The XO laptop is back with a new look and a new design, at least in theory. Nicholas Negroponte unveiled photos of the upcoming XO-2 device this week, with an announcement that the revamped computer would be ready for delivery by 2010 and carry a price tag of $75. Gone is the green plastic keyboard, replaced instead with a second touch screen. The device can be opened to function like an electronic book, or it can be rotated to a more traditional laptop configuration, with the new screen assuming the role of virtual keyboard.
I was about to ask a very similar question. Wouldn't adding the second screen decrease the battery life of the device? They do say its half the size though...
Retreating glaciers. Melting permafrost. Off-kilter bird migrations. Few of these reports are news to anyone following the global warming beat. Yet the first effort to gather thousands of scientific findings into a cohesive narrative of cause and effect has been published in the journal Nature.
I think its hard to say weather or not this study does prove anything. Notimpressed do you have any scientific data that would show otherwise? I think if we really wanted an answer we would have to have some large scale research trying to prove the opposite, which I doubt many people are interested in doing. Either way the study does show that there is global warming. It is hard to deny it when studies of 28,800 biological systems point to the fact that the overall global climate is warming up. I'm sure that some of this warmth was caused by natural effect but how can we deny our impact on the environment. Studies show that in the past 150 years (since the start of industrialization and thus large consumption of fossil fuels) there has a been a 25% increase in atmospheric green house gases. This in itself shows that us humans have contributed in someway to the warming of our planet.
The Kanzius RF Field Generator Cost to Develop: $1 million+Time: 5 yearsPrototype | | | | | Product When a man with no medical degree and a diagnosis of fatal leukemia builds a cancer-curing machine in his garage, you might think it merely the desperate attempt of a dying man to escape his fate. And youd be right. The weird thing is, it just might work.
That is very interesting and seems to be a quite promising technique. We can probably find a way to target the tumor cells using some over-expressed receptors found on the tumor cells.
The device is a cylinder a bit smaller than a pinky finger, filled with helium and cooled to just above absolute zero. Inside, a young universe—or something very much like one—evolves. As the helium sloshes about, it mimics a process that may have powered our own universe a few moments after the big bang. And once the fluid settles down, the little whirlpools that remain may be akin to the defects in early spacetime that ultimately gave rise to galaxies, stars and planets.
This quandtum stuff is very interesting but remains very confusing to me. Good article though,
I agree that some of the controls are difficult to use. The most frustrating part for me is the cover system, i just can't seem to get cover and out of cover when I want to often gettin buttons confused.
Japans latest sci-fi monster, the Yamaha Tesseract, hunches on four wheels instead of two. This beastie is designed to retain all the turning sensations of a two-wheeled ride, without the threat of Godzilla-style carnage in the hands of an inexperienced rider.
I don't know about this. It sure would be fun and allow more people to experience the thrills of riding a real motorcycle but learning how to ride a real motorcycle doesn't take that much time. If this doesn't exponentialy improve the safety of the driver then I don't know if its such a good idea to develop it. They already tried to do something similar with a scooter the piaggio MP3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zJwRbQHCZU But hey it might work!
Apples flagship store in San Francisco is out of iPhones? Online orders will take five to seven business days? Retail stores around the country are reportedly running extremely low or, in many cases, just plain out of iPhones. This shortage may simply be due to Apples shortsighted estimate of demand. But many believe it to be an early indication that they're trying to clear product to make way for a (clouds part, sun shines, choir sings) 3G iPhone.
I think they didn't incorporate the 3g iphone thing because the chip that allows it drained too much energy for it to be efficient and apple didn't want that. So yeah, but now it should be here and its going to be dope. I also heard a rumor that there will be a front mounted camera to be able to ichat that would be sick
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