The iView curved monitor, designed by Nuno Teixeira, is both compelling and definitely not post-iconic…a kind of stretched and curved double iMac all-in-one desktop computer.
The LCD iView, as it’s officially called, is unfortunately just a concept and so not many details are available. The iView has a curved panoramic double LCD screen on the front [...]

Here’s more good news and not-so-good news in the form of yet another world’s first for Samsung…they just announced a 3D plasma TV, model PAVV Cannes 450, but to get the 3D effect, the viewer still must wear those goofy 3D glasses.
The Cannes 450 provides 1000000:1 contrast ratio, something called a ‘Down Firing Speaker’ and [...]

The 2008 edition of the Technology, Entertainment and Design conference (TED2008) is happening now in Monterey CA and goes on until March 1 2008.
Today`s agenda includes such classically-ethereal topics as “What is life?”, “Is truth beauty?”, “Will evil prevail?” and ever-popular “How can we change the world?”. The difference this time, is that some [...]

Sony has announced the A820 family of Walkman video and MP3 players, with Bluetooth.
The top-of-the-line NWZ-A829 has 16GB of memory and goes for about $320. Battery life is good at 36 hours/audio & 9 hours/video.
The 320×240 QVGA screen has been enlarged to 2.4 inches to play video at up to 30 fps [...]

One Noel Sharkey Professor of AI and Robotics at the University of Sheffield, and someone who should know something about the topic, wishes to bring those autonomous automata under the fold of legal responsibility in general, and in theaters of war in particular.
Sharkey points to the rapidly growing number of unmanned combat vehicles, aerial drones [...]

Nokia the well-known phone maker teamed up with some obscure organization called the University of Cambridge to propose the Morph, which seems to be some kind of futuristic comm gadget that changes shape to meet different needs.
Some relevant buzzwords, er keywords that apply to the Morph include nanotechnology, flexible, communication and sensor.
Fibril proteins allow [...]

The New York Times applies data visualization techniques to movie box office receipts over time to create an interactive ThemeRiver style map.
So what patterns emerge? Most movies fade quickly, Oscar contenders start slow but build over time, spring and fall are slow times and attention spans seem to be declining. Nicely done…might have been [...]

Milner Motors is developing the AirCar, which will be a flying car with a range of 1000 miles and a cruising speed of 200 mph. The thing can carry 4 passengers & will sell for $450,000. Pressurized with a ceiling altitude of 25,000 ft and roadable at 85 MPH.
…now if they could just figure out [...]

Panasonic today announced the availability of the P905iTV mobile phone that delivers TV at an astounding 30 frames per second and a resolution of 480×854 pixels. All thanks to the Viera engine and Japan’s 1Seg service. Amost makes one want to move there.
Panasonic delivers TV handsets to DoCoMo - Japan Today, Feb 25 2008

Absurdist comedy street theater group Improv Everywhere plays on the surrealistic realism of everyday situations. In their latest mission they lugged some classic desktop computers into their local Starbucks & set up shop to avail themselves of Starbucks stated policy to “get work done in coffeehouse comfort”.
Some might say that I.E.’s purpose was to [...]