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iPhone 4: Hands on review

Posted on 29. Jun, 2010 by Jake.

Check out this complete hands-on review of the iPhone 4 with full specs, from CNet. I want one!

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Sixth Sense: I see new technology

Posted on 14. Apr, 2010 by Jake.

A discussion about Sixth Sense at the TED conference. It looks awesome!
It’s basically a mini-projector coupled with a camera and a cellphone—which acts as the computer and your connection to the Cloud, all the information stored on the web. It can also obey hand gestures!
I want one

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Did you know?

Posted on 16. Mar, 2010 by Jake.

Forget Chappies wrappers, the following clip has some facts for the modern age.
They focus on technology and how it has changed our lives.
I can’t vouch for all of them, but I’m sure some research has been done by its creators (who, in case you were wondering, are Americans Karl Fisch, Scott McLood and Jeff Bronman).
The music is Fatboy Slim’s ‘Right Here, Right Now’ btw.
Check it out! I think it’s pretty impressive.

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The awesomeness of laser fusion

Posted on 26. Feb, 2010 by Jake.

Laser fusion is going to be awesome!!! Science lovers take note, as this clip from New Scientist shows, researchers are one step closer to triggering a self-sustained fusion reaction.

As a post on Slashdot puts it:
“The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has performed their first controlled fusion experiments using all 192 lasers. While still not ramped up to full power, the first experiments proved very fruitful. The lasers create a lot of plasma in the target container and researchers worried that the plasma would interfere with the ability of the target to absorb enough energy to ignite. These experiments show that not only does enough energy make it through, the plasma can be manipulated to increase the uniformity of compression. Ramping up of power is due to start in May.”

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The known universe

Posted on 01. Feb, 2010 by Jake.

I was going to post one of the many YouTube clips I’ve seen today either dismissing the iPad as useless or proclaiming it to be the saviour of all mankind, but then I had a dramatic and monumental epiphane:

There is more to life than the iPad.

This clip takes you on an impressive and comprehensive tour of our known universe. It uses the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas, which is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History.

Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world’s most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History.

The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.

Most importantly, it offers a reminder that there are things that are bigger than us, and more important than us, and certainly bigger and more important than the iPad. Enjoy.

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