Corning released another video today showing their wishful thinking about how you might use their materials tech in 20 and 30 years. This video is follow up to the one that they released last yer.
A lot of the examples look interesting, but let me make my own prediction. By the time that we have the materials to actually make (and sell) any of the tablet like devices, we won’t be using them in any way like the way they’re shown here.
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I know that I have a lot of authors who read this blog, so today I thought I’d post this helpful instructional video. The Fishbowl Improv Group would like to share several of their best techniques for reading poetry.
Enjoy.
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When the XO-3 tblet debuted a few weeks back, one of its selling points was that it could run off of a small 10W solar panel. In fact, if I hadn’t been distracted by CES 2012, I would have written about this post, in which they prove the solar panel concept with an XO-1.75 laptop.
Now, the XO-1.75 isn’t the XO-3, but it does share a lot of details. The over all design of the motherboards is the same, so the power consumption should be similar. But you don’t have to take my word for it; check out the following video. It was shot in Cambridge, MA, in early January.
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I don’t watch much TV anymore, so I missed this commercial when Asus first released it. But I’m glad I caught this parody. It’s funny.
Like a lot of gadget commercials, this video originally had a sappy narration. The parody is also narrated, only this time all the lines have been replaced by snarky comments.
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Have you seen this video yet?
A trio of researchers at the KAIST Institute of Information Technology Convergence have put together demo reading app for the iPad. It doesn’t support any new ebook features, but it does have a number of innovations in how you interface with the ebook you’re reading. The researchers have studied some of the ways that we are all used to using paper books and tried to adapt them to touchscreen based tablet like the iPad.
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Have you ever wanted to write an ebook on an ebook reader? (No, actually). Well now you can!
One enterprising hacker going by the name of verygreen was asked to look into USB host for the Nook Touch. He noted that the NT had a lot in common with the NC, so he started looking to see if the NT could take keyboard. It can, because it turns out that the NT has the hardware for USB host.
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Apple made the news earlier this week when they announced their new digital textbook platform. It included interactive textbooks that enabled all sorts of new bling. If you listened to the hype, Apple was going to revolutionize education. But if you’re like me, you saw through the hype and realized that Apple’s shiny new toys were just fancy new way to show the same old textbooks as before.
But there was an upside to the news; it’s brought up all sorts of older articles and discussions on the future of education. Take this interview of Isaac Asimov, for example. It dates to 1988, and the interviewer is Bill Moyer.
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Here’s clever little video that shows the relative popularity of computers over time. You’ll need to watch it pretty closely because it’s only 28 seconds long and it covers everything from 1975 to today.
It really puts the success of the iPad into perspective. Right now there are more iPads in use than Macs. The same goes for iPhones, too.
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Charbax is a name that my regular readers should know. We trade stories, share sources, and post each others videos on a regular basis.
I posted about my own visit with Sriram Peruvemba, the marketing director at E-ink, a few days back. Today I thought it would be interesting to post Charbax’s interview. Here’s his 17 minute video.
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HP may have decided to open source webOS, but they’re clearly not giving up on it. Earlier this week HP released an update for the zombified TouchPad. It’s now up to webOS 3.0.5, and the latest version adds a number of usability improvements:
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