syndrome.stumbled via ken

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It appears that China shot down one of it's own satellites, in an unprecedented display of power. Read the choice quotes below from the full story from Defense Tech."...Wynne said the shoot-down of a 1990's-era Chinese weather satellite in polar orbit has forced astronauts aboard the international space station to avoid the debris field scattered in the intercept, and he concluded that China now

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Follow this link to view more images to vacation getaway "Ocean Dome" featuring retractable roof and erupting volcano.Reminds me of Westworld or Futureworld. I wonder if they have robotic sharks?Speaking of virtual worlds go on and gander at this indoor ski resort in United Arab Emerites' "Dubai".

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While the British continue to profess their concern over an Orwellian society we on the otherside of the pond suspect denial when 20% of the world's camera's are being used to scope private citizen's at a rate of one camera per 13 persons on their island.Wired reports that the new Microdrone released officially in April has been undergoing sucessful tests (video above). Note the German

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The power of the social network is in the individual.Example: a network of vampires benefits the un-dead and threatens the blood supply of the living by creating conformity. But a one of those vampires having mad tap dance skills, now that's something.

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ACLU "surveillance" clock at 11:54pm when it hits midnight we are in the era of Orwellian 1984 a police state where there is no privacy.the article sites the Bush Administration's post 911 legislation and "mega-corporations that are willing to become extensions of the surveillance state" as major contributors.What I don't see is what has to be done to protect privacy. What can be done to turn the

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This quote culled from Marco's tumblr:"This week, Yahoo announced a deal with Bebo that will help it compete with Google. I had to wiki Bebo to find out it’s kind of like Friendster and Woofie. Gosh, I hope they can all band together to save Fuzzelton village from the evil Snords." Bill Maher (see video here)Okay I will put aside that Bill Maher is not Steven Colbert, and that he is often coarse,

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TrustPlus went live today. Just as Cory Doctorow predicted in Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom. While I think there are those who cheer, and those jeer, I think I might be those who fear. Reps on the net right now are built and established independently with little interference. Remember that whuffie in DOIM was not exactly a good thing. In the book the reader is placed in a dystopian reality by

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While the interactive display is creative and posh, I am left wanting. I want to pull multi player roll games, or Google, etc. send a note down the bar. I want social interaction that annotates the physical world with the digital.

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Elian Gonzolez, Ruby Ridge, Waco alerted many to power issues with our boys in blue. (more like the guys at the top blamed the boys doing the work. But I digress.) Most officers are civilians just like you and I and attempt to treat people as equals. There is always a few bad apples who interpret the laws in a twisted way.This blogger is thankful for the thin blue line, who does a dirty unpopular

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A Canadian author and blogger. She is a fan of the films Doctor Zhivago and Solaris and is a fan of Ray Bradbury. Her published works include "Collision With Paradise", "The Cypol", and the soon to be released "Darwin's Paradox".Glad your out there! (take that how you want, ay?)Her Blog thealiennextdoorand her website

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Cory Doctorow in full blogging regalia. What a hipster.Annotating the physical world with the digital.Below cartoon from xkcd

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iPhone drops to $399 for for 8gig model.8 gig iPod Nano with video for $190 unveiled.iPod 'Touch' 16 gig $399 unveiled. (Though similar to iPhone, not a phone, and slightly thinner)Devices will buy music played in Starbucks via wi-fi. Boom- they are buds, to the bean.iPony in every yard.iChicken in every pot.Full Story HereAhh.. excuse me Mr. Real Steve Jobs, could you slow it down a little? Us

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Despite the ongoing skepticism, I still see a future where streams of Segway riding commuters fill the cities.These little Aussi foot bikes look promising although it appears they are having distribution issues here in the US."Bushpig"See slew of Youtube videos-here's one.Hover dogs also look promising.Swobo hascool simplified bike for $499featuring a bottle opener.(Thanks KevinRose)Segway

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The compelling of subcutaneous implanting of an identification device won't fly with the 'Gubernator?California now number 3 state in the union to outlaw forced tagging. Story herevia Xeni at boingx2But you bible thumpers out there are thinking that voluntary implants are still open. Old related posts:RFID in Ur PubWalmart Product Tracking (by Marcy)also see:rfid gaurdian project(don't worry the

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"..the speed of the iPhone’s rise to competitive dominance in its segment is unprecedented in the history of the mobile-handset market"Just as I predicted. (Guess it did not take a genius, but hey I got something right why not woot?)Maybe ATnT will become a better carrier and try to match the Apple culture more closely. Or maybe Apple will just buy out their contract and sell to other

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Fresh Genpets™created by "Zygote Micro Injection".I want to know if they are safe to eat?from the FAQ:Do Genpets feel pain? Yes. However the Genpets have limited vocal chords so they will not create a large amount of noise when disturbed.

