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Read this, it caught my attention so it might be of some what interest to you as well! NEW YORK (AP) — The idea emerged after Jonathan “Yoni” Shimshoni and a team of aspiring inventors in Israel watched a television documentary about victims trapped on the upper floors of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Shimshoni recalled seeing
Great news for those of you looking forward to flying cars, if you can afford it. This summer, graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will try to get an idea aloft that has intrigued people for decades: the flying car. Terrafugia, a start-up created by Lemelson-MIT Student Prize winner Carl Dietrich and colleagues at MIT’s Department of Aeronautics
Here’s an interesting article about Apple and if they should consider using Windows on their Apple MAC’s. Bigger companies than Apple have dropped their proprietary OSs in favor of Windows—think IBM and OS/2. IBM also jumped on the Linux bandwagon over its own AIX version of Unix. Business eventually trumps sentimentality in any large company. Another issue for Apple is
I’ve blogged about the effort to build a space elevator before and will do again in the future until that day comes when we finally see a fully functional one from earth to space, but I guess for now all I can do is keep you updated on the latest news, and this times it’s news on how the LiftPort
More news on the subject of Microsoft building a MP3 Player! Rumors continue to spread that Microsoft may finally be ready to try and take on Apple in the portable media player market. Many are speculating what Microsoft may have planned to try and combat Apple in the MP3 player market. While speaking at a Seattle area high school, one
Ever heard of Zooomr? Started on a late October, 26th in 2005, Zooomr was born to explore the information inside of photos. It aims to be not merely another photo sharing service, but something that helps connect people together through photos. Perhaps one of the most important features of Zooomr is that it’s localized. With over 10 locales worldwide and
Flickr celebrated it’s 2nd Birthday yesterday! The Flickr team hopes you can join us as we enter our terrible twos. Adaptive Path will be hosting our event on their fabulous 2nd floor (2nd birthday, 2nd floor!). Our friends at O’Reilly are sending us copies Flickr Hacks hot of the press from the printers and QOOP is planning a little surprise.
Jeeves the valet who for a decade has overseen searches on the Ask website is about to be sacked. By the end of February the iconic valet will disappear from the site he has graced since it debuted in 1996. The decision to axe Jeeves was taken in September 2005 but he stayed in place while the company investigated how
I have just logged into Gmail and just got a message saying Now you can talk in Google Mail so I guess that means that the Google Mail/Gmail Chat feature is now up and running, I’m going to check it out right now! Chat – Send instant messages from directly within Google Mail. When you go to your inbox, you’ll
Kosmix the Search Engine as been around for a couple of months now, I my self tested it out a while back, but it’s is only now that it’s starting to get mentioned more around the Net, read more below. Two students that studied with Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford could end up being Google’s biggest challenger Larry