2008-08-30 14:22:33
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2008-08-30 15:24:48

The world's largest consumer electronics trade show opens its doors in Berlin today and organisers are hoping to top the 220,000 visitors who passed through the exhibition's 30 halls last year.

For days, tech bloggers have been salivating over early images of the mini Amilo system, so far the worst-kept secret of the show.

It's the latest entry in the mini-laptop sector brought to life by Asustek a year ago with its Eee PC, offering mobile computing for under €300. No doubt other computer manufacturers will have their own models in the rapidly growing sub-notebook segment.


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2008-08-30 15:46:40

IFA 2008 Product Demonstration - Sony VAIO Z series

A video demonstration of the Sony VAIO Z series

2008-08-30 15:50:04

IFA 2008: Wibrain UMPC

2008-08-30 15:52:06

IFA 2008: The Samung X360 Notebook

Zara takes a look at Samsung's answer to the MacBook Air, a ultra light laptop with no CD drive.

2008-08-30 16:36:56

TweakTown - Intel Nehalem video at Computex Taipei 2008


[Check out the huge touch screen flat screen ]

2008-08-31 11:40:41

Future Computer Of 2020


This is a preview of what computers could look like in the near future of 2020

2008-08-31 13:44:25

Intel CTO Justin Rattner on The Next 40 Years of Computing

Intel CTO Justin Rattner talks about Intel's 40th anniversary and gives a sneak preview of his keynote at the upcoming Intel Developer Forum.

2008-08-31 14:39:16

Intel Centrino 2 features an enhanced CPU utilizing Intel's 45 nanometer technology, new chipset for HD video and more powerful wireless connectivity (WiMAx ready).

Intel's Mooly Eden and Erik Reid from the launch event in San Francisco 7/14/08.

2008-08-31 21:34:56

Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web


At the 2007 EG conference, Kevin Kelly shares a fun stat: The World Wide Web, as we know it, is only 5,000 days old.

Now, Kelly asks, how can we predict what's coming in the next 5,000 days?

2008-08-31 23:43:23
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Virtual Reality - People Won't Need To Leave The House/Cell


Presenter Michio Kaku demonstrates "tele-immersion" technology by dancing in a virtual world with people who are hundreds of miles away. They are dancing with each other's virtual 3-dimensional images, transmitted to them in real time.

Kaku suggests that 3-dimensional technologies like tele-immersion could be "the evolutionary successor of the telephone, and might even reduce air travel" (and real human contact). Kaku envisages business conferences, Christmas parties, TV programmes and football games all taking place in virtual worlds.

The growth of online communications seems to be serving as a stepping stone towards a virtual world to come.

Kaku points out that Second Life is "not just escapist entertainment - people actually live in these worlds. They even fall in love."

Then we are shown a couple who met in this virtual world and then got married 6 months later in the real world. The woman now earns her money selling virtual products in a virtual world, and is excited by the prospect of Second Life evolving into something bigger and better.

Kaku says that by 2020 there will be "an entire 3-dimensional universe in cyberspace with virtual countries and governments, virtual schools and universities, virtual property and stock markets, and virtual families and friends."

Then futurist and transhumanist frontman Ray Kurzweil tells us that virtual reality is going to become more and more like real realities, but it has a lot of advantages over real reality e.g. you can share a virtual reality environment with someone hundreds of miles away, you can be somebody else, you can change the environment quickly.

But it won't be real, and people will never know reality and truth while they are choosing to exist within a virtual world, as opposed to living a real life in the real world.

2008-09-01 00:00:49

Morris's Eye on 2020


Future forecaster, Morris Miselowski welcomes you to the future, where the pigs are fluorescent, your avatar does the shopping and your t-shirt tells you you’re low in iron. His message is clear. Belt up, because we’re in for quite a ride, and sooner than we think!

Take a fully escorted virtual ride to the year 2020 and see what life, business and technology might look like.

2008-09-01 00:09:43

Future Technology: UMPC [Ultra mobile PC ]

2008-09-01 10:40:37

'Explosive growth'


Author and inventor Ray Kurzweil on what the future holds for education and technology.

2008-09-01 15:44:56
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IDF Shanghai: Keynote Demos Showcase Mobility, Innovation


In this video podcast straight from Intel's Spring IDF in Shanghai, the spotlight is on the keynote demos that showed power and performance in newer, smaller and more innovative form factors, many powered by the Intel's Atom processor. Many of the demonstrations focused on mobility, and they all provided an exciting look at some of the technologies that are just around the corner.

Dr. Ren Ng, president and CEO of Refocus Imaging, led a demo of his company's light field cameras, which record the full light field as it enters the camera, ultimately extending the capabilities of conventional digital cameras and "turning camera hardware into software." Ng explains that by doing this, light field cameras "bring the economics and power of Moore's Law to the camera system." (snapshots from their Web site illustrate the demo, which they re-created live, on stage at IDF!).

