| Profiling the latest technology (and it's practical implications) | ||||
| Rapping paper | ||||
| Discover electronic ink - a product invented by Joseph Jacobson while working at MIT's Media Lab, and which promise to revolutionize publishing. | ||||
| The Quest for the Entertainment Gateway | ||||
| The
consumer-electronics and PC worlds are entranced by visions of all-in-one
wireless entertainment devices. Forrester Research predicts that more than 10 million U.S. homes will use these "entertainment gateways" next year, with that number rising to 25 million by 2006. According to Forrester, these devices will be able to integrate digital cable or satellite reception, download and manage music via a broadband connection, function as both a CD and DVD player, and connect wirelessly to additional devices throughout the house. |
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| Year in review: The Top Science Stories of 2001 | ||||
| A review of 50 of the top stories at ScientificAmerican.com, covering topics such as Physics, Genetics, Astronomy, Paleontology, 100th Nobel Prizes, etc. | ||||
| Pressing Issue | ||||
| The Fastap keypad developed by David Levy, aims to make messaging easier on mobile and wireless devices. It's design includes separate keys for every letter of the alphabet as well as numbers. It still manages to fit in a space roughly half the size of a business card. | ||||
| Seeing is Believing | ||||
| A Dallas-based company Teleportec, has developed a product, which produces lifelike three-dimensional images of people in real time. Through this, they hope to capture 5 to 8 percent of the teleconferenecing market (estimated at US$ 5 billion, by 2007). | ||||
| From the Ashes of Enron: Better Markets | ||||
| This article discusses Caltech economist Charles Plott's ideas of combinatorial auctions, where bundles of items are auctioned off at the same time, with barely any human middlemen. The buyers and sellers negotiate directly with one another to create packages and agree on prices. Thus, the buyer is bidding for specific combinations from multiple sellers. According to him, this would be very useful for certain marklets, such as energy, wherein more buyers need a combination of different types of fuels. | ||||
| Nanotech 101 | ||||
| The article which appeared in Technology Review, is a concise, well written primer to Nanotechnology. It provides an overview of the history, an introduction to one of the main tools used and an insight into the possibilities. | ||||
| Self-Assembly | ||||
| One of the main problems associated with Nanotechnology, related to the moving around of the particles. One of the options that scientists are exploring, is the concept of self-assembly, wherein the particles can be induced to assemble themselves into the desired structures. | ||||
| Instant Messaging: The Sleeping Giant (PDF) | ||||
| By 2005, instant messaging will surpass e-mail as the primary way in which consumers interact with each other electronically (0.7 probability). By 2005, IM will be integrated into 50 percent of the applications that businesses use to directly interact with their customers (0.7 probability). | ||||
| Instant messaging thus represents a largely untapped communication technology for enterprises. In this Spotlight, Gartner provides a brief overview into the hurdles to enterprise adoption, the strategic rationale for its use and the benefits it can offer. | ||||
| Are You Broadcasting Secrets Over the Airwaves? | ||||
| This article by Dylan Tweney, which appeared in Business 2.0, talks about an aspect of Wi-Fi networks, which is largely ignored - security. | ||||
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