Ever heard of smart dust? Neither have I. Smart Dust, otherwise known as wireless sensor technology is the practice of placing tiny sensors anywhere and everywhere or into just about anything to stream data about that location or structure. Smart Dust has been around for a while now and scientists are using it to do everything from monitor students on campus to checking on rice crops in the orient. Will this radically change the way of our world?
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by Chris on February 11, 2007 Add A Comment!
by Chris on February 9, 2007 Add A Comment!
Next week, Candian start-up D-Wave is preparing to present the worlds first quantum computer at the Computer History Museum in Moutain View, California. The yet-to-be-proven computer claims to have 16 qubits of processing power, or roughly the same as the computers we all use today. With plans for much more powerful machines in the coming years, D-Wave has some security experts worried, and some quantum experts confident that they are full of it. So why is quantum computing important?
by Chris on January 31, 2007 Add A Comment!
For years I have been very interested in the idea of modular homes. Whether that means prefab rooms built at a warehouse, or in this case, used shipping containers. A company by the name of Urban Space Management has built a “Container City”. The original project checks in at 3 stories tall, includes 4,800 sq. ft. of living/working space, is cost effective, only took 4 days to install, and claims to be constructed from 80% recycled materials. So they’re lego houses. I want one.
by Chris on January 26, 2007 Add A Comment!
Next week The Discovery Channel will be airing a plethora of shows aimed at explaining our future world to us lowly…ummm…2007ers. I thought this WAS the future. I’m only 27 and I already feel like I’m living in a world that is so much more advanced than what I experienced while coming of age. The average Joe out there has access to gadgets of all shapes and sizes designed for global navigation, personal communication, mobile audio/video, and a thousand other specific functions that our fathers considered the lore of sci-fi. So why does it feel like all this crap doesn’t really DO anything useful?
by Andrew on December 15, 2006 Add A Comment!
This isn’t as “tech” related as some of the things I talk about here, but it’s definitely cool enoug to make the cut. If there was ever a resort I would have wanted to exist, it’s Poseidon, a proposed underwater hotel for the those who have more money than they know what to do with. This phenomenon of an idea actually has quite a nice chance of succeeding. It alreasy has a significant amount of funding pledged through investors and companies looking to get in early on the underwater resort.
Poseidon would be a 12,000 square foot “Atlantis” for rich people. Imagine waking up in your hotel room and seeing the colorful endless ocean outside of your window. Talk about a view. The dining area looks amazing, and honestly the entire project looks like it will be a tremendous success.
If all goes well, which I assume everything will, then I expect this to be an extremely popular place to visit. I would definitely be up for a vacation there myself. On the flip side, this entire idea seems to remind me of the beginning of a movie.. One of those movies like “Jurassic Park” where this “resort” turns out not to work out quite as well as expected. Let’s hope not.
