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December 20 to 31, 2005
Combine Flickr with maps, and you get Mappr! See on a U.S. map where recent photos were taken...
A nice list of free Windows software that doesn't come with spyware, adware, virii, or other nasty things...
The Google library project is named as one of the "ten most important emerging
tech
nologies". I agree...
A "laptop battery breakthrough" enables more precise readings of battery life, implications for all gadget types...
The EFF releases Tor, an anonymous Internet communications system. Note it's still in progress...
The iPod photo is helping radiologists manage their medical images. And with iSight, stock Apple
tech
nology is enabling teleradiology on the cheap and may one day enable telemedicine from home...
"Cyber crime booms in 2004" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/
tech
nology/4105007.st...
In a pioneering survey, most artists and musicians think that file sharing is not a threat: http://www.itworld.com/
tech
/2987/nls_ecommercefile041208...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Here's a comprehensive
tech
nical overview of Tiger, and why its software architecture for recording, composing, and playing images, movies, music and generally any kind of media is light years ahea...
Hawaii's High-
tech
Successes, Today
A new waterproof, heavy-duty hand-cranked radio...
Biodegradable packaging tape...
Super-strong flip flops, developed by surfers...
Very flat, flexible speaker
tech
nology...
Gateway's new $200 LCD monitors.....
I just want to make a phone call - the new Nokia N91 has a 4GB hard drive, camera, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, mp3 player, headphone jack, USB connector, FM radio, Web browser, and records video...
Scientists make bacteria behave like computers...
Daft Punk's "
tech
nologic", a sinister yet groovy reflection on our relationship to
tech
nology and language...
April 18 to 24, 2005
High-
tech
Junk
Holographic storage
tech
nology is slowly making progress...
Suspended animation gets one step closer to reality...
The miniMate adds extra storage and ports to your Mac mini. I wish the logo printed on it didn't suck though...
Use two microphones with your Mac with this cheap $16 gadget...
The Firebox is the most compact, fully-featured FireWire recording interface I've ever seen. Looks like it should be excellent for recording on the road with a laptop...
Verizon and Movielink announced a movie download service for broadband users...
Partly thanks to its sale of hybrid cars, Toyota expects to see its best first quarter in 48 years. GM expects to lose $850 million that same quarter due to short term bets on "cheap" and "plentiful...
Power utilities can fund the migration to greener
tech
nologies by selling "green power", like the Tennessee Valley Authority is doing...
Loss of habitat and food has led to a steep decline in the Monarch butterfly population: http://www.cnn.com/2005/
tech
/science/04/20/monarch.butterfly/index.htm...
April 11 to 17, 2005
This week saw a number of profiles of a new generation of activists. Some use the latest
tech
nology to promote the environment, some are resorting to radical measures to make their voices heard, an...
Could new photographic
tech
niques shed light on ancient Greek texts and bring about the "second Renaissance"...
The "stratellite" can replace satellites at 1/10 the cost. Hopefully, it will make cellphone towers obsolete...
SVG will radically change how the Web looks and feels. It will be making its debut in Web browsers very soon...
New physics chips are taking reality simulation to the next level...
There's something about the TV/DVD player/beer fridge that is strangely compelling...
The iPod DJ mixer...
It now seems possible to start and maintain a scalable company using nothing but hosted Web applications. Who needs machine rooms any more? As the net gets faster, physical location becomes mor...
It's official - all the greatest new
tech
nology will be here in five years...
April 4 to 10, 2005
A immediate flurry of inventive activity was sparked by the release of the Google Maps satellite imagery feature last week. People started making "memory maps" at Flickr...
The bionic eye lets the blind see again...
More on the future of liquid lenses via Wired...
A better overview of perpendicular storage
tech
nology, which leads to a 10X increase in hard drive capacity. There's also an odd Flash movie that may end up being a digital collector's item...
Instant reusable whiteboard sheets are so cool. Useful for traveling workers, artists, and people without magnetic refrigerators...
Camping in the snow? Build a big, warm igloo with this light, packable mathematically-correct device...
This new wireless USB prototype dongle will make any USB device wireless...
Meanwhile, Swiss bio
tech
firm Syngenta was fined for "mistakenly" selling hundreds of tons of experimental GMO corn seed not yet approved for human consumption to the U.S. and Europe...
Hey developers! Use Ecoglo, non-radioactive, non-toxic, non-battery-using
tech
nology for your emergency lighting systems...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Meanwhile, open-source
tech
nology unencumbered by patents is allowing micro-startups to evolve better
tech
nology faster with less resources and funding. I hope new breeds of VCs come along to fil...
Wow, wow. Go to Google Maps, go anywhere and then select the "Satellite" link to the upper right...
Need to sleep? Listen to the sleepbot environmental broadcast. They should license this service to hotels...
If you have an iPod, this well-designed guide to all things poddish - software, accessories, reviews - is a must-read...
Perpendicular recording likely marks civilization's mass transition from 2D to 3D storage
tech
nologies...
Use your cell phone to pay for parking. These systems greatly reduce cost, maintenance, and long lines...
Toshiba's popular "minute-charge" battery...
For Web developers - this new simple PHP Bayesian filter allows one to develop spam filters, categorization tools, and
tech
nology that learns by example...
Here's a slightly new way to visualize large graphs - topological fisheye views...
A small fake survey led 94% of respondents to give enough information to allow a thief to empty their bank accounts...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Once upon a time, anti-war/pro-peace messages in mainstream media were a little more direct, involving protest music with pointed lyrics and shocking fashion. Now in today's information-cynical world...
Rock group Franz Ferdinand's music video "Take Me Out" won the "Breakthrough Video" award at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards. It uses high-
tech
tech
niques to create dense living collages patterne...
Don't waste paper or plastic when shopping - carry around a key chain tote bag...
Two hand-cranked blenders are tough enough to chop ice...
Contact lenses are being used for all sort of things these days. Here's some fashion glitter contacts that look pretty sexy...
March 14 to 20, 2005
The first modern robotic shoe changes shape to match the terrain you're running on...
James Dyson's new vacuum cleaner's called "The Ball" - instead of pushing it back and forth, you roll it around...
A tiny HDTV tuner on a USB stick...
The 4GB hard-drive camcorder...
The first RFID reader/writer in SD card format...
New
tech
nology allows the paralyzed to move and communicate by thinking...
Samsung launches monitors for the color blind. Why doesn't every LCD monitor have these features...
Another hydrogen fuel-cell bike prototype...
For Web developers: a new interactive way of making forms that submit automatically (this example doesn't work in Safari though)...
Here's a nice summary of how your hard drive works: http://www.extreme
tech
.com/article2/0,1558,1777124,00.as...
Could trapped frozen natural gas under the sea be a solution to the world's energy problems? http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,66925,00.htm...
This photographer is doing a booming business capturing 144 megapixel photos - they're so sharp that a picture of an entire building can be used to inspect cracks...
March 7 to 13, 2005
New input devices are challenging the status quo! Here's the rollermouse for stressless mousing...
Philips says we're getting paper-like displays in 2007...
The automatic home composter...
The S.F. Chronicle finally gets RSS feeds...
BitTorrent version 4.0 is released...
Yet another Google thing - Google weather...
Too busy to go to Kinko's? Try PrintFu...
For some reason the U.S. Army's $127 billion modernization program has been categorized in the budget in a way that relieves them of the obligation to give "cost and purchasing data to militar...
Meanwhile, a group of
tech
CEOs went to Washington warning that "profound changes in the global economy put America's competitiveness at risk" and offered a 10-point plan...
Learning From Nature http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,66833,00.htm...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
Yeah, an FM transmitter for the iPod shuffle...
Fujitsu's 120GB notebook drive. Side note - a friend asked a major hard drive recovery specialist which drives they thought were the most reliable. The answer - Seagate for desktops, and Hitachi fo...
The Vectrix electric scooter gets up to 62mph...
Add this little gadget to your toilet to make it dual flush - save lots of water and money...
Send any application's audio to remote speakers connected to the Airport Express with this software...
