Google have posted an interesting video of a talk by Sebastian Thrun (who was part of the winning team from Stanford) about their entry into the DARPA grand challenge 2005. See Winning The DARPA Grand Challenge – Google Video – which is almost an hour long.
The DARPA grand challenge was a competition to drive [...]
Posted on Sunday 19th November 2006 in Computers, Engineering tagged Computers, Engineering, future, mathematics, technology, transport, with no comments.
George Monbiot, a journalist and activist, has proposed a 10 point plan to help us limit climate change by rapidly reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. While this will involve some changes in lifestyle, it will not be as radical as those changes that will be required if we don’t act now.
The general ideas can be [...]
Posted on Friday 10th November 2006 in Engineering, Politics tagged climate change, construction, energy, Engineering, environmental, future, Politics, technology, transport, UK, with no comments.
Is this the future of computing? The TactaPad apparently lets you control the cursor on screen by just using your hands on the special pad. It even shows a shadow of your fingers on screen, so that you can see where they are pointing.
Either this is an elaborate hoax, or it is a real product, [...]
Posted on Tuesday 30th August 2005 in Blog, Computers tagged Computers, future, Science, software, with no comments.
Buying music from the iTunes store, or napster, or anywhere else for that matter is not ‘there’ yet, for me at least. I’m not sure where exactly ‘there’ is, but what online music stores don’t have is a tangible product, that can be unwrapped, the CD box taken out of it’s decorative sleeve, and the [...]
Posted on Wednesday 27th July 2005 in Blog tagged DRM, future, internet, ipod, Music, with no comments.
