How do you feel about an innovative UI experiment, one with no clicks? Slick or Ugh?
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Garbage -> Fuel
Researchers have built and tested for the military a portable machine that efficiently turns waste into electricity.
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Water computer
MIT’s Paulo is doing some exciting work with ‘Programmable Water’; very early days, nonetheless very exciting. My dad started his PhD research at IIT Bombay in 1972 on exactly this topic!
Do we really invent things or simply rediscover them?
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Inkless printer
Rather than spray ink over paper, have the ink embedded in the paper and selectively highlight tiny points on the paper – neat!
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Enabling the blind to see
Researchers at University of California have developed retinal implants creating a bionic eye, enabling the blind people to retore their visual capabilities. The resolution is poor due to early days, but has great potential.
With the hot standards battle for document formats, which one is your fav.? I’m betting on PDF since it is well understood, supported by tools like LaTeX and LyX; and ODF for new docs, which in turn can easily be converted to PDF. No more .doc, .xls, .ppt, .lwp, .123, .prz, .swx, .sxc, .sxi etc. Nice! Pervasiveness of MS tools may mean OpenXML + XPS is the new standard, but replacing PDF will be tough!
Wow, an excellent essay – only read it when you’re calm and free-minded, otherwise, it will be a boring lengthy nonsense.
Curve, Split, New, Limits, Recipes and Different.
Why we must give up our obsession with apparently-pretty rocks, for which the supply is artificially reduced and which leads to huge suffering of fellow human beings.
- Future applications = Rich Applications (RA)
- RA = Rich Internet Applications (RIA) or Rich Client Applications (RCA)
- RIA preferred over RCA, where/when ever possible – browser rules
- RIA = Flex, AJAX, …
- RCA = Eclipse RCP, maybe .NET Platform, …
assuming ease of use, cross-platform, wide acceptance, not domain specific etc.
Adobe’s decision to buy Macromedia wasn’t so bad after all!
How and Why AJAX, Not Java, Became the Favored Technology for RIAs
“I want to talk about the implications for that marvelous aspect of the fundamental UNIX design: the pipe, and its ability to connect small independent programs so that they could collectively perform functions beyond the capability of any of them alone. What is the equivalent of the pipe in the age of the web? …This is one of the REALLY BIG IDEAS that is going to shape the next five or ten years of computing.”