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"Move along, nothing to see here."Mind control police tape.via designcrack

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The last hologram of the man running is the coolest. It is totally all "help me obi wan kanobi your my only hope".via spinthecat

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The issue of control of drones is being hotly debated by the Army and the Airforce. This seems to be part of a bigger on going quest for power and move to a centralized military. While duplication of resources is obviously costly, innovation is clearly fueled by competion. “If you think it is a young technology, that the Orville and Wilbur Wrights of the 21st century

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This is a brief simple tutorial explaining how to use Delicious as your social bookmarking tool. I hooked up on this awhile back, but I lost interest. 1) Even with tagging it did not seem that much better then using bookmarks. 2) I don't know that I want the world seeing what I bookmark. I don't have that much to hide, but it is like walking up to a million strangers on the street and saying here

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More about aerogel from Abul Tahr at Time UK.Choice quotes:"..insulated lining in space suits for the first manned mission to Mars, scheduled for 2018""one cubic centimetre of aerogel were unravelled it would fill an area the size of a football field."

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Okay, as a designer using designer products can be intriguing especially when the talent is Karim Rashid. My wife, a big fan of deodorants, turned me onto some body wash that had natural fragrances. I like the outdoors so natural fragrances have always been a hit with me. (We won't go into my mom's foray into Dr.Bronner's) I also started using Method laundry detergent. It was small reasonably

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Just in from Engadget about a new patent using oil and water for OLED screens.

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It appears to be a motorized wheel that drags you along. Which could be pretty fun. But comparisons to Segway? meh. The site has some cool action shots in the Flash worth taking a look at. However, English version not up yet. I can't help thinking it is a Dr. Seuss looking contraption.via garydarling

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This video has been around for a while but really helps to understand the future. So many are just catching up.via techtips

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"recommendation systems can stifle the serendipity of discovery"Dan Saffervia neuronwave

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25% oppose it. 4% are so busy paying taxes they don't care. And then ones who cannot spell 'video'.

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Uhmm.. I think these folks just retooled some Segways. They seem to be selling them to photographers as a "hands free transporter".Website says inventor Ulrich Kahlert "Makes people laugh all over the world also because of that he invented the hands free transporter"DUelarnich KKaamhelnert

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Aviation Week first reported that a special panel studying astronaut health that 'stronauts were allowed to fly even though they were drunk and posed a safety risk. According to the report "Alcohol is freely used in crew quarters."Jealous girlfriend Nowak arrested for murder plot, space trash, now this? When is Fox going to make a sitcom?

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“...Sensory consequence of electromagnetic pulsed emitted by laser induced plasmas,” it described research on activating the nerve cells responsible for sensing unpleasant stimuli: heat, damage, pressure, cold. By selectively stimulating a particular nociceptor, a finely tuned PEP might sensations of say, being burned, frozen or dipped in acid — all without doing the slightest actual harm" from

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So they agonize about it. Then dump it in space, hoping that after a year most of it burns up in the atmosphere. I understand the value of these projects and the fact that our atmo is very very big. But it seems they could take those big budgets and genius Mensa engineers and come up with a way to not pollute. It seems courteous to the other projects.Read rueters article about the August

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No! Really. 'Browncoat' Sci-fi movie Serenity fan astronaut Steven R. Swanson takes the DVDs to space on shuttle mission STS-117.I guess Cory is right about sci-fi being now.Check out the blog Breaking Atmo.

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what I like-small sleek simple user interface, big storage and versatile functions makes this amazing technology out front of most other competition. My Nano interfaced with iTunes is a neat set up. We have come along way from the Sony Walkman.What I don't like-• I am tired of constantly upgrading my bulky slow loading iTunes panel. That behemoth needs to be simplified and explained.• The wheel

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Our Asian brother's have a dedicated Weather Modification Department that boast of being "the largest artificial weather program in the world" including 30 provinces 32,000 people, 7,100 anti-aircraft guns, 4,991 special rocket launchers and 30-odd aircraft across the country.

