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I think therefore I can drive

Seems mind control has finally come of age. This German company has produced a thought control system that has successfully controlled a car. Its uses up to that point were to control an iPod and an iPhone. I didn’t know Apple made cars though.

Anyway, this brain-machine gaming interface, the Emotiv EPOC, is [...]

Technology for technologies sake

Maybe it is me but I look at this new device called an OnPlug. It is designed as a cut off aid for systems such as TVs to reduce their standby levels to zero.

It is claimed to be the simpliest such device which means there are more like that out there.

Personally, [...]

Security takes a leap forward

With Google now looking at offering two factor authentication to its GMail Accounts it seems that online services are seriously looking at security. However, Google has also done the world a service here with the method they use.

Many applications in the real world use two factor authentication as a way to protect security. [...]

Bringing the world on-line

Plans are in progress for a charity to fund its own satellite as a first stage in its objective to bring the entire world on-line.

The first stage is to bring a portion of the third world on line, using the old Terrestar-1 satellite whose owner has just gone bankrupt. This coupled with [...]

Is IT driving costs down?

Everywhere you go the answer seems to be Yes. But is it?

For one thing the sheer power of data processing has allowed governments to dictate a million and one new rules in every business which needs massive changes to processes and processing power for businesses to meet, for example in banking those changes [...]

Ken Olsen, the founder of minicomputer company Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) has died

Obituary – Ken Olsen, the founder of minicomputer company Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) died last Sunday. He was 84 years old. Another pioneer lost to the world.

Years ago I worked exclusively on DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) mini computers. In my opinion the best systems out there on a price performance basis at [...]

Another undersea hotel, where is my city?

I was reading this article on another undersea hotel in Dubai. At only £300M, a bargain.

It made me wonder when we will finally build an undersea city and create a stepping stone to a new world. One that would be outside the influence of our existing governments and one that would be [...]

Government censorship

After the censorship in Egypt and the ongoing censorship in many countries our politicians have seen a way to shut up those pesky sites that keep questioning what they do and posting their failings.

Western governments are now looking at installing internet kill switches for themselves.

Well, no sooner than the government starts to [...]

China makes progress while we go backwards

The UK’s chief nutter prepares a sacrifice to the wind gods.

It seems China is starting to look at moving away from coal fired power stations to new cleaner energy using Thorium in a TMSR (Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor). Plans are in place for a reactor to be up and running in 20 years.

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Build your own frontier town

A group of people are working on Open Source modular tools that can help communities build a modern village in the third world. It appears that making these tools is on average 8 times cheaper than buying the ready built tools from manufacturers and the group is making the plans for these tools [...]