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Man on the Moon, Future and Past
via The Big Picture by (author unknown) on July 02, 2008
Shared by hikikomori As always, click through for more mind-blowing photos.With two currently functioning orbiters, and five more missions planned in the next year, Earth's Moon may soon have seven active probes operated by five nations, with even more coming soon. NASA's plans to return humans to the Moon by 2020 are moving steadily ahead, with some concrete prototypes and initial...
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Jott Reads Feeds to Your Cell Phone [Jott]
via Lifehacker by Kevin Purdy on June 02, 2008
Voice-to-text service Jott has up and reversed their game a bit with their latest service offering—having custom-picked feeds read back to you, over your phone connection. If you're already a Jott member, you should see a feed notice when you log in starting today, where you can choose highlighted feeds (including Lifehacker) or give Jott your custom feeds. Call into Jott, say "Jott feeds"...
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Why Your Car May Soon Be Driving Digital Advertising
via Micro Persuasion by Steve Rubel on June 01, 2008
Photo credit: Really Simple Syndication by Shira Goldling The following is also my column this week in Advertising Age. If you think there's already enough to distract you in your life, just wait. With Americans spending 100 hours a year commuting, according to the Census Bureau, the internet is coming to your car in a big way -- and not just to the front seat either. Dashboard...
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MicroPR Personalizes Public Relations
via PR 2.0 by Brian Solis on May 14, 2008
New media is forcing the rapid evolution of communications and is reinventing the science of public relations into the art of “personalized” relations. And, with micromedia further refining and improving how we communicate with each other, PR is going to learn the hard way, that the days of blasts and untargeted spam pitching will get us nowhere with today’s influencers.Stowe Boyd placed a...
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The Third Install of Aquilion ONE CT from Toshiba in the US
via Medgadget by (author unknown) on May 21, 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble Wow, look at the images this thing can make!Toshiba's gargantuan dynamic volume system called AquilionONE, the device that features a coverage area of 320 detectors rows in addition to a respectable 650 lb table capacity, has now been installed at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, according to a press release obtained by Medgadget. This is the third...
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Showing off the World Wide Talk Show to Media Bistro
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble on May 20, 2008
Today I gave a talk which is getting lots of kudos at the Media Bistro Circus here in New York. I showed a ton of stuff including Qik, Asterpix, Seesmic, FriendFeed, Twitter, Twittervision, Dotsub, Fast Company.tv, Snackr, and Twhirl.Allen Stern at Centernetworks filmed it and said nice things about me, which I greatly appreciate. He said “I captured his entire discussion (~15 minutes) and...
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Now you can cry over heavens
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by Robert Scoble on May 12, 2008
Remember when I cried over seeing something very cool at Microsoft Research?Well now you can cry too, because the World Wide Telescope is now up.Still is stunning, even a few months later.Here’s the FastCompany interview where we meet the two guys who got this built and is what led me to declare I was crying.
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Google Reader’s new “share note” feature: the video review
via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger by (author unknown) on May 05, 2008
Shared by Robert Scoble One thing is FriendFeed now says it is importing these headlines. I wish these comments had a LOT more features.I love the idea of Google Reader’s new “share note” feature, but find it lacking in implementation — watch along in this video review.What’s really wrong with it?1. It’s breaking on my machines. No way to cancel note that I can see, and UI is not...
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Electro-occular implants transform blind grandmas into NBA stars
via Boing Boing Gadgets by John Brownlee on May 04, 2008
Daily Tech has a great article up about the newest revisions of Second Sigh Vision's Argus electro-occular implant technology, which aims to partially restore sight to the blind. The earliest trials in 2004 featured a 4x4 inch grid of electrodes to translate incoming light into electrical signals to be passed onto the brain, but Argus Mach II is now up to 60 electrodes in a 10x6 grid. That...
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Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses Let You See Through Your Car In First Person [Gadgets]
via Gizmodo by Jason Chen on April 22, 2008
We were too poor to play with RC cars when we were kids, but it seems like it was worth the wait in order for these Fat Shark Wireless RC Glasses to be invented. Strap the glasses on your face and you'll be able to see through the actual head of the RC driver. Better yet, the head can pivot and tilt so you're not always looking straight ahead in front of the car. We only wish it would be...
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