It is amazing to me what technology is capable of, and everyday I learn something that makes me wonder just how close we will actually come to some of the fictitious “marvels” seen on the sci-fi movies I used to love. Space travel, whole body health scanners, robotic arms and limbs. I wish I could live an extra 100 years just to see how far progress will take us. I have to say though, I am already impressed.

An 83 year old woman who was afflicted with a bone wasting disease that had claimed most of her lower jaw and left her unable to properly eat, or speak was the recipient of the very first 3-D printed jawbone. The jawbone, was made completely of a titanium powder sintered together layer by layer. (Sintering I have learned, is the process of taking a powdered substance and placing it in a mold, and heating it above its melting point.)

After the lower mandible was constructed, it was coated in a biocompatible ceramic and then it was “installed” during a four-hour surgery. The woman was able to say a few words only hours later. Her new jaw is a bit heavier than her old one, but appears to be well tolerated. She was able to go home just four days later.

Doctors feel as though this opens the door for the technology to allow for custom bone and joint replacements and someday It could pave the way for all kinds of 3-D printed body parts. See? Amazing. I just gotta stay alive long enough for them to be able to print me a whole new body… I’m thinking a nice mid 90′s Pamela Anderson….

source: news.discovery.com

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Apple has stated that “iPad design” which is a rectangular flat computer, is quite like the Samsung Tab, but it is also similar with a device from science fiction.

Specifically, the Stanley Kubrick movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. Some might argue that this movie is out of date, while others can say that it is ahead of its time. You can see in the video clip after the jump that two of the main astronaut characters from the film are using tablet PC technology.

As you can see, the tablet PCs the men are watching have a rectangular shape, dominant display screen, narrow borders, predominately flat front surface, and thin form factor. In other words, they are looking at iPads, or are they Galaxy Tabs?

It is interesting to see a work of science fiction cited in a court case. It also goes to show you that perhaps certain things cannot be patented as the their descriptions are far too vague. I suppose that those tablet PCs that were used in abundance on Star Trek: The Next Generation will be the next exhibit.

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It isn’t just called Neptune because it is under the sea, but it is a very clever acronym for North-East Pacific Time-series Undersea Networked Experiments. Whoever thought of that acronym is a complete genius. The Neptune has sensors located in Western British Columbia, through the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate, and stretches out over 530 miles.

There are six nodes spread out at various locations, and I believe that one of them is seen in the image here. It has 250 instruments in between these nodes, and it has collected 10 terabits of scientific data since December of 2009.

All of this amounts to sensors that measure and record still and video images as well as scientific data such as microbe samples, temperature, pressure, salinity, and current flow. All of this data is available to the public for free a tthe official website.

As you might have guessed, this system costs $106 million to install, and needs $12 million to maintain its services. I wonder if we have discovered any valuable enough data to justify this expense, or else this product will just be abandoned at the bottom of the ocean.

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Wow, we do a lot with our phones these days, I often have so much going on all at once It can be a bit frustrating, the phone can only do so much… I’m not sure a smartphone is really as SMART, as it sounds, The smartphone experience is complicated by tons of different apps and accounts that folks like us need to try and keep up with — from making calls, texts, emails and instant messages and then, status updates, Tweets, check-ins, photo posting and tagging. Its all too much, isn’t it?

Well Microsoft Corp. today previewed the next major release of Windows Phone, code-named “Mango,” Mango will deliver more than 500 new features that will actually integrate the entire smartphone experience including all your communications, apps and the Internet. The new “Mango” release organizes information around the person or the group that we want to interact with, not the app we have to use. More on specific features after the break.

Mango allows its users to switch between text, Facebook chat and Windows Live Messenger all within the same conversation. It will group contacts into personalized Live Tiles to see the latest status updates right from the Start Screen and quickly send a text, email or IM to the whole group. Your Twitter and LinkedIn feeds are now integrated into contact cards, and Mango includes built-in Facebook check-ins and new face detection software that makes it easier to quickly tag photos and post to the Web and hands-free messaging with built-in voice-to-text and text-to-voice support that enables hands-free texting or chatting.

Mango is also a Multitasker. Mango allows you to quickly switch between apps in use and allow apps to run in the background, helping to preserve battery life and performance. In addition to including Internet Explorer, the Mango release will connect the power of the Web to the unique capabilities of Windows Phones, such as location awareness, camera and access to apps, to present a way of viewing the Web that is more localized, actionable and relevant.

They really aren’t going to produce a phone that only makes calls ever again, are they?

The “Mango” release will be available for free to Windows Phone 7 customers and is scheduled to ship with new phones beginning this fall.

Source:  www.microsoft.com

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I’m probably dating myself, but I actually owned one of the first cell phones, admit it, some of you remember… It came attached to a darn suitcase, and seemed to weigh about 5 pounds.  I was pretty proud of it, and come to think of it, the reception was pretty good too! But look how far we’ve come…

As cell phones have become smaller and owning one is now almost compulsory, those unsightly antennas of steel topped by all the necessary transmitters and gizmos that we call cell towers have invaded practically every landscape known to man. So let us welcome Alcatel-Lucent’s lightRadio. Imagine if you will, much smaller antennas, some tiny enough to hold in your hand. A device like that could be placed anywhere, on lamp or utility poles on buildings, heck, anywhere with electrical and network connections. Seriously, a cell tower in a box!

If they can iron out a few details, it could upend the wireless industry and offer amazing service, fantastic voice and data transmissions with no dead spots, fewer dropped calls, and let’s face it, the end of those unsightly towers. Because the antennas will be so much smaller  and can be put in so many more locations, the result is increased signal strength for us all, and who would object to something the size of a Rubiks cube “erected” somewhere near their home?

Alcatel-Lucent also thinks that their new lightRadio can cut both the financial and energy costs of operating a network by 50% or more, because it diminishes upkeep and maintenance costs, energy consumption and because more information can be transmitted at the same time. Gee, I wonder if those claims came to fruition we would actually have our phone bills cut in half. Wait a minute, I’m holding my breath.

Look for these lightRadios to show up sometime soon… you know, if you can find them.

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WorldTV is a web application that enables its users to create, manage and operate their very own TV channel for publishing to the web or to television. Now being a TV star is an option for all of us, because almost anyone can be a TV broadcaster with WorldTV.

WorldTV is a new platform that enables any individual or company to create their own TV channel that can appear on the web or on television. As you guys already know, there are a new breed of televisions that connect to the Web, and as these ‘connected’ or ‘smart’ TV’s become more commonplace, the need for a platform that can actually publish to these televisions becomes crystal clear and currently, WorldTV is the only self-serve platform dedicated to publishing to TV.

Users can create collections of videos from websites like YouTube or Vimeo, or they can add their own videos to a cloud-based collection. They can publish a full screen web TV channel… traditional TV channels that are viewable on Smart TV’s. The developers tell us that managing the various outputs is remarkably easy with WorldTV’s intuitive interface.

“For too long the world of TV broadcasting has been closed to individuals and businesses. With the new advances in connected, ‘smart’ TV’s, the prospect of anyone being able to readily broadcast their own linear TV channel to the world, is finally becoming a reality,” said Alx Klive, Founder and CEO, WorldTV.com.

The basic WorldTV service is free, additional features are added at low cost through an innovative ‘pay per use’ model. More details at www.worldtv.com

I’m ready for my close-up Mr. DeMille…

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