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News Links to the World of Advancing Technology Across Every Genre
 
 Keyboards May Become Obsolete
 ABC News anchor Bill Weir hosts a new Yahoo TV segment called "This Could Be Big." In this report, he features the new Omnitouch technology that culd make computer screens and keypads obsolete. ~ Yahoo News

 


 

 

TOWARD NET-ZERO BUILDINGS

Imagine a world powered by ubiquitous solar where the buildings in which we live and work generate abundant and clean electricity while becoming far more energy efficient. That’s the future Pythagoras Solar envisions. Not solar panels. How about 'solarized' windows? ~ Pythagoras-Solar

 


 

  Smart Gadget Secrets
There seems to be an app for virtually everything these days. Your cell phone can read your blood pressure. That old digicam you no longer use gives you better quality over Skype than your computer cam. ~ Yahoo Contributor Network

 

 "A Day Made of Glass"
Imagine, if you can, a world where SMART tech tools rush to you to meet your every need. A world of pervasive technology that is "always ON,"  awaiting your touch or your verbal command. It's here! Click the photo.

 

 


 

Web 3.0 Could Lead to E-Government That Anticipates Citizens’ Needs
"There will be a day when smartphone users can drive past a motor vehicles office that has installed sensors for transmitting citizen reminders. As people pass by, they could be alerted on their phones that their license or vehicle registration is about to expire." ~ GT News

 


 

This Thermo Mirror Can Read Your Body Temperature
The Thermo Mirror looks like an ordinary vanity mirror, but it has an infrared sensor that can measure an onlooker’s core temperature from up to 30 centimeters away. ~Gadget.com

 


Smart Cities of the Future Being Wired Today
IBM is setting the pace of looking at cities in the future. By 2050, it is estimated that approximately 70% of the world's population will be living in cities. Today, that figure is over 50%. Current infrastructures are stressed as it is now. Go to IBM's "Smarter Cities" website and review the multi-level presentation to see both the challenges and proposed solutions. For more information, check the sources in the "Smart Tech" sidebar on this page.

 

Is the Office Necessary Anymore?

A new global study suggests that a majority of workers think they can be as productive anywhere as in the office.
~ ConnectIT


 

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SMART TECH
"Smart" Technology is taking digital computerization to all-new vistas that few even imagined not many years ago. "Ubiquitous ... Embedded ... Pervasive" technologies (aka: "Calm") are wiring the world. Here are some sources that will take you there.

SMART Cities
IBM's "Smarter Planet"
Smart Planet.com
City Forward
YouTubeVIDEO: Smarter Cities
Smart-Cities.net
SmartCity.com
Smart City Wikipedia
SmartPlanet Technology

SMART Clothes
Georgia Tech Wearable Motherboard
Textiles that Track Your Health
Smart, Hi-Tech Clothing ~ Forbes mag.
"Smart Clothing" ~ Steve Mann


SMART Streets
Houston TranStar
High-Tech Fire Hydrants

Intelligent Street Lighting White Paper
Smart Street Lights
Traffic Technology Today

SMART Appliances
Slow Growth, Big Influence 
Appliances That Talk to the Grid 
Smart Grid Insights: Appliances (pdf) 
BitPipe.com Whitepapers 

Kevin Kelly, executive editor, WIRED, ©1998
"Soon, all manufactured objects, from sneakers to drill presses to lamp shades to cans of soda, will contain a tiny sliver of embedded thought."
"Chips are becoming cheap and tiny enough to slip into every object we make. Eventually every can of soup will have a chip in its lid. Every light switch will contain a chip. Every book will have a chip embedded in its spine. Every shirt will have at least one chip sewn into its hem. Every item on a grocery shelf will have stuck to it, or embedded within itself, a button of silicon. There are 10 trillion objects manufactured in the world each year, and the day will come when each one of them will carry a flake of silicon."

 

To read more about the new version of Internet addresses - IPv6:
~ Wall Street Journal 020111 
~ Forbes
blog 121010 

 


 

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