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Went to fascinating talk tonight on latest developments in India and how the economy is booming at 8% a quarter. Fascinating to hear differences between China and India especially how population of India is so much younger, speaks good English highly educated and a lot more time zone friendly for us in England. Splendid to […]
Cambridge Science Festival: 2004 EventsHere is the programme for Cambridge Science week taht starts on Friday. Some very interesting lectures especially opening one on autism and differences in our brains.
Here is a fantastic use of Instant messaging Science Blog – IM, machine translation on front lines of Iraq developed so that Americans, Polish, Spanish and Ukrainian can chat whilst in Iraq. A great use of technology just as the Iraqi bloggers are having a great effect by describing their culture and what is actually […]
Interesting new product here that scans in all your credit type cards and then issues its own card after it recgonises your fingerprint. So you only have to carry this Chameleon Card around with you in its secure vault. Neat for 200 dollars or so
Oh boy the RIAA are going to love this. Read this scenario here The Shifted Librarian that would be wonderful, walk down the street with your mp3 player sharing songs using wifi with strangers. What a wondrous thought
Here is a link to a blog by Jim Moore which contains a synopis and link to the Pew report on internet usage by Americans. Which contains , to me, the amazing statistic that 44% of internet users have CONTRIBUTED to online content. However, there classification of content creators into three types, seems a bit […]
really cool site that genertates a map of countries you have visited World66, the travel guide you write: visited countries taken from http://www.plasticbag.org/ blog
This is a stunning application of using your inbuilt phone camera with this software to grab bar codes of posters etc etc coupled with gprs 3G technology the applications are endless. so coooool
An interesting fact from here that with close on one billion GSM phone users in world that equals one phone for every six people on the planet.
Here is a good story about Mr Robert Atkins creator of the diet, who apparently when he slipped on the ice and died was clinically obese and suffered heart problems. wonder why his widow wanted that covering up.