Computer Interfaces: Interactive Mirror

This is a patent pending touch capable mirror features proximity sensors, gesturing, and both near-field and far-field infrared. Conceptualized by Alpay Kasal of Lit Studios and Sam Ewen of Interference Inc. Designed/constructed by Alpay Kasal.

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News: Disgruntled IT Admin blocks access to SF city network

From time to time there are stories passed around how a single tech employee is holding a company or agency hostage over a personal dispute or after being fired. This time its a story about an senior admin from San Francisco.

As the SF Chronicle reported yesterday he was arrested by Police this weekend and is being hold in jail on a USD 5 Million bail. He’s accused of having tampered with San Francisco’s new fiber network that provides access for officials to government documents, their emails and the administrative systems…

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Humor: Job Web site(s) or when nonsense strikes

From time to time we are browsing various job web sites around the world to get a better understanding how the market situation for IS/IT is actually developing. And there is one site we normally leave out completely from top-level / senior post scans, but yesterday night we made an exception and that’s what we’ve got:

The scenario:

Lets look for a senior to top level IT/IS position…

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Time: 150 Years of the Atlantic Magazine

To celebrate its 150 years anniversary U.S. Magazine “The Atlantic” has put together a selection of the best articles from its vast archives. As The Atlantic was always popular with the best writers you find well known names like W. Heisenberg, A. Miller, J.D. Watson, C. S. Lewis, N. Mailer, H. Münsterberg, A. M. Schlesinger, M. Twain, V. Bush, V. Woolf, A. Camus, R. D. Kaplan, R. Frost, J. M. Keynes, P. F. Drucker, M. L. King Jr., T. Roosevelt, J. F. Kennedy - just to name a few.

We have put together the pretty long overall list of the articles selected by area of interest. And the best of course is that most of those articles are available online without a subscription…

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Travel: Very Light Jets are getting ready for delivery

One of the latest innovation in aviation are the so called “Very Light Jet” (VLJ ) claiming to start a revolution in air travel.
At cost of less than current piston engine business planes they bring reliability and comfort of jet travel to a new group of customers. VLJs have also been praised for their [...]

Research: What people actually need and want from technology

Technology-related products and services will increasingly be shaped by 12 underlying principles, or “technology values”. These values - such as simplicity, efficiency, and personalization - represent the characteristics that consumers will look for in products, services, and technologies over the next 10 to 15 years. This is the conclusion of a new study from the [...]

Motionposter: Best advertising idea since years

When you recently looked out a subway train window in a tunnel and you’ve seen a runner or a blond girl taking over the train you were watching a new type of advertising displayed with MotionPoster’s new advertising system.

It works by installing 192 backlit poster images in the tunnel and turning them on with [...]

FBI DNA database: Next Generation combined DNA Index System now on its way

Timing couldn’t have been worse - with the Military Commissions Act of 2006 just signed out- the U.S. Dept. of Justice announced that the FBI has today awarded a contract to develop the NGCODIS (next-generation combined DNA index system) to a group of providers.
Unisys together with IBM, government service provider iSYS LLC and two [...]

Japan: Mobile Phone checks for drink-driving

Anew breath analyzer system from DoCoMo that is connected to a mobile phone is becoming popular with bus and transport companies in Japan.
The new system that uses a 3G handset, is considered to be foolproof. Before a driver starts every day or at certain intervals, (s)he makes a video-phone call to the company and [...]

Humanoid robots: More on the Actroid DER2 (videos)

You might have heard about Sanrio’s new Actroid DER2 feminine robot recently. You will already know that its for rent (about USD 3,500 for 5 days) but now there is a series of videos online to see her / it in action.
Dressed up in black latex or as a Japanese young girl it gives us [...]