Dialtones is a large-scale concert performance whose sounds are wholly produced through the carefully choreographed dialing and ringing of the audience's own mobile phones.

http://www.flong.com/telesymphony/index.html

-K


posted by Kaushik at 1:30 PM Comment (0)

Power Plant - MIT scientists work on harnessing spinach power

The ability of plants to convert sunlight into energy - photosynthesis - has been known to scientists for decades, but the ability to integrate the organic and electronic has eluded them. Isolate the plant proteins, and they die. Providing water and salt to keep plant products alive destroys electronic equipment.


posted by Anonymous at 10:24 AM Comment (0)

John Carmack's Zero-G visit writeup at
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=c0e0a1dd.0409202020.7e400061%40posting.google.com

Available now in florida for 3k
http://www.nogravity.com/index.cfm/action/bookaseat.htm

AmitC


posted by Amit at 11:28 AM Comment (0)

Front : A design group located in Stockholm. Check Projects | Design By | Gravity.

posted by Amit at 5:51 AM Comment (0)

How much of the Internet address space is used?


posted by Amit at 5:40 AM Comment (0)

http://web.tickle.com/tests/entrepreneurialiq

AmitC



posted by Amit at 7:02 PM Comment (0)

Guy Kawasaki's online test for entrepreneurs

AmitC


posted by Amit at 11:25 AM Comment (0)

Blabble - Thought Parsing: "Blabble is dedicated to making sense out of the seemingly endless supply of blog information. We feel there is tremendous power in understanding the thoughts and opinions of influential blog authors. To accomplish this, Blabble parses thousands of recently-changed blogs every few minutes and breaks the text into parts of speech. Our natural language software links those parts allowing us to group and analyze intended thoughts."

Only has movies at this point.

posted by Farookh at 9:01 PM Comment (0)

Step Toward Universal Computing: "Transitive Corp. of Los Gatos, California, claims its QuickTransit software allows applications to run 'transparently' on multiple hardware platforms, including Macs, PCs, and numerous servers and mainframes."

http://www.transitive.com/
http://www.transitive.com/products.htm
http://www.transitive.com/technology.htm

posted by Farookh at 8:52 PM Comment (0)

Implanted lens sharpens extremely blurred vision: "There's a new option for people who suffer from extreme nearsightedness, whose world loses its crisp edge just a few inches from their noses. The first implantable lens for nearsightedness was approved Monday by the Food and Drug Administration."

posted by Farookh at 8:35 PM Comment (0)

OAKLEY - THUMP
"The world's first digital music eyewear. No more wires. Just high-performance optics forged with an integrated, state-of-the-art digital audio engine."

Neat. It supports WMA DRM as well. 52g on your ears could be fatiguing though.

posted by Farookh at 8:17 PM Comment (0)

India Sees Growth Opportunity Through Nanotech: "India's president, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, is promoting nanotechnology as the vehicle for increasing wealth and improving the quality of life in the impoverished nation of more than a billion people."

posted by Farookh at 9:23 AM Comment (0)

Nose-steered mouse could save aching arms: "A novel PC control system lets users nudge a cursor around the screen with gentle movements of their nose. Blinking the left or right eye twice takes the place of left or right mouse clicks."

posted by Farookh at 10:18 PM Comment (0)

From geek to chef: Meg Hourihan, the co-founder of Pyra, the company that invented Blogger (now owned by Google), has retired from technology to become a chef:

"Yesterday at 3 PM I put on my black chef's clogs, my black pants and white t-shirt, pulled my Red Sox cap over my hair and got to work peeling and deveining shrimp. Seven hours later, sweatily scrubbing the kitchen floors, I was still smiling.

I've learned a lot this summer during my sabbatical but it all can be summarized in three words: follow your heart."

posted by Amit at 11:23 PM Comment (1)

MD5 Collision Found on Aug 17, 2004

I heard about this today from a colleague of mine. It was bound to happen at some time I guess.

