Internet Based Television
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Internet Based Television
If you have a truly supersized HDTV, Internet Television is the perfect way to move special moments from your computer screen to the mega screen in your living room. Probably the best way to enjoy these tumultuous Internet TV times is with a set-top box or wireless connection between your computer and your HDTV.
This column describes 4 different Internet TV systems:
Logitech Revue (Google TV in a Box)
Boxee Box
Imation Link
IGUGU TV
The Flying Car
The flying car (Photo 1) is now in production and, if there are nodelays, the first units will be in customer hands by the end of this year.
You will need two licenses to fully operate this vehicle: a regular driver’s license to operate it on streets and highways (Photo 2) and a sport pilot’s license to fly it as an airplane.
Web Surfing
No Standard Computer Required
John Chuang, the CEO of litl has embraced the paradigm shift to cloud-based computing. His design team has created the first cloudbased computer, named “litl webbook.” They coined the name “webbook” to describe a new computer classification: a machine that only provides simple access to the Internet, unfettered with the hardware and software found on a standard computer.
The Newest Digital Camera has
Features that will Surprise You
What does a camera manufacturer have to do to keep the general public buying its cameras when almost every device that is portable and digital is capable of taking digital pictures?
Casio's answer is a new series of cameras that can create dynamic digital pictures. The EX-S12 has this best shot function that lets you lasso people, pets, or movable objects out of one scene and then insert them into a different photo.
This is only one of the amazing new features you will find on this camera. It gives you the power to create amazing photos that can defy gravity, logic, or even the space-time continuum.
How to Create
Dynamic Photos
Turning White Boards into Smartboards
Turning Standard Notebook Computers into Tablet PCs
3M SCP716 Turns
Whiteboards into Smartboards
Tablo
Turns your Notebook PC into a Tablet PC
The 3M Micro Professional Projector (MPro 110)
The new 3M Micro Professional Projector ($399.00 list) is the first generation of a new and emerging technology. It is the size of a small TV remote control, see photo.
It is designed to be hooked up to any device that is capable of transmitting a video signal. Appropriate devices include digital cameras, video phones, video MP3 players, DVD players, Personal Video Players, video game machines, and of course computers.
The unit's imager supports VGA (640 by 480 pixels), SVGA (800 by 600 pixels), and XGA (1,024 by 768 pixels) display resolutions.
Building a Smart National U.S. Power Grid
One of President Obama’s pre-election promises was to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by increasing our use of renewable energy to generate electricity. To increase our use of renewable energy we must create an enhanced electric grid system capable of transmitting electricity from the location where it is generated to the location where it is needed.
To fully embrace renewable energy our electric grid will need to go through a major metamorphosis. Our future grid will include smart meters to monitor the electricity that you use and also new technologies to store electricity produced during low demand periods for use when the demand is high.
The Dynamic Tower
Imagine a new kind of building that physically embraces the forces of nature and, much like a wind chime, accepts the wind as its artist’s final design element. David Fisher is the visionary architect behind the Dynamic Tower. His design creates a building facade that is constantly changing.
A snapshot in time will never catch the dynamics of this building where each floor rotates independently at a different speed. To understand the Dynamic Tower you need to read the story and watch the videos.
Slacker Radio
Free radio is again reinventing itself by broadcasting free music over the Internet.
One of these free online stations, Slacker Radio, has actually invented a new type of portable radio player (Photo 1 in column).
After you properly set up your computer, Slacker Radio’s G2 can automatically download future free personal radio programming. The Slacker G2 player receives its free music from slacker.com
At this web site you select radio stations or you create your own radio stations by selecting specific artists. The 4 GB model will hold 25 stations and the 8 GB model will hold 40 stations. Your Slacker portable G2 player only needs a Wi-Fi connection to download the music to your player. You can refresh the unit at any Wi-Fi hot spot, which gives the unit an infinite capacity.
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
Does it Leapfrog the Apple iPad II?
Samsung Tab 10.1 Vs Apple iPad 2
Apple introduced its first iPad in April of 2010. Just like the iPhone before it, the Apple iPad was an instant sensation and Apple sold three million iPads in less than three months. In the consumer electronic field being first out of the gate with a new product doesn’t guarantee that you will be able to hold your lead when your competitors introduce competing products. The question becomes can Apple keep its lead as other companies introduce tablet products?
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Using Technology (Playlater and the Wi-Drive)
To Make Travel Time Fly
February 2012
By Alan J. Pierce EdD
PlayLater is a PC DVR that is married to an Internet browser. It lets you record shows from all the channels shown in the photo. You need an Internet connection to record your shows, but you don’t need a connection to watch them.
The Wi-Drive establishes a private Wi-Fi network. It is about the same size as an iPod Touch and it lets you supersize the storage capacity of your handheld devices. It can broadcast different content to up to three different-brand handheld units at the same time.
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