]
] FOLED technology "opens a whole new range of
] possibilities for the future," said University of Toronto
] materials science professor Zheng-Hong Lu. "Imagine a
] room with electronic wallpaper programmed to display a
] series of Van Gogh paintings, or a reusable electronic
] newspaper."

Fun.

NewsFactor Network - Science - Researchers on a Roll with Flexible Computers

] SAN FRANCISCO -- Lots of people wish they could jack
] their brain directly to their computer and toss out those
] annoying keyboards and joysticks -- especially people who
] can't use keyboards or joysticks.
]
] Five quadriplegic patients might be months away from
] testing a brain-computer interface created by
] Cyberkinetics, a privately held company in Foxboro,
] Massachusetts. The company's system, called BrainGate,
] could help patients with no mobility to control a
] computer, a robot or eventually their own rewired
] muscles, using only their thoughts. If the trials go
] well, a product could be on the market by 2007.

{ insert something quasi-serious sounding here that uses the word "convergence" }

Wired News: Transforming Thoughts Into Deeds

ryan is the supernicety wrote:
] ] Wolzien has a plan: Regulate the DVR so consumers have to
] ] watch the commercials. It's the only way to prevent the
] ] technology from destroying a $60 billion business. The
] ] government mandates all sorts of things in TV sets, after
] ] all--from UHF tuners to closed-captioning to HDTV. He sees
] ]networks feeding their signals with codes that tell DVRs
] whether ]the commercial can be skipped, giving "control of
] playback ]parameters to the content provider who sells the
] bulk of the ]revenue-producing advertising that funds that
] content."
]
] That's just fantastic thinking. As one commentator put it,
] why not just ban switching channels during the commercials as
] well?

They could at least build a real max headroom. Everything else is pretty much there.

RE: Broadcasting & Cable - The Shape of Things To Come

In effect, what Bell and others are creating is TiVo for real life. Whatever flows through your perceptual systems can be rewound and queued up for viewing at a later date. Arguing with the barista over whether you specified soy milk in your latte? Trying to determine who actually came up with that brilliant money-saving idea in the staff meeting six months ago? No problem -- just go to the tape!

And we can then yell at people with Alzheimers for not backing up.

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" Forget the fad of accosting random strangers to jack your headphones into their iPods. That's so two weeks ago. The future of on-the-go peer-to-peer music sharing is already starting to groove in Ireland.

Media Lab Europe, research partner to MIT Media Lab, is testing tunA, a software application that employs Wi-Fi to locate nearby users, peek at their music playlist and wirelessly jack into their audio stream. Pronounced like the fish and signifying music "tunes" and "ad hoc" file sharing, tunA is being designed for wireless PDAs, cell phones and even its own hardware device. "

Neat.

TunA Lets Users Fish for Music

] Autonomous helicopter flight is characterised by
] helicopters that can fly without a human pilot or
] guidance from a remote-controlled device. Although many
] teams worldwide have been working on so-called vertical
] take-off, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the CSIRO
] helicopter is the first to fly completely independent of
] expensive global positioning systems (GPS) guidance.
] Instead it uses its brain to control its balance and
] orientation.

this thing is *damn* cool...

News in Science - New robot brain takes to the skies - 18/12/2003

" EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands -- Philips Electronics said on Tuesday it was six months away from launching a system against illegal copying that will allow consumers to play digital video and music on any digital media player."

Bullshit.

No, Really, You Can't Copy These

inigoct wrote:
] Seoul, South Korea - Kim Won-jung walked up to a vending
] machine and bought an orange drink. But rather than
] insert coins, she paid with the press of a cellphone
] button.

]given how the US lags behind most everyone in cell phone tech, how ]long 'til we can do this here?

I wonder if they'll eventually be able to receive payment too. People would be able to play lasertag with cash.

IOL : Do you accept cellphone payments?

"The new system requires no special footage and relies on intelligent computer analysis of scenes to provide the information needed for 3D images."

Technology brings 3D TV closer

" HOUSTON, Oct. 20, 2003 -- Chemists at Rice University have demonstrated that disordered assemblies of gold nanowires and conductive organic molecules can function as non-volatile memory, one of the key components of computer chips.

"A large part of the cost associated with creating integrated circuits comes from the painstaking precision required to ensure that each of the millions of circuits on the chip are placed in exactly the right spot," said lead researcher Jim Tour, an organic chemist at Rice. "Our research shows that ordered precision isn't a prerequisite for computing. It is possible to make memory circuits out of disordered systems." "

Self-assembled nanocells function as non-volatile memory