Wednesday, August 11, 2010

11-Aug-2010 AM clippings

Enjoy:

How do you make a touch display irresistable? Well, you use fibre optics to make it furry:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19250-future-on-display-technology-youll-want-to-stroke.html

The Motorola Driod 2 is official, and so is the R2-D2 version for dedicated Star Wars fans. Han shot first!:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/10/motorola-droid-2-and-r2-d2-edition-finally-official-android/

For Star Trek fans, here is a comparison between the development process of Star Trek clipboards and the iPad:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/08/how-star-trek-artists-imagined-the-ipad-23-years-ago.ars

Luminar is a lighbulb-format computer with a mini-projector and camera. It fits in a lamp and projects a workspace on your desk:
http://fluid.media.mit.edu/people/natan/current/luminar.html

A new solar energy conversion process called PETE converts heat and light to power simutaneously and works well in solar concentrators:
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/new-solar-method-080210.html

And finally. German boar might not fly, but they do have a very unhealthy radioactive glow - and their numbers are increasing:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,709345,00.html

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