Tag: TECHNOLOGY

Anyone who has even walked passed a 'Marketing 101' class would know the term 'early adopter.' Whether wealthy or just hungry for the new, those in this segment of the market pushed ahead for new technology while other consumers were happy with what they had, until they were forced to change. Yet, that game itself is changing, says market analyst group Forrester Research. According to the New ...

This past July, Bill Gates announced his intention to do battle with one of nature's most destructive forces -- the hurricane. Thankfully, Gates has no intention of donning a wrestling singlet and cape, and defending the Gulf Coast. Instead, the Microsoft founder is putting the power of human ingenuity to perhaps its greatest test in the protracted war between science and nature. Of course, ...

In an ongoing effort to lower our level of carbon emissions, Columbia University scientists are looking to God for answers. While the 'Synthetic Tree' doesn't look anything like the oak or poplar in our back yard, it performs the same function -- maybe even better than the real thing, too. Professor Klaus Lackner told CNN that the 'Synthetic Tree' could be capable of capturing carbon 1,000 times ...

Imagine a world where plugging in your gadgets to charge them is a thing of the past. And we're not talking about "wireless" chargers, like the Palm Pre's Touchstone, which still require some sort of physical contact. No, according to Technology Review, Nokia is working on technology that would collect ambient electromagnetic radiation to slowly charge batteries. Ambient electromagnetic ...

Much like a runaway train, the neverending quest for Web popularity doesn't slow down for anyone -- not even MySpace. The once powerful social networking site seems to have tumbled out of its freight car and been left standing on the track, staring at the Facebook and Twitter caboose. Several folks in the Web industry told CNN they are skeptical that MySpace will be able to rebound from a recent ...

According to Bill Gates, the key to digging the U.S. out of the recession is technology. Reuters reports that the former head of Microsoft told a group of high-level executives gathered at Microsoft's annual CEO summit, "the opportunities for innovation are stronger today than ever." Gates believes that the software and IT revolution are still in their formative stages -- and that it's up to IT ...

The ironies of constantly improving technology never cease to amaze. According to a piece on Slate.com, some airplane pilots are having problems sleeping on the new behemoth of an airplane, the Airbus A380, because the plane is actually too quiet. "We're getting a lot of complaints," says Emirates Vice President Ed Davidson. "It's not something we expected." Apparently, the white noise of the ...

Resolution+. Super Resolution Technology. Upscaling. Upconverting. You've heard it all, but what does it all really mean? Home Cinema Choice has taken the liberty of breaking down the art of upscaling to explain in-depth what's going on when pixels become slightly-more-detailed pixels. We'll leave the dirty work to the read link, but if you've been wondering just how good SD content could look ...

In April of next year, the United States Bowling Congress will implement prohibitions on bowling balls that the organization's policymakers deem too high-tech, and bowling purists couldn't be happier. Chris Hardwick, son of professional bowling star Bill Hardwick and writer for Wired, is one of those purists. Claiming that advances in bowling technology have largely taken the sport out of the ...

Massholes. They think they're the best at everything. And oh, wait -- they are! The Smartest State has lots of "best" titles, between the Red Sox, Harvard, and now (again), technology. Since 2002, the Santa-Monica-based Milken institute has been releasing reports on the technological state of affairs. That is, the institute ranks states based on criteria like tech-savviness of workers, ...

Technology Review has collected a list of the 10 emerging technologies to watch in 2008, all of which could potentially change how we interact with technology and how it serves us. The list covers everything from consumer-oriented technologies such as offline access to web apps, which made its debut last year with Google Gears and will be built into Firefox 3, to transistors made out of Graphene ...

The Invention Blog at New Scientist scours the web, or more specifically the United States Patent Office web site, for new and interesting ideas and then shares them with the world, or, with geeks like us. As part of the endless deluge of year-end round ups, New Scientist has collected the most popular patents from its Invention blog in the standard top 10 list format. Entries run the gamut from ...

Some people develop a bit too strong of a bond with their technology. We'd say they're all around you, but these types of people tend to stay inside a lot. Zogby International and 463 Communications conducted a poll about people's attitudes towards technology, and the results are either terrifying or reassuring, depending on how bad you thought the epidemic of tech-fetishism was. Overwhelmingly ...