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- New Best of the Web talk: Gary Vaynerchuk
- The magic of the placebo: Eric Mead on TED.com
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- How I fell in love with a fish: Dan Barber on TED.com
- The year open data went worldwide: Tim Berners-Lee on TED.com
- New Best of the Web talks: Richard Feynman, Srikumar Rao
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Category Archives: Technology
Apple design in 30 years
I have been very fortunate to have worked at Apple as a System Engineer during the introduction of some of the products in this visualization. Apple has really moved into the arena of design + technology as their recent products have proved…since so many companies both in and out of the computer business have stolen [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Innovation, Kasprzak, Milwaukee, Smartphone, Tablet
Tagged apple, apple design, business, Design, design technology, fan boy, system engineer, Technology, visual, visualization
Transforming how we experience imaging
Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon and the co-creator of Photosynth, a monumental piece of software capable of assembling static photos into a synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces. Check out how this technology will change our approach to imaging.
Tags: Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Seadragon, Photosynth, design, TED, [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, HighRes, Innovation, Interactive, Media Players, Network, OpenSource, Rich media, Streaming, TED, Virtual Reality
Tagged architect, blaise aguera y arcas, imaging, microsoft, monumental piece, photos, photosynth, seadragon, synergy, TED
Google: Think BIG with a gig
Google is planning to launch an experimental network that will make internet access better and faster for consumers.
Link to website
Tags: experimental network, Google, Network, internet access, Research, Internet2, Broadbandt, gigabit, high speed, trends,
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Google, Innovation, Milwaukee, Network, Streaming
Tagged consumers, experimental network, fiber, gig, gigabit, Google, high speed, home connections, internet access, internet speeds, Network, speed broadband, youtube
My latest read – Our Choice
Al Gore’s latest book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis should be considered by anyone interested in learning how the world can conserve resources with next generation technologies to reduce the globe’s carbon footprint.
Its easy to think this book is a political sequel to An Inconvenient Truth. That would be a mistake. [...]
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Tagged Al Gore, america, carbon footprint, change, china, climate crisis, coal, dramatic changes, energy, energy tool, environment, generation technologies, green, green fuels, india, internet, political rhetoric, population, population boom, social responsibility, Technology, TED
Large Hadron Collider’s big network
15 petabytes of data a year will be generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) a particle physics project running at CERN and that requires a very robust network. Data generated by LHC is being distributed to over 7,000 scientists worldwide and travels across the US Midwest via BoreasNet.
In this video CERN technologists discuss the [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Innovation, Internet2, Milwaukee, Network, WiscNet
Tagged boreas, cern, gigabit ethernet ports, hadron collider, Internet2, large hadron, lhc, midwest, Network, particle physics, petabytes, robust network, storage devices
Microsoft’s Tablet ?
According to the UK Telegraph: Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer failed to wow the crowds when he opened the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday night.
I must admit there was not a lot of excitement from his presentation.
Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, Tablet, CES, media player, magazine, trends
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Innovation, Media Players, Reading, Tablet
Tagged consumer electronics show, consumer electronics show in las vegas, crowds, microsoft, microsoft chief executive, steve ballmer, Tablet, telegraph
Sports Illustrated Tablet
Sports Illustrated is highlighting a forthcoming tablet from Time Inc. It looks interesting but what is Time’s market for this type of product with their brands? How does a subscription their publications justify the hardware and annual subscription fees? Who is their wireless provider, how do I sync it to my laptop and what about [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Innovation, Interactive, Media Players, Rich media, Tablet
Tagged Design, download, magazine, magazine sports, sports illustrated, subscription fees, Tablet, time inc
Google Web Toolkit 2.0
An overview of Google’s Web Toolkit (GWT) 2.0, a tool with new updates that empower developers to write highly optimized, browser-specific JavaScript for their apps. Pretty cool stuff.
Tags: Web Toolkit, Google, Developers, datasets, innovation, technology, trends
Also posted in Design, Education, Google, Innovation, Network, OpenSource, Web2.0
Tagged cool stuff, developers, Google, web toolkit, www youtube
OLPC – The mission
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Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Innovation, Network, OLPC, OpenSource, green
Tagged child empowerment, laptop, laptop per child, OLPC, one laptop per child