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Category Archives: Technology
2017 Predictions: The Rise of the Robots
“The Three Laws of Robotics:1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm;2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would … Continue reading
Posted in Everyday Science, In the news..., Research, Technology
Tagged automation, globalization, robots
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Electric Cars in 2014
Here is a lovely article looking at 13 Electric Cars coming to the Market in 2014. BUT, they didn’t mention the existing electric cars like Tesla and the Smart Car. I can’t even begin to tell you how fun this … Continue reading
Shaming Americans into Caring about Energy Consumption
How many of you have checked your email today? How about finances? Today, this hour, this month? How many of you know what your energy usage is this week? TED Video by Alex Laskey: How behavioral science can lower your … Continue reading
Neurowear for the Cat in You
“Neurowear is the name of our project to develop fashion items and gadgets using brain waves and other biosensor with “Augumented Human Body” as the concept. Other than the first project “necomimi”, we are planning to development other various items.” … Continue reading
Posted in Cat Woman, Culture, Humor, In the news..., Lifestyle, Technology
Tagged brainwave, cat ear, Facebook, human cat ear, Neurowear, Time Magazine
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Looking forward to the Cashless World
Face it, money in the form of bills and coins will soon be a distant memory. In 20 years, more than 80% of sales will involve electronic money in some form or shape. And the bank that figures that out … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Guides, Lifestyle, Technology
Tagged Amazon, eBay, PayPal, prediction
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Going, going, … gone
The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.” ~ Will Cuppy Who remembers typewriters, 8 track players, and disco? So much … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Everyday Science, Guides, Health and wellness, Language, Lifestyle, Research, Social Media, Technology, United States
Tagged Babelfish, bidet, business cards, house keys, Mad Men, Second Life, Tesla, toilet paper
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Cars of the Future ~ The View from 2012
Some of us wait with fear that eventually you will not be allowed a car, it would drive itself. Others embrace this as the next logical step. If you want to drive it yourself, you would go to a track. … Continue reading
What I learned with No Internet for a week
The only constant is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as … Continue reading
Posted in FAQ, Guides, Internet, Quote, Technology
Tagged FiOS, iPad, Isaac Asimov, Netgear, network, powerline, Skype, Wireless adapter
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LOVE: Windows Phone “Mango” Update
Joy, joy, happy, happy. First it was the Android and then a Windows Phone 7 that finally made my cell phone an Internet accessing wonder. Sometimes it’s crazy how much I luv new, high tech gadgetry. In this case, I … Continue reading
What is this Cloud thing everyone is talking about?
When Aunt Joanne or sister Debby asks me what is the cloud computing, I point to this video. The official definition is something like: Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool … Continue reading