More links:
http://www.md5crk.com/
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000663.html

posted by Farookh at 10:32 PM Comment (1)

Environmental Absorbent Products - Dyn-O-Mat

I heard about this on MSNBC the other day. They have an interesting product. It is a substance (powder) that absorbs water and clumps up into a solid almost instantly. Stir it a little and it immediately turns to an almost gel-like consistency. They are experimenting with using this as a storm pacifier. The plan is to fly over a brewing storm (think Ivan or Frances) and sprinkle this powder over it. The moisture will clump up and fall into the ocean below harmlessly and dissolve away and take away the punch of the storm.

posted by Farookh at 6:50 PM Comment (0)

Method to Turn Off Bad Genes Is Set for Tests on Human Eyes: "The experimental injections will contain a new type of drug based on a recently discovered genetic phenomenon, called RNA interference, that has excited scientists with its versatile and powerful ability to turn off genes. Having quickly become a standard tool for genetic studies in the laboratory, the technique is now set to be tested in people for the first time."

posted by Farookh at 10:17 PM Comment (0)

Method to Turn Off Bad Genes Is Set for Tests on Human Eyes: "The experimental injections will contain a new type of drug based on a recently discovered genetic phenomenon, called RNA interference, that has excited scientists with its versatile and powerful ability to turn off genes. Having quickly become a standard tool for genetic studies in the laboratory, the technique is now set to be tested in people for the first time."

posted by Farookh at 10:17 PM Comment (0)

Lots of Science Intact in Smashed-Up Genesis Capsule: "The craft was supposed to deploy a parachute and be retrieved in the air by a helicopter. Instead it broke apart on impact. Amazingly, scientists say, much of the contents -- microscopic particles that once rode the solar wind and are now embedded on shattered collector plates -- should be salvageable."

posted by Farookh at 11:58 PM Comment (0)

NPR - Radio Expeditions

Just came across this. Radio Expeditions is a collaboration between NPR and National Geographic Society. I haven't listened to any of them, though there are online feeds.

posted by Farookh at 10:32 PM Comment (0)

The Novel's Latest Version Pops Onto China's Cellphones: "It is the text-message novel, a new literary genre for the harried masses in a society that seems to be redefining what it means to be harried."

posted by Farookh at 9:24 AM Comment (0)

Longhorn to be secure against USB devices

With the proliferation of high-capacity and highly portable storage devices, this was inevitable.

posted by Farookh at 5:56 PM Comment (0)

Much ado about Bard's texts online: "William Shakespeare, the Warwickshire wordsmith, was paid a posthumous compliment this week, when the British Library made available 21 of his works on the Internet."

Shakespeare in quarto

posted by Farookh at 5:44 PM Comment (0)

Chicken Pox Vaccine Exceeds Expectations: "The chicken pox vaccine has performed more effectively in its first decade than researchers had predicted, a new study says, saving money and preventing illness even in adults who have not had the shot."

posted by Farookh at 9:00 PM Comment (0)

Nokia gets a slice of BlackBerry pie
"Nokia said on Tuesday that it plans to enhance its Series 80 line so that the mobile devices come preloaded with BlackBerry software from Research In Motion."

Pretty cool for RIM I thought.

posted by Farookh at 10:52 AM Comment (0)

Poincare Conjecture solved?: "One of the toughest problems in maths may have been solved by the Russian scientist Dr Grigori Perelman, of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics."

posted by Farookh at 8:50 PM Comment (0)

Geico gets green light to sue Google, Overture
Did you know that if you own a trademark, you must defend it's use in common language, else you risk losing it? In other words, if people start using your trademark in normal parlance and if you don't defend it, you risk losing the exclusivity in the future. I was wondering why Google was suing folks when they used "google" as a verb. Makes sense, since over time it loses its unique value like "xerox" and document copying.

posted by Farookh at 2:39 PM Comment (1)

Nanotubes race toward bike parts: "Sports equipment maker Easton Sports plans to start producing bicycle components constructed out of carbon nanotubes in 2005, another step forward for the budding nanotechnology industry."

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