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Innovations: IBM’s Next 5 in 5
The third annual “IBM Next Five in Five” is a list of innovations that have the potential to change the way people work, live and play over the next five years. The Next Five in Five is based on market and societal trends expected to transform our lives, as well as emerging technologies from IBMs Labs around the world that can make these innovations possible.
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Video: I’m a 21st century learner
This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills.
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Electronic Paper: LG Philips demonstrates color A4-size E-Paper
LG Philips LCD, the world’s second largest liquid crystal display maker, has developed the first A4-sized color electronic-paper.
The flexible display panel which is 35.9cm across its diagonal and just 0.3 millimeters thin can display up to 4096 colors. The company says that the images displayed are comparable in quality to printed pages. The e-paper panel only uses power when the image changes on the display.
…Like the black and white flexible display, the color version uses a substrate that arranges Thin-Film Transistors (TFT) on metal foil rather than glass, allowing it to recover its original shape after being bent. This model includes a color filter coated onto the plastic substrate, allowing it to display color images.
LG.Philips LCD’s use of metal foil and plastic substrate rather than glass substrate makes…
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Video: Mobile devices of the future
Intel has just recently shown its new generation of a “mobile (UMPC) platform” at the IDF in China that was only briefly demonstrated at the CeBIT earlier this year.
The new “handheld PCs” available later this year will be far more powerful than the current devices but the major steps forward by size, processing power, battery life and displays are expected for 2008.
At the same time Intel introduced its vision of future devices with the video below. Great ideas, we really liked the watch-like device…
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Advertising: Career in Computer Science
Besides the “cool” skateboarder meeting girl and having a good time plot this video is full of great and potentially not so far away gadgets. MS Research is using the short film to get young people interested in a career in Computer Science. We really liked the flying personal robot but what is awesome and most likely to happen very soon is the data transfer visualization on the virtual computer table in the cafe…
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Video: All’s Fair at the Fair
Watch this great 1938 cartoon by the Fleischer Brothers to see how people have seen the future to come at that time. Great 8min animation movie…
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