Almost...
Okay, okay, cheap shot, I know. But I've always dreamed of one day writing the following sentence: 'The look on this Robot's face before he tumbles down the stairs is excellent'. There. Dream fulfilled.
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Download the latest hit to your iPod... through your elbow...
What am I talking about? I'm talking about the future of wireless. Radio waves? Infrared? BlueTooth? Neh... old fashioned... Just use your hands. So here you are with a digital camera in your hand and you want to print a picture? Just touch the printer... Anyway, here 's the site of the company that is developing this new technology... Bring it on!!!
Wifi and the future
You know what... I have faith in progress again. Here I am sitting in the middle of Dublin Airport... Wifi! In Ireland! It's an amazing world after all. Furthermore I've found a revolutionizing concept being developed in, of all places, the Netherlands... The PALV is on its way!!! The thing can reach speeds of up to 200km/h, both in the air and on land. You need a 50m take off 'strip' to take off and you can land almost vertically. It takes regular 95/98 unleaded petrol and has an action radius of between 550 (air) and 600 (land) kilometres. Anyway, who cares about the figures. It can take me to work and more importantly back home again in under 5 minutes! Beautiful stuff... I want one. Want to read more? Visit Sparkdesign . And if you still haven't visited Zenno , then it's about time you did...
Has progress stopped?
Anyone remember all those stories we were told when we were kids about how progress would go faster and faster and how the industrial revolution started a process that would continue to amaze people? Well, I don't buy it. I have a different theory. Progress has stopped. Think about it. Give me good examples of inventions of let's say the last 10 years. Heck, I'll give you 20 years or even 30. New inventions. Not improvements of an existing concept. Of course I can see the difference between a Ford T and a Ford Focus or Taurus or whatever. That's not the point. What is really new? Think useful as well, don't give me the entire 'what the invention of particle splitters can do for you' nonsense... I'm thinking household, or office tools. Think ovens. Think hoovers, think fridges. Fridges, good one. My view... the only real improvement of the past 30 years would be that kids can't lock themselves in a fridge anymore without being able to give the door a ...