Also on hand was Dr. Mendel Rosenblum, co-founder and chief scientist at VMware. He shared the stage with Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager, Digital Enterprise Group, Pat Gelsinger, to demonstrate a flex migration across four generations of hardware as well as the value of the deep collaboration between Intel and VMware.

There was a live demo by Classmate PC, following the news-making announcement of the new, second generation classmate "featuring a 9-inch LCD screen, 6-cell battery, 512MB memory, a 30GB hard disk drive and a built-in webcam", the unveiling of Intel's Tukwila Itanium processor "Two billion transistors in one processor", and a mobility-focused Asianux demoonstration of the breadth of Moblin Usage, including a new way to play video from the Web and a new way to order Chinese food.

A Montevina demo was noteworthy after Intel Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel's Mobility Group, Dadi Perlmutter, revealed that Intel's next generation mobile platform, Montevina, will provide twice the 3D processing power of any current integrated solution.

Demos showcasing Neusoft driver assistance, Fuwa robot, Adobe Air, Sobey real-time rendering and MID & mobile designs rounded out the event.

2008-09-01 21:50:16

Intel CTO: No more power cords


At the Intel Developer Forum today, Intel CTO Justin Rattner showed off a research project from his labs that powers electronics wirelessly. The big idea is to someday cut the last cord in laptops!

2008-09-02 11:15:17

Powerful Beyond Imagination

How High Performance computing is changing the way we do science

2008-09-02 11:29:05

High Performance Computing at the National Cancer Institute


Interview with Jack Collins of the National Cancer Institute, regarding the Institute's mission, applications, computational challenges, and tools.

2008-09-04 15:57:51

Intel CTO predicts physical computers will eventually disappear


I had a chance to chat with Justin Rattner, Intel CTO, as he reflected on Intel's first 40 years and looked ahead to the next 40 years. He says instead of technology being an evolution over time, big revolutionary changes tend to happen in rapid "giant leaps".

He thinks the next major leap will be in the human interface with technology, with potential future breakthroughs in processing that would have the physical boxes of computers disappear into the fabric of our daily lives.

Watch this video to hear Justin describe it himself:

2008-09-04 16:02:13

Technology For Long-Term Care


Research At Intel Day occurred on June 11th at The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

This event was put on to showcase the latest and greatest research from Intel. In this video, Intel Researcher Ken Lafond talks about Technology For Long-Term Care.

This project applies technology to make it easier to manage the care for the elderly.

2008-09-04 16:37:18

Robot reveolution?


Microsoft says it is on the cusp of standardizing robot development, but some analysts say the company is far too optimistic.

2008-09-04 17:08:57

Future in Review - Calit2 Field Trip hosted by Larry Smarr

Future in Review's Calit2 Field Trip to visit Larry Smarr and the super computing super visualization lab. 4K in Stereo 3D demonstration, hosted by Mark Anderson, Strategic News Services, Future in Review

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2008-10-31 11:42:22
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15 Hot New Technologies That Will Change Everything


In the following sections, we outline the basics of 15 upcoming technologies, with predictions on what may come of them. Some are breathing down our necks; some advances are still just out of reach. And all have to be reckoned with.

• Memristor: A Groundbreaking New Circuit
  


• 32-Core CPUs From Intel and AMD
  


• Nehalem and Swift Chips Spell the End of Stand-Alone Graphics Boards
  


• USB 3.0 Speeds Up Performance on External Devices
  


• Wireless Power Transmission
  


• 64-Bit Computing Allows for More RAM
  


• Windows 7: It's Inevitable
  


• Google's Desktop OS
  


• Gesture-Based Remote Control
  


• Radical Simplification Hits the TV Business
  


• Curtains for DRM
  


• Use Any Phone on Any Wireless Network
  


• Your Fingers Do Even More Walking
  


• Cell Phones Are the New Paper
  


• Where You At? Ask Your Phone, Not Your Friend
  


• 25 Years of Predictions

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2008-11-22 20:33:55

IBM Seeks to Build the Computer of the Future Based on Insights from the Brain


In an unprecedented undertaking, IBM Research and five leading universities are partnering to create computing systems that are expected to simulate and emulate the brains abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and cognition while rivaling its low power consumption and compact size.

Science has come a long way in understanding the bodys central nervous system, but the way our brains work - the fact that we recognize patterns and base our thoughts and ideas on past experiences, for example - remains largely a mystery.

Understanding the process behind these effortless feats of the human brain and creating a computational theory based on it is one of the biggest and most fundamental challenges for computer scientists today, and IBM researchers are one step closer to making this quest a reality.

2009-01-10 13:18:21

Future OF Computing Microsoft CES09

Janet Galore shows a conceptual demo of how Microsofts technologies of the future will radically change the way find, share and use information.