More TV shows should do this - you can watch "Battlestar Galactica" while listening to this podcast with show commentary at the same time...
Make interactive Web apps with the SAJAX PHP toolkit...
Adobe open sources software that can be used to build systems with complex dependency graphs...
More on T-Mobile's security - an undocumented backdoor in their systems allowed a hacker to gain access to extremely confidential customer information, including people's data from their Sidekicks...
1,000 patients are getting iSights to enable at-home telemedicine. Hands down, the iSight provides the best PC video and audio conferencing quality I've ever experienced...
A "brain pacemaker" turned previously untreatable "beyond suicidal" people into antique dealers and PTA members. Ever seen "The Terminal Man"? http://news.scotsman.com/sci
tech
.cfm?id=22157200...
February 21 to 27, 2005
A startup creates molecular storage
tech
nology that could store 1 terabit per square inch, or 25 DVDs of data in a postage stamp-sized area...
Samsung introduces cellphone videoconferencing...
The 1GB Secure Digital USB card...
The Vapo-Blaster is the new high-
tech
bubble-making weapon of choice...
The Korg video mixing device for VJs...
Forget ringtones. The smart money is in toothbrushing music! "Several recording artists" are in talks...
New RSS feeds from the Associated Press...
Visa will be using the same
tech
nology for its credit cards, but with multiple layers of encryption and fraud detection. Because in the U.S., money is far more important than your identity...
The new 1-kilometer high Solar Tower, which could power 200,000 homes, has found a building site in Australia. This got a lot of press this week...
February 14 to 20, 2005
New groovy stuff from the DEMO 2005 conference! Here's Bubbler, an app that allows you to make your own multimedia blogs, from Five Across...
Scientists create the first deafness "cure" using gene therapy...
U.S. scientists have created a robot arm that can be manipulated by thought alone...
The mating scent of the German cockroach has been found - here's the clever methods scientists used...
This was deservedly popular this week - a great list of the top 100 gadgets of all time...
The first sub-$100 five-megapixel digital camera...
The 21-inch Wacom touch-screen flat-planel display...
The transparent TV, projected on holographic film...
The DJammer, HP Labs' digital music scratching tool...
GoDaddy is offering free one-year SSL certificates to open source projects...
February 7 to 13, 2005
The recently launched Google Maps has changed the face of mapping services on the Internet overnight thanks to its excellent design. Note that it doesn't work (well) in Safari quite yet...
Want to make something that can help others? Consult 43 Things first to see what people want to do...
The battery-free wind-up remote control...
USB flash drives are now as big as 8GB...
Can't afford Dreamweaver? Nvu is actually a pretty good open-source cross-platform WYSIWYG Web designing tool...
Big news for software developers - an open source enterprise-class message queuing
tech
nology is being made. Implications for trading networks, P2P frameworks, and instant messaging
tech
nologies...
Today's Web designers should learn how to use the XMLHttpRequest object to build highly dynamic interfaces like Google Maps, Google Suggest, and Gmail...
GPS
tech
nology is killing lighthouses. What will happen if GPS fails...
Genetically modified plants are proving to be an excellent way to clean up toxic soils: http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,66575,00.htm...
A new digital animation
tech
nique - making people dance in a robotic pop-lock style. Here's an amazing remix of Gene Kelly in "Singing In The Rain"...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
A nanoscale "crossbar latch" from HP's Quantum Science Research labs may one day replace the transistor...
A new industry group has been formed for holographic discs, which may store up to 1TB - that's one terabyte, or about 1,000GB...
The first artificial neon sky show. Unfortunately, implications for advertising...
This was popular - the sushi chef that prints his food from an inkjet...
The U.S. now has over 830,000 net phone subscribers...
This Week's Gloom and Doom http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,66424,00.htm...
January 24 to 30, 2005
How about a wi-fi cafe combined with a print-on-demand bookstore? Now that so many book sales are online, how about putting the bookstore in the cafe instead of the cafe in the bookstore? A suitabl...
Introducing the spray-on plastic solar cell...
Scientists have succeeded in turning stem cells into nerve cells. This may allow cures for those with nervous system injuries and diseases...
Currently under development, the PALV flying car is the best flying car design I've seen yet...
Amazon adds 20 million pictures of storefronts to its Yellow Pages search...
Finally, an MP3 player with a swappable 2.5-inch hard drive...
Bio-nanofibers and bio-luminescent transistors are allowing the development of transparent, flexible displays...
Scientists find a way to create petrified wood in days. Implications for new types of filters...
Fujitsu announced the development of plant-based plastic in PCs...
All about the new spacesuit of the future, now under development at MIT. It looks nothing like those suits in "2001"...
Tag graphing allows people to see relationships between topically-sorted content on the Web...
The Search Engine Relationship Chart...
The first feature film to be delivered via wireless internet
tech
nology was shown at the Sundance Film Festival...
Only nine chlorine plants in the U.S. put eight tons of mercury into the environment each year, although some say 65 more tons are unaccounted for annually. This is mostly due to the use of obsolet...
January 17 to 23, 2005
eXeem, the new distributed P2P BitTorrent client, is now in public beta and it works quite well. Sorry, it's only available for Windows right now...
A new cheap DVD recorder (sold at Wal-Mart for $140) may make the VCR obsolete...
UK scientists find the natural human-produced chemicals that repel mosquitos...
Cornell researchers figure out how to make plastic from citrus fruits and CO2, eliminating the need to use petroleum to make plastics...
UCLA researchers have made microscopic robots powered by living heart cells...
The Big Red Button (of Doom)...
January 10 to 16, 2005
In the PC world the average consumer seems to think that bigger is better. On the contrary, smaller computers by their nature require higher
tech
nology and more elegant design and engineering. Henc...
About two minutes after someone pointed out that the Mac mini was smaller than a standard car radio, companies started working on plans to offer in-car Macs to handle entertainment and car functions...
The makers of the popular Stuffit compression application have found a way to compress JPEG image files by up to 30%...
Scientist have created synthetic "vesicles" that resemble crude living cells - the line between life and not-life is starting to get pretty blurry. "This is rather philosophical," says Dr Libchaber o...
The new 555-seat Airbus A380 is the world's biggest airliner ever built. And it's more fuel efficient than your car...
Google link network visualizations...
Some avid video game players are having difficulty separating reality from the game, thanks to the increasing quality of such
tech
nology...
In the same way that the MPAA is cracking down on movie pirates, Monsanto is cracking down on farmers that save their patented GM seeds from year to year...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Organic printable electronics give rise to printable RFID tags that cost less than five cents each...
The genome of a pollution-eating bacterium has been decoded, leading to more efficient garbage-eating biotools...
The Mantis, a portable electric bike with an 18-mile range...
Fluid flow simulation software is now open source. Implications for cheaper environmental studies and wind/water energy generation prototypes...
December 13 to 19, 2004
The state's BusLink system is the first use of smart card
tech
nology in a bus-only mass transit system in America. How about making a smart-card based SuperFerry pass...
Here's the latest on the $150 million high-
tech
University of Hawai'i medical school being built in Kaka'ako...
New airship satellites can provide cheaper wireless coverage...
Researchers find a new efficient way to convert water into hydrogen by using high temperature...
Lexar's new super-mini USB flash drive. I hope cameras incorporate this...
Flexible
tech
nolog...
A detailed
tech
nical analysis of the BitTorrent file sharing protocol, which consumes 35% of ALL internet traffic...
Yahoo! Maps now overlays live traffic conditions on its maps. How about antialiasing those map lines first before doing any new, folks...
"When dot-com patents go bad" http://www.salon.com/
tech
/feature/2004/12/13/patent_reform...
tech
nology that helps fight "griefers", or people in online multiplayer games that do nothing but kill and loot, frustrating everyone else. Implications for social systems...
A gamer buys a piece of virtual land for $26,500. I should enter the virtual holy cheese sandwich business: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/
tech
nology/4104731.st...
The most hated advertising
tech
niques on the Web - background music causes "visceral reactions" in people...