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I love the concept of objects becoming the screen. My cheapo cell phone has an internal wallpaper and a small one when I open it. It is so custom and allows me express individualism. Nokia takes this a step further with the Aeon and what they are calling the "full surface screen".That said I think that is part of the innovation and allure of the iPhone. Instead of a small viewing screen it

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ESA is looking for experimental 'virtuonauts' (terminology mine) to man a virtual mission to mars. Finally a looming solution to migrant worker problems.Read the full story here.download application here

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Not to be confused with speedmintonThis sport played in an all dark court with neon clothing has nuances of Tron. You know how fond of that now banned movie I am.

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This article from Rueters details a whuffie system that co-habitates with US currency. The BerkShare is valued at .90 on the US dollar, and is mostly used by locals of Great Barrington, Massachusettsas a way to give a 10% discount. The Berkshare comes in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 20, and 50. It is illegal for a state to issue it's own currency, however coupons are permitted as long as they do

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"..everybody is quietly saying, er, what if people want to buy a $500 phone? What if, er, people have been waiting for a device that does all these things? What if this thing works as advertised? I mean, my God, what then?"CEO of one of the planet’s largest communications companiesquote from long article at New York Mag about Steve Jobs and the iPhone

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Also from Gizmodo HUBO is getting around faster with Dean Kamen's Segway from Korea Advanced Institute Of Science and Technologyvia RoboticRevolt

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According to Brian at Gizmodo, You Tube the online user content video source has 'soft launched' it's new mobile site. A few years back I blogged here about video becoming the new email. Soon literacy will become even less important (See Idiocracy post below) as we shift to video. My wife uses her camera regularly now to shoot both photos and video. And uses Photobucket to edit her video online.

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This robot is a clock who runs away when you don't wake up. elsewares.com

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iBonevia tumbl.us

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In looking through the past archives here at Whuffie, it has been interesting to see how the social currency concept has evolved since this blog was published in '03. Web 2.0 is Whuffie. All major web interfaces that are successful are connected to group expression. Myspace, Facebook, even Google is about 'us'. Connect that with the new black of every user is a designer, photographer, journalist,

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Cory D' talkin 'bout the dumn down and out of the US reminded me of the unsung movie "Idiocracy" by Mike Judge of King of The Hill and Office Space fame. The futuristic movie is somewhat profane and lewd so not recommended for kids or the easily offended. But it is so spot on it is almost worth seeing again for this viewer. After my wife and I saw it we we were watching TV and thought wow we

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Lizzie at designwatcher made mention of her friends concept to project video imagery into your mirror. I thought it was interesting and futuristic. Considering the highly personal nature of mirror use saying "hello" to oneself, beauty and hi-gene, I have negative response to the concept. On second glance However, what a better way to share intimacy? I could envision smaller images (full size

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Tom Jones for Pop Mech talks of resident astronauts who are called on to repair the ailing Hubble. (no not that Tom Jones). I begin to wonder when we will demystify the role of "astronaut" which used to be a group of near super human national selections to Space Repairman and Space Janitor. Kind of a mix of engineer/technician and crab fisherman as the industry grows.

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Pop Sci is talking a new adrenaline sport called "Space Diving" as proposed by Canadian Arrow. Likened to base jumping from the edge of space, Orbital Outfitters is working on the right space suite. Only thing is at 120,000 feet you have to watch out for burning up on re-entry, spinning wildly out of control and then there is the decompression. (not to mention the cost of getting there.)

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"Cory's tireless work in fighting the Digital Man allows me to sit on my a** knowing that someone, somewhere, is doing the actual work of preventing the technological dystopia so frequently predicted by science fiction." Michael Hainsworth

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via tumbl.usUPDATE: Then there is this LOL video from Conan.And Steve Jobs iWitch from madtv.And yeah let's see.

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The recent DARPA sponsored robot race (which you can watch via Nova in it's entirety here.) sent me futurcasting about robotic AI use in transport technologies.The first obvious one is autonomous support caravans in a wartime invasion.The 2nd is automated diesel trucks. Imagine driverless 18 wheelers deadheading crosscountry to get you your Walmart goods.

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via gizmodo

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Pepsi is planning to release Ice Cucumber-flavored drink in Japan this summer. I like cucumber.

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