A Glimpse into the Future of Television
Thanks to Toshiba, LG, and the Consumer Electronics Show, we’ve gotten a glimpse into the future of TV. And three themes seem to be the focus: “Ultrathin”, “3D”, and “Connected”. The Anorexic LG HD TV The yet-to-be-named HD TV shown above was debuted by LG at CES this week. It comes in at under seven … Read more
15 earthquakes in less than 24 hours, and counting
Shake, rattle, and roll, baby. Welcome to San Francisco Bay. The San Jose/Milpitas area has been rattled by a series of more than fifteen earthquakes yesterday and today, beginning with a 3.0 magnitude quake at 11:09pm local time last night. The quakes are all occurring around the same area, near the Calaveras Reservoir, about five … Read more
Goodbye, newspapers and books
The Skiff is the new kid in town Now, I’m not an e-reader kind of guy. Don’t get me wrong — I think the Kindle is cool and all, but I have always been waiting for the paper-thin, flexible, digital ink newspaper/book that I can fold up and put in my pocket. Well, it still … Read more
I Grew Up in “The Lost Decade”
And it somehow gave me direction Ah, my childhood. According to a Washington Post article entitled, “Aughts were a lost decade for the U.S. economy, workers”: The U.S. economy has expanded at a healthy clip for most of the last 70 years, but by a wide range of measures, it stagnated in the first decade … Read more
Telekinesis: Coming Soon to a Store Near You
Telekinesis and telepathic controlling of devices isn’t far off. In fact, the technology is already being used today by the disabled, by the military, even by teenage gamers.
