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Microsoft Envisions Future – Kind of.

by Jason Patocka May 13, 2010

I love it when marketing departments envision the future.

It’s just a shame that they don’t show someone throwing their fancy futurepaper across the room because they suddenly discover it won’t play Flash.  This also omits the holographic pop up you get when you try to transfer some files to your table interface, only to discover you’ve ran out of license agreements.
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Call Of Duty MW2 Resurgence Pack to be released to Xbox LIVE June 3rd

by Savan Thongvanh

Activision announced today that on June 3rd they’ll be releasing to Xbox LIVE a Multiplayer Map Pack they’re calling the “Call of Duty(R): Modern Warfare(R) 2 Resurgence Pack”. They’re going to need some resurgence with this map pack because the last one came out to mediocre reviews.

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Nanoscale Fabrication Continues to Scale Into Realms of Awesome

by Jason Patocka May 3, 2010

IBM published impressive news of their ability to create complicated geographical replica of the Earth with features as small as 15 nanometers in last week’s issue of Advanced Materials. When you wrap your head around just how small fabrication methods are these days, its easy to see why there is much excitement in Nanotechnology. Yes, you could fit thousands of these maps on a grain of sand but these feasts of chemical engineering have potential far beyond building microchips.
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Big Strides for Quantum Empowered Data

by Jason Patocka April 26, 2010

Considering the press generated this past year by cyber attacks on both corporate and Department of Defense infrastructure, encryption methods are in dire need of an upgrade. The policy wonkisphere has been brooding over this subject for some time now, as evidenced by former White House Terrorism adviser Richard Clark’s new (and controversial) book Cyberwar released earlier this month. Between the alleged China backed theft of Google’s password source code, to the decimation of Georgia’s digital infrastructure by Russia during their brief skirmish during the Beijing Olympics, robust quantum networks are tech who’s time is long overdue.
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iPhone 4.0 Leaked: Lost and Found (by gizmodo)

by Savan Thongvanh April 19, 2010

Gizmodo may have the scoop of the year with their story today on the possible iPhone 4.0 prototype that was found in a bar. Where else would it be found?

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Remember Microsoft Surface?

by Jason Patocka April 14, 2010

Microsoft Surface.  Yeaaaaah. You remember that right?

Well, Surface has decided to emerge again from the depths of obscurity, this time demonstrating pen and photoshop touch functionality through an application called Manual Deskterity.  While I don’t contest that touch is a must have feature right now, the reality is that Apple and its iPad are drinking some serious milkshake in this space.  After all, who wants to buy a piece of furniture to run apps off of it?  This isn’t to discredit the concept entirely, as an intelligent surface could be really cool.

*Could* being the operative word.

If it automatically and non proprietorially expanded the functionality of hand held or tablet devices on its surface, that would be cool.

If surface automatically recognized me when I walked up to it irregardless of coffee shop and it pulled up my settings when I wanted to use it, that would be some hardcore cloud computing crack.

But touch enabled photoshop? Cracker, please.

Don’t get me wrong, by providing a large work surface and eliminating pen discrimination, many digital media artists would gladly wrestle a velociraptor just to get their pens back. Barehanded even. But so far, Apple has defined its niche in the creative space for some time now. The immutable laws of marketing are providing some pretty hardcore odds to overcome.

There are benefits to large stationary touch enabled surfaces. But perhaps the true test of usability for platforms like Microsoft Surface and their developers will be their ability to condense their hardware and software into a thin film that can be applied to any public surface.  I wonder when they will be demonstrating that, because that would be pretty revolutionary.

To that end, my feeling is that Surface R&D needs to submerge a bit longer, and perhaps use its periscope to see where the trends are before purging the ballast tanks over touch and pen enabled photoshop. Its a good thing that Manual Deskerity is looking to expand to other platforms, because I foresee a serious pivot in the future.

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Scientists Create Molecular Paper

by Jason Patocka

Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab Public Affairs

Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab Public Affairs

Next to grilled cheese sandwiches and classic Zelda, building blocks were quite possibly the best creation known to childhood. I remember spending countless days sifting through a giant tub filled with assorted blocks trying to find the ideal piece. These days, my RSS stream is filled with news of labs building systems that scale our concept of blocks down into the realm of atoms and molecules.
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Memristors to Replace Flash Memory in 2013

by Jason Patocka April 9, 2010

Imagine a world where you no longer have to wait to boot up your laptop. You simply hit the power button and you’re instantly back to where you were before you switched off.
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Blizzard Announces Starcraft 2 Collector’s Edition

by David Thongvanh April 8, 2010

Blizzard has released details on 2 editions of the upcoming Starcraft sequel, the regular priced at $59.99 and the other at a hefty $99.99
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Meet Geminoid F

by Jason Patocka April 5, 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dJOAf2Dt98&feature=player_embedde

Robo-media darling Hiroshi Ishiguro recently held a press conference in Osaka demonstrating his latest android, aptly named Geminoid F. As Japan’s population ages there is great concern over who is going to care for the elderly. One proposed approach that has garnered considerable public attention is to create robots that can provide companionship and care for seniors. To this end, Ishiguro has listed the price for the Geminoid F model at 10 million yen or $110,000 USD.
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