TechSpectives

While I may not agree with everything - here are Five Gadgets Killed by the Cell Phone from Wired.
1. PDA
2. The Camera (I think the phone has a long way to go to catch up - but not impossible)
3. The UMPC
4. The Phone (landline)
5. The MP3 (coming)
Some are obvious, like the PDA. […]

I was actually able to make it home last night to watch CBS Evening News and imagine my surprise when another Games Our Children Play segment came up. This wasn’t looking at if games were good, but at how two games are reviving the music industry. Rock Band and Guitar Hero are rhythm […]

Our office phones were down the other day. Not really a bad thing for me since I don’t use it that often. It is just that our phones are VoIP - in other words, Internet phones. When they are down, it usually means that the Internet is down. I do some work on the […]

When you think of Intel you think of microprocessor chips; the brains inside the PC. News from their development forum has me seeing their R&D being much more than just chips. They recently introduced “programmable matter” and “wireless electricity”.
Size is no longer an issue - the device can take the form of a […]

I find it fascinating how many times I run into people who have the skills for a job and don’t realize it. A self-employed plumber who works on construction sites was working at my house and he was telling me he wants to get out of plumbing because it is not steady enough work. I […]

Apparently energy haversting is starting to get real. My July issue of Automation World has an article titled, “Wireless Energy Harvesting Gets Real.” They see a possibility to replace batteries in wireless sensor networks. The web site Energy Harvesting Forum states,

“Energy Harvesting is the process of capturing minute amounts of energy from one or more […]

I just saw this article about a solar airplane. Since it is a short article, I will quote it all:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For travelers weary of watching air fares tick upward due to soaring fuel prices, here’s an encouraging piece of news — a plane that can fly around the world on solar power.
On […]

I am currently not in line to buy a new iPhone. I will not be in line to buy a new iPhone. While the iPhone is a great convergence of technologies, I am the type of person who will patiently wait while all the bugs are worked out. I know two people that are in […]

One excuse for people not putting up solar cells on their roof is the expense. Who has 14 to 30 thousand dollars free right now? Not many people. When the price of solar systems go down, then people will be able to afford them. Unless there is a different way to go solar.
On June 24, […]

I was talking with Tom McGlew in his office the other day and he was showing me some cool concepts with nanotechnology and phones. Nokia has a concept phone, Morph, that is just plain cool that in maybe seven to ten years they will be able to produce. You can wear it, fold it, bend […]