You know you’ve dreamed about it. You want a bionic eye. Everyone does. Since you were a kid watching The Six Mission Dollar Man, you’ve dreamed of the day when bionics could become a reality. Most of the bionic parts of Steve Austin already exist in some form (although not usually exceptionally powerful). But the…
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Second Life (an online virtual 3D world) has been around a while now. It’s incredibly popular and even has its own economy. You can enter Second Life and “live” a life completely different from who you really are. It’s somewhat of a game, but it mimics real life as much as possible. Companies (mainly IBM)…
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Another one of those, “Wow! Science is cool,” moments just happened in California. In Berkley to be more precise. Researchers as the University of California, Berkeley have for the first time demonstrated the ability to cloak three dimensional objects! Cool! I mentioned this before, but didn’t think it would become a reality so soon. The…
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In celebration of the Olympic Games that start today in Bejing, China, Google has created a widget that contains a medal tracker as well as event and venue information. All built on their mapping technology. And here it is: [If you don’t see the embedded map, view the web original post on the site] Be…
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Have you ever been on vacation and wanted to know where the closest LDS Church is? How about moving to a new area and wondering to which ward you belong, to which building you should go and what time are services? The IT team for the church has just released a beta version of their…
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When the original iPhone first came out, I posted a review after just a week or so of use. One of my major complaints was the lack of voice dialing. When Apple announced their SDK, I had hoped that someone would build a third party application to do just that. My hope was answered by…
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Today will be a day of infamy fame, err… it’ll be cool. Ok… maybe not that amazing, but it might be cool. The Mozilla Foundation has just released the latest version of Firefox. What does version 3 give you? It’s faster, sleeker, consumes less memory and gives more functionality. Today is special because they…
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When Dwight D Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, in 1958, I wonder if he had any inkling of what kind of an impact that action would have on the world. Not only did the act create the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), but also DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency). DARPA…
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It’s kind of become tradition in the technology industry to put out a fake announcement on April 1 of some cool experimental technology that will revolutionize the industry and is usually completely implausible. Google always leads the way. Today is no exception as they have already started pouring in. Google announced a join venture with…
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I’ve reviewed the iPhone in the past and although I love the device, it has it’s problems and I have my pet peeves. One of the cons I mentioned in my review was a lack of third-party applictions. And although I am waiting with baited breath for the iPhone SDK (promised by end of February),…
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