"Innovation"

[rkbabang]

This is crazy. Yes, it was published on April 1st, but I haven't seen a correction as to it being an April Fool's joke.

 

A NASA scientist claims to be on the verge of faster-than-light travel: is he for real?

 

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-03/warp-factor?single-page-view=true

 

Without reading the article, there is the phenomena called spooky action at a distance.  Linked particles appear to "communicate" at faster than the speed of light in a mirror image fashion at the time the "spin" of one of the particles is measured.  However, information outside of that closed system can't be communicated faster than the limit of light speed. 

 

Quantum entanglement might have applications for faster than light communications and teleportation of matter, but that isn't what is being talked about in a warp drive.  In a warp drive you basically just warp space-time.  You compress it in front of you and expand it behind you.  You can think of it as the ship not moving at all, just space-time compressing at one spot, expanding in another, and the ship ending up at a different location at the end.  So you don't travel faster than light, you stay still while space-time changes its shape around you.

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Amazing! Kudos to Adobe:

 

http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/06/adobes-first-hardware-mighty-napoleon-a-pen-ruler-team-for-touchscreens/

 

We start seeing people attack the content creation problem. 

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The other Glass:

 

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/nasa-awards-grant-3d-food-printer-could-end-194050661.html

 

NASA awards grant for 3-D food printer; could it end world hunger?

 

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2013/06/05/data-for-nothing-calls-for-free-how-freedompop-will-offer-free-phone-service/

 

Data for Nothing, Calls for Free: How FreedomPop Will Offer Free Phone Service

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Interesting:

 

http://qz.com/94898/ford-gives-up-on-turning-its-cars-into-smartphones/

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Chomsky on Glass:

 

http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/18/google-glass-is-orwellian-ridiculous-and-destroys-people-noam-chomsky-says/

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How the "innovator" game is played:

 

http://gigaom.com/2013/06/17/is-samsung-really-launching-an-lte-advanced-galaxy-more-like-semi-advanced/

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This Raspberry Pi robot will make you coffee

 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/05/tech/innovation/this-raspberry-pi-robot-will-make-you-coffee/index.html

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Beautifully done:

 

 

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/usD8kgJJpjs/

 

I mean, wow!!

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This is how true innovation is done:

 

http://minimalmac.com/post/60993514372/worth-a-thousand-words

 

Notice how the features combine to solve a single problem:

 

How do we make a camera that lets the average person take better pictures?

 

Unlike other vendors who are adding bells & whistles and upgrading specs, Apple has added intelligence

the let people take better pictures. The average person does not have to be aware of what is going on

or even all the tools and techniques that are used to take professional quality pictures. Apple takes

care of that in the background.

 

They solve the problem that really matters:

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/09/open-mike-simple-cameras.html

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http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/08/i-want-to-tell-you-about-my-smart-robotic-drone-grill/

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This is a good one:

 

[Aberhound]

There are a number of companies that now generate electricity from raw gas right at the field. Here is one:

 

http://www.almontinc.com/energy/services-project-development.asphttp://www.almontinc.com/energy/services-project-development.aspx

 

Consider the cost of Site C dam at 1000 Mw for $12B or so in NE BC or the cost of exporting NE BC gas to Asia. It is far more economic to build 35 30 MW distributed plants instead of one plant particularly if you build the generator where the power is needed. It is cheaper to build transmission lines than to build gas pipelines and LNG infrastructure. How long before China uses these instead of coal plants so they can breath again?

 

I was told of one company which had to move production to China after receiving 1000 orders in Alberta and Texas. Oil and gas producers now have a new stream of revenue and way to cut costs.

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There are a number of companies that now generate electricity from raw gas right at the field. Here is one:

 

http://www.almontinc.com/energy/services-project-development.asphttp://www.almontinc.com/energy/services-project-development.aspx

 

Consider the cost of Site C dam at 1000 Mw for $12B or so in NE BC or the cost of exporting NE BC gas to Asia. It is far more economic to build 35 30 MW distributed plants instead of one plant particularly if you build the generator where the power is needed. It is cheaper to build transmission lines than to build gas pipelines and LNG infrastructure. How long before China uses these instead of coal plants so they can breath again?

 

I was told of one company which had to move production to China after receiving 1000 orders in Alberta and Texas. Oil and gas producers now have a new stream of revenue and way to cut costs.

 

The potential of cheap energy to reconfigure civilization blows my mind. There are so many interesting things happening in this area.

[dpetrescu]

Currently electronic display is compartmentalized...to phone, tablet, or computer screens. Corning is working on allowing display to be seamless and transferred from phones to touch glass panels used as walls, countertops, windows, card dashboards, sheets of paper thin flexible glass,  etc