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 [...]]]>

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 now commercially available for everyone to use and develop further applications on.

I only hope that unlike the Russian thought controlled Firefox we don’t all have to think German to use it.

Many applications in the real world use two factor authentication as a way to protect security. [...]]]> 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. Two factor authentication is something you have and something you know. For example your bank may have sent you a smart card. This is something you have. Your password, mothers maiden name etc. is what you know. The something you have generates a code you enter when you need it and it changes every minute or so. This stops someone seeing it and later on using it without your knowledge. They have a minute or so to use it. This requires you to be sent a device that needs to be in sync with a master server. These services cost money to set up and maintain.

What Google has done has cheaply taken this into to the masses. Based on the fact that most of us, certainly who use the internet, have a mobile phone. When you try and log in using your username and password it sends a text to your registered phone and you have to enter that as well to log in. It can create that text randomly and only has to remember it for a few minutes.

Simplicity itself. You can expect to see that rolled out a lot more due to its simplicity and ease of use. Google have excelled themselves with this one. This is how innovation should be simple, easy to use and cheap to implement.

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 [...]]]>

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 a step closer to a orbiting space station. At a significant cost reduction.

Much better than a bio dome, it won’t take up any arable land, cheaper than an underground bunker and significantly cheaper than an actual space station.

We should be looking at building a few underwater cities. It is going to be our new frontier. Space travel is just not available yet and space is too unforgiving for us wimps.

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

Well, no sooner than the government starts to [...]]]> 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 move than people a lot smarter start to move and so we have, long before the government is beyond arranging the chairs for the meeting, some suggestions and ways around the internet kill switch.

Innovation is alive and well.

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.

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 [...]]]>

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 available on the net as they are developed.

The Open Source Ecology site, Global Village Construction Set, contains the full set of plans and documentation developed so far.

The units encompass modern component making units like a 3D printer and Plastic Extrusion as well as basic hydroponics and industrial tools.

A project worth watching.

This sounds like a good step forward for our society. Biodegradable mice. Just think of the number of old computers, keyboards, monitors, mice and printers currently in landfill. Waste seems to follow our society.

Now it seems that the mouse isn’t completely biodegradable but most of it is. That coupled with the previously [...]]]>

This sounds like a good step forward for our society. Biodegradable mice. Just think of the number of old computers, keyboards, monitors, mice and printers currently in landfill. Waste seems to follow our society.

Now it seems that the mouse isn’t completely biodegradable but most of it is. That coupled with the previously release biodegradable keyboard, 45% biodegradable, also from Fujitsu is a step in the right direction as far as we are concerned.

Just to confirm, I do not believe the Global Warming/Cooling Scam. I believe that weather changes over time and that is what we are seeing and that AGW is just a money grab by politicians and unscrupulous scientists. However, I do believe we should recycle what we can, we should develop new technology that relies less on fossil fuels and we should reduce our waste.

Now we need biodegradable computers and printers. I would envisage that the printers would be the most difficult part of that.

Although I think all this is going in the right direction for our society I actually wonder what sort of timescale these items biodegrade in. It would not be good if they started to degrade while the system was still in use because we just end up buying new ones and the waste would be about the same while the manufacturer’s profits grew.

What we really want is that plastic eating bug that was talked up a few years ago. It would be added to landfill and away it went. What happened to that?

I still think Smart PDA type phones are the way of the future. There are many applications out there that show they are leading the way on innovative new ideas to make life easier for us.

Take this new application, iCar, that acts as a car cam and allows you to record what [...]]]>

I still think Smart PDA type phones are the way of the future. There are many applications out there that show they are leading the way on innovative new ideas to make life easier for us.

Take this new application, iCar, that acts as a car cam and allows you to record what is going on. Although these car cams have proven useful to plod, only recently disproving allegations made by a muslim woman on racism charges, we have found them to be of benefit to the general public themselves. Plod footage mysteriously disappearing when a member of the public claims that plod beat them up or abused them. Although in the cases where the public do have footage sometimes they play it backwards to show plod helping the victim up from the ground. (Bill Hicks) With this app we can start a new show Plod, Fixup and Bookim.

Although, I am disturbed that all the best apps seems to be coming out for an iPhone. I don’t want to have to put money in Steve Jobs pocket. I don’t want to have my system under the control of a controlling and overbearing company. Where are the Android equivalents?

Here is a proposed solution to everyones problem, except for the government of course, a new green fuel which directly replaces petrol. We will love it, a direct replacement for petrol at $1.50 a gallon (remember them). Greens will love it (or should if they were interested in facts) as it is a [...]]]>

Here is a proposed solution to everyones problem, except for the government of course, a new green fuel which directly replaces petrol. We will love it, a direct replacement for petrol at $1.50 a gallon (remember them). Greens will love it (or should if they were interested in facts) as it is a Green fuel, the government will love it because it will help them meet their totally irresponsible green targets but, for them, it is also a bit of bad news. With this they won’t be able to impose so many green taxes on us. Sad ready.

I can’t wait to see how this works out and is handled by our green friends.