Intelligence: Behold the All-Seeing, Self-Parking, Safety-Enforcing, Networked Automobile Radar, lasers, wireless radio networks and other embedded tech will enable our cars to sense faraway traffic and stop accidents before they happen. But who will be in the driver’s seat? Well again we seem to have heard it all, films that are based in the future like Minority report and iRobot seem to focus on such things as the future of the car. In iRobot you see that Will Smith has to put the car in ovveride to take control of it himself, and that the speed is amazingly enhanced then...

From the title it isn’t very hard to work out what this is all about. Wireless is the future, as a matter of fact, wireless is the present. I currently have a WiFi network in my house at 54MB/s, connected to multiple computers, devices and what have you. As a matter of fact I think all of the UNN reporters have wireless networks in their own houses! I know for a fact that Hamza (11b) and Qasim (54g) do! There were of course some disadvantages of the wireless connectivity, WiFi. It always starts with cost, when things start off they are, naturally, expensive. This really applies to just about...

The world’s first interactive 3D display has been developed by IO2 Technology. HelioDisplay creates 3D displays in the air using lasers, drawing input from computers, TVs and DVDs. It also allows interactive applications to be controlled by a finger, instead of a mouse. "Our first generation version, the Heliodisplay, projects TV, streaming video and computer images into free space, (mid-air)", the company’s website claims. While it’s early days for such technologies, the company has just completed its first production unit and claims it is ready to release...

Slashdot reports:  "A new folksonomy website that seems to be catching on is YouTube, a service similar to Flickr, except that it is for sharing and hosting short video clips instead of photos. Like Flickr, its core functionality is implemented in Flash. Videos can be tagged, searched, discussed, etc through a social network. YouTube has developer APIs, RSS feeds, and the ability to embed videos directly into other web pages. The website was recently profiled on TechCrunch as an up-and-coming Web 2.0 application."  Of course i’ve already signed up and I must say it seems...

Finally! Messenger for Mac 5.0 makes it easy to take advantage of the full power of instant messaging. Messenger for Mac offers two types of communication services- a personal account and a corporate account. A personal account works with the MSN® Messenger service on the Microsoft Passport Network. Contacts that you add to your personal account will include friends and family members. A corporate account uses the Microsoft Office Live Communications Server service and can include contacts who use other instant messaging services, such as AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo Messenger, and iChat...

I posted on Google Maps, so I might as well post on MSN’s new service called Virtual Earth. I’m not saying this because I’m a Google fanboy nor a MS hater, but because it’s a fact: Virtual Earth sucks bigtime. Why? Lots of reasons: It goes slow as hell, sometimes it just stops loading new imagery, leaving you a nice black window, the imagery IS in fact in black and white, no colors like in Google Maps, and it uses dated imagery: the same landstat pictures that have been available for years. How we know? Well for example take the Apple HQ in Cupertino, CA: MSN’s version...

Today the (public) Windows Vista bèta program started, together with IE7. PCWorld has a nice article about it that gives you a quick update on what the main improvements are (or should/will be) and some screenshots. One of the most interesting facts in the article was this: IE7 has this incredible NEW asskicking feature called ‘tabbed browsing’, and that’s not it: there’s also an RSS feed discovery button (located on the menu bar between the history and printer buttons, see screenshot)! I mean, from where do they get all those cool ideas?! Enough with the sarcasm,...

  REDMOND – the new operating system of the American computer giant Microsoft is called ‘ Windows Vista ‘. Microsoft confirmed that today on a briefing of sales and marketing employees in Redmond, America. The name had been circulating for quite some time on the Internet, but so far the new OS had only been known under the codename ‘ Longhorn ‘. Microsoft wants to bring Windows Vista on the market by the end of 2006, five years after Windows XP was launched. I waited to post the new name here until it was officially confirmed, because at first I didn’t...