IBM Advances the Use of Light Instead of Wires for Chips

The Minority Report Interface is on the way (X windows style)

MPX already supported multiple input devices. Which blows pretty much all assumptions in user interfaces (input) out of the water. (with video)

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This is what the web looked like in 1994

Wow. We never thought about it this way before, but if the web still looked like this, you wouldn't need an iPhone with Safari to surf the web on your phone.

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Microsoft Surface: Hands-on First Look

"Behind the scenes with the coffee table that will change the world."

TED Talks: Jeff Hawkins: Brain science is about to fundamentally change computing

UMPC Future?

Mobile devices of the future look pretty cool.

IBM Touts Breakthrough in 3-D Chips

International Business Machines Corp. said it achieved a breakthrough in developing a three-dimensional semiconductor chip that can be stacked on top of another electronic device in a vertical configuration long sought by engineers to reduce size and power use.



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James Burke predicts teh intartubes in 1978

Via: VideoSift

Remapping the Universe

In this video, Jeff Han and Phil Davidson demonstrate how a multitouch driven computer screen will (someday) change the way we work and play.

Podtech MS Research clip

New Multi-touch Video

Another multi-touch demo video featuring the inventor Jeff Han, at TED 2007.

Videos like this make me excited yet sad... excited because it's innovative & creative & the way computers should be, but sad because for an average person like me on an average income the chances of me being able to own something like that any time soon is about the same as me being able to own a Lamborghini soon. Or it's like seeing a really cool commercial for an IMAX movie I'd love to see and then remembering that there aren't any IMAX theaters out here in hickville...

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes.

MIT sketching

Fastest supercomputer to be built

IBM will build the world's most powerful supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory by 2008. The machine, codenamed Roadrunner, will be able to achieve 1.5 petaflops. The new computer is a hybrid design, using both conventional supercompu...

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Magnetic vortices could store thousands of movies per square inch

In a research first that could lead to a new generation of hard drives capable of storing thousands of movies per square inch, physicists at Rice University have decoded the three-dimensional structure of a tornado-like magnetic vortex. It could l...

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World Community Grid

Originally uploaded by CoreBurn.

From their page:
"World Community Grid's mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Our work is built on the belief that technological innovation combined with visionary scientific research and large-scale volunteerism can change our world for the better. Our success depends on individuals - like you - collectively contributing their unused computer time to this not-for-profit endeavor."

World Community Grid

Cure @ PS3

"With this new technology (as well as new advances with GPUs , we will likely be able to attain performance on the 100 gigaflop scale per computer. With about 10,000 such machines, we would be able to achieve performance on the petaflop scale. With software from Sony, the PlayStation 3 will now be able to contribute to the Folding@Home project, pushing Folding@Home a major step forward...

The PS3 client will also support some advanced visualization features. While the Cell microprocessor does most of the calculation processing of the simulation, the graphic chip of the PLAYSTATION 3 system (the RSX) displays the actual folding process in real-time using new technologies such as HDR and ISO surface rendering. It is possible to navigate the 3D space of the molecule using the interactive controller of the PS3, allowing us to look at the protein from different angles in real-time."

3D Desktop! TouchScreen and XGL on Linux (part 2)

"This video shows what is possible when you use touchscreen + XGL on linux."

Xgl Demo

This is a Xgl demo from a user at kde-apps.org

SuSe 10.1

SuSe 10.1 (a linux distro) utilizing Xgl/Open GL , creating amazing screen/desktop effects.