December 6 to 12, 2004
Google suggest - check it out...
Handy Mac-based tools for those recording audio interviews that need transcription...
The sparkline PHP graphing library allows Web designers to convey large sets of information in a compact, useful way...
Aligned nanotubes improve artificial joints...
New old
tech
- Apple's selling refurbished Macs now, at discounts up to 1/3 off...
The Beginning of the Terminator http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,65885,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
Place a remote camera on an eagle and this is what you get. See an eagle dogfight from the eagle's point of view! http://media.animal.discovery.com/convergence/spyonthewild/bird
tech
/bird
tech
.htm...
An absolutely cool higher-
tech
redesign of the VW bus. I think this would be a huge hit...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
The debut of Wikinews, a free content news source that people around the world can contribute to...
New clear, flexible transistors may lead to clear, flexible gadgets...
Big-time convergence - this new home entertainment PC looks like a Tivo on steroids...
A new MP3-based music format supports surround sound (5.1 channels)...
Rumors of Exeem, the true P2P evolution of BitTorrent. This will be the ultimate in file sharing...
Here's an overview of the current
tech
jobs in demand...
Amazon.com is selling more electronics than books: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/business
tech
nology/2002105349_amazon01.htm...
Are Detroit automakers missing the hybrid car revolution? http://www.salon.com/
tech
/feature/2004/12/01/hybrid_hesitation/index_np.htm...
"Researchers compost old mobile phones & transform them into flowers": http://www.salon.com/
tech
/wire/2004/12/05/recycling/index_np.htm...
Scientists figure out how to make hydrogen from sunflower oil. Does this mean that one day I'll be able to power my car from my cell phone compost pile? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/
tech
/3601130.st...
November 22 to 28, 2004
Introducing SolarLite, the $100 "environmentally-friendly...
Brilliant! Blog Torrent, written in PHP, enables one to serve large files from their servers using BitTorrent...
Connect your iPod photo to a projector and show PowerPoint presentations with it, thanks to this new software...
Lost your key in the car? Knock a code on your window to open it...
New algorithms purport to tell real artwork from fakes...
New
tech
nology helps people from having their pictures taken by unwanted photographers...
November 15 to 21, 2004
A new device makes shop windows and other flat surfaces interactive...
An overview of current work on Natural Language Programming...
The Internet Security Key safeguards your kids from online porn...
New businesses are sprouting up to meet demand for the new Firefox browser, now used by 19% of users according to some...
The silent PC power supply. Stop PC noise pollution...
New yarns made of carbon nanotubes leads to smart clothing...
Timekeeping has just become more accurate, and the second is redefined for the first time in 37 years...
The former Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica offers his thoughts on the Wikipedia, the free community- based online encyclopedia that passed 401,000 articles recently...
Some think RSS is just a fad, but I think it's a long-term enabling
tech
nology - "RSS Edges Into the Bureaucracy"...
Young
tech
workers can't afford to live in Silicon Valley anymore, a concern for years...
Bob Dylan-singin' liberals are going to have to wear mirrored hats to peace rallies now that the Army's got a new airborne pain ray in the works: http://www.defense
tech
.org/archives/001219.htm...
Stem cells may be the key to controlling tumors: http://www.wired.com/news/med
tech
/0,1286,65735,00.htm...
"A New Vision for Nuclear Waste": http://www.
tech
nologyreview.com/articles/04/12/wald1204.asp?p=...
The latest design proposals for the latest high-
tech
Antarctica research station...
November 8 to 14, 2004
"Spin" - then: This movie made of 100% unauthorized satellite TV footage is a fascinating look into how global communications
tech
nology was used by the image makers in the 1992 presidential election...
"The Persuaders" - now: This show aired on Frontline this week exploring advertising's latest evolution - it's all about narrowcasting and emotional advertising that speaks to your "inner lizard" an...
Advertisers are also wondering how to reach the "mobile phone generation". They're worried that cell phones are making people more self-centered. I think that the newer generations can be ver...
In 2005 Hawaiian Electric will start a large-scale test of Internet over power lines in Pearl City. It will also offer the ability to read electricity meters remotely...
Ultraviolet laser
tech
nology will lead to 500GB optical disks...
Scientists have created the "photocapacitor", a more efficient solar cell/battery combination...
HP's prototype biodegradable printer...
The first 15-minute charger that will recharge any NiMH battery...
The world's smallest PC/keyboard/mouse net connection combo...
Transmit your own TV station via low-power TV broadcasting...
All about the new anti-piracy
tech
nology coming to theaters...
This article gives the best "you can see the changes with your own eyes" summary of the "Global Climate Change in the U.S." report: http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,65654,00.htm...
Communities offering "zero-energy homes" are popping up that allow homeowners to cut as much as 90% off their utility bill: http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,65615,00.htm...
Eat less, breathe more - the physics of gluttony: http://www.
tech
nologyreview.com/articles/04/11/wo_muller111204.asp?trk=n...
November 1 to 7, 2004
A new super-tough coating that resists wire-wool scrubbing has been developed, leading to anti-scratch CDs, DVDs, LCDs, PDAs, and other devices...
Note that modern Macs are compatible with Verizon's wireless BroadbandAccess plan ($80 a month for unlimited access)...
Boeing's high-
tech
7E7 jetliner slated for a 2008 launch will finally allow cabin humidity to approach humane levels...
A picture of the corn-based biodegradeable 25GB DVD...
iPodder allows you to browse audio feeds via RSS and download them to your iPod. For Mac and Windows...
The New Journalism http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=
tech
nologyNews&storyID=6702434&src=rss/
tech
nologyNews§ion=new...
"10 things the Chinese do far better than we do" http://aolnetscape.workopolis.com/servlet/Content/fasttrack/20041023/CHINATEN23?section=
tech
nolog...
Stem cell manipulation induces the birth of new neurons. This work may lead to Alzheimer's and spinal cord injury cures: http://www.wired.com/news/med
tech
/0,1286,65560,00.htm...
A cool new music video made with 1972 video synthesizer
tech
...
October 25 to 31, 2004
The world's first single atom-thick fabric...
The first spring water to be packaged in a compostable bottle. We need more biodegradable packaging...
New gold CD-Rs are said to last 300 years...
New 4GB flash SD cards...
An update on virtual retina displays...
Watch your local TV stations from anywhere in the world...
The First Networked Open Source Community? http://bytemarks.blogspot.com/2004/10/traditional-
tech
nology.htm...
Spyware is on 80% of PCs, viruses on 20%. But 77% of people think they're safe. Is this the same 80% that think evoting is secure, despite expert evidence...
"
tech
nology used to track down Al-Qaeda terrorists is being offered to employers as a means of stamping out... abusive behaviour in the workplace"...
Dead things are a core part of the ecosystem. But many forests are in trouble due to excessive dead wood removal: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/
tech
/3946273.st...
A series of funny, thoughtful short films about people and
tech
nology...
October 18 to 24, 2004
San Francisco sets the goal of providing everyone in the city free wireless access...
New printable RFID labels meet Wal-Mart requirements...
USB flash drives with a thumbprint reader...
An HDTV PCMCIA card, with folding antenna...
Ever needed a private room for adults? Yamaha's got one...
Researchers develop an electronic replacement rat neuron that works "with a 95% accuracy rate": http://wired.com/news/med
tech
/0,1286,65422-2,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_next...
October 11 to 17, 2004
Segway's four-wheel Centaur concept...
The first waterless dishwater uses supercritical carbon dioxide...
It's been a while since a Hawaii-based
tech
company made big news - CherryOS (based on Maui) touts a MacOSX emulator for PCs, and their Web site is getting slammed...
"Tutorial D" looks like a great replacement for the aging, flawed SQL database language. I hope it takes off...
The first hotel with iris identification. One day you'll just walk into your room, no check-in needed...
Adam Rifkin's great summary of the recent Web 2.0 conference...
Is this the beginning of "jacking into cyberspace"...
Advertising is coming to RSS feeds near you. If you're putting ads in RSS, don't overdo it...
The average mpg of a 40-foot Gillig Phantom bus, used in Honolulu: about 4. The average mpg of a hybrid-diesel bus used in Seattle: 7.5. http://www.wired.com/news/auto
tech
/0,2554,65273,00.htm...
Can nanofiltration solve the world's water problems? http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,65287,00.htm...
October 4 to 10, 2004
The super-cute high-
tech
$13,000 Smart Fortwo, although now only offered in Europe, would be a perfect car for island tourists - it gets up to 71 miles per gallon on a 9 gallon tank and you can par...
New nanoswitches could revolutionize data storage...
With this application and a GPS-enabled phone, you can walk around town and see which places are contributing money to which political parties. Get a rough idea of the political leanings and wealth o...
Finally, a startup uses BitTorrent-like
tech
for online movies...
Electricity-conducting plastic means lighter, smaller gadgets...
Podcasting puts audio content you want to hear on your iPod. One day you can podcast Howard Stern from XM Radio...
A UK photo exhibit shows real people next to their online virtual 3D character: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/
tech
nology/3683260.st...
Another proposal for plasma arc/gasification
tech
nology in Hawaii. Could it solve Oahu's "landfill crisis"...
More news on efforts to restore coral reefs via low voltage currents, and sad statistics on worldwide coral deaths: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/
tech
nology/3717168.st...
The world's largest wind power project starts near Beijing: http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,65139,00.htm...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Hart Intercivic makes those evoting machines that people in Hawaii will be using in the upcoming general election. Here's a recent article about a letter written by a former Hart
tech
nician wh...
Future four-layer DVDs could hold 1,000 gigabytes...
Inside the recently upgraded world's third-most-powerful supercomputer at Virginia
tech
(it's also powered by Mac OSX)...
Telcos' latest shot in the broadband war - TV over phone lines...
Cancel your phone and cable TV - start a wireless neighborhood network...
A Microsoft server crash almost causes a 800-plane pile-up: http://www.
tech
world.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=227...
September 20 to 26, 2004
PC Magazine and Time give the new G5 iMac top ratings and reviews, named "Gadget of the Week"...
Autopsies of the future may require less surgical probing, thanks to CT/MRI scanning...
IBM scientists figure out how to make single-atom magnetic measurements, possibly leading to super-dense storage media...
How the iPod's scrollwheel was made (not by Apple)...
A new permanent coating prevents glass from fogging up and can make solar cells more efficient...
The first dental chair to use bone-conducting speakers, preventing patients from drill noises...
New pressure-sensor arrays can give robots "skin"...
In response to online classifieds, newspapers are holding their own local auctions: http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,65006,00.htm...
"Automakers Give Biodiesel a Boost" http://www.wired.com/news/auto
tech
/0,2554,65054,00.htm...
Discovery - morphine occurs naturally in the brain: http://wired.com/news/med
tech
/0,1286,65053,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
Refer to this older article - "Nano
tech
buckyballs kill fish"...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Ditch buggy Internet Explorer! Spread Firefox...
Has this startup developed the universal computer emulator...
A new radio modem is the size of a credit card and allows encrypted communications with a 40 mile range...
A great tool for moving - the shoulder dolly...
A visual history of spam and virus email...
China's a new "hotbed of research" too: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/13/
tech
nology/13china.html?ex=1252728000&en=c97bdebfc8ebba94&ei=5090&partner=rssuserlan...
September 5 to 12, 2004
New breakthrough methods for creating (self-assembling) 3D nanostructures...
The CyberLite LED is one of the products made with the above methods...
The newest revolution in aeronautical design-the fanwing, a quiet "sky barge"...
Working personal jet-powered wings are now for real...
Drool... new DVD recorders with 400GB drives. Burn a one-hour DVD-R in 56 seconds...
New applications of P2P
tech
nology are helping people to register to vote and search...
U.S. broadband triples in three years. 75% use cable, only 15% use DSL...
Has your PC been taken over by a spamming virus? Spammers are selling your "zombie PC" to others: http://www.usatoday.com/
tech
/news/computersecurity/2004-09-08-zombieprice_x.ht...
How high-
tech
"fab labs" are training kids in impoverished countries to make needed tools...
"Bacteria Turn Toxins Into Plastic": http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,64862,00.htm...
"Clean Air
tech
Has Ancient Roots...
Lee Bontecou is one of my favorite artists - she pioneered works that addressed the connections between
tech
nology and nature, before H.R. Giger's time. Once the talk of the art world, she dropped ou...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
Isn't it funny that the Superferry sports an array of high-
tech
gadgets - and two human observers - to do nothing but ensure that whales are avoided at all costs.....
Skype, the most popular Voice Over IP (VOIP) app, is now available for Mac OSX! Talk to friends around the world for free using your Internet connection...
Scientists are learning how to harness photosynthetic bacteria in solar cells...
The first room temperature plastic magnets are created...
Revolutionary lens implants for the severely nearsighted are expected to receive FDA approval soon...
The world's smallest atomic clock will lead to devices with super-accurate time everywhere (1 second is lost every 300 years), affecting cryptography, global communications, etc....
The basis for a new breed of software: "Exploring Social Networks with Pattern Discovery Algorithms"...
The world's first detailed view (and reconstruction) of an Egyptian mummy's face, without disturbing the wrappings, thanks to multidetector computed tomography...
From May to July the U.S. produced 86% of the worldwide volume of spam: http://www.
tech
newsworld.com/story/US-Still-Tops-Spammer-List-36128.htm...
Are you an inefficient hypertasker? Workplace pressures, inadequate tools cause stress. I say this is a
tech
nology problem, not a brain problem...
The average Briton is scrutinized by 300 security cameras a day: http://www.cnn.com/2004/
tech
/p
tech
/08/31/constantsurveillance.ap/index.htm...
Protesters use texting, microradio, and other
tech
nologies now...
"BMI posts record year, despite music industry doom and gloom": http://ars
tech
nica.com/news/posts/20040903-4156.htm...
August 22 to 29, 2004
"RSS Attracts Really Serious Money...
A new p2p network allows hospitals to share patient information...
The world's first movie recording on a preformatted holographic disc...
The world's smallest optical zoom digital camera, using the new ceramic lens
tech
nology...
Finally, Coke vending machine offers cashless purchases via cell phones...
Five photons have been linked in an milestone experiment that will lead to full-scale quantum computing...
Yet another "revolutionary spam firewall"...
New efforts in developing flying cars...
Famous
tech
writer John C. Dvorak calls for the death of Microsoft Word...
An experiment reviving coral reefs with low-voltage electrical current receives "remarkable results": http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,64671,00.htm...
New ventures try to generate electricity from sea power with wave turbines: http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,64695,00.htm...
August 15 to 22, 2004
Movie Studios Lose In Case Against File-Sharing App...
The first invisible barcode system, using spray-on DNA-encapsulated inorganic nanomaterial (whew)...
Coming soon - wireless cable TV anywhere...
Coming Soon: Trillion-Color T...
New
tech
nologies ease the pain of (hospital) needles...
Nano
tech
funding grows to $8.6 billion. Hype, or not...
FedEx Kinko's debuts Web-based job uploads. I didn't test it too much, but it seems to work with Safari...
A new wave of digital disposable cameras...
The search for the elusive blue rose: http://www.latimes.com/
tech
nology/la-sci-bluerose13aug13,1,5778837.story?coll=la-headlines-
tech
nolog...
Got a Mac, guitar, and a microphone? Here's the cables: http://griffin
tech
nology.com/products/garageband_cables...
August 8 to 14, 2004
What to do about the War Memorial/Natatorium on Kaimana Beach, an unlabeled hazardous collapsing eyesore that's confused tourists and annoyed locals for 25 years? The one that will cost untol...
Spray-on microdots reduce car theft...
A new material - "Metal Rubber"...
The first(?) chip to use ultrawideband
tech
nology...
The LED balloon lamp...
"MIT study may hold key to boosting brainpower"...
Dopamine blockers turn slackers into workaholics...
New algorithms allow projectors to project clearly on any surface, such as wallpaper and curtains...
Why dynamic languages (still) represent the future of computing (warning:
tech
-heavy)...
A great business model for online publishing - "fast turnaround e-books"...
The corporate ownership of computer
tech
nology is a large factor. No one wants to (or can get the money to) do pure, essential computer science research...
The first mobile phone virus: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/
tech
nology/3554514.st...
About the new online TV-show swapping culture: http://www.salon.com/
tech
/feature/2004/08/11/must_download_tv/index_np.htm...
3D hologram
tech
nology becomes a "powerful tool" to detect forgeries...
August 2 to 8, 2004
Casio develops the world's first transparent ceramic lens, enabling smaller, thinner cameras...
New foot pontoons actually allow you to walk on water. Great for fishing, water testing, workouts, and tourism...
The new, groovy world of open-source business models...
Portable tooth wipes...
All manner of new stamps have been appearing! The first stamps to use lenticular printing (which gives an interlaced 3D effect)...
A new building system is making polystyrene homes for the rebuilding effort in Afghanistan...
A few of the really stupid things Jack Valenti (outgoing head of the MPAA) has said about new media
tech
nologies and intellectual property...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
After a year in operation, Kev's News goes online! Since everyone seems to have a blog these days, I decided to go ahead and just do it. I see the rise of blogs as a symptom of people learning how t...
Cheap projection
tech
nology is giving rise to "guerilla drive-ins". This is a symptom of this generation's need for commerce-free, authentic culture and socializing...
The first debut of an entire TV show episode over the Internet...
The first magazine for
tech
nology projects, "Make"...
The first true city-wide wireless network...
Woohoo! The first digital accordion...
Water molecules can now be moved with light, allowing the rapid testing of blood and other liquids...
IBM introduces "chip morphing"
tech
nology, which enables self-repairing, evolvable computer chips...
A $230 million acquisition of an RFID reader company. This
tech
nology is hot, hot, hot, people...
How to turn your iPod into a universal remote...
How to fully remove Internet Explorer from your PC...
About Singapore's new world-class bioscience empire, including "Biopolis", a $300 million center for molecular biology, bioinformatics, genomics, and nano
tech
...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Quantum computing breakthrough - a single electron's spin is controlled using ordinary transistors...
An LED research breakthrough may lead to LEDs replacing lightbulbs in five years...
A fuel cell breakthrough leads to cooler, smaller cells - one the size of two soda cans could power your entire household...
New algorithms detect digitally faked photos...
New
tech
nologies in the running for the next replacement for hard drives, including molecular storage and cow protein...
Verizon debuts Fios, its broadband-over fiber service, 30 times faster than DSL...
A very cool design concept - the circular printer. It's efficient, fast, and small...
The latest thinking in dualmode transports - a truck that runs on wheels and rails. Why not use one to transport people from Honolulu to Kapolei instead of building a second level...
Seed Magazine debuts - think "Maxim" crossed with "Scientist"...
Apple has released software for Verizon's $80 a month nationwide roaming wireless network - get online anywhere in the U.S....
Interesting comparisons between the latest digital SLRs and film scans: http://www.sphoto.com/
tech
info/dslrvsfilm.ht...
July 12 to 18, 2004
This method has cheaply and quickly restored tall grass prairies, watersheds, wildlife habitats in New Jersey, and arid lands in Thailand, the Philippines, Africa, and India. Masanobu Fukuoka, th...
Tired of Hotmail and other free mail services that bombard you with junk mail and don't let you send large attachments? Try Spymac's new "Spymac mail", with a 3GB inbox, a 20MB attachment limit, jun...
Samsung's new 3 million pixel camera phone...
New chips designed in 3D stacks hit the market...
Recent progress in 3D visualization
tech
nology allows "virtual excavation", in this case, the ability to completely examine the contents of a 3,000 year-old mummy without touching it...
eMachineShop - design and machine custom mechanical parts online...
One of my favorite sci-fi authors, Bruce Sterling, gives a hilarious, philosophical, and insightful talk about the "singularity", the point at which the pace of
tech
nology becomes too fast t...
The popularity of the iPod is forcing makers of CD copyright-protection
tech
nology to switch formats...
July 5 to 11, 2004
After two years of noodling, Ford announces the first hybrid SUV...
Sharp's new prototype color eBook reader...
Genetic algorithms can help evolve a faster, more efficient Internet...
Clive Sinclair rolls out the world's smallest folding bike...
Not a product yet, but a concept: this Bluetooth wireless device attaches to your luggage and blinks when you are near it at the baggage carousel. Other neat ideas here...
More about transparent videoconferencing, which has received a lot of press lately...
"Movie piracy on Internet called an epidemic": http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/
tech
/news/267468...
June 28 to July 4, 2004
Holographic
tech
nology is leading to pocket- sized video projectors...
The first(?) application for turning your cellphone into a universal remote control...
A new hypersensitive sensor has been developed in Israel, allowing heart readings from "several feet away" without physical contact...
"Facetop", a method of videoconferencing that's actually about 35 years old but may one day be popular...
The best-designed appliance plug I've seen...
"Iraqis seek self-rule on the net" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/
tech
nology/3840019.st...
June 21 to 27, 2004
Apple's preview of Tiger, Mac OS X 10.4. Now with high-quality four-way videoconferencing. I and my friends have videoconferenced with PowerBooks from Honolulu to California, Boston, and Israel, an...
Spyware is evolving - new strains have been detected that are self-updating, persistent, and really malicious. And users are paying up the nose (and suffering) for Microsoft's security lapses. Dum...
The first HDTV tuner PC card is here - get HDTV signals for free and watch 'em on your computer...
Following AT&T and BT, giant telco SBC Communications is moving to an all-IP network...
More about Bob Vincent, the guy who recently designed a revolutionary new type of antenna. Implications for networks, cell phones, radios, more...
A teacher fed up with the high cost of (Cisco Academy's computer training) textbooks makes his own equivalent textbooks and puts them online for free...
June 14 to 20, 2004
A section of the film explores the need for corporations to be more democratic. How about introducing software that enables companies to make better group decisions? This isn't polling and it isn'...
Could this be the first commercial Zeppelin of the 21st century...
A review of the coolest palmtop computer. Sorry, available in Japan only...
A breakthrough way to compress 3D models has been invented, meaning better video games, movies, CAD applications, and more...
Mentioned the other week as the key ingredient to self-cleaning windows, titanium dioxide is now being incorporated into clothing to make them self-cleaning...
BusinessWeek reports that privacy battles are being won over RFID: http://www.businessweek.com/
tech
nology/content/mar2004/tc2004035_8506_tc073.ht...
June 7 to 13, 2004
Crystalens is a new laser-based
tech
nique for treating cataracts. The implanted lens moves using the power of existing eye muscles...
New, smaller antennas can reach 100% efficiency...
Following in the footsteps of AT&T, telephone giant BT is transforming its entire phone network to using IP (Internet) protocol...
A tutorial on how to make your Windows PC look just like a modern Mac...
Although this is not new, SubEthaEdit is likely the best application for collaborative text editing. Imagine multiple people collaborating on meeting notes, screenplays, and class lectures! Sorry, Ma...
May 31 to June 6, 2004
This week: unconscious passwords, isolation epidemics, and video grid time-shifting! "Future of Visual Gadgets Rolled Out" A nice summary of the Society for Information Display's internationa...
"BBN
tech
Unveils World's First Quantum Cryptography Network...
New methods and companies are forming to prevent camcorders from making pirated videotapes in movie theatres...
"Unconscious passwords...
A former Microsoft
tech
nology manager bashes the company for its mediocre products and addiction to cash cows...
"For the second straight year, an Internet unknown won the famed World Series of Poker on Friday, ravaging a field of professional players on his way to glory and riches....
"Drowning in an Ocean of Plastic" http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,63699,00.htm...
May 24 to 30, 2004
A how-to booklet from the 1940's. Remember, "how-to" books on today's
tech
nology will seem just as quaint in 2070...
Play video games to reduce obesity! "Video game fans dance off extra pounds": http://www.cnn.com/2004/
tech
/fun.games/05/24/video.game.diet.ap/index.htm...
Also on the same page - condoms can leak carcinogens! I guess from now on I'm chugging coffee and beer, playing video games, and avoiding condoms for my health's sake! "Investment in environmenta...
Now available - ultrathin lightweight flexible touch panels from Fujitsu...
The (first?) roll-up electronic keyboard...
May 17 to 23, 2004
Need a good, free antivirus app for Windows? Here's the 46 best freeware utilities for PCs...
The first 40-inch organic LED display...
Artificial muscle
tech
nology is coming along...
Here's how Apple's nifty spam filter makes use of latent semantic analysis to successfully mark 98% of spam mail...
Eight years ago my old startup bought from Peapod every week. Now online groceries are coming back! http://www.cnn.com/2004/
tech
/internet/05/19/internet.grocery.ap/index.htm...
LANL researchers have figured out how to use nano
tech
nology to boost solar cell efficiency as much as 37%...
Will the RIAA create artificial scarcity in the $3 billion cellphone ringtone market? http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/
tech
nology/8685217.ht...
May 10 to 16, 2004
Better than the Pringles can! Use $3 Chinese cooking vat scoops to create wireless connections spanning about 7 miles...
More on acoustic cryptanalysis - studying keystroke sounds. From a cellular phone, it's possible to tell what you're typing...
Are jet-created clouds responsible for some climate change? http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,63365,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
May 3 to 9, 2004
Current chip design is overkill, often applying more precision to tasks when needed. By making chips that guess results when needed, one may be able to reduce power usage by a factor of 1,000...
This new high-speed industrial hand dryer dries your hands in 5 to 6 seconds...
The new $284 million "Geek Palace" at MIT, designed by cutting-edge architect Frank Gehry...
A high-level report from the 2004 Flexible Displays & Electronics Conference...
Don't forget about the new 400GB hard drives...
"You surf just like a woman" http://www.salon.com/
tech
/feature/2004/05/05/just_ask_a_woman/index_np.htm...
The "eBay economy" is growing. This is a great business idea - sell things on eBay for others. Mailbox places should take this up as an additional service...
A new circular fishing hook snags fish but not turtles: http://www.cnn.com/2004/
tech
/science/05/03/hook.turtles.reut/index.htm...
Climate change is killing off forests across the West at an "unprecedented rate": http://www.cnn.com/2004/
tech
/science/05/04/thewarming.west.ap/index.htm...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
More news about the amazing Toyota Volta (the first hybrid sports car) which looks great, goes from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds, and gets 40 mpg...
The Bose L1 is a revolutionary new PA system that points the way to new amplification
tech
nology - it eliminates poles, monitors, and bulky equipment, and is causing a stir in the music industry...
The portable Q barbecue is the best- designed small hibachi/grill I've ever seen...
Laser-based retinal imaging
tech
nology is finally maturing, with over 100 such displays now in use by the Army's Stryker Brigade...
A new open-source software kit turns batches of old, obsolete PCs into wireless community networks...
A very
tech
nical overview of the next generation of video game consoles - Soon these devices will feature supercomputer-class levels of performance, enabling games with cinematic quality...
Lots of statistics about lots of cities...
When the island of Tuvalu sinks, it will be the only country to exist solely on the Internet: http://www.usatoday.com/
tech
/columnist/kevinmaney/2004-04-27-tuvalu_x.ht...
"One of the nation's wealthiest towns will soon have cameras and computers running background checks on every car and driver that passes through....
A mix of simple chemicals produces a fungus-like structure...
"Green tea provides a more effective and environmentally-friendly method of preparing computer hard disks, say US scientists." In certain applications it's better than diamond for polishing...
Related to the recent uncovering of the secrets of gecko adhesion, here's how spiders manage to stay sticky...
"Green is good for
tech
firms - 'Clean'
tech
nologies drawing larger share of venture dollars"...
"Eco-friendly" diapers may not be so eco-friendly after all: http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,63182,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
April 19 to 25, 2004
This week's theme: helping Hawaii be more eco-
tech
-friendly. 1) Keep Act 221 to high-
tech
, and make a new act specifically for television and movie production. The two industries have different needs...
Taking another cue from nature, airplane wings that morph in flight like a bird's with fish-like scales are being developed...
A review of the first electronic paper- based reading device and its implications for libraries, books, and traditional reading habits...
A new
tech
nology using nanowires promises storage capacities of 40GB per square centimeter...
With five million installed systems, the open-source database MySQL is the most popular database in the world. Its corporate site receives more traffic than IBM's, and large companies are migrating t...
Like the razor and the toothbrush, the yo-yo is getting more and more seriously high-
tech
...
tech
nology has been developed that takes images of old, damaged vinyl records and produces restored music. Many ramifications for the historical preservation of recordings...
April 12 to 18, 2004
A study finds that the average (Windows) PC has 28 spyware programs on it, each of which may send your private information to other parties without your knowledge...
The youngest writer ever to win an Agatha Award for a mystery novel collaborated with his uncle using Apple's new videoconferencing
tech
nology - this may be the first award-winning book ever mad...
A9, Amazon's search service, launched. Search Google and books at the same time...
A study shows that the most dangerous music to play while driving is "Ride of the Valkyries". Also, go light on the
tech
no...
Some guy hooked up a music-generating apparatus controlled by six live hampsters. It's actually pleasant music: http://archive.salon.com/
tech
/log/2000/04/01/hampsterdance...
Ben & Jerry's is installing new freezers in their stores that use sound waves instead of chemicals refrigerants for cooling. Commercial (domestic) use of such
tech
nology is still 5 to 10 years away...
April 5 to 11, 2004
Wooden-cone speakers will be hitting the market - they have a wider and smoother frequency response than conventional speaker
tech
nology. Here's the story of how this breakthrough was achieved afte...
"NEC Develops Fastest Rechargeable Battery...
"Dodgy Patents Rile
tech
Industry...
Last month saw the first arrest made possible by routine U.S. monitoring of email traffic: http://www.globe
tech
nology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040406.gtterror06/BNStory/
tech
nology...
March 31, 2004
The last two years have seen a rise in co-housing and prefabricated architecture projects in Europe and the U.S.. Thanks to the support of cutting-edge shelter magazines such as Dwel...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Although expensive, mechanized parking is perfect for high-density areas low on space. Someone in Honolulu urban planning should at least take a look at the data...
A-POC ("A Piece of Cloth"): Seamless clothing A new manufacturing method is changing how clothes are made by making ready-to-wear seamless clothes out of a single piece of cloth. This process ca...
"How E-Voting Threatens Democracy...
Scubadoo, the first underwater motorcycle! Will it revolutionize scuba diving...
A nice summary of four up-and-coming wireless
tech
nologies - WiMax, 802.16e, 802.11n, and Ultrawideband...
The first key ring gadget that's also a camcorder, USB storage device, and 2-megapixel digital camera...
United Airlines announced that more than 2 million customers used their self-serving kiosks in a single month. No modern airline can survive without them. Actually, that could be a great business ...
A material widely used in nano
tech
nology research has been found to trigger organ damage in fish...
A great article explains how 25 years of poor spreadsheet
tech
nology (read: Excel) has encouraged faulty decision-making, scandalous business practices, and small-mindedness in general. Where are th...
March 22 to 28, 2004
The first device ever with an electronic paper display, a reading device, hits the shelves next month, with a 170dpi screen...
A new system for powered saws detects skin contact in 5 milliseconds and stops the blade...
A portable, cordless soldering tool that runs on 4 AA batteries, heats in one second, and cools in two...
All about the Minato Motor, which leverages magnetic effects to produce more electricity than it consumes. Sound wacky? They've just sold 40,000 motors to a major convenience store chain...
A bicycle tire that never needs inflating...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Due to biological and
tech
nological constraints, there is an optimum number to group sizes. Some fascinating discussion about group dynamics, community building, bureaucracy, and organizations...
Google Local Searc...
There is NO excuse not to buy a PC (non-laptop) larger than a shoebox any more. Anything larger is wasteful, ugly, energy and noise polluting. Here's the Nanode, the first Nano-ITX-based PC...
One quarter of cell phones in 2004 will include a camera...
Samsung introduces the first 2-megapixel camera phone...
Somebody market this, quick! A professor creates a small cheap noise cancellation unit that decreases computer fan noise. Although this
tech
nology is available in many headphones, nobody to date ha...
Anti-vandal
tech
nology has been installed that detects spray can sounds. Of course, once the above device is marketed, you can circumvent this with silent spray cans...
The swoosh of wind turbines makes locals report ghosts. Again, noise cancellation
tech
nology may alleviate that...
March 8 to 14, 2004
The Belkin iPod Media Reade...
A new DVD recorder from HP burns silkscreen-like labels on the entire side of the disc...
Elcodrive's debut album "Somewhere Between Now and Then" was enhanced with HSS
tech
nology. One critic says "Elcodrive has not put forth any newfangled ideas in their release, which translates int...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Cinergy becomes the first electric utility in the U.S. to offer high-speed Internet service via its power lines. The benefits of using such as service in Hawaii are obvious (reach rural areas, les...
To save money, school systems and other organizations are building their own DIY fiber networks and selling off the excess bandwidth instead of paying up the nose to regional operators (such a...
Philips developed a "fluid lens" - a variable-focus lens system with no mechanical moving parts that mimics the human eye's focusing mechanism...
The first car designed by women for women was launched at the Geneva Auto Show, with emphasis on comfort, storage, and low maintenance...
Also (to be) shown at the show, the first hybrid sports car from a major automaker (Toyota). It looks groovy, gets 31 mpg, and goes from 0 to 60 in four seconds...
Someone's collecting all the election-related wire service stories on Yahoo that use the phrase "The American People". See how politicians are using your name in vain...
Wireless
tech
nology is helping native Americans in California go online and learn computing skills...
The first music video ever to be entirely shot using a cell phone. Reminds me of the first movies made for the Web ten years ago - in another ten directors may be viewing dailies on their phones...
Movieoke is taking over! Lip-sync to your favorite scenes from movies...
"For the first time, a microbial fuel cell has generated electricity while cleaning wastewater, a development that could make sewage treatment more affordable for both industrialized and developin...
Remember that photojournal on shipbreaking, one of the most toxic and dangerous jobs on earth? Here's a short summary of some new
tech
nologies (including a wash that neutralizes PCBs) being used i...
A great interview with Eugene Jarvis, the legendary creator of such video games as "Defender" and "Robotron": http://www.salon.com/
tech
/feature/2004/03/02/eugene_jarvis/index_np.htm...
February 23 to 29, 2004
Face recognition
tech
nology will be incorporated into the MPEG-7 standard, allowing one to retrieve a scene with a specific person in a 24-hour video in one second. Of course, this has far-reachin...
Mind Over Machin...
We don't support that "Ted, and those like him, have only one solution to their customers' problems. Erase everything on the computer's hard drive and start over from scratch." The latest in Salon'...
February 16 to 22, 2004
Apple had the largest earnings increase of
tech
companies last year, with a 552% jump in annual profits...
I didn't know Hoku Scientific was based in Kalihi! If they do well, can this be the start of turning Kalihi into a high-
tech
area (as HCC Provost Ramsey Pedersen would like to see)? The area's got ...
"Hilo grads impress Amazon recruiters...
Polaroid Warns Film Users Not to 'Shake It' http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&e=1&u=/nm/20040217/tc_nm/
tech
_polaroid_outkast_d...
The Pentagon researches ways for GIs to fight for up to five days without a break. Have they not heard of crack? "The question is: 'Are there temporary biochemical approaches we can use to squeeze th...
Brain Fingerprintin...
Going through the Frankfurt airport? You may have to look through their new retinal scanning system...
Hallucinogen May Cure Drug Addictio...
A new cheap printer prints out prescription eyeglass lenses for $5 each, a boon for those in third-world areas...
I can't wait to upgrade my memory! Cells-on-silicon breakthrough "Researchers... have found that nerve cells grown on a microchip can learn and memorize information which can be communicated to th...
NTT Develops Stamp-Size 1GB Hologram Memor...
Mathematical formula 'predicts marriage breakdown' "The mathematics we came up with is trivial, but the model is astonishingly accurate"...
February 9 to 15, 2004
Can
tech
nology save us from the future oil crash? "Researchers say they have produced hydrogen from ethanol in a prototype reactor small enough and efficient enough to heat small homes and powe...
February 2 to 8, 2004
The market for luxury cars (which cost up to $1 million) is booming nationwide. "There are more rich people every day, and the spread between the people who have money and those who don't is gettin...
A California bill has been signed to invest $3.7 billion in the next four years in nano
tech
research...
Nano
tech
thinkers fear the "gray goo" syndrome, where a nano
tech
product may go haywire and begin disassembling all nearby matter into goo, the nano
tech
equivalent of a nuclear meltdown. One smart gu...
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has a nice article on this year's dream engineering jobs. They interview the guy who made Sony's jumping robots, but the real story i...
A town-wide high-speed net-over-power-line system is being pioneered in Canada.....
January 26 to February 1, 2004
The real story here is not that Hawaii is hosting the most prominent (international) conference on next-generation Internet
tech
nology - it's the fact that due to strict "anti-terrorist" policies...
Yet another serious flaw in Microsoft software that may not even be fixable: http://www.
tech
world.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=displaynews&NewsID=94...
One of the best articles so far on the rise of India re: high-
tech
"outsourcing"...
You may have read the articles I mentioned about the rise of "cyberbullies" in school - well, it's gone international...
January 12 to 18, 2004
"New anti-spam laws fail to bite" http://www.cnn.com/2004/
tech
/internet/01/12/spam.continues/index.htm...
A new joystick combination fitness machine gives you a real workout... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/
tech
nology/3399533.st...
"This experience encapsulated so many benefits about
tech
nology that I don’t really know where to begin...
Atoms can be seen and counted with the new SuperSTEM microscope: http://www.wired.com/news/med
tech
/0,1286,61892,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
The federal government plans to analyze employees' hair, sweat, and saliva as a part of new drug tests: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/15/
tech
/main593356.shtm...
January 5 to 11, 2004
Well, better late than never... This week's hot topic: globalization and its wacky effects! Bangalore, India now has more high-
tech
workers than Silicon Valley...
Should we move high-
tech
jobs overseas? "Economists back
tech
industry's overseas hiring"...
A great two-piece story on a man trapped in a dead-end job at a customer service call center. "The Phones Don't Stop" http://www.salon.com/
tech
/feature/2004/01/08/call_center/index_np.htm...
Yet another international study on global warming was released - 1/4 of all species could be extinct by 2050? "Global Warming Imperils Species...
December 29 to January 4, 2004
Will a new high-
tech
fund in Hawaii work? Local VC Barry Weinman may not like it, but I think the state needs to provide a starter foundation for business before VCs can step in. Local VCs have neve...
The amazing precision of the recent Mars landing - they had to take in account things such as how plate tectonics affected the wobble of the Earth to hit a target 90 million miles away...
December 22 to 28, 2003
Does anyone in Oahu need a free business-class RICOH FT7870 copy machine? I'm not sure if it's been sold yet...
Spamming and phishing The PayPal email scam - and other fake corporate email scams - are getting more insidious lately. Beware! The term for this is "phishing", and attacks increased by 400% in th...
Yet another victim of the Nigerian Email Scam. It's become or 4th or 5th largest industry there! This article has interesting details on how it's done these days, involving dozens of actors, props...
63 percent of Americans are now online...
While browsing the Be Good Tanyas site, I noticed that their latest album was released with "Copy Control
tech
nology" against their wishes...
Power adapters one-fourth of their current size will be mass-produced next year, thanks to new piezoelectric
tech
nology...
A new electric "in-wheel" engine can make vehicles up to 50 percent more efficient and is being tested on a city bus in the Netherlands...
"Fax - the
tech
nology that refuses to die...
"Satellite Radio Is On The Rise...
December 15 to 21, 2003
The first federal law regulating spam was passed, but it may do more harm than good...
Spammers can do what terrorists can't - military hardware turned into spamming machine: Thanks to the US Navy choosing Microsoft as their official operating system for vessels, a hacked Microsof...
Nanoscale fibers smaller than the wavelengths of light have been developed - see the picture of one winding around a human hair...
Sony has developed the first autonomous running robot...
The anatomy of a Hawaiian high-
tech
news item This year, a UH-Manoa researcher working with international collaborators discovered a new unknown subatomic particle, called X(3872)...
Lessons learned: UH and the Star-Bulletin need to get their science/high-
tech
reporting act together. This item was featured in dozens of international publications before locals got wind of it.....
December 8 to 14, 2003
When Apple opened its first non-U.S. store in Tokyo, it created the longest line ever seen in the Ginza district, with 2,400 people spanning 10 long city blocks...
Business Week on "The Rise of The Indian" There are more IT engineers in Bangalore than Silicon Valley now. Startups seeking funds are now asked what their "India strategy" is...
A new way to filter out toxins from the blood has been invented. It uses magnetized nanoaparticles, and may revolutionize current dialysis
tech
niques as well as eliminate certain classes of diseases...
The first 5 nanometer transistor has been developed...
"Light brought to a halt in scientific first...
Cerritos, CA becomes the first entire city to go completely wireless...
"Motorist gets vehicle registered online during traffic stop...
Holographic lollypops...
December 1 to 7, 2003
Why frivolous software patents suck - here's all the patents you're violating now by setting up an online store...
"Public Libraries Use Internet to Sell Old Books, Help Budgets...
Old "lost" Hawaiian literature is getting resurrected via e-books...
This digital sundial requires no electricity or moving parts...
In an effort to thwart modern spam filters, spammers are now using excerpts of classic novels and poetry in their emails: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/
tech
nology/3247200.st...
November 17 to 23, 2003
Those in Hawaii can now use the Forward Foundation's calendar to publicize events related to the arts, culture,
tech
nology, and environment at...
We now return you to our weekly broadcast. Lots of new science/
tech
this week for some reason... Things got a little heated in London...
The rise of cyber-bullies at school: http://www.freep.com/money/
tech
/mwend17_20031117.ht...
Pebble Bed Modular Reactors may be the future of nuclear power, as their design eliminates the possibility of a meltdown: http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,61088,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
Organic Light-Emitting Diodes, the Next Big Thing in display
tech
nology (a nice overview if you're not familiar)...
"
tech
nion scores nano
tech
nology breakthrough...
November 10 to 16, 2003
Some popular news stories: Scientists have created the first artificial virus (and it reproduces): http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,61252,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
November 3 to 9, 2003
Will noisy, hot computers be a thing of the past? Electricity leakage is why current microchips (and therefore your computer) runs hot, requires fans, and contributes to the entropy of the universe...
But some of these healers are refusing to divulge information, saying they are not fairly compensated for their information - which could make some bio
tech
firms millions of dollars...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
"New switching rules may trash millions of cell phones" http://www.cnn.com/2003/
tech
/p
tech
/10/31/sprj.ws.cellphone.garbage.ap/index.htm...
The first optical processor, which computes at the speed of light... http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,61009,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6(Picture...
Infrared light heals wounds/boosts immunity, but nobody knows why: http://www.wired.com/news/med
tech
/0,1286,60786,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1...
October 27, 2003
Kev's News: None of the news you want to hear, all the news you need to hear! Electricity from water The first new method of generating electricity in 150 years...
Next year public, free globally connected 10-foot high 24-hour cylindrical videoconferencing portals will be set up in major cities...
A school has begun tracking students with RFID devices, the first known school to identify and track its children. Good? Bad? http://www.wired.com/news/
tech
nology/0,1282,60898,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_...
More evidence that the Arctic region is warming up... http://www.cnn.com/2003/
tech
/science/10/24/arctic.warming.ap/index.htm...
October 20, 2003
I should get into this business... "Execs who are
tech
dummies seek secret training...
October 14, 2003
The main point of this is that now a single computer can replace an entire cellular tower's worth of expensive equipment. This means smaller installations and better coverage to rural areas. Plus i...
October 6, 2003
"Study: Orangutans may die out in 20 years" http://www.cnn.com/2003/
tech
/science/09/30/orangutans.threatened.ap/index.htm...
"Discovery may spur cheap solar power" http://www.cnn.com/2003/
tech
/biz
tech
/10/02/solar.cells.reut/index.htm...
September 30, 2003
A Jurassic-age plant once thought extinct has been discovered, cultivated, and commercialized: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/
tech
/3139450.st...
September 22, 2003
All about the best slot machine cheater ever: http://www.usatoday.com/
tech
/news/2003-08-11-slot-cheats_x.ht...
Some young teens attitudes towards file sharing. Good take on the state of the next generation: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/18/
tech
nology/circuits/18kids.htm...
Invisible always-on cameras in glasses, brought to you by HP: (it does have an off switch, however) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/
tech
nology/3111004.st...
"'Pristine' Amazon boasted large cities" http://www.cnn.com/2003/
tech
/science/09/20/amazon.civilization.reut/index.htm...
September 15, 2003
"12-Year-Old Sued for Music Downloading (by RIAA)" http://www.globe
tech
nology.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030910/UCDCDN/TP
tech
nology...
Of all people, the Chief
tech
nical Officer of InfoWorld (long a Windows/UNIX-oriented publication) has moved to a Mac and wrote two articles about the experience... "It just works... an option that'...
September 8, 2003
"Don't Rely On Microsoft, Trade Group Urges Homeland Security" http://www.
tech
web.com/wire/story/TWB20030829S000...
Diamond-cutting robots are on the rise! Contrast with the recent progress made in synthetic diamond
tech
(see the recent Wired) and you'll see how the entire industry could be completely automated i...
Thanks to the human genome project, researchers are pioneering the field of ionomics, the study of how genes regulate ions. That can lead to plants that soak up heavy metals.....
September 2, 2003
LEDs and the future of the light bulb: "If the world switches over to LEDs rapidly enough, it could obviate the need to build more than 100 power plants between now and 2020...
"Japan, China, Korea may develop Windows replacement" http://www.reuters.com/locales/newsArticle.jsp;jsessionid=2d0%3A3f51a1c4%3A6ac473d23077bb30?type=
tech
nologyNews&locale=en_IN&storyID=336325...
August 25, 2003
Promising biomass-based power generation
tech
nology "Fueled by sawdust pellets, corncobs or coconut shells, BioMax generates electricity for rural towns, businesses...
August 12, 2003
Potential Date Alerts http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&ncid=582&e=7&u=/nm/20030807/wr_nm/
tech
_tonline_matchcom_d...
August 4, 2003
This week's theme:
tech
niques for separating the wheat from the chaff and the signal from the noise. Much confusion arises from people not being able to see the difference between the theory o...
The Hall of
tech
nical Documentation Weirdnes...
July 28, 2003
Finally,
tech
nology has brought us virtual bubble wrap...
July 21, 2003
Animals can be pretty intelligent (watch the crow movie): http://www.cnn.com/2003/
tech
/science/07/16/coolsc.animalcam...
When 70% of a population of 11 million have high-speed net access, how does that affect the culture? Here's how it's affecting Korea... http://www.forbes.com/
tech
nology/free_forbes/2003/0721/092.htm...
July 16, 2003
"Why," you may wonder, "are you sending me email like this, Kev?" you may ask. I say: because you have a committed interest in keeping the world from being absolutely mediocre. Therefore an...
July 10, 2003
With iChat, Who Needs a Phone? Apple's latest
tech
wizardry makes voice calling over the Net a snap. That could be a push off a cliff for today's telecom giant...
July 8, 2003
I personally believe that RFID will happen in some form whether consumers like it or not - it's just a matter of when and how it is implemented. As with any revolutionary
tech
nology, there